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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|Created by an Alien Visitor. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
− | This | + | This is a reference to the idea (which [[Randall]] satirizes) that {{w|Extraterrestrial life|aliens}} built (or helped humans build) the {{w|pyramids}} and {{w|Stonehenge}}. If new aliens came to us today and tried to help us build these things, they would be met with general incredulity {{Citation needed}}. |
− | In the comic, aliens arrive with the intention of building such monuments with their highly advanced technology, including some sort of tractor beam to lift the heavy stones and another beam that can depict a pyramid. They are shocked to hear from [[Cueball]] that humans accomplished the same thing thousands of years earlier with such simple tools as ramps, and even in more than one location on Earth (Pyramids in {{w|Egyptian pyramids|Egypt}} and {{w|Mesoamerican pyramids|Mexico}}). Thus they proceed to suggest a stone circle to predict the solstice, but before they can finish this sentence [[Megan]] says this is like Stonehenge. | + | In the comic, aliens arrive with the intention of building such monuments with their highly advanced technology, including some sort of tractor beam to lift the heavy stones and another beam that can depict a pyramid. They are shocked to hear from [[Cueball]] that humans accomplished the same thing thousands of years earlier with such simple tools as ramps, and even in more than one location on Earth (Pyramids in {{w|Egyptian pyramids|Egypt}} and {{w|Mesoamerican pyramids|Mexico}}). Thus they proceed to suggest a stone circle to predict the solstice, but before they can finish this sentence [[Megan]] says this is like Stonehenge. |
− | + | The aliens' reaction is frustration as they cannot teach us anything new. So in the title text they have regrouped and would now present another wonder - {{w|gears}}. But oh crap, humans has already invented those as well. But it can be inferred that Randall thinks gears are a pretty neat idea, as the aliens present them as a wonder on the line with the pyramids. | |
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− | The aliens' reaction is frustration as they cannot teach us anything new | ||
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[A flying saucer is hovering high above Cueball and Megan, drawn very small standing on the ground beneath it. The aliens inside speak to them from inside their | + | :[A flying saucer is hovering high above Cueball and Megan, drawn very small standing on the ground beneath it. The aliens inside speak to them from inside their space craft, indicated with zigzag lines between it and the text.] |
:Aliens: Greetings, humans! | :Aliens: Greetings, humans! | ||
:Megan: Whoa, aliens! | :Megan: Whoa, aliens! | ||
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:Aliens: Then we shall build a ring of stones aligned with the stars, so at the solstice- | :Aliens: Then we shall build a ring of stones aligned with the stars, so at the solstice- | ||
:Megan: Oh, like Stonehenge? | :Megan: Oh, like Stonehenge? | ||
− | :Aliens: ''Dammit, humans.'' | + | :Aliens: '''''Dammit, humans.''''' |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
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