(At the Time Travelling Book Co.) “Look, I indulged you on the Podkayne book but now you’re just taking the mickey. Go back and make Mars Red. And No, I’ve checked, Kim Stanley Robinson will not be writing a book titled Yellow Mars.”
Hey Kids, it’s time for another episode of “The Raket and Skibet Show!” In today’s installment Raket and Skibet explore The Secret of the Martian Moons!
Raket: Hey, you Skibet, why you are laying down on your face? [laughter] We have to do our explorations today!
Skibet: Oh Raket, I think I’ve gotten too close to your Martian moons and the fume emanations have layed me low! [laughter, groans]
Raket: There you are with joking at me again. It is not my moons we are here to explore, but those of Mars. I am thinking we are sharing the Universe with a hidden foe.
Skibet: Is it a cunning foe?
Raket: I have my suspicions, and we must confirm them. We are the explorers!
Skibet: Is our cunning foe also a linguist? [ooohs and aahs]. But how can we explore? Our space car has no gas.
Raket: Not to worry, Skibet. That’s where my moons can help us out. I am full of gas! [sfx; loud laughter]
Skibet: Tell me about it, but do so only when facing in my direction! [laughter and applause]
Will Raket and Skibet uncover the shocking truth? Will their oxygen run out before Raket’s gas attack is over? Tune in next time for “The Raket and Skibet Show!” [intro and outro music]
@Tracy: Oh no! How will our Earthmen — equipped only with interplanetary rockets, life-support systems, and fancy vehicles — ever be able to deal with a foe so cunning they’ve mastered rock-throwing?! Man is dooooomed!
February 6th, 2019 at 10:32 am
“I’d like to help, but these tanks only contain thirty seconds of oxygen each.”
February 6th, 2019 at 12:56 pm
The billing price on that glass was probably $10,000 a square mm.
February 6th, 2019 at 1:06 pm
Behind you!!… a giant pool ball.
February 6th, 2019 at 1:32 pm
(At the Time Travelling Book Co.) “Look, I indulged you on the Podkayne book but now you’re just taking the mickey. Go back and make Mars Red. And No, I’ve checked, Kim Stanley Robinson will not be writing a book titled Yellow Mars.”
February 6th, 2019 at 2:19 pm
I’m sure that swapping out the tanks with N20 seemed like a funny idea before the tragedy.
February 6th, 2019 at 2:21 pm
Apparently, if there is not enough oxygen available, heads expand to fill the size and shape of the bubble helmet.
February 6th, 2019 at 5:22 pm
Hey Kids, it’s time for another episode of “The Raket and Skibet Show!” In today’s installment Raket and Skibet explore The Secret of the Martian Moons!
Raket: Hey, you Skibet, why you are laying down on your face? [laughter] We have to do our explorations today!
Skibet: Oh Raket, I think I’ve gotten too close to your Martian moons and the fume emanations have layed me low! [laughter, groans]
Raket: There you are with joking at me again. It is not my moons we are here to explore, but those of Mars. I am thinking we are sharing the Universe with a hidden foe.
Skibet: Is it a cunning foe?
Raket: I have my suspicions, and we must confirm them. We are the explorers!
Skibet: Is our cunning foe also a linguist? [ooohs and aahs]. But how can we explore? Our space car has no gas.
Raket: Not to worry, Skibet. That’s where my moons can help us out. I am full of gas! [sfx; loud laughter]
Skibet: Tell me about it, but do so only when facing in my direction! [laughter and applause]
Will Raket and Skibet uncover the shocking truth? Will their oxygen run out before Raket’s gas attack is over? Tune in next time for “The Raket and Skibet Show!” [intro and outro music]
February 6th, 2019 at 5:26 pm
@B.C. Bravo.
@Tag: Definitely needs a font problems tag for that difficult-to-read text at the bottom. It seems to say something about shorking truth?
February 6th, 2019 at 5:27 pm
Telling the kids to go play outside is never a good idea on Mars.
February 6th, 2019 at 6:34 pm
The odds of being a blue eyed redhead is 0.17%.
February 6th, 2019 at 11:08 pm
@Francis Boyle: I think that’s supposed to be a yellow moon, with Mars in the background.
@fred: unless you’re a Space Hero, in which case the odds go to 40%.
I can’t quite tell: is that his teeth, or does he just have a glossy lower lip?
February 6th, 2019 at 11:24 pm
It IS Martian week.
@FB: hee.
@B’mancer: He does have a large and oddly-shaped noggin, doesn’t he?
@Tor: Looks like “shortling with” on my screen. Bad font, no space biscuit.
@Bruce: At least 40% back in the Golden/Pulp Age. And I can’t tell either.
@BC: GSS! Good to see Raket and Skibet’s wacky adventures back again. applause The music is particularly good.
February 8th, 2019 at 2:15 am
If that’s Phobos, makes sense for it to be yellow.
February 8th, 2019 at 11:47 am
“He is dead, face smashed against the helmet, and there is no trace of blood! What mystery is this??”
February 9th, 2019 at 8:10 am
What cunning foes! Throwing a rock through a mars-rover window… NOT!
February 9th, 2019 at 11:19 pm
@Tracy: Oh no! How will our Earthmen — equipped only with interplanetary rockets, life-support systems, and fancy vehicles — ever be able to deal with a foe so cunning they’ve mastered rock-throwing?! Man is dooooomed!
(Maybe try sending Earthwomen?)
February 10th, 2019 at 6:00 am
“Send bigger rocks!”
February 19th, 2019 at 4:50 pm
@tag, once again, “just so much yellow” 🙂