Comic #4691: bah
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Here's the transcription of the comic:
Panel 1: "Ladies and gentlemen, according to the media, America has a blood pressure problem. I say NO. We have a blood pressure SURPLUS."
Panel 2: "Suppose we assume the average American contains 6 liters of blood."
Panel 3: "Suppose that the average American contains 6 liters of blood. If we can harvest that pressure with perfect efficiency, we can access 40 megajoules per person."
Panel 4: "That's 1.2 billion megajoules of American energy. Enough to launch ten million kilograms to space!"
Panel 5: "Think about it – why would the government fund vast public health campaigns to try to make us diet and exercise UNLESS they had a compelling reason?"
Panel 6: "They're not protecting our health! They're protecting their space combat advantage!"
Panel 7: "Citizens! Every time we increase our average surplus blood pressure TEN PERCENT, we gain a ballistic cannon to SPACE!"
Panel 8: "How would you harvest any of that energy, let alone all of it?"
Panel 9: "In closing, an idealized model is always a good starting point."
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