Darth Fluffy

It's the intrinsic self-deprecation that makes it punk. 'Most Things'? I don't get a specific genre vibe from that. 'Moist Things', maybe - I imagine they'd appeal to Jimmy Buffet's crowd. 'Out of Context' could be a country band that plays in a country themed club in an urban environment. 'Far Out of Context' would be similar, just a weirder combo, like Peruvian pan flutes in London. Probably better if they used the Spanish for it, though. Anyone want to get a band together? We can be El Shiveish Goons.

Now I'm wondering if I can find a phone booth. Remember the egg shaped ones, and Christopher Reeves's Superman stares at it because he can't change in it, then uses a revolving door? I bet those are all gone. The old school ones were better distributed, more numerous, and might still be hanging out in remote locations.

I checked the meme after posting, and they've moved on to cell phones, so their context is safe.

Putting way too much thought into this, it seems to me that bosom means external, in the chest area, as opposed to internal. 'In the bosom of Abraham' would mean 'held close by Abraham to his chest', not 'inside the bloody interior of Abraham'. I could be wrong. Happens to Luke with a tuantaun in The Empire Strikes Back. So, you never know. No mention will be made of Bosom Buddies, except I just did, sorry. Does Oxymoron sound like a brand of brain bleach? Oxymorons would be a good name for a punk band.

I am amazed that you still have one. I parted with all of my CRT devices two moves ago.

"Do you believe in magic, in a young girl's heart? ..." Close, but those ain't their hearts, John.

On a pedestal, looking down at everyone. Yep, it's a cat.

Bart Simpson's prank calls to the bar are loosing context.

Ham and scrambled egg on English muffin breakfast sandwich from Sheetz, with tomato slice, shredded lettuce, and BBQ sauce. I added a slice of Swiss when I got it home. And, of course, the free weekly coffee during the Christmas season; light roast, one of the reasons I go to Sheetz is they have a light roast option. Grabbed a banana for later. It was just above freezing last night, and the chill was still in the air. We are supposed to hit mid 50s today.

2.5ish if you count Tedd.

(No baby goats were harmed in posting the prior assessment.)

There are too many unknowns to answer this this much better than we did. What is our destination? An established moon base with resources, or is the mother ship constrained to return to Earth shortly? Does our craft have some of the entire expeditions' necessary survival gear? Life raft and compass at the terminus, perhaps even the matches? For that matter, could we radio the mother ship and have them land closer? Presumably, they have enough fuel to land once; but if we are proactive, they could be closer. Or perhaps 200 miles is the proactive answer. Why do we even have guns? This implies a scenario in space that we have not yet had to deal with.

Nice article. No date, I wonder how old it is. It mentions pay phones; it's been years since I've seen one. Maybe for lack of looking for one.

Magnetism is important for shielding from the solar wind. Our Earth is uniquely suited for doing that well.

I think you nailed the overall scheme. My .02 credits: Oxygen is the single utmost top priority. You will go through a lot. So the tanks are #1, and the harness to take them along would make the rope and cloth #2 and #3. The radio would confirm you are alive and attempting rendezvous; #4. The .45s, if you know there are hostiles, #5, otherwise, leave them. (Potentially useful if there is not enough oxygen for everyone, and the commander needs to choose who makes it. I'm guessing there is 'enough'.) The flares may be vital for way finding, #6; maybe should replace the guns even if there are hostiles. The stellar map seems useless, you are only 200 miles apart. OTOH, the moon is small, it might still help you, and it is presumably easy to carry. #8 Water, milk, and food depend on how they interface with the suit you are stuck in, or if they will be needed for the return trip to Earth once you rendezvous. The suit should have some facility for using the water, and may be needed. #7, perhaps should be as high as #5. You can live longer without food, so milk and food concentrate may be unnecessary, and are less likely to interface with the suit. 'A crate of' would be burdensome. But, there is nothing else you really need, so taking some food and/or milk would not be unreasonable. #9 and #10, because there is nothing else you need, but not the whole amount. Unknowns: Might the life raft be needed by the entire mission after you return to Earth? Otherwise, seems odd that you have one. It might be worth taking the compass for similar reasons.

Damn, dude, you just won pedantic points, but lost the equivalent elsewhere. Last I heard, from an actual USAF navigator, training still included star sightings with a sextant. That was decades ago, I don't know if it is still true. But many of the large air frames designed back in the day that are still flying have a sextant port built in, a small hole in which to insert a specialized sextant device. Having a plan C for wartime operations can come in handy.

His shots were not great, it is true. Outstanding suggestion, even if the spelling threw me at first. Yes, a pressurized sex tent would give you access to access to several interesting firsts.

I did not know that, but it makes sense. That would expand the list of playable tunes a bit, having that extra note in four chords. OTOH, I'll bet it was not universally implemented, only for phones that has a speed dial feature. In particular, I wonder if the commonly available Radio Shack DTMF encoder/decoder set of that era implemented it. At the office I'm not working at during COVID, phones are basically a network device. I don't know why they haven't eliminated the phones and replaced them with a phone app on our workstations. Hmm, if they did, I'd have my work phone with me.

On Earth, the north magnetic pole has been moving rapidly in recent years, is now in Siberia. So, not so great, even here. I was wondering what you would get on the moon, with several strong magnetic fields far away, and little local interference. Or would some iron cores from impacts dominate and confuse the scene? Seemed prudent to avoid the issue and bring the golf gear.

TOS had a lot of ground to Enterprise communication, communicator to hub. When they talked peer to peer, it could have been relayed through the Enterprise, like a cell tower, or not, I don't recall that they ever said either way. I recall it being used to communicate between away team members, so short range, do not recall a planet-wide scenario. If they used them through the time portal, that would confirm the peer to peer. Cell phones as phones are cell-centric, you connect by dialing, and the network sorts out your call. I sometimes use WhatsApp, which places calls through the Web, Skype used to do that, so we essentially have planet-wide peer to peer (you have to install the app). Our phones talk quite far to towers, but definitely local area. Batteries have improved enormously in my lifetime, several times. Granted, the power on Star Trek devices seemed limitless.

Literally; I was a fan of Star Trek, but thought many of their devices were unrealistic for how compact they were. Little did I know ... My cell phone does everything the communicator did, AND many of the functions of the tricorder, and it is much smaller than the tricorder. Now if I can get the phaser attachment, I'll be all set.

Another minor thing, Tedd's thought bubble is a shaded rectangle. I think puffy cloud thought bubbles is the norm, but they take more real estate. The highlighting for the thought bubble comes from the forward (out of the page) upper right (viewer's right), not from the thinker's head.

I think so. The phones are too much of a distraction. I thought that, too. Maybe because of a school policy, it was deemed to be necessary to not apply that as a rule.

Yeah, that makes sense. Mine does a buzzy thing for incoming texts, that's where my mind went.

Not sure Abraham is on that list, if he is indeed 'The Fossil'.