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| title = Space Launch System | | title = Space Launch System | ||
| image = space_launch_system.png | | image = space_launch_system.png | ||
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| titletext = The SLS head engineer plans to invite Shania Twain to stand under the completed prototype, then tell her, 'I don't expect you to date me just because I'm a rocket scientist, but you've gotta admit--this is pretty fucking impressive.' | | titletext = The SLS head engineer plans to invite Shania Twain to stand under the completed prototype, then tell her, 'I don't expect you to date me just because I'm a rocket scientist, but you've gotta admit--this is pretty fucking impressive.' | ||
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | SLS, which stands for {{w|Space Launch System}} | + | SLS, which stands for {{w|Space Launch System}} (naturally) is the new launch program being designed by {{w|NASA}} to replace the retired {{w|Space Shuttle}} launch system. In the first frame, [[Cueball]] is showing [[Black Hat]] something about the SLS, possibly a video on his phone or other portable electronic device. |
− | As usual with his appearances, Black Hat is causing trouble. | + | As usual with his appearances, Black Hat is causing trouble. Here Black Hat would appear to be telling the truth because {{w|Nazi}}-{{w|Germany}} era scientists like {{w|Wernher von Braun}}, who was one of the developers of the {{w|Saturn V}} launch vehicle, came over to NASA and helped develop NASA's space program. |
− | Black Hat | + | Black Hat's assumption in the last frame is obviously a bridge too far (which is where the joke is in the comic), but he gets his desired reaction out of Cueball, who is hanging his head. |
− | + | {{w|Shania Twain}} comes into this comic in the title text because in her song "That Don't Impress Me Much", she sings: "Okay, so you're a rocket scientist / That don't impress me much". But, the title text argues that if she stood under the new SLS prototype, she would admit it was in fact, impressive. | |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | + | Person 1: Check out the SLS - 130 tons to orbit. Finally, rockets that improve on the ones we had 40 years ago. | |
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− | + | Black Hat Man: Are we getting Nazis to build those ones too? | |
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− | : | + | Person 1, offscreen: What? |
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− | : | + | Black Hat Man, offscreen: When we first captured von Braun and his team, we had our engineers interview them, then *we* built the rockets. But our rockets kept exploding |
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− | + | [von Braun interviewed by a scientist while under guard] | |
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− | + | [The same scientist in front of a spectacularly exploding rocket] | |
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+ | Black Hat Man, narrating: Eventually we gave up and had the German teams do it, and they built us the Saturn V moon rocket. | ||
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+ | [The Saturn V gracefully arcing across the night sky] | ||
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+ | Person 1: I'm.. not sure what lesson to take from that. | ||
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+ | Black Hat Man: "If you want something done right ,learning from the Nazis isn't enough. You have to actually put them in charge. | ||
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+ | Person 1: That's a *terrible* lesson. | ||
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+ | Black Hat Man: Then I guess you should get a Nazi to come up with a better one. | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
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