Even when you go mad you have to work your way up to the teleporter. First you need to get the hot intern with the automatic weapons, then the gender transmogrifier so you can have lesbian sex with your boyfriend, then create a species of superintelligent hamsters, then you get the teleporter from your mad scientist mother.
Well I keep trying to combine myself with a fly with my teleporter but I keep coming out as half man half carpet. At least I had the foresight to put a nice stain-resistant polyester shagpile in it.
QrazyQatsays
If you go mad, they give you an 8-track tape deck and tell you that it’s a teleporter.
To paraphrase the penguin, who says it’s not?
Torbjörn Larssonsays
Of course every sane biologist needs a teleporter ASAP. How else could you get the DNA repair nanomachines into the cell nucleus for the immortality treatments?
No, wait, that was another scifi idea.
Torbjörn Larssonsays
Actually, that wasn’t the original idea. IIRC, it used wormholes for manipulations inside the cell. I might have come up with an *original* idea. Remains to write the book…
Zarquon says
Even when you go mad you have to work your way up to the teleporter. First you need to get the hot intern with the automatic weapons, then the gender transmogrifier so you can have lesbian sex with your boyfriend, then create a species of superintelligent hamsters, then you get the teleporter from your mad scientist mother.
PZ Myers says
That’s no problem. It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.
quork says
If you go mad, they give you an 8-track tape deck and tell you that it’s a teleporter.
Ronald Brak says
Well I keep trying to combine myself with a fly with my teleporter but I keep coming out as half man half carpet. At least I had the foresight to put a nice stain-resistant polyester shagpile in it.
QrazyQat says
If you go mad, they give you an 8-track tape deck and tell you that it’s a teleporter.
To paraphrase the penguin, who says it’s not?
Torbjörn Larsson says
Of course every sane biologist needs a teleporter ASAP. How else could you get the DNA repair nanomachines into the cell nucleus for the immortality treatments?
No, wait, that was another scifi idea.
Torbjörn Larsson says
Actually, that wasn’t the original idea. IIRC, it used wormholes for manipulations inside the cell. I might have come up with an *original* idea. Remains to write the book…
Dan S. says
Ah, Narbonic . . .
knew Shaenon somewhat back in college – go, go, Pharyngula people, read more!
Patrick says
I’ve read it a few months ago. Thought it was terrible.
clheiny says
I shoulda known you’d be hanging out around Narbonic. And what do you mean “if I go mad”?
David Harmon says
Definitely a fun strip! But there’s a problem with the evolution of mad scientists: what good is half a teleporter? :-)