B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for April 16, 2024

nuclear fusion plant

Solar power. They just have to be careful how they use it.

A sizzling hot day. Or they invented turning sand into glass.

I hadn’t thought of having done that for decades.

Oppenheimer meets Hymenoptera.

Archimetes’ heat ray?

Don’t use that magnifying glass on fire ants. You’ll only make them angry.

Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described,23 in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones.4 Many of the species are parasitic. Females typically have a special ovipositor for inserting eggs into hosts or places that are otherwise inaccessible. This ovipositor is often modified into a stinger. The young develop through holometabolism (complete metamorphosis) — that is, they have a wormlike larval stage and an inactive pupal stage before they reach adulthood.

WMD

Or maybe WAD. Weapon of ant destruction.

Ant-enheimer

Death and destruction part of cycles of existence. For sometheeng that cannot dies cannot be born in first place.

Are they magnifying the problem?

The ants must be studying the Bhagavad Gita, not Oppenheimer (who borrowed the phrase).

Yep…..just in the right spot and you are “toast”!!!!!!!

Reminder of the beginning of the Master of the World syndrome.

Aint that a gas.

“Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you have created..”

The magnifying glass.

“Now I am become death”…is that the name Become Death? Otherwise it is extremely poor grammar

Good. Now that it’s out there in the sand, have it focus on Ozymandias.

Whose bright idea was that?

“Where are your rebel friends now? " – Sid Phillips from Toy Story (1995)

It’s that kid from the Farside.

They were too focused on if they could build it. They never stopped to consider if they should build it.

And Ant Lex Luthor is born.. or Ant Norman Osbourne if you prefer Marvel

Every time I hear that quote, my mind goes to the video game Baulder’s Gate