Spaceman at Computer

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Spaceman Jackson returns.   I've been holding onto this one for a while hoping I could come up with a better punchline than what's essentially "beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here," but hopefully it works in the context.

The fact that capacitive gloves actually exist freaks me out.  Not the ones that are meant to keep your hands warm AND work with your phone, but the ones that are meant to work better with a touchscreen than your own fingers.  This, to me, seems like we're adapting ourselves to interface better with computers instead of adapting the computers to better serve us, and this is exactly the type of thinking that will put us in a submissive position when the robot wars come.


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Spaceman at Computer

Brass Orchid
03/11/2015 09:10 am
Sorry, Jackson. We forgot to include the hi-tech stick for manipulating the keyboard with gloved hands. Actually, we didn't forget it, but were afraid that crows would learn how to use our technology if a stick interface was used.

Brass Orchid
03/11/2015 09:10 am
Space crows.

03/11/2015 05:05 pm
Nice! Extra points for using "thataway..."

03/11/2015 05:18 pm
Chuckles all the way through, and I second @verystrange's extra points.

J Russell
03/12/2015 09:55 am
Normally it's hard to top the actual comic, but Brass Orchid for the win here.

03/12/2015 12:19 pm
I concur. Space crows win.


03/12/2015 10:48 pm
Roger, Jackson. Use your Johnson.

Brass Orchid
03/14/2015 08:36 am
Luckily, I've already uploaded 10 GB of music to my suit's sound system. I probably won't get tired of those songs before I reach that distant cluster.

dr pepper
03/15/2015 02:06 am
Poor Johnson. He could have just plugged his suit's system into the laptop but none of the 120 different USB tips he brought was the right one.

Gerry Quinn
03/15/2015 02:35 am
Funny, but of course the reason we can manipulate nature so well is that we can make and use tools. Surely Jackson could find some way to create a pointing tool that can be held in a fist and used to poke small keys? Granted the environment is unpromising.

Brass Orchid
03/17/2015 08:58 am
The sign says "Now leaving the Milky Way and entering the Pecan Cluster". I can't believe that Mars Inc. has that sort of an advertising budget.