Oh Ziggy, will you ever win?
I really don’t get the joke.
I mean I think I get it, but it isn’t funny.
The joke is that the physicists cancelled because of the possibility that it crashes?
physicists
psychics
Aaaahhh. Man I can’t read
I’m genuinely curious what you thought the joke was when you thought they were all physicists. Also I’d be way more afraid to get on a plane that a bunch of physicists came to a consensus that it was unsafe rather than a bunch of whacky scam artists that thought was unsafe because magic beans or whatever.
Weather. Statistics. Idk, this why I said I don’t get it
The comic was moderately funny, but this exchange is great. Thanks.
Idk, etsy witches do prove to be quite powerful nowadays
The psychics predict it will crash is the joke. Though the stewardess made it up as a joke which is also the joke.
I’d still go. I’d find it macabre and funny, it wouldn’t make me anxious. Private plane!
Humans like to believe a lot of stupid stuff without evidence, and feel like it becomes more true the more other people believe in the same stupid stuff.
That cartoon is copyrighted 2015? I thought Ziggy was a cartoon from the early 1980s 🤔
I thought the same thing.
I was like “there were Ziggy cartoons in 2015?!” But yep, Ziggy is apparently still ongoing.
The most recent one is also about airplanes. “We’ve upgraded you to early deplaning, here’s your parachute!”
Wow so the animation is really from 2015? It even looks ancient and aged, circa 1980s. And wouldn’t it be in poor taste for any syndicated humor comic to make 9/11 jokes?
Yep, it’s actually from 2015! The artist is the original Ziggy artist’s son (literally Tom Wilson and Tom Wilson II), so I’m sure he intentionally references the old art style.
I think this is more of a general plane crash joke than a 9/11 joke. It’s not specific about where the plane is going and lots of plane crashes happened between September 11, 2001 and November 27, 2015 (when the comic was published).
I’d be surprised if Ziggy didn’t make pretty much the same joke in the 1970s-1980s!
They could not do a prediction before they booked the flight nor when they scheduled the event? So their powers are limited to same-day predictions? Probably low-level NPCs.
That’s still pretty good. Waking up and knowing that the day is lost and you may as well go back to sleep would be wonderful.
I would say the joke… Fly over my head…
Yeah i really dont get it 😅
Psychics can see the future
This is a psychological evaluation test. Please choose the answer you deem most likely to explain the event.
Question 1
A group of people scheduled to go to the same event all decide not to go, why?
A. The event is cancelled
B. The group rescheduled
C. They all, individually, have super powers
E. One of them has the super power, and contacted the others who all know that the superpower is real and/or pretend to also have the power so claim they also saw the same thing
F. Same as E but that one person is lying too
D. They all, individually, have superpowers and predicted a disaster would happen. However, their future vision is predicated on the fact that they’ll all be on the plane. Them all choosing not to go will have significantly altered the outcome of a potential future event.
In short; you’re probably safe.
Technically, their inability to predict a crash doesn’t prevent a crash – you might die all the same (it’s particularly grim that, according to the meme, even their supposed clairvoyance wouldn’t prevent a crash because they presumably would just quietly avoid going).
Imagine being the person who has that ability, it always comes true and letting your friends know, and the ones who believe you don’t go on it, but the person at Delta Airlines doesn’t believe you, so they won’t tell the pilot to not go. Gotta transport all that cargo…
A and B sound about the same likelihood to me, I might get this wrong.
Idk probably A.
If rescheduling, it would have to be extremely last minute if the airline did not have time to rebook seats. That would be disruptive to everyone and basically just means second event at the same cost as the first which sort of unravels the benefit of rescheduling.
Also. If they are all psychic, why would they book flights then cancel them? 🤔
Charlatans sharing a collective delusion would not scare me in any way.
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It’s been a long long time since I saw a ziggy
How about a Zippy?
My first cross-country flight/flight of any kind was a red-eye in one of those planes with the middle rows (plus rows left and right). It was so empty that me, my friend, and my dad could all lie down across entire rows. It really did not set realistic expectations for what future air travel would be like. “Damn, it’s fuckin’ NICE back here in coach. Don’t. Mind. If. I. Do.”
Gift horse, mouth. I’m chillin in 1st class with free drinks. worst case I die happy.
Plot twist: they canceled because of a terrorist who intended to kidnap the plane. And now you’re shocked because there is no use in kidnapping an empty plane. All the planing you invested so far…
Plot twist the only reason the plane was going to crash was because of all the psychics. It’ll fly perfectly safely with one passenger.
You chang3d the future by acting on it. Fate probably nocks one of them in a road accident or a freek 9/11 2
Because they were all fat.
Hmmm…whole plane to myself… if it’s international I’d say it’s worth the risk
I’d be off that plane so fast
Yeah, but then you gotta watch out for all those little Rube Goldberg death traps coming for you for like, forever. Is that really a life worth living?
