Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 29, 2009
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Transcript:
Capt. Eddie: It's called the unintended consequences theory ... Flo: Well, I have to admit, that would explain a lot ... Capt. Eddie's Apocryphal Science.
Only that this is far from being new or original… this idea already appears in a much more sophisticated form in the phantastic book “Dzienniki gwiazdowe” from 1957 (!), published in english as “The Star Diaries” (1976) and “Memoirs of a Space Traveller” (1982) by the great (and sadly late) Stanislav Lem. (see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Lem)