Talk:1476: Ceres

I'm not sure about Number 6 being a reference to The Prisoner. there's no other context in the comic to suggest that reference. ‎173.245.54.180 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Number 6 could be a Battlestar galactica reference as well, which is again a reference to The Prisoner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Six_%28Battlestar_Galactica%29 141.101.98.252 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

The novel The WindWalkers (in French "La Horde du Contrevent") from Alain Damasio is the story of the 34th team of people walking against the wind to go past the end of the known world. A group is sent every generation from a starting point and they walk over decades as far as they can go. The team leader is called Golgoth and is the 9th descendant of his family leading a team. He is obsessed with the idea of getting farther than his father (Golgoth 8) and the others Golgoth before them. At one point, while the team thought having been farther than any other, Golgoth 9 finds a sign let by Golgoth 6 (whose team had been thought lost) that demonstrates they were not the first ones reaching this point. Maybe the comics does not make reference to this event in the novel, but readers of the novel will likely think about it. Marou (talk) 08:42, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia has a list of characters in books and/or films named Number 6, so unless there is a clear reference, I suggest we stick to assuming that Number 6 is simply the identifying number of un-named CERES employee. --Pudder (talk) 11:16, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Maybe include a picture of Ceres (the dwarf planet) to show the real white spot (not the inspection sticker) sirKitKat (talk) 09:14, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Or a ref to an image/animation sirKitKat (talk) 09:16, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

This image shows it really good: [1] (Images from the Hubble Space Telescope in 2004 of Ceres. Credit: NASA/Hubble) --108.162.254.134 09:29, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Ceres is also a brand of vegetable fat manufactured by BELUŠA FOODS s.r.o. (no english version, sorry). Salmonela in this kind of Ceres would be very interesting but I doubt that Randal refers to this Ceres. Jkotek (talk) 09:31, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Earth the planet contains salmonella. --141.101.104.12 09:45, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

I agree, in that sense the joke is much funnier and more closely related to the rest of the comic (since (dwarf)planets are tested). -- Linuspogo (talk) 09:55, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

German? Number Nein

Unless this German company puts round inspection stickers onto products, in English, then Randall is referring to these stickers, which were used by US clothing manufacturers in the mid-to-late 20th century. -- Frankie (talk) 12:52, 21 January 2015 (UTC)