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Cameras weren’t turned on?! Ooh, someone’s in trouble! Who said it crashed on the Sea of Tranquility and how would they know? Did we miss something before these panels you’re posting – or did I just “space” out about that information?
Are Moon Maid and Junior still smooching? Will they solve the 50 year old skeleton mystery? Will Dick and Diet have trouble unloading all the stuff with full gravity? Tune in next time…
Time to go play racquetball.
Yes…they established that it crashed at the Sea of Tranquility a few posts ago. Good Game!
I did see that Dick and Diet said that when they first saw it, but then they say in the first panel, “The said it crashed on the ‘Sea of Tranquility’ – well there it is.”
Who are they refering to? Was it unmanned? I know, I know, it’s a comic strip…I just feel like I missed something.
Hi Dea – They are referring to something in the news of the day. A NASA probe, Ranger, that was designed not to land on the moon, but crash into the surface. It would take pictures all the way down :
Ranger 8 was a spacecraft designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact. The spacecraft carried six television vidicon cameras, two wide angle (channel F, cameras A and B) and four narrow angle (channel P) to accomplish these objectives. The cameras were arranged in two separate chains, or channels, each self-contained with separate power supplies, timers, and transmitters so as to afford the greatest reliability and probability of obtaining high-quality video pictures. No other experiments were carried on the spacecraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_8
Dea – I’m guessing they’re referring to Ground Control back at Diet’s lab.
He seems a pretty resourceful fellow, I would imagine that he’s had teams monitoring where the other coupe was. 
Gah!!! Too slow again!!
Matt – You are quite correct about Diet and his people. He was probably the inspiration for Tony Stark… blended with a bit of Howard Hughes.
Thanks for the info, Doug! I was in diapers at the time, but I sure wish I’d started being interested when I was that young.
Someone sure would have been in trouble if the cameras weren’t turned on, then!!
Dea, I’m in diapers now!
It’s building up, this story. It’s definitely building up. Can’t wait for part 12.
Aw, did the new movie do that to ya? John told me you’re old, but really, not *that* old!! HA!!
Depends!
HA!
Depends on what? OOHH, that’s what you’re using!
Tee Hee