Strip 333 -- First Seen: 2009-12-23
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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Continue television sequence. Two-shot of Newsreader and Harmon, Newsreader is starting to speak but Harmon plows ahead, cutting him off.

Newsreader: Then how ...

Harmon: In this case, however, the creator of the carvings gave us an unambiguous epoch; a point in time.

Panel 2
Harmon in full-screen, holding up a large (about 24-inch square) placard containing a photograph of the carvings. He is pointing to a place that shows a stylized image of Jupiter, being impacted by the first of nine smaller bodies in a line. (Also, there is a spiral line starting at Jupiter and looping the Sun several times. There are some other lines and runes in the area.

Harmon: This clearly represents the first impact of Comet shoemaker-Levy 9 into Jupiter, at 20:15 UTC on July 16, 1994.

Harmon: So now we have our epoch date and time.

Panel 3
Medium shot of the Newsreader, looking a bit slack-jawed and vacant-eyed. This is all too much for him. Too much science hurts his brain.

Harmon (OP): So this diagram is telling us that in approximately 31 Terran hours – Wednesday at 14:22 UTC – something will be at 2.476 astronomical units from the Sun at an angular separation of 17.359 degrees in advance of Jupiter's sidereal location in orbit.

Panel
Two-shot of Newsreader and Harmon. Newsreader is just looking dazed. Harmon is smiling contentedly.

Harmon: Thank you, I will not be taking any further questions at this time.