astronomy
Original: astronomy on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (labeled "STATED REASON"):
Two people stand inside a rocket ship. An interviewer (a woman) asks an astronaut (a man with reddish hair).
Interviewer: "So why do you study space propulsion?"
Astronaut: "Humans have always been explorers. We once looked over mountains, then seas. Then clouds. One day we will look over the vault of heaven."
Panel 2 (labeled "ACTUAL REASON"):
A red/orange background with large text, the astronaut's true inner motivation.
Text: "FUCK YOU, EARTH! BY GOD, FUCK YOU!"
Votey:
A close-up of a face (the Earth, anthropomorphized, or a person looking down) shouting in hand-lettered caps.
Text: "BUNCHA DUMBASSES!"
Two people stand inside a rocket ship. An interviewer (a woman) asks an astronaut (a man with reddish hair).
Interviewer: "So why do you study space propulsion?"
Astronaut: "Humans have always been explorers. We once looked over mountains, then seas. Then clouds. One day we will look over the vault of heaven."
Panel 2 (labeled "ACTUAL REASON"):
A red/orange background with large text, the astronaut's true inner motivation.
Text: "FUCK YOU, EARTH! BY GOD, FUCK YOU!"
Votey:
A close-up of a face (the Earth, anthropomorphized, or a person looking down) shouting in hand-lettered caps.
Text: "BUNCHA DUMBASSES!"
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic about why someone studies space travel. Panel one is labeled "STATED REASON": inside a rocket, an interviewer asks an astronaut, "So why do you study space propulsion?" He gives a noble answer about humanity always being explorers who looked over mountains, then seas, then clouds, and will one day look over the vault of heaven. Panel two is labeled "ACTUAL REASON" and is just a field of angry red text reading: "FUCK YOU, EARTH! BY GOD, FUCK YOU!" The votey shows a shouting face in bold hand-lettering yelling "BUNCHA DUMBASSES!" The joke: behind lofty explorer rhetoric is pure spite toward Earth and everyone on it.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.