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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | [[Ponytail]] and [[Cueball]] | + | [[Ponytail]] and [[Cueball]] are approaching two trees from the left to meet up with [[Megan]] who comes from the right. Ponytail tells Cueball that ''One day a year, the sun sets directly between these two trees.'' |
− | + | Cueballs reply, ''Oh, cool - like the Manhattan thing'', is a reference to {{W|Manhattanhenge}}, the phenomenon that causes the setting sun to align with the east-west streets of the main grid of {{w|Manhattan}}, {{W|New York}}, causing a very special light display. Manhattanhenge is itself named after {{W|Stonehenge}}, an ancient monument with several big stones, where the heel stone, and the embanked avenue, are aligned to the sunset of the {{W|winter solstice}} and the opposing sunrise of the {{W|summer solstice}} (thus creating on purpose the effect seen today in Manhattan). Hence the title of the comic. | |
− | + | Cueball goes on to point out that the setting sun would lineup with almost any two trees on any given day. This is due to the fact that any two trees that are close together and one is further north would allow a setting sun to set between them, as the viewer of the sunset would simply need to move themselves to make the alignment work. | |
− | The twist comes when Ponytail and Megan | + | The twist comes when Ponytail and Megan attempt to capture the sun with a net, as it is revealed that the sun is actually setting at the point between the two trees rather than behind the trees when viewed from the east side. This is of course not possible, but if the sun where to set between two trees (or rather the Earth fall into the sun) it would have burned up the Earth long before reaching the surface. If they did actually catch a "sun" in a net, it must be a really really small and cool one, since they can stand near it, and hold it in a {{w|butterfly net}}, and then plans to transfer it to a bag. |
− | + | The two girls have thus planned to come here on this day, to capture the sun, so they can get rich as Ponytail exclaims. Since {{w|Earth}} (and the {{w|solar system}]}) is now missing its {{w|Sun}}, there would be a ton of problems for everyone on Earth. So they should probably be able to get a lot of money in ransom... But in the title text it turns out that they are just going to sell the Sun on-line. | |
− | + | The title text refers to {{w|Craigslist}}; the website where the girls plans to sell the sun so they can get rich. It is a {{w|classified advertisements}} website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, items wanted, etc. One of the girls tells that she was uncertain as to under which category she should list a "Sun for sale". But she put it under property; so she thinks that she now owns the sun, as in {{w|Finders, keepers}}. To advertise the "property" she put "''that it has 'good sun exposure''". This could be a reference to things that last well under exposure to sunlight, like some {{w|Paint|paint}} brands that will advertise with how good their paint reacts to sun exposure. Being the sun it self, and having lasted already 5 billions years under it's own intense radiation, you could phrase it like ti lasted well under sun exposure. On the other hand you could claim that it has never really been exposed to any external sun radiation, as the star light hitting the sun from other suns (stars) is very limited, even over 5 billion years. | |
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− | The title text refers to {{w|Craigslist}} | ||
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Ponytail | + | :[Megan and Ponytail are standing on either side of two trees with Cueball standing between the trees] |
:Ponytail: One day a year, the sun sets directly between these two trees. | :Ponytail: One day a year, the sun sets directly between these two trees. | ||
:Cueball: Oh, cool - like the Manhattan thing. | :Cueball: Oh, cool - like the Manhattan thing. | ||
− | :[ | + | :[Cueball standing in blank frame] |
− | :[Cueball | + | :[Cueball, Ponytail and Megan standing next to each other with sun shining from the top of the frame] |
:Cueball: Wait, isn't that true every day for pretty much any two trees? | :Cueball: Wait, isn't that true every day for pretty much any two trees? | ||
:Megan: Shh, here it comes! | :Megan: Shh, here it comes! | ||
− | :[ | + | :[Ponytail is holding a butterfly net and Megan is holding a bag open] |
:Cueball: Wait, what? | :Cueball: Wait, what? | ||
:Ponytail: OK, got the bag? | :Ponytail: OK, got the bag? | ||
:Megan: Yup, grab it! | :Megan: Yup, grab it! | ||
− | :Ponytail: We're gonna be | + | :Ponytail: We're gonna be rich! |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
[[Category:Astronomy]] | [[Category:Astronomy]] | ||
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