Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 18, 2011

Danae you’re a little loopy!

They should take her along, in case they need any more goofy ideas during the 4000 year voyage!

“Military intelligence” — one of the great oxymorons.

Saying “You’re not on the Need-to-know-list” does not make me think they’re using her idea… unless my grasp of English is somehow escaping me?!? Surely if they ARE using her idea she would know as they’d be organising the transfer of $500K to Danae and Cap’n Eddie? Or is the punch line that the Pentagon steal ideas after giving people the idea they were going to get paid?

@ NebulousRikulau

’Nuff said!

Didn’t anyone read Saturday’s strip, where they accepted her idea?

Wait, is she getting the money??

If someone were to win he or she may or may not be on any need to know list at this at this time, if such list were to exist.If the lid blows off the whole thing, it could then be necessary to inform any such unsaid winner of the prize.

If someone were to win, he or she may or may not be on any need to know list at this at this time, if such list were to exist.If the lid blows off the whole thing, it could then be necessary to inform any such unsaid winner of the prize.

I wish you guys would talk English.

They’re actually considering using Captain Eddie’s idea. That is disturbing.

@towerwarlockSpeaking of James Cameron, matbe the Pentagon got the idea of interstallar travel and cosmic troop movements from “Avatar.” (See the Outer Limits episode “Chameleon” with Robert Duval for “Avatar’s” basic plot. Cameron admitting swiping plots from two Outer Limits episodes to make “The Terminator.”)

@Wiley —Jeffrey (of all people) made a major (albeit frequently used) gaff when he described the spaceship as “intergalactic.”The contest is for a ship that can travel between solar systems (interstellar), not one that can travel between galaxies. That would make the 4000 year trip seem like a run to McDonalds.

If the military is using Danae’s idea, we’re worse off then I thought.

And Jeffrey found it funny to think she could ask the military since he figures she’s in the same position he is. But since she won, she has a closer relationship to the project.

Oh, great! Steal someone’s idea, then don’t pay them because it’s classified! Only the government would get away with that!

i think you guys didnt get this one. the military told Denae that her idea won, thats how she knows that they are using it. she then asked why the military wants to send people to another solar system. she might have won the contest but that doesnt mean she should be on the need to know list for why the need to send people to another solar system.

Nobody here caught (or mentioned) the “alert the CEO’s” part. That’s the key to the whole plot. What is the plot? Only Wylie knows…It has to be political though. Is Perot still alive????

New to this post so I hope I am not repeating something…..does anyone remember the show Space:1999?

We will need to wait until after the next new moon whether a waxing crescent appears. If not, the plan must have already been implemented.

No crazier than a lot of whack DARPA schemes dreamed up by Admiral Poindexter and funded by President Star Wars Raygun.

It’s not even that far out an idea really – except instead of hollowing out the moon, hollowing out a nickle-iron asteroid to make a ship – a sci-fi staple.

My Dad’s company about 20-30 years back had a brainstorm session on how to make “lottery tickets” more immune to counterfeiting, as session he invited me and a few others to. Looking back, I suspect it was involved with the not-much-later changes to the US currency.

Radish, that is true. When you think of all the different directions we are moving in right now it boggles the mind. We’re on the spinning Earth, circling the sun, the sun circling the center of the galaxy, the galaxy headed who knows where…..

If all the military leaders and corporate executives leave their slaves—I mean employees behind, who will do their work for them? And what will become of us employees? A world with no more generals and warmongers, no more corporate leeches and financial con artists? Why we’d have actual peace and equality! Now we can’t have that, can we? Or are they planning on destroying this world first? More than they already have?

I agree with Jeffrey, “No…stinkin…way…”

no wonder you have a dead guy for an icon,Jack..

What is really required is interDIMENSIONAL travel to evade all the silly time and space problems. She should have suggested killing a series of astronauts until one returns with a blueprint. Wait..One did already…Geek baiting time.

High Priest, read Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut. Everything works out, um….. well? When you read it have a good stiff drink handy…..