Comic #1920: 2010-08-14

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Panel 1:

• Text at the top: "Dr. Demaine created an algorithm that solved all mathematical theorems."
• A character with short hair and glasses points at a whiteboard, looking excited. The board says: "O(Sh*t! Yeah)"

Panel 2:

• Text at the top: "Soon after, all physics questions were answered."
• A group of characters is shown. One character is saying: "Inside protons are quarks, inside quarks are strings, inside strings is God telling you to f*** off."

Panel 3:

• Text at the top: "Then engineering, chemistry, biology, neuroscience, psychiatry…"
• A character says: "P ≠ NP, cold fusion will never work, the red queen hypothesis is right, consciousness is an illusion, and your mother never loved you."

Panel 4:

• Text at the top: "Having completed science, he moved on to philosophical and literary questions."
• A character asks: "Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?"
• Another character responds: "Yes."

Panel 5:

• Text at the top: "Then uninteresting rhetorical questions."
• A character asks: "Are we gonna give 110% tonight?!"
• Someone else replies: "No."
• A third character holds a cat and asks: "Who's a cute kitty?"

Panel 6:

• Text at the top: "Finally, all that was left was senseless half-conceived questions from stoned philosophy undergrads."
• One character asks: "Do things, like, man, you know, woah?"
• Another character replies: "Whoa."

Panel 7:

• Text at the top: "Having answered all questions in reality, Demaine suffered an existential crisis!"
• A character with a surprised expression says: "And here, poor fool with all my lore I stand no wiser than before."

Panel 8:

• A character remarks: "Hm. He didn't correct for longevity or touchable holograms."
• Another character adds: "I mean, poor fool! I’m gonna need more than an algorithm to be a real engineer."

Panel 9:

• A visual of a whiteboard with various notes.
• One character says: "What even is reality?"

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