Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 23, 2025

My favorite character (yes, he even beats Wiley bears!), Cap’n Eddie can always make me smile. And was actually rooting for more details…..

Wait a sec, did they share the theory of gravity or the practical joke of dropping an apple on somebody’s head?

Imagine a universe without mass. There would be no gravity. It would be all energy and expand very fast. Without mass time is infinitely fast. Let that sink in, man.

Here, try the consumables. In twenty minutes it will all make sense…

Until the last panel, I was thinking this was Danae giving a science report in school.

It might take a while, but eventually some genius will develop gravity bombs.

No fig from Flo.

Between Capn Eddie and Calvin’s Dad, I don’t who is more outrageous.

The Count thought they were going to drop an Apple iPhone.

Yea!! Cap’n Eddy. Always enjoy his arcs. And that explanation is about as good as any.

According to Stargate, these guys were the Norse gods. They presented themselves to a primitive civilization in a form the humans could relate to, until hey advanced enough to accept their true self. I’m a Christian but I sometimes play with the idea that maybe our God is something like that…and we’ll find out if we ever mature enough (which includes NOT tribalizing but learning to work together).

Millions of people over thousands of years had seen all kinds of fruits falling from trees. Newton was the first to ask why.

Later that day, Ike was sitting under a Fig tree and he came up with the idea that became, what we call today, the Fig Newton

This has been another, Fractured Fairytale.

Weaponize gravity.. hmm, I come up with the trebuchet and ICBMs right off the bat. What else?

It will all make sense eventually.

Yep, he’s wearing one of “those” red hats, which is a guaranteed sign that there are no brains in the head underneath it.

Imagine a US that wasn’t being taught to be anti-science and pro-misinformation

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches. (It’s true, I read it on the internet.)/s

Cap’n Eddie’s about to become the new Secretary of Science in the Doofus Administration.

“Ancient Alien theorists say, YES!”

Mass stops you from attaining the speed of light, dark energy has no mass and scientists think it is the cause of the accelerated expansion of the universe.

Ironically (if it is ironic, I’m not sure) in Newton’s day, invent meant pretty much the same thing as our discover.

Considering some of the ‘theories’ I’ve heard about gravity over the years, this one’s at least a bit more hilarious…

Yet another take on the old saw about extra-terrestrials leading mankind to discover things, or doing ‘it’ for us, because we couldn’t be bright enough (or have enough ingenuity) to do it ourselves. In fact, humans can do anything they put their minds to. And the end of the comment goes"gravity wasn’t discovered, it was always there". A bit like Australia.

And the search for intelligent life continues…. ;-)

I think I can appreciate the gravity of that situation.

Try something to do with food—-at least then we’d eat our mistakes and you won’t see them again