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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | This comic is pointing out the fact that many of the comments on | + | 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|Randall's]] pen. | |
− | + | The comment by ''bigmike133'' confuses the {{w|Space Shuttle}} (which was never capable of landing on the moon) with the {{w|Apollo Lunar Module}}. | |
− | + | 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. | |
− | + | {{w|Louis Armstrong}} was a famous jazz musician, who may have [http://lyrics.wikia.com/Louis_Armstrong:Moon_Song waxed] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5x8HnyIYHE lyrical] about the moon, but never went there. The ill-informed ''crackmonkey74'' meant the astronaut {{w|Neil Armstrong}}. | |
− | + | Finally, ''simpleplan2009'' presents the ludicrous position that the moon shot was faked by suggesting that the footage was filmed by actors on {{w|Mars}}, a planet that at its closest approach to Earth is a hundred times farther away than the moon. Landing humans on Mars is a feat that has still not been accomplished, and if it had been possible during the Apollo era, the landing on the moon would have been trivial task 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 | + | The title text is the first reference to [[:Category:Sheeple|Sheeple]] which appeared a few more times in xkcd comics. |
− | The | + | The reputation of YouTube comment threads as a cesspool of trolling and abject stupidity is revisited in [[481: Listen to Yourself]]. |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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: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. | :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.] |
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:Comments & Responses | :Comments & Responses | ||
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:rocckir (48 minutes ago) | :rocckir (48 minutes ago) | ||
:this is so obviously faked its unbilevable, why r people so gullible??? morons | :this is so obviously faked its unbilevable, why r people so gullible??? morons | ||
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:bigmike133 (35 minutes ago) | :bigmike133 (35 minutes ago) | ||
:ive seen the space shuttle ass hole it definetly landed on the moon do some research... | :ive seen the space shuttle ass hole it definetly landed on the moon do some research... | ||
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:GunPistolMan (22 minutes ago) | :GunPistolMan (22 minutes ago) | ||
:if it was real why is their gravity? americans r fucken sheep | :if it was real why is their gravity? americans r fucken sheep | ||
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:crackmonkey74 (17 minutes ago) | :crackmonkey74 (17 minutes ago) | ||
:u dont think we went to the moon why not tell louis armstrong to his face | :u dont think we went to the moon why not tell louis armstrong to his face | ||
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:simpleplan2009 (5 minutes ago) | :simpleplan2009 (5 minutes ago) | ||
:it was a soundstage on mars | :it was a soundstage on mars | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
− | + | *On August 25, 2012 Neil Armstrong passed away. He died at an age of 82. | |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics with color]] | [[Category:Comics with color]] | ||
[[Category:YouTube]] | [[Category:YouTube]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Internet]] | ||
[[Category:Sheeple]] | [[Category:Sheeple]] |