202: YouTube

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YouTube

Title text: I pray GunPistolMan never learns the word 'sheeple'.

Explanation

This comic is pointing out the fact that many of the comments on YouTube videos are insipid and poorly informed, being pointless arguments over some minor topic, or factually incorrect position.

In this case, the moon landing hoaxers are at the receiving end of Randall's pen.

The comment from gunpistolman claims that the video is fake due to the mistaken belief that the moon would have no gravity, whereas the gravity is really approximately 1/6th G.

The comment by bigmike133 confuses the Space Shuttle (which was never capable of landing and subsequent take-off in any off-world situation, let alone leaving near-earth orbit) with the Apollo Lunar Module.

Louis Armstrong was a famous jazz musician, who may have waxed lyrical about the moon, but never went there. The ill-informed crackmonkey74 meant the astronaut Neil Armstrong, who did.

Finally, simpleplan2009 presents the ludicrous position that the moon shot was faked by suggesting that the footage was filmed by actors on Mars, a planet many thousands of times father away than the moon. Landing humans on Mars is a feat that has (as of this writing in 2013) still not been accomplished, and if it had been possible during the Apollo era, would have made a landing on the moon trivial in comparison. In other words, why go through all the trouble of faking it, if doing it for real would have been no trouble at all?

The title text is the first reference to Sheeple.

Transcript

The Internet has always had loud dumb people, but I've never seen anything quite as bad as the people who comment on YouTube videos.

[A YouTube comments page for a moon landing video.]

Comments & Responses

rocckir (48 minutes ago)

this is so obviously faked its unbilevable, why r people so gullible??? morons

bigmike133 (35 minutes ago)

ive seen the space shuttle ass hole it definetly landed on the moon do some research...

gunpistolman (22 minutes ago)

if it was real why is their gravity? americans r fucken sheep

crackmonkey74 (17 minutes ago)

u dont think we went to the moon why not tell louis armstrong to his face

simpleplan2009 (5 minutes ago)

it was a soundstage on mars

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Discussion

In the transcript, it says simpleplan2009's comment was posted 3 minutes ago. However, in the image, it clearly says 5 minutes. Caagr98 (talk) 19:01, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

I agree. In theory a 3 and a 5 could be hand-written to be hard to differentiate, but here it is clear. Changed. (And added the first line.) Mark Hurd (talk) 10:56, 19 April 2013 (UTC)