Comic #5376: clouds-2

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1. Panel 1:
   • Person 1: "I guess when you look up there you don’t imagine anything. You just see clouds."
   • Person 2: "Oh, no. Of course I do see clouds. I do see the motion of suspended water and ice crystals."
2. Panel 2:
   • Person 2: "But I also see the cloud as a part of a vast climatic system - a thin sphere of flows and whirls, gaps in the sky that open, close, that rend the ground with violence, that water the thinnest of orchids."
   • Person 2: "At the same time I see that water is intermolecular forces and ionic bonds, a dance of uncountable points on the shell of a blue sphere hung under a far-off star."
3. Panel 3:
   • Person 2: "And the atoms of water themselves aren’t particular, but infinite ripples borne on invisible fields, stretching beyond human sight, journeying wherever the great first motion told them to go."
   • Person 2: "And if I use every bit of my processing power, classical and quantum, I can see it all as a palimpsest of beauties, each bearing you along to the truth, until you find you’ve arrived back at the beginning."
4. Panel 4:
   • Person 1: "Ah."
   • Person 1: "What do you see?"
   • Person 2: "A turtle with, like, two heads."
   • Person 2: "And good for you, buddy!"

This comic presents a conversation between two characters discussing perceptions of clouds and their deeper meanings, with a humorous twist at the end.