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{{comic | number = 3853 | date = September 6, 2015 | title = commodities | image = 1441547707-20150906.png | votey = 1441547707-20150906after.png | titletext = Can we please have this? Please please please? }} ==Explanation== {{incomplete}} ==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Wo work w how scow the future came. :Where's my flying car?! Where's my martian outpost?! Wheres my pocket supercomputer witha longer bat tery life? :We recognized the flawed heart of the system. :Science is driven by human curiosity. :We can do better. :We set up a futures market for in-existent commodities I will pay a thousand dollars for a pound of t. Rex meat, to be delivered in five years./ :The market boomed. :My goo. There are millions of t. Rex meat contracts nobody think it's deliverable. :If I could produce :A single medium-sized t. Rex, I'd get 60 billion dollars, :Major biotech firms became interested. Scientists! Cease making new boner pills! :Is it time to cure cancer?! :Why do people always ask that? :And the invisible hand of the market gave a great big middle finger to evoutionary history :To :Science! :Capitalism. :There was a brief panic, as buyers tried to renege on contracts. :Turns out I don't love the idea of paying a week's wages for a pound of :Lizard meat. :A brief panic. :Okay. I'll pay. Isn't it illegal to threaten people with dinosaur attack? :Show me where it says that in the constitution! :the Smbc-comics.com ==Votey Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :I challenge all vegetarions to promise to cat dino-clones. {{comic discussion}}
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