Comic #4309: laplace39s-demon

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Panel 1: Hey, God… Pierre-Simon Laplace once said "an intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes."

Panel 2: Character 1: Is that true?
Character 2: Nah.
Character 1: Why not?
Character 2: It wouldn't want to.

Panel 3: Character 2: Think about it. The universe gets worse in both directions. The past is ordered and boring. The future is entropic and dead.

Panel 4: Character 2: Right here in time, it's great! We can play poker, we can have blind dates, we can have heroes and villains.
We're in the romantic middle of the cosmos!

Panel 5: Character 2: You get to exist entirely during this period, little being!
Character 3: You're like a mayfly born on Christmas Eve, unaware of its lucky circumstances.

Panel 6: Character 1: I never thought of it that way. What's hard is to be a God.
Character 2: To be mortal is good.
Character 1: And that's why I invented cancer.

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