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− | The comic is set in the future, with two hovering | + | {{Incomplete|Title text needs explanation. Cleaning up required.}} |
+ | The comic is set in the future, with two hovering robot 'beings' discussing ancient history, in particular the clothing styles of kings and queens of the now extinct human race. It appears that robot archeologists have unearthed the remains of human civilization, including bones, various artifacts, and some of the more durable writings. The bones gave them a rough idea of what we were like anatomically. | ||
− | When | + | When dinosaur bones were first dug up, the idea that dinosaurs were scaly, reptilian-like creatures was developed with the information available at the time. In recent times, it's been discovered that most dinosaurs actually had feathers (checking the bones carefully shows shafts where the feathers would have attached.) |
− | As this runs counter to the widespread and long-held image of dinosaurs as dramatic reptiles, the public has been reluctant to accept this new discovery, especially as the addition of feathers | + | As this runs counter to the widespread and long-held image of dinosaurs as these dramatic reptiles, the public has been reluctant to accept this new discovery, especially as the addition of feathers conjures up the image of a giant chicken. Had it been discovered that dinosaurs were in fact covered with 6" long razor tipped spikes, people would probably have accepted this immediately as it conforms to the sterotypical dinosaurs as a killing machine. |
+ | There have even been attempts to claim that the feathers did not exist. | ||
− | In the same way, the new information on kings and queens being covered in fabric runs counter to the movie inspired image that the robot on the right had about humans, picturing them as being pink warriors that could grow metal out of | + | In the same way, the new information on kings and queens being covered in fabric runs counter to the movie inspired image that the robot on the right had about humans, picturing them as being pink warriors and that they had a leader who could grow metal out of his or her head. (Apparently one of the surviving images of humanity is a crowned monarch.) |
− | Shown | + | Shown the truth, that humans did typically wear clothing, and that a monarch's crown is not part of his or her body, but just a signifying clothing, the robot is disappointed. Humans wearing clothing reduces them, in his opinion, to big silly pillows. Something made of cloth cannot, in this robot's mind, be a significant actor in history. |
+ | The robot fails to reason (insofar as a robot can reason) that, among other things, history was what it was, and its wanting things to have been a certain way does not make it so. In addition, just as the clothing-wearing human is more than a mere pillow, a feathered dinosaur is not necessarily merely a giant chicken. | ||
− | + | The title text references our failure to change the popular image of dinosaurs to reflect the way they truthfully once were, Randall jokingly suggests that we should apply the same "featherless is cooler" logic to popular images of Bald Eagles (the name says they're bald!), and remove their feathers, leaving them bald and horrible-looking. | |
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− | The title text references our failure to change the popular image of dinosaurs to reflect the way they truthfully once were | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Two robots are hovering in mid-air in the comic | + | :[Two robots are hovering in mid-air in the comic] |
:Robot 1: You know, new research suggests ancient human kings and queens were covered in colorful fabric. | :Robot 1: You know, new research suggests ancient human kings and queens were covered in colorful fabric. | ||
:Robot 2: Ugh, I like '''movie''' humans more. Screaming pink warriors with metal crowns poking through the skin on their heads! | :Robot 2: Ugh, I like '''movie''' humans more. Screaming pink warriors with metal crowns poking through the skin on their heads! | ||
:Robot 2: Now they're, what, big pillows? | :Robot 2: Now they're, what, big pillows? | ||
:Robot 2: Science ruins everything. | :Robot 2: Science ruins everything. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Robots]] | [[Category:Robots]] | ||
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[[Category:Science]] | [[Category:Science]] | ||
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