Not the first appearance of hands with two fingers and a thumb (Jocasta was the last appearance of hands which unambiguously had more than two fingers plus thumb) but the first comic where the two-finger style is so clearly defined.
Can’t wait for the bulging, blank white staring eyes style to develop. All these characters looking at things are creepy.
The biggest problem with seeing the future is that the knowledge causes it to change. That’s right, if you KNOW that a coin will land on heads, there is a fifty fifty chance your right. Knowing the future doesn’t do anything. It’s useless for chaotic events, and useless for controlled events spanning two minutes or more. It’s also useless for changing things outside of physical control
In short, its not that useful outside of parlor tricks and knowing what not to say to your finances mother. I will never get why people are obsessed with it.
Picture this. On 9/11 at 4AM, you knew that 5 hours later planes would hit the towers.. You make a few calls, talk to a few police folk, and therefor 9/11 never happened, ultimately changing the future after the incident. Afghan war, Iraq War, never would have happened… The changes are astronomical..
But whatever you finally end up doing, changing it if you think, that’s what ALREADY DID happen in the final outcome, it always was and always will be and nobody else ever knew the alternate universe but yourself so you didn’t CHANGE it but rather continued reality onto its path. And nobody would know the impact unless they were with you going back into time, which they wouldn’t be. To everyone else, you simply stopped something that may or may not have destroyed the place…
The prophecy! It came true!
He shouldn’t have poked it, so the universe could be destroyed in a paradox.
unless he said it so that the guy wouldnt poke it, to try and cause a paradox, thus fullfillng the true prophecy of him not poking the eyeball
This is basically the plot from Frank Herbert’s Dune
Your post reminds me that Linda Hunt is a squatty li’l hotty that I would do *atrociously* sexy thing to were we ever to meet.
I mean if she were into it of course because I’m totally not that kind of guy.
in the end he wanted to get poked
its amazing how a tongue can make a comment so much funnier
To see the future is to be trapped by it!
Not the first appearance of hands with two fingers and a thumb (Jocasta was the last appearance of hands which unambiguously had more than two fingers plus thumb) but the first comic where the two-finger style is so clearly defined.
Can’t wait for the bulging, blank white staring eyes style to develop. All these characters looking at things are creepy.
The biggest problem with seeing the future is that the knowledge causes it to change. That’s right, if you KNOW that a coin will land on heads, there is a fifty fifty chance your right. Knowing the future doesn’t do anything. It’s useless for chaotic events, and useless for controlled events spanning two minutes or more. It’s also useless for changing things outside of physical control
In short, its not that useful outside of parlor tricks and knowing what not to say to your finances mother. I will never get why people are obsessed with it.
Picture this. On 9/11 at 4AM, you knew that 5 hours later planes would hit the towers.. You make a few calls, talk to a few police folk, and therefor 9/11 never happened, ultimately changing the future after the incident. Afghan war, Iraq War, never would have happened… The changes are astronomical..
that’s more than a parlor trick…
But whatever you finally end up doing, changing it if you think, that’s what ALREADY DID happen in the final outcome, it always was and always will be and nobody else ever knew the alternate universe but yourself so you didn’t CHANGE it but rather continued reality onto its path. And nobody would know the impact unless they were with you going back into time, which they wouldn’t be. To everyone else, you simply stopped something that may or may not have destroyed the place…