2012-11-30
Original: 2012-11-30 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (title banner): HOW NASA ANNOUNCEMENTS WORK
A woman stands at a podium, smiling.
Woman: "We've discovered something important, but no details are available in the near future."
Panel 2 (title banner): HOW NASA ANNOUNCEMENTS SHOULD WORK
The same woman stands at the podium, pointing a stick at a chart on the wall. The chart has two rows, each with a colored box and a label:
- A green box labeled: ALIENS
- A purple box marked with an X labeled: NOT ALIENS
She is pointing at the "NOT ALIENS" option.
Votey:
Top box: OR...
A tall vertical bar fades from green at the top to purple at the bottom, acting as a scale. Labels from top to bottom:
- ALIENS
- LIFE ON MARS, BUT IT'S JUST ELON MUSK, SOMEHOW
- LIFE-RELATED CHEMICALS
- COOL EXTREMOPHILES FOUND ON EARTH
- NO ALIENS
A woman stands at a podium, smiling.
Woman: "We've discovered something important, but no details are available in the near future."
Panel 2 (title banner): HOW NASA ANNOUNCEMENTS SHOULD WORK
The same woman stands at the podium, pointing a stick at a chart on the wall. The chart has two rows, each with a colored box and a label:
- A green box labeled: ALIENS
- A purple box marked with an X labeled: NOT ALIENS
She is pointing at the "NOT ALIENS" option.
Votey:
Top box: OR...
A tall vertical bar fades from green at the top to purple at the bottom, acting as a scale. Labels from top to bottom:
- ALIENS
- LIFE ON MARS, BUT IT'S JUST ELON MUSK, SOMEHOW
- LIFE-RELATED CHEMICALS
- COOL EXTREMOPHILES FOUND ON EARTH
- NO ALIENS
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic mocking NASA announcements. Panel 1, titled "HOW NASA ANNOUNCEMENTS WORK": a woman at a podium smiles and says, "We've discovered something important, but no details are available in the near future." Panel 2, titled "HOW NASA ANNOUNCEMENTS SHOULD WORK": the same woman points a stick at a simple two-option chart—a green box labeled "ALIENS" and a purple box marked with an X labeled "NOT ALIENS"—clarifying the answer is "NOT ALIENS." Votey: a box reading "OR..." sits above a vertical gradient bar fading from green (top) to purple (bottom), a sliding scale of possibilities from "ALIENS" at the top, through "LIFE ON MARS, BUT IT'S JUST ELON MUSK, SOMEHOW," "LIFE-RELATED CHEMICALS," and "COOL EXTREMOPHILES FOUND ON EARTH," down to "NO ALIENS" at the bottom.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.