Boise Ed sends this in: “Uninhabitable grasslands. Disturbed two-wheeled rover. Hmmm. This feels like it should be so obvious, and yet …”
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I think that’s a robotic lawn mower, and he doesn’t like rolling hills.
I read it wrong, too, but it says “Inhabitable”, not “uninhabitable”. The mower doesn’t want to handle an entire planet. Not super funny, but comprehensible.
I wonder why two people read that one word wrong. (I don’t. It’s the lettering style.)
Mower’s name must be Sisyphus
Should have just gone with “habitable”, which means the same as “inhabitable”.
Alternate read: that’s not their lawnmower, that’s the probe that’s reporting back, and it apparently missed the rocket.
I wonder if the distinction between “habitable” and “inhabitable” might mean “capable of supporting life” versus “ready to move in.”
Why do cartoonists always point the horns on a crescent moon the wrong way?
A crescent moon can be either way round depending on if it’s waxing or waning.
However, the real problem is that the crescent runs from North Pole to South Pole. The moon, as so often depicted in cartoons, more closely resembles an eclipsing moon.
Carl Fink (2): THREE people, if we include our host here. If he had read it correctly, he probably would have rejected my submission of this. I still don’t get what the “Oh, no” is about, though.
I think Dvandom has hit it – no other explanation makes sense, and now that it’s been explained I actually find it quite humorous!
I agree Dvandom has it. There are many reasons why this could never happen of course, but I think that is the intended joke. It actually isn’t a terrible one, but I admit I didn’t get it until Dvandom explained it. Maybe that makes it not such a good joke? I still like it.
Another interpretation comes to mine, now that I read it correctly: It’s a robotic lawnmower and the “Oh no” is because it fears it will have to mow all those rolling grasslands.”
Dvandom is close: Not so much missed the return, as realised that the astronomer has discovered its home planet. It really doesn’t want humans to visit.
I saw it as Boise Ed did. That’s a robotic lawn mower outside the observatory and it’s afraid it will have to mow a whole planet.
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I think that’s a robotic lawn mower, and he doesn’t like rolling hills.
I read it wrong, too, but it says “Inhabitable”, not “uninhabitable”. The mower doesn’t want to handle an entire planet. Not super funny, but comprehensible.
I wonder why two people read that one word wrong. (I don’t. It’s the lettering style.)
Mower’s name must be Sisyphus
Should have just gone with “habitable”, which means the same as “inhabitable”.
Alternate read: that’s not their lawnmower, that’s the probe that’s reporting back, and it apparently missed the rocket.
I wonder if the distinction between “habitable” and “inhabitable” might mean “capable of supporting life” versus “ready to move in.”
Why do cartoonists always point the horns on a crescent moon the wrong way?
A crescent moon can be either way round depending on if it’s waxing or waning.
https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/psd/solar/2023/09/m/moon_phases.jpg?w=3728&h=3728&fit=clip&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint
However, the real problem is that the crescent runs from North Pole to South Pole. The moon, as so often depicted in cartoons, more closely resembles an eclipsing moon.
Carl Fink (2): THREE people, if we include our host here. If he had read it correctly, he probably would have rejected my submission of this. I still don’t get what the “Oh, no” is about, though.
I think Dvandom has hit it – no other explanation makes sense, and now that it’s been explained I actually find it quite humorous!
I agree Dvandom has it. There are many reasons why this could never happen of course, but I think that is the intended joke. It actually isn’t a terrible one, but I admit I didn’t get it until Dvandom explained it. Maybe that makes it not such a good joke? I still like it.
Another interpretation comes to mine, now that I read it correctly: It’s a robotic lawnmower and the “Oh no” is because it fears it will have to mow all those rolling grasslands.”
…comes to mind, …
The robotic lawnmower is what I get.
Pete — most cartoonists point the horns of the move towards the horizon. In real life, the horns point away from the horizon, the lighted area is nearest the horizon (where the sun is). Example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crescent_moon_2014-12-23.JPG
A waning moon will appear just before dawn above the eastern horizon, a waxing moon will be above the western horizon at dusk.
And you are correct — many cartoon depictions of crescent moons over-exaggerate the horns, but even then, nothing that looks like an aclipse, either: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Total_Lunar_Eclipse_2025_Phases.jpg
Dvandom is close: Not so much missed the return, as realised that the astronomer has discovered its home planet. It really doesn’t want humans to visit.
I saw it as Boise Ed did. That’s a robotic lawn mower outside the observatory and it’s afraid it will have to mow a whole planet.