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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | + | There is large controversy over {{w|Quadcopter|quadcopters}}, which are usually referred to as ''{{w|Unmanned aerial vehicle|drones}}''. People worry that they will spy on people and essentially interfere with their lives in places they do not want them. | |
− | + | Recently, ever since drones became more commonly known, companies have begun selling remote-controlled drones. [[Cueball]] is teaching a class on flying these, because it can be tricky. This comic takes people's worries to the extreme, suggesting that the drones become sentient and can cooperate together to grab a human being and fly off with him. | |
− | + | This happens to the Cueball teacher, while his students ([[Megan]], [[Ponytail]] and another Cueball-like guy) do nothing to help him. Afterwards they discuss if they should have done something, but then take the view that now that the drones are sentient, they have become a part of nature, and that you should not interfere but just "let nature take it's course". This is a common comment in nature programs about wild life, where the speaker tries to explains why the team that was there to film the poor animals dying did nothing to help them - because they will not interfere with nature. | |
− | + | This comics shows how hypocritical that comment is, because if a lion decides to kill and eat humans, that would be natural, but we would do anything in our power to kill this lion, and not just let it run of with our children or the old and weak people. So in such a case with Cueball being taken by quadcopters we would not just let nature takes it's couse. | |
− | The title text refers back to the above as [[Randall]] confesses that he has to turn | + | The title text refers back to the above as [[Randall]] confesses that he has to turn of any nature documentaries which show scenes of animals killing their prey, while the speaker tells that this would be part of nature. It seems that it is actually that sentence rather than the killing that puts him off. And thus explains the comics punch line about just letting people be taken away to be killed by animals or quadcopters |
− | Sentient quadcopters | + | Sentient quadcopters where part of the game in [[1608: Hoverboard]], where [http://xkcd.com/1608/950:-1084+s.png one quadcopter is speaking to the other] over the lava lake in the Mount Doom crate to the left. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Cueball to the left talks to Megan, Ponytail and a Cueball-like | + | :[Cueball to the left talks to Megan, Ponytail and a Cueball-like guy, with a remote control. They are standing to the right. Behind Cueball, on the ground, there is a quadcopter.] |
− | :Cueball: Welcome to Quadcopter | + | :Cueball: Welcome to Quadcopter flying school. |
− | :[Cueball looks over his shoulder as three other quadcopters fly in towards him from above and left. The other three | + | :[Cueball looks over his shoulder as three other quadcopters fly in towards him from above and left. The other three is in the same position.] |
− | :Cueball: Today we'll be learning the basics of- | + | :Cueball: Today we'll be learning the basics of- |
− | :Cueball: ...Uhh | + | :Cueball: ...Uhh.. |
− | :[In this frameless image the three quadcopters all grabs hold of Cueball, two in each of his arms, one takes hold of his legs. And then they lift him up from the ground. He is thus hanging almost horizontally, with his head over Megan and his feet over the place where he stood before. The other three just stands there looking up at him. | + | :[In this frameless image the three quadcopters all grabs hold of Cueball, two in each of his arms, one takes hold of his legs. And then they lift him up from the ground. He is thus hanging almost horizontally, with his head over Megan and his feet over the place where he stood before. The other three just stands there looking up at him. |
:Cueball: Um | :Cueball: Um | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | ||
[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]] | [[Category:Multiple Cueballs]] | ||
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