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| titletext = Ok, but make sure to get lots of pieces of rock, because later we'll decide to stay in a room on our regular orb and watch hammers hold themselves and hit rocks for us, and they won't bring us very many rocks. | | titletext = Ok, but make sure to get lots of pieces of rock, because later we'll decide to stay in a room on our regular orb and watch hammers hold themselves and hit rocks for us, and they won't bring us very many rocks. | ||
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+ | [[File:Apollo_program_insignia.png|thumb|upright=1.5| Insignia of the Apollo program. (from Wikimedia Commons)]] | ||
+ | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | [[Cueball]] suggests doing something that sounds absurd and not useful at all for the daily activities of a regular human. Yet it refers in unexpected English words to the {{w|Apollo program|Apollo human spaceflight program}} which, among other things, sent people to the Moon to bring {{w|moon rock}} samples back to Earth to study them (i.e. hitting the glowing orb in the night sky with a hammer until little pieces break off). | |
− | [[Cueball]] suggests doing something that sounds absurd and not useful at all for the daily activities of a regular human. Yet it refers in unexpected English words to the {{w|Apollo program|Apollo human spaceflight program}} which, among other things, sent people to the Moon to bring {{w|moon rock}} samples back to Earth to study them (i.e. hitting the glowing orb in the night sky with a hammer until little pieces break off) | ||
The use of such language contributes to the effect of the suggestion sounding absurd. Of course, numerous results of the Apollo program have in fact had many benefits for regular people. | The use of such language contributes to the effect of the suggestion sounding absurd. Of course, numerous results of the Apollo program have in fact had many benefits for regular people. | ||
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With robots, instead of traveling to Mars ourselves, we stay on Earth ("our regular orb") and program and direct rovers to operate remotely. Hence the rovers are described as hammers that hold themselves. The rovers collect geological samples and analyze them on site, but have no way to send the samples back to Earth. This is why the title text ask to ''make sure to get lots of pieces of rock'' because it seems we will not go that far in to space today or any time soon. | With robots, instead of traveling to Mars ourselves, we stay on Earth ("our regular orb") and program and direct rovers to operate remotely. Hence the rovers are described as hammers that hold themselves. The rovers collect geological samples and analyze them on site, but have no way to send the samples back to Earth. This is why the title text ask to ''make sure to get lots of pieces of rock'' because it seems we will not go that far in to space today or any time soon. | ||
− | The idea of using simple language in highly technical fields began with [[547: Simple]] and was revisited in [[722: Computer Problems]] | + | The idea of using simple language in highly technical fields began with [[547: Simple]] and was revisited in [[722: Computer Problems]] and [[1133: Up Goer Five]]. It should be noted however, that in this case [[Randall]] didn't use the 1000 most basic words in the English language, because the {{w|Simple English Wikipedia}}'s [http://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_1000_basic_words List of 1000 basic words] does not contain the words "glowing" or "orb," but does contain "moon," "earth," "bright," and "ball." |
The idea of using unexpected language to create humor highlighting the absurdity of normal activities has previously been explored with [[203: Hallucinations]]. | The idea of using unexpected language to create humor highlighting the absurdity of normal activities has previously been explored with [[203: Hallucinations]]. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]] | [[Category:Multiple Cueballs]] | ||
[[Category:Simplified language]] | [[Category:Simplified language]] | ||
[[Category:Space]] | [[Category:Space]] | ||
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