Comic #1788: 2010-03-27
Description
Comic Description:
Panel 1:
- Background: Two people sitting at a table, one is eating while the other is looking at them.
- Character 1: A young adult with short hair, wearing a light blue shirt. He has chopsticks and appears to be speaking.
- Text: "Dad, now that us kids are out of the house, you should get that science degree you always wanted."
Panel 2:
- Character 2: An older man with gray hair, wearing a maroon shirt, is seated opposite Character 1. He has a thoughtful expression.
- Text: "Oh, it’d be silly. All the great thinkers made their greatest contributions in their 20s."
- Character 1 responds: "Yeah. True."
Panel 3:
- The scene remains the same; the young adult is still holding chopsticks, and the older man is looking thoughtful.
- Text: "Well, except Hemingway, Einstein, Feynman, Descartes, Schrödinger, Mendel, Mendeleev, Shakespeare, Babbage, Pope, Spinoza, Turing, Fermi, Joyce, Bach, Faraday, Aquinas, and Galileo."
Panel 4:
- Character 2 looks pleasantly surprised, with a slight smile.
- Text: "That’s… actually a very good thought."
- Character 1 responds: "Well, I’m in my 20s."