Several years ago, I posted a very short piece on Fanfiction.net. Captain Kirk comes up against impossible tech in the Enterprise because it violates the laws of physics.

Interestingly, when I posted the piece (Ye Canna Break the Laws of Physics, Cap’n) here on BCTS, it ended up getting the most comments of anything I’ve ever written. (I think The Final Rescue is number 2).

Being the opportunist that I am (rolling eyes) I wondered if there was any way to cash in on that?

Now, I’ve been told that many of the things I called impossible in the Star Trek story are not, but what if I were to write something about Road Runner and Wiley Coyote? Say, Wiley Coyote paints a tunnel on the side of a hill, and Road Runner runs into the hole, only to find himself buried in solid rock? Or he simply hits the “not there hole” and falls backward to where the coyote is sitting, napkin tied around his neck, knife and fork in his hands, ready to dig in to the road runner who falls perfectly onto his plate?

We’ll ignore that somehow the coyote got this table ready in time to catch the road runner as he fell backward.

Or how about the fact that roadrunners make about 25 MPH, while a coyote actually has a top speed much faster? Are there any other laws of physics that Road Runner breaks, or rather broke on a regular basis? Certainly not that a pinnacle of rock, hanging over a canyon will stay in place while the rest of the plateau falls at speeds only obtainable by two black holes orbiting each other.

Or the fact that a coyote generally doesn’t fall 10,000 feet off a cliff face, hit the ground below, and walk away at the approximate height of a manhole cover.

Is it my imagination, or do Looney Toons have much less of a good relationship with physics than Star Trek?