lunar-reconaissance
Original: lunar-reconaissance on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A satellite floats above a lunar landing site. A voice (mission controller, off-panel) speaks.
Controller: OKAY, LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER, WE'VE GOT YOU LOCKED ON THE APOLLO 17 LANDING SITE.
Panel 2: A man in a short-sleeved dress shirt sits at a computer, speaking wistfully.
Controller: NOW, WE CAN SEE WHERE THE LAST MEN ON THE MOON ROVED. WHERE GENE CERNAN PUT JUST A FEW MORE RUTS IN THE REGOLITH, KNOWING FULL WELL NOBODY WOULD SEE THIS PLACE FOR A LONG, LONG TIME. THE PLACE WHERE HARRISON SCHMITT WANDERED THROUGH...
Panel 3 (a different man with reddish hair and glasses, suddenly stern): LRO, KILL THE LIVE FEED.
Panel 4: A grainy black-and-white orbital photograph of the lunar surface. Scrawled into the regolith is a crude drawing of a penis (the rover tracks form the shape).
Votey:
Panel: An extreme close-up of an old man's sad, downturned face. A speech bubble reads: So... jealous...
Controller: OKAY, LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER, WE'VE GOT YOU LOCKED ON THE APOLLO 17 LANDING SITE.
Panel 2: A man in a short-sleeved dress shirt sits at a computer, speaking wistfully.
Controller: NOW, WE CAN SEE WHERE THE LAST MEN ON THE MOON ROVED. WHERE GENE CERNAN PUT JUST A FEW MORE RUTS IN THE REGOLITH, KNOWING FULL WELL NOBODY WOULD SEE THIS PLACE FOR A LONG, LONG TIME. THE PLACE WHERE HARRISON SCHMITT WANDERED THROUGH...
Panel 3 (a different man with reddish hair and glasses, suddenly stern): LRO, KILL THE LIVE FEED.
Panel 4: A grainy black-and-white orbital photograph of the lunar surface. Scrawled into the regolith is a crude drawing of a penis (the rover tracks form the shape).
Votey:
Panel: An extreme close-up of an old man's sad, downturned face. A speech bubble reads: So... jealous...
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a satellite (the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) hovers over the Moon while a mission controller says, 'Okay, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we've got you locked on the Apollo 17 landing site.' Panel 2: a man at a computer narrates reverently about the last men on the Moon, Gene Cernan leaving 'just a few more ruts in the regolith, knowing full well nobody would see this place for a long, long time,' and 'the place where Harrison Schmitt wandered through...' Panel 3: a red-haired man with glasses abruptly snaps, 'LRO, kill the live feed.' Panel 4: the reveal a grainy orbital photo of the lunar surface showing rover tracks deliberately scrawled into a crude drawing of a penis. Votey: an extreme close-up of an old man's sad face saying, 'So... jealous...'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.