The Academia Waltz was Berke Breathed's first cartoon, published daily from 1978 to 1979 in The Daily Texan at The University of Texas at Austin, where he was a student. The strip focused primarily on college life, although it sometimes made references to big news stories of the time (such as the incident at Three Mile Island in 1979).
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9 to 5 by Harley Schwadron
Adam@Home by Rob Harrell
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Kosaka Jinnai said, 6 months ago
WOOOHAHAHAHAHA! I haven’t seen this since I was six!
el_flesh said, 6 months ago
Solar power. Available in the 70’s. How much oil/coal/NUKE power could we have saved if we’d really pushed it then?
georgelcsmith said, 6 months ago
@el_flesh
As they say, the devil is in the details. Solar sounds great at first, but it’s much more expensive to produce electricity using solar technology than by using conventional means. Most solar power applications are for places where it would be more expensive to run the wires. Eventually, most electricity will be produced locally, but the technology is not yet ready for general use.
lightenup
said, 6 months ago
@georgelcsmith
It’s quickly getting there. We could have gotten there sooner if it had been pushed more, as el_flesh said.
Mneedle said, 6 months ago
@el_flesh
It wasn’t pushed because it doesn’t work well. The same for wind. If it were financially viable, it would be wide spread.
basicallystupid15 said, 6 months ago
I want the girl
BloomCo said, 6 months ago
Everyone that loves solar ignores the massive pollution that takes place mining and refining the materials that go into making them. Since it happens in China and affects the Chinese people they don’t care. Same with wind turbines. China doesn’t care about poisoning the water and land.
paul brians said, 6 months ago
The traditional Japanese shout when charging into battle is usually rendered into English as “Banzai” (“10,000 years”).
Tiny trees are “bonsai.”
“Bonzai” looks like a hybrid of these two.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago
@BloomCo
Not as massive as what digging out and burning of oil, coal and nuclear energy does. Not even close.
bpullin said, 6 months ago
We should do what all lefties want us to do: Live in caves and live by the light of hand-dipped candles made from free-range honey bee wax.
Of course, the lefties will still be living in their mansions burning all of the fuel the rest leave behind. (do as i say, not as i do)
el_flesh said, 6 months ago
If you take all the Carbon where its been locked away for millions of years and finally return it to the atmosphere, what do you THINK will happen??
There has to be a better way to produce energy.