3195: International Station

International Station

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Title text: Welcome to the International Space Station Exclamation Point!

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Explanation

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This joke makes fun of the parity between 'space', as in the invisible character between words, and 'space', as in the void between astronomical bodies. In this case, it is said that the word 'space' was never meant to be there at all, but it was included as a word due to a formatting error.

The presumption is therefore that it was thought necessary to squash any misconception that the compound word "InternationalStation" (however capitalised) was the intended name, but that it led to a different error; albeit one that ended up acceptibly apt, or at least left unresolved.

The title text furthers the joke by transcribing the exclamation mark at the end of the phrase, similar to 3143: Question Mark. There were also multiple examples of strings, with punctuation (literal and otherwise) and spelling easy to misconvey in 1963: Namespace Land Rush, though none of them used either spaces or "space"s. The full name of "International Space Station Exclamation Point" may also sound like it refers to a location in the International Space Station by the name of "Exclamation Point".

Transcript

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[Ponytail is talking to Cueball. They seem to be floating in space, surrounded by a wrench, a book, two sheets of paper and some debris.]

Ponytail: You know, NASA and Roscosmos actually originally named it the International Station, but a translation issue led someone to accidentally transcribe the formatting.

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Discussion

Holy refresh pull exclamation mark! tilde tilde tilde tilde --DollarStoreBa'al^Converse 14:55, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

Should the "not-earth" "space" be changed to something like "the void between astronomical bodies"? I'm not sure if, say, the surface of the Moon or Mars or Eminiar VII count as being "in space". BunsenH (talk) 15:27, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

I initially interpreted the cartoon as showing the people and objects floating within something gloopy, and the wrench as a bone, and that the joke was about an "internal space station". Here we are, inside a gelatinous cube, or possibly a gigantic space amoeba... BunsenH (talk) 15:43, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

New Category: Weightless There are a few strips that take place demonstrating micro-gravity, right? Is that worthy of a category? The 'space' tag could be used for comics about space or comics in space (or, I guess, comics on planets?). 191.101.157.82 17:08, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

I think the ISS was originally called start quote Alpha end quote period tilde tilde tilde tilde 134.173.108.120 18:23, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

I'm early! 2603:7083:8700:E02:FE51:837E:B6F:327 18:24, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
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