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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | The comic shows scientists testing a new technology to | + | {{Incomplete|What does the fractions on each side of the spoon and fork mean? And what does the ruler - the binary fraction ruler - mean? The incomplete mark was removed a moment ago - but if you do not know anything about binary fractions or breeding programs, then this explanation is not complete. And as was stated previously - this is a very short explanation.}} |
+ | The comic shows scientists testing a new technology: the ability to cross a spork (a mix between a spoon and a fork) with either a spoon or a fork to make a new implement that was three quarters fork and one quarter spoon or visa-versa. By blending these new fork-spork hybrids and their results together, the scientists could create any mix between a spoon and a fork. In the second panel, the amounts of spoon and fork are shown with fractions, the number on the left representing the amount of fork and the right the amount of spoon. The "fork-spoon spectrum" in between the third and fourth panels shows the complete spectrum of fork to spoon with some of the intermediate steps labeled, the numbers representing how much fork each contains. (so in the middle is a even 1/2-1/2; a spork, in between the spork and the spoon a 1/4-3/4 mix, in between that and the spoon a 1/8-7/8 mix, and so on) | ||
+ | The comic begins like standard sci-fi fare, where amoral scientists request funding from mysterious benefactors. The dialogue of "You're toying with powerful forces here" and "We know what we're doing" is a (warning: TV Tropes links) [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow classic trope], foreshadowing that things will soon [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoneHorriblyWrong go horribly wrong]. It inevitably leads to the humorous incongruity of a sentient {{w|spork}} on a murderous rampage. | ||
− | + | {{w|Rachael Ray}} and {{w|Emeril}} are celebrity chefs, and {{w|Steven Spielberg}} is a famous movie director. The joke seems to be that if the laboratory hadn't hired the two renowned chefs, Spielberg wouldn't have made a movie in which Rachael's and Emeril's characters are killed off horribly. The plot in the comic is very similar to the story in Spielberg's {{W|Jurassic_Park_(film)|Jurrasic Park}}. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:Megan: We know what we're doing. | :Megan: We know what we're doing. | ||
:Two weeks later: | :Two weeks later: | ||
− | :[Picture of a destroyed lab | + | :[Picture of a destroyed lab with two dead bodies, blood everywhere and a spoon-fork hybrid hopping away.] |
:''Hop hop hop.'' | :''Hop hop hop.'' | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
[[Category:Comics with color]] | [[Category:Comics with color]] | ||
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