Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for March 10, 2012
Transcript:
verne: the universe is at least 13 billion years old. hammy: let's bake a cake! Verne: hammy, at the rate of 10 candles per blow and 10 blows per minute, it would take 247.33 years to blow out all the candles.... verne: and another 1.2 billion years for the universe's wish to come true. hammy: That's a long time to wait for an ipad 3. it sure is.
The age (and size) of the universe, of course, depends entirely upon one’s inertial reference frame. So when the universe uses the iPad to post a personal ad describing itself as 25, tall, dark, and handsome, it isn’t really lying.