Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 19, 2023

This is where evolution is taking the hu-mans.

I think Elon is planning 24,000 of those “things” We are soon going to wall ourselves in with all the space junk making it impossible to get out

The back end of that spaceship looks a lot like a ’57 Desoto.

Consider how many people would no longer get this comic if this guy actually came along.

BIG MISTAKE! He should’ve contacted Lars before he left.

WOW!! Looks like downtown any day. Danae could probably fix that problem if let to run.

Chief Quinn : “I’ll bet any quantum mechanic in the service would give the rest of his life to fool around with this gadget.” ‘Forbidden Planet’ 1956

That would have little effect. 99% of internet traffic is carried by landlines. Phones don’t have the power to reach a satellite.

Someday ( maybe soon , maybe not ) something will Zig instead of Zagging and then bang !! Cascading time !

Just goes to show progress is a two-edged sword.

There is a commercial that shows a guy on his phone oblivious to the world. He is with someone and crosses the street and almost gets nailed by a car. The announcer says how this is unexpected!!! The announcer is a moron, it is expected!!! It is a surety that sooner or later you will be run over!!

I remember the time when there was only Sputnik up there. A month later there were two of them. And everyone was really freaked out. Even more so when our own tiny Vanguard blew up on the launchpad.

Now I know why NASA launches space telescopes. Earthbound telescopes keep getting photobombed by space junk.

This low-hanging fruit is pretty bland.

From the first frame of this comic I knew it would be about how stupid humans really are.

When I was a small panda, the old ones said ‘’Rock n Roll and transistor radios were destroying the kid’s minds.’’

Now, they blame TIKTOK or some other new fangled doodah. Dad gummit. Where’s my suspenders? Where’s my reading glasses? What was I talking about?

And yet, here we are, using those same tools as the lost sheep, to look at this toon. Is that irony or what?

Thank you, star voyager!

The Smartphone Zombie Apocalypse is more terrifying than anything Hollywood can conjure up because it is REAL.

And that was the end of them…

You have the job we all dream of doing!!!

He found the savage dimwitted Yahoos (ironically, very few of whom were still using Yahoo). Now he just needs to look around until he can make contact with the noble and intelligent Houyhnhnms.

Contact Sheldon Cooper, Pasadena, CA, the Big Bang Theory (Fox9+, tbs, CW)

We will become cyclopses, since we won’t need binocular vision

We are probably only about one generation away from this!

Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B landing site.

That’s beginning to look a lot like life on earth

Uh oh, I’m reading this on my iPad. The local (very liberal) paper dropped this strip and replaced it with “Nancy” after the anti Trump hidden egg controversy…

Panel 2 and 3 could stand on their own. Good job!

All I can think of is the scene in WALL-E where the ship plows through a field of inactive satellites.

There’s a sci fi novel by John Brunner called “The Sheep Look Up.” Worth a read.

that guy is probably Eddie’s cousin

Thanks, Wiley, for using the ISO 8601 dating format — YYYY-MM-DD — in identifying that this adventure will occur exactly 7 centuries into our future. But I suppose that, even then, the USA will still be the only jurisdiction in human civilization still clinging to non-metric units.    sigh

We need this guy to show up now

Is that a cassette tape in the first panel?

We have become a society that watches screens and communicates with faceless people. We text, email, tweet and post on Facebook and blogs [using clever pseudonyms] because it is faster, easier, and safer than actually talking and working directly with people. On line, we don’t have to get along with anyone or try to understand a different point of view. We can unfriend people when we disagree and we don’t ever have to try to work things out. We don’t have to worry that we might not always be right.

We get our excitement watching other people do exciting things and going exciting places on screens. We live our lives through reality shows ignoring how badly they are scripted. We are careful to select what we watch so we don’t have to deal with uncomfortable issues. We can keep everything at a distance. We don’t have to really connect with people at all. We don’t like the hassle of being responsive to or responsible for anything that might be uncomfortable.

We live in a big wide wonderful world that is filled (for now) with wonderful plants, animals, views, experiences, and people. But we choose to focus on screens. Is it any wonder that we fill our skies with screens to watch us?

Just as long as they’re still broadcasting ‘Non Sequitur’!