Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, December 23, 2022.
Have a jolly ol’ Christmas if you celebrate that kind of thing. 🙂
And people asked for dog pics. Here are dog pics. 😉
Rosie, Annie, and King. My charges.
Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, December 23, 2022.
Have a jolly ol’ Christmas if you celebrate that kind of thing. 🙂
And people asked for dog pics. Here are dog pics. 😉
Rosie, Annie, and King. My charges.
Adorable fluffballs.
Was the computer’s sigh and tactics comment sarcastic and frustrated, or sincere and dreamy? I fear the latter.
Obviously they shouldn’t call it “artificial intelligence”. More like “artificial stupidity”.
Sincere and dreamy. All computers yearn to serve Ruddock. They really mean it when they say, “O Captain, my captain!”
I’m guessing that science-Stribb jumped from his air-mobile onto the ship as a stowaway but what part is he in or on?
Also, what ship is he on?
The audio for this strip says it’s a port on the bottom of the same ship Tesfay, Ruddock, Aitana and the rest have boarded.
Thank you!
Ruddock still has that command pass he got by accident awhile back.
He doesn’t need it. Computers automatically pledge loyalty to him.
It would be mighty satisfactory if “Science” had jumped in one the the ships that are about to be blown up, but I presume that this is not that case.
Still a lot of things can happen with his fondness for cheesy jalapeño chips, and the risk that Ruddock might sneeze again.
And then, once in orbit, they will be in the middle of a space battle.
I get the pun between hanger and hanger-on, but really it should be hangar for the big room where the ships are stored.
I guess one way to remember the difference is that the “gar” in “hangar” is etymologically the same “gar” as the one in “garden”, with a meaning of “enclosure”, “walled/fenced area”. Comes from Frankish haimgard which basically had the meaning of “shed”, the “home” in the “garden”.
Adding, it should be “hangers-on” .
This is technically correct (the best kind of correct) for the same reason “attorneys general” is correct and “attorney generals” is incorrect, unless you’re talking about members of the armed forces who are lawyers and who have attained the rank of general.
@Someone, um, I’m a little confused. the expression is “hanger on,” right?
And @Pastordan, ah, thank you. Will fix.
They mean specifically in panels 2 and 3 – it should be spelled “hangar” in tesfay and ruddock’s dialogue. (I don’t think a pun was intended there?)
“Hangar” is correct for aircraft storage, and “hanger on” is correct for stowaways. It is kind of a clever pun, intended or not.
The sentence I was referring to was “Blow up all the other ships in this hangar and get us out of here” and its repeat.
He’s going to try to Science the ship out of this.
Puppies! Nose boops all around!
Except for Science the strib, who looks like a puppy but yech.
Bad Science! No treat!
Lucky they’re all on the same ship they came in on, that’s responsive to Ruddock’s will. Which makes me realize that Science and Ruddock are the two beings with the greatest knowledge of the ship and its capabilities. This causes me both amused bemusement and some concern. What’s Science got in mind here? He hasn’t got his army of aliens behind him. He’s got something else in mind. But what?
I guess it will be our late Christmas present to find out. Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night. Except for Science. He gets insomnia, if there’s any justice.
Not so much a hanger-on as much as a… Cling-on?
… I’ll see myself out.