Comic #5128: undecidable

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Panel 1: Character 1: "DEAR GOD, WHY DID YOU CREATE UNDECIDABILITY? CAN THERE REALLY EXIST MATHEMATICAL STATEMENTS THAT CAN'T BE PROVED FROM A REASONABLE AXIOM SET?"

Character 2: "OH YEAH."

Panel 2: Character 2: "LOOK, IN THE LAST UNIVERSE, HUMANS SOLVED SCIENCE, SOLVED BRAINS. THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT TO FIGURE OUT. SO, EVERYONE WENT CRAZY AT THE SAME TIME."

Panel 3: Character 1: "SO I THOUGHT, NEXT TIME I MAKE A HUMAN TERRARIUM, I GOTTA PROVIDE MORE STUFF TO DO."

Panel 4: Character 1: "IN THIS UNIVERSE, YOU HAVE INFINITE POSSIBLE THEOREMS AND NO WAY OF KNOWING IF THE WORK YOU'RE CURRENTLY DOING WILL BEAR FRUIT."

Character 1: "THAT WAY, YOUR WORK IS ONLY PROBABLY POINTLESS. NOT DEFINITELY POINTLESS."

Panel 5: Character 2: "THAT DOESN'T SOUND GREAT."

Character 2: "LOOK, YOU CAN EITHER HAVE A FINITE LIST OF MEANINGFUL WORK, WHICH YOU RUN OUT OF, OR YOU HAVE AN INFINITE LIST OF MEANINGFUL WORK THAT YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY COMPLETE. THERE'S NO SENSIBLE MIDDLE GROUND."

Panel 6: Character 2: "AHHAHAHAHAH! HOO HOO HOO HOO! HAHAHAHA!"

Character 1: "DAMMIT."

Panel 7: Title: "LATER, IN THIS UNIVERSE…"

Character 2: "AND SO, I MADE IT SO HUMANS DON'T LIVE VERY LONG AND DON'T HAVE IMMORTAL SOULS, SO THE WHOLE INFINITE-OR-NOT-INFINITE THING DOESN'T MATTER!"

Audience: "AHHAHAHA! AHOHOHO! HAHAHAHA!"

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