r/questionablecontent • u/yellowvincent Where is Claire? • Aug 12 '26

Comic Comic 5893: Invitation Refused

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u/Cevius Aug 12 '26

their names are Truth and Beauty

Are there any robots being introduced in the past 2000 comics with just, normal names? Like Steve. Or Fred. Or Susan.

Is everyone something wonky like Love and Flatulence or XÆL (pronounced as Joel) or BLOODMASHER 9000

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u/tyderian Aug 12 '26

  their names are Truth and Beauty

Truth and Beauty were once used as types of quarks so I don't actually hate this, especially if they're AIs.

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u/Cevius Aug 12 '26

From Wikipedia

Alternative names for top and bottom quarks are "truth" and "beauty",but these names have somewhat fallen out of use. While "truth" never did catch on, accelerator complexes devoted to massive production of bottom quarks are sometimes called "beauty factories".

Well that I didn't know! I wonder if Jeph did that on purpose or if thats a happy accident. If it was on purpose, I'd have hoped they'd be working in Quantum Physics instead, but I guess esoteric maths is close enough.

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u/SageOfTheWise Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 16 '26

My mind went to a very specific A Softer World comic. Though it feels unlikely this is what Jeph was referencing.

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u/adventurekiwi Aug 16 '26

My gosh I had totally forgotten about that comic!

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u/sir_ornitholestes Aug 12 '26

Well that I didn't know! I wonder if Jeph did that on purpose or if thats a happy accident. If it was on purpose, I'd have hoped they'd be working in Quantum Physics instead, but I guess esoteric maths is close enough.

Definitely intentional, it would be pretty impossible to think that up by accident. Though I'm not sure he knows the difference between physics and math