Why would you have to be that bug with the rare disease that left him without the protective exoskeleton and with exposed soft gooey flesh? Especially when there’s an airborne flesh-eating pathogen on the loose?
A microscope cured polio. And then there’s TB. No more vans parked on the sides of streets, quietly announcing the paralysis and death of thousands of children. But you’re not old enough to remember it, so you only think of the current diseases. One day the cure for cancer, for the HIV virus, for malaria for all sorts of other diseases will be seen through a microscope. And then the next generation will also ignore what a microscope did for them.
Lighten up! I somehow doubt Adam is advocating scientific ignorance – merely the way microscopes are used in many SF films and TV. Most of the time when you see a scientist looking in one (in a film), the first words out of their mouth is either: “Oh oh.” Or “This is bad.” It’s like Elizabethan films where the character says: “We shall have such a wonderful life!” and then coughs. You know they’re doomed to die of consumption in the next act.
I HAVE to be that guy; bugs have exoskeletons – the flesh is on the inside.
Why would you have to be that bug with the rare disease that left him without the protective exoskeleton and with exposed soft gooey flesh? Especially when there’s an airborne flesh-eating pathogen on the loose?
Because I’m a biologist – not tormenting animals is like a day without sunshine!
All I’ve seen is that I apparently failed this lab experiment. I’d have to agree.
Hey now, you’re forgetting antibiotics!
“Hey, this mold is kicking the shit out of my micro-enemies!”
Spiderman.
Well, what about the movie “Honey I shrunk th…..”
Oh…. Yes. I see your point.
Hollywood always has had a hate on for Nerds and even if the nerd is a hero they still find ways to make them look like an idiot or monster.
A microscope cured polio. And then there’s TB. No more vans parked on the sides of streets, quietly announcing the paralysis and death of thousands of children. But you’re not old enough to remember it, so you only think of the current diseases. One day the cure for cancer, for the HIV virus, for malaria for all sorts of other diseases will be seen through a microscope. And then the next generation will also ignore what a microscope did for them.
And get off his lawn!
Lighten up! I somehow doubt Adam is advocating scientific ignorance – merely the way microscopes are used in many SF films and TV. Most of the time when you see a scientist looking in one (in a film), the first words out of their mouth is either: “Oh oh.” Or “This is bad.” It’s like Elizabethan films where the character says: “We shall have such a wonderful life!” and then coughs. You know they’re doomed to die of consumption in the next act.
Yeah, but have your ever seen The Thing?
Well, you gotta admit, ignorance is bliss…
Hey, Adam, do you maintain your Comic Rocket page? I’ve been using it to bookmark this comic but it stopped updating.
Didn’t know I had a Comic Rocket page.
Come on, there’s got to be a scene in some movie where someone looks through the microscope and goes “I’VE GOT IT! I’VE ISOLATED THE CURE!”, right?