Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 11, 2025

She’s running with a fire extinguisher and he just sits there.

I like all of Mr Miller’s work but when we get a week of stories about Danae & Lucy or Cap’n Eddie it makes my week a little better!

Kate’s great! Too bad she’s not in many of the new strips.

She wouldn’t last a day where I work. Nowadays we have to complete a safety hazard review and have it approved anytime we want to implement a new experimental procedure.

You always have to push it past its limit, so you know where the limit is.

Remember, the difference between science and screwing around is whether you take notes on what you did and what happened.

If he’s ever invited to a cocktail party. Do those even exist any more or just in old movies?

Parenting from behind a newspaper, huh?

No it won’t.

Maybe Danae has made the discovery that Mogen David wine bottles are not suitable for heating liquids, and that a kitchen stovetop burner does not serve well as a laboratory Bunsen Burner. (Personal experience, long ago)

She is always discovering and learning:

She just discovered and learned another thing not to do (again)

Lots of scientists have discovered that rule

We’re living in an age

Where limitations are forgotten

The outer edges move and dazzle us

But the core is something rotten

And we’re standing on the precipice

Of prejudice and fear

We trust science just as long

As it tells us what we want to hear

We want our truths all fair and balanced

As long as our notions lie within it

There’s no sunlight in our a***s

And our heads are stuck up in it

And our heroes may be rapists

Who watch us while we dream

But don’t look to me for answers

‘Cause we don’t know what it means

- Patterson Hood “What it Means”

Where’s Petey?

I would have drawn Danae’s hair “explosion style” like Inspector Clouseau when the bomb went off.

No. No. Be of good cheer. If science teaches us anything, it teaches us to accept our failures, as well as our successes, with quiet dignity and grace.

Quote from Young Frankenstein by Dr. Frankenstein after first failing to raise the creature.

You could get up and see what’s going on, Dad!

When making gunpowder “foom” is the sound of success. “Sizzle” is the sound of failure

Oh, yes, sometimes the road to scientific (and technological) breakthroughs is paved with a series of catastrophes. Thinking of powered flight, space exploration, and atomic research. Sometimes the tragedy comes after the discovery, as in the case of Madame Curie.

When experimenting, the first thing you need is a fire extinguisher. All other things are optional.

He should get Danae a fire blanket, the biggest size available.

At least she wasn’t running with scissors

only in the comix!… (hopefully!)

Feel the burn?

That ‘I really, really, really don’t want to know’ response…

Mad science means never asking “What’s the worst that could happen?”

Burning down the house……

Remember kids, scientific progress goes “boink”.

Dynamite is just directed powerful predictable results.

I hope it’s the right kind of extinguisher for that fire……

OK, that one’s going up on my fume hood!