space
Original: space on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
[A long wordless sequence, panel by panel, top to bottom:]
Panel 1: A rocket launches from a hilly landscape into a blue sky.
Panel 2: The rocket's nose cone separates with a burst marked "POOM!"
Panel 3: The rocket, now in space against a starry black background, viewed over a blue-and-green planet (Earth).
Panel 4: The spent rocket body drifts away; a payload continues on.
Panel 5: A satellite or spacecraft with extended panels floats in space.
Panel 6: The spacecraft tumbles / its panels fold.
Panel 7: A compact cube-shaped object drifts among the stars.
Panel 8: A small object approaches a grey, cratered body (an asteroid or the surface of the Moon).
Panel 9: A tiny object falls toward a barren grey surface.
Panel 10: A small object lies on the cratered grey surface.
Panel 11: A close view of the grey surface, an object resting in a crater.
Panel 12: Wider view of the desolate grey landscape with the object.
Panel 13: An impact crater / scattered debris on the grey ground.
Panel 14: The grey surface with the object settled among rocks.
Final panel: A person sits at a desk speaking into a headset/microphone. Caption text: "THIS IS MISSION CONTROL. THE MOON IS NOW TECHNICALLY A SANDWICH. NO MORE NASA MISSIONS ARE NECESSARY."
Votey:
Header: "EARLIER..."
A man (left): "So why is this mission important?"
Another person (right): "Uh... spin-off tech?"
Panel 1: A rocket launches from a hilly landscape into a blue sky.
Panel 2: The rocket's nose cone separates with a burst marked "POOM!"
Panel 3: The rocket, now in space against a starry black background, viewed over a blue-and-green planet (Earth).
Panel 4: The spent rocket body drifts away; a payload continues on.
Panel 5: A satellite or spacecraft with extended panels floats in space.
Panel 6: The spacecraft tumbles / its panels fold.
Panel 7: A compact cube-shaped object drifts among the stars.
Panel 8: A small object approaches a grey, cratered body (an asteroid or the surface of the Moon).
Panel 9: A tiny object falls toward a barren grey surface.
Panel 10: A small object lies on the cratered grey surface.
Panel 11: A close view of the grey surface, an object resting in a crater.
Panel 12: Wider view of the desolate grey landscape with the object.
Panel 13: An impact crater / scattered debris on the grey ground.
Panel 14: The grey surface with the object settled among rocks.
Final panel: A person sits at a desk speaking into a headset/microphone. Caption text: "THIS IS MISSION CONTROL. THE MOON IS NOW TECHNICALLY A SANDWICH. NO MORE NASA MISSIONS ARE NECESSARY."
Votey:
Header: "EARLIER..."
A man (left): "So why is this mission important?"
Another person (right): "Uh... spin-off tech?"
Alt text
A tall, mostly wordless SMBC comic. A rocket launches from a hilly landscape into a blue sky, then its nose cone bursts off ("POOM!"). Now in space above the blue-and-green Earth, the rocket sheds its stages, the spacecraft deploys and tumbles, and a small compact object separates and drifts among the stars toward a grey, cratered body. Over many small panels the object falls and finally comes to rest on the barren, crater-pocked grey surface (the Moon). In the final panel, a person sits at a desk wearing a headset and announces: "THIS IS MISSION CONTROL. THE MOON IS NOW TECHNICALLY A SANDWICH. NO MORE NASA MISSIONS ARE NECESSARY." The joke: the elaborate space mission existed solely to deposit something onto the Moon so it could be declared a sandwich. Votey: A single panel labeled "EARLIER..." showing two people. One asks, "So why is this mission important?" The other answers sheepishly, "Uh... spin-off tech?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.