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SLS, which stands for {{w|Space Launch System}}, 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. | SLS, which stands for {{w|Space Launch System}}, 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. | ||
β | 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}} scientists like {{w|Wernher von Braun}}, who was one of the developers of the {{w|Saturn V}} launch vehicle, came over to America (from {{w|Germany}}) and helped develop NASA's space program. |
β | 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 (or staring him down- [[Randall]] has left no details to distinguish). First he makes it clear that the lesson is that you should put the Nazis in charge (and we saw from {{w|World War II|World War Two}} what that could lead to.) Then when Cueball thinks this is a terrible lesson, Black Hat puts salt in his wound by suggesting that the only way to find a better lesson is to ask a Nazi for a better one - a consistent move if you apply his lesson, but a logic bomb because he suggests to put a Nazi in charge of finding another lesson other than "put a Nazi in charge". |
β | + | {{w|Shania Twain}} comes into this comic in the title text because in her song "{{w|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. And it is thus the SLS head engineer plans to invite Shania to do just that. Although he could still understand if she did not wish to date him, he would be surprised if she was still unimpressed. | |
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