Comic #2963: 2013-06-28

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Panel 1: "We completed science. That wasn't so hard after all…"

Panel 2: "Who'd have thought badgers would be the key to everything?"

Panel 3: "At which point, the only thing left to do was create beauty."

• Objective (checked)
• Subjective (unchecked)

Panel 4: "Humanity became a race of artists."

Panel 5: "Beauty is truth. Truth beauty. Now, we just need the conversion factor."

Panel 6: "The quickest way to appear to be insane is to appear to be insane."

• "This is my sculpture."
• "Whoa…"

Panel 7: "The best way to appear to be insane is to be insane."

• "Surgeon had to pull an art outta me ‘cause I smoke too much."

Panel 8: "A serious reproductive advantage was gained by the craziest people."

• "Pshht… Huh? She's deaf, she doesn't need words."

Panel 9: "Imperceptibly, we became madder and madder, reaching underhand depths to lunacy."

• "Let’s go to Dunkin' Donuts when other options are available."

Panel 10: "The greatest contributions were the most pragmatic."

• "I’ve created an avant-garde sanitation system that confronts people with their waste."

Panel 11: "Collapse was inevitable and swift."

• "I made an art that’ll explode humanity back 50,000 years!"

Panel 12: "At which point reproductive advantage shifted back to less artistic humans."

• "I’m gonna go consume calories and make a lullaby on this wall."

Panel 13: "Good luck with that."

Panel 14: "Sanity being regained, civilization was reborn."

Panel 15: "You live in the 68% cycle."

• Humans (line graph)
• Time (horizontal line)

Panel 16: "Remember that next time you visit a museum of modern art."

• "I don’t get this one."
• "What does that even mean?"
• "Oh, sorry. I’m a performance artist. My thing is saying 'exactly.'"

Panel 17: "And the next time you read of a scientific advance."

• "Why do badgers keep showing up in my calculations?"

Panel 18: "Why do badgers keep showing up in my calculations?"

• "b = (badger 3)."

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