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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by a MUSICAL ROVER. Explanation of the title text is missing. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | + | A play on several meanings of the words "sample" and "return". The day before this comic was published, NASA successfully landed a new rover, {{w|Perseverance (rover)|''Perseverance''}}, on Mars; part of its mission is to collect Martian samples (bits of rock and dust) and leave them where a future mission can retrieve them and return them to Earth. “{{w|Sampling (music)|Samples}}” can also refer to short snippets of music; as ''Perseverance'' is the first Mars rover to carry microphones, it would be possible to use ''samples'' from those microphones musically, e.g. using a {{w|Loop (music)#Modern looping|looper pedal}}, which lets a musician play short samples of music and then repeats them back live as if it were another musician. Using a loop pedal would make sense if the sample includes a tune that repeats throughout the song—or that could repeat throughout the song. This is similar to [[411: Techno]]. | |
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The title text {{w|Anthropomorphism|anthropomorphises}} the rover, suggesting that the drop to the surface was so frightening for it that it was screaming as it descends. | The title text {{w|Anthropomorphism|anthropomorphises}} the rover, suggesting that the drop to the surface was so frightening for it that it was screaming as it descends. | ||
− | The | + | The phase of entry, for Mars landers, has been dubbed the "Seven Minutes Of Terror" - though this is less for the sake of the lander; more for the nail-biting of those in their control room back on Earth, utterly powerless to make any useful corrections to a craft that is tens of millions of miles/kilometres away. The round-trip communication delay significantly exceeds the whole of the passage through the thin atmosphere, so they have to rely on whatever pre-arranged autonomy they engineered and programmed into their craft beforehand, and hope they {{w|List_of_missions_to_Mars#Missions|anticipated all eventualities}}. |
− | + | [https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-perseverance-rover-sends-sneak-peek-of-mars-landing/ You can view the landing here.] | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
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− | :[Caption below the panel:] | + | : [Megan is sitting at a desk, typing on her laptop, which is connected to an audio mixer on the floor.] |
− | :The first Mars sample return | + | : Megan: Perseverance's microphones are active! Downlinking audio! |
+ | : [Cueball is standing on the other side of the box, holding an electric guitar, which is plugged into the box, and standing with one foot on a small box on the floor, which is also connected.] | ||
+ | : Cueball: I'm ready with the looper pedal. | ||
+ | : [Caption below the panel:] | ||
+ | : The first Mars sample return | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Mars rovers]] | [[Category:Mars rovers]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Music]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
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[[Category:Puns]] | [[Category:Puns]] |