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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|The title text is not clearly explained. How will it become a trebuchet by flying a kite into the wings? Where does the traction trebuchet come into the picture? The link to youtube seems to be wrong. It is a centrifuge not a trebuchet - although there are links to other videos about those from that youtube film?}} | |
− | + | In this comic, Megan is speaking to a {{w|wind turbine}} having an unrealistic ability to respond to her. (Megan is using a literary device known as {{w|Apostrophe (figure of speech)|apostrophe}} - ie. the {{w|personification}} of an inanimate object - and when this object actually responds it is called {{w|anthropomorphism}} - again a type of personification). | |
− | The | + | A wind turbine is a mechnanical device that generates power via the mechanical {{w|Work (physics)|work}} produced from the turning of its blades by the wind, and converts it into electricity. A wind turbine is visually very similar to a {{w|mechanical fan|fan}}, whose fan blades spin via electrical (or other) power in order to move air (i.e. create wind) to provide a cooling effect. In this way, a fan is essentially the opposite of a wind turbine. |
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+ | The punchline of this comic is a {{w|pun}} which plays on a second meaning of the word "{{w|Fan (person)|fan}}" as a colloquial short form for "fanatic" - someone who is a supporter of something (e.g. a football team, a band, an idea etc.). | ||
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+ | Megan suggests that the wind turbine blow air at her so that she can use a kite to lift off the ground. When Megan asks what the turbine thinks of the idea, the turbine's response is both literal (it is a turbine, not a fan and therefore can't blow air) and colloquial (saying "I'm not a fan" of an idea means that one does not like or support the idea). | ||
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+ | Wind turbines have been used in earlier comics: In [[556: Alternative Energy Revolution]] the wind turbines are also alive, but somewhat more dangerous than just being ironic. In [[1119: Undoing]], Cueball highlights the differences between a wind turbine and a fan. | ||
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+ | The title text contains an alternative suggestion to build a makeshift {{w|trebuchet}}, a type of catapult. The [http://youtu.be/MTWsmZta6AE setup described] would not resemble the widely known counterweight trebuchet, as the energy rotating the arm and flinging the rock would not be from a raised counterweight. It would rather be more similar to a {{w|trebuchet#traction trebuchet|traction trebuchet}}. | ||
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+ | Trebuchets has been the subject of the comics [[382: Trebuchet]] and [[1160: Drop Those Pounds]], and they were also part of the story in [[1190: Time]]. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Megan is talking to a wind turbine.] | + | :[Megan is talking to a giant wind turbine.] |
:Megan: I'll hold up a big kite, and you blow air at me until I lift off! | :Megan: I'll hold up a big kite, and you blow air at me until I lift off! | ||
:Megan: What do you think of that idea? | :Megan: What do you think of that idea? | ||
:Wind turbine: I'm not a huge fan. | :Wind turbine: I'm not a huge fan. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
[[Category:Trebuchet]] | [[Category:Trebuchet]] | ||
− | [[Category: | + | [[Category:Windmills]] |
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