Editing 1111: Premiere

This comic depicts an entertainment news television program. The [[Hairy]] as the news anchor notes that "all Hollywood" is in town, meaning there are a lot of members of the film industry. The event is a movie premiere, a common place for reporters to interview celebrities, actors, and other people related to entertainment.

[[Megan]] represents the reporter at the premiere reporting for the television program. The {{w|red carpet}} is a tradition whereby a long red carpet is laid out leading to the entrance of a theater as a symbol of elegance. {{w|Celebrity|Movie stars}} are said to "walk the red carpet" when they arrive and do interviews and pose for photos along this carpet, most famously seen at the {{w|Oscars}}.  

When asked the ambiguous question "How do things look?", instead of reporting on the premiere and the movie stars arriving, Megan reports on the dire long-term outlook for the Earth as we know it since in about 800 million years the {{w|Sun}} will become so hot that {{w|Future_of_the_Earth#Loss_of_oceans|the oceans boil away}}. According to the Wikipedia page this will first happen in 1.1 billion years, but the 800 million years may have been the best estimate in 2012 when this comic was released, see for instance this [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2523012/Good-news-Planet-Earth-gets-extra-850-million-years-oceans-boil-away-scientists-expand-Goldilocks-zone.html article] from 2013. (The loss of oceans will still happen long before the sun {{w|Sun#After_core_hydrogen_exhaustion|turns into}} a {{w|red giant}} in about 5 billion years).  

When Hairy then asks how the movie stars are reacting (meaning how the movie stars are reacting to this news about the oceans), Megan instead replies {{w|hydrogen fusion}}, the nuclear reaction of actual {{w|stars}} like the Sun. All astronomical stars eventually {{w|Star#Collapse|die}} when there is not enough hydrogen (or other heavier atoms) to continue the fusion process that keeps the stars stable.  

The Hairy then clarifies that he (of course) meant the movie stars, but Megan keeps being bleach in her reporting as she notes that they also won't last forever, and by the way no one else will. She is of course right as eventually everyone dies, just as the stars will eventually die, but of course much sooner for any living human, movie star or not.  

:[Megan switches to full-screen. Megan is standing in front of a full crowd of Cueball heads who are behind a line held up be sticks, one of which is visible behind her. She holds a large microphone up to her face.]