this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2024
707 points (97.6% liked)

Comic Strips

12939 readers
2751 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That said, even the masters will fall back on nonsense to make a point. Asimov had coal-powered spacecraft in the Foundation Trilogy to show how technology was slipping backward as if that makes any sense whatsoever.

[โ€“] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

gotta make headway before you start backsliding...

otherwise it's just going the wrong way.