c/thefarside · by m_f@discuss.online · 357d

2025-09-10

Caption:

Unbeknownst to most historians, Einstein started down the road of professional basketball before an ankle injury diverted him into science.

Alt text:

8, 33, 27, 12, 10, 35

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m_f@discuss.online · 22 pts · 357d (1 reply)

Some background on this comic:

Transcript (sketch):

You wanna have to use your brain your whole life like me? No kid of mine's going thru that hell... Here, learn to dribble this thing.

Caption (sketch):

Einstein and son

Transcript (commentary):

I still sort of prefer the first sketch I made of this, but, for one reason or another, I changed it to the bottom version.

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 353d

i agree with larson, the first sketch is funnier even if the final one is still funny

threshold_dweller@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 357d (1 reply)

I was curious, and Im just that kind of pedant, so I checked: The timing for this doesnt seem to work. Einstein published General Relativity in 1915. As far as I can tell, the first pro basketball league didnt happen until 1935.

Dragonstaff@leminal.space · 6 pts · 357d

I bow before your superior pedantry. I was just thinking that Einstein looks old enough here that he would have already retired from basketball, regardless of injury.

Ha ha, Gary Larson sure has egg on his face for this screw up!

Hanrahan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 356d (1 reply)

Assimov changed to writibg from being a Professor of Biochemistry, he gave the reaon as writing paid more.

jerkface@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 353d

When you can crank out a couple of books a week and publishers have an open order I bet you could make bank.