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Three days before this comic was published, NASA successfully landed a new rover, {{w|Perseverance (rover)|''Perseverance''}}, on Mars. This was also the subject of the previous comic [[2427: Perseverance Microphones]]. | Three days before this comic was published, NASA successfully landed a new rover, {{w|Perseverance (rover)|''Perseverance''}}, on Mars. This was also the subject of the previous comic [[2427: Perseverance Microphones]]. | ||
β | This comic was published shortly before a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYQwuYZbA6o NASA press briefing] that showed, as mentioned in the comic, the first ever full-speed video of a Mars landing. This comic is set at that press briefing and was published shortly before | + | This comic was published shortly before a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYQwuYZbA6o NASA press briefing] that showed, as mentioned in the comic, the first ever full-speed video of a Mars landing. This comic is set at that press briefing and was published shortly before this briefing happened in real life. "Full-speed" here means that the video was captured at a {{w|frame rate}} high enough that it looks continuous when played back, as opposed to low-frame-rate imagery that looks jerky when played back. |
The comic plays on the fact that if there is only one of something in a set, that one thing is the most/least in that set by lack of comparison. As there is only one full speed video of a Mars landing, that makes the video the best one as well as the worst one. [[Randall]], who has often been [[:Category:Banned from conferences|banned from conferences]], has apparently also been banned from NASA's press briefings. So he decided to crash the conference (literally, see below) solely to ask the question, "Is this then not also the worst video ever", flouting his ban and embarrassing NASA (a prior case of the latter is possibly why the former is currently active). | The comic plays on the fact that if there is only one of something in a set, that one thing is the most/least in that set by lack of comparison. As there is only one full speed video of a Mars landing, that makes the video the best one as well as the worst one. [[Randall]], who has often been [[:Category:Banned from conferences|banned from conferences]], has apparently also been banned from NASA's press briefings. So he decided to crash the conference (literally, see below) solely to ask the question, "Is this then not also the worst video ever", flouting his ban and embarrassing NASA (a prior case of the latter is possibly why the former is currently active). |