Comic #3493: 2014-12-10

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Description

Here’s the transcription of the comic:

Title: "Information cannot travel faster than the speed of light."

Top Panel:

• Speech Bubble: "Oh hey"
• Waveform graphic depicting a sound wave.

Second Panel:

• Character 1: "Steve, I think we should see other…"
• Character 2: "Huh…"
• Character 3: "My mom is asking why we broke up."
• Character 4: "Did we break up?!"

Third Panel:

• Text: "This is not a mere quirk of nature. It is a valuable communication tool."
• Text: "We are sending you to Neptune. You will break up and make up repeatedly, in order to relay signals to Steve's mom, here on Earth."

Fourth Panel:

• Character 1: "As the 'pair annihilation' commences, a 'dramotion' is emitted from the relationship, which interacts with all particles entangled with close relatives, best friends, and nosy cousins."

Fifth Panel:

• Text: "The fabric of society was destroyed."
• Character 2: "Why have you broken up with me 11 times today?!"
• Character 3: "AT&T sent me 58 cents!"

Sixth Panel:

• Text: "On the plus side, we finally made alien contact."
• Character 4: "Zorgrex and she are off again, on again, off again, on again, off again, on again, off again…"
• Character 5: "I think they’re spelling beryllium! This is amazing!"

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