Spaceman Stiff and Very Grand Kids
To Mars and back — with a diaper stop
New Sacktoon—SpaceHex
Elon Musk just notched another record-breaking SpaceX launch and is once again talking about putting a million people on Mars within ten years. It’s a classic Musk promise: equal parts breathtaking ambition and science-fiction fan fiction. Getting a handful of astronauts to Mars would be one of the greatest engineering feats in human history. Getting a million people there would require thousands of launches, vast supplies of food, water, housing, power, medical care, and the small detail of surviving on a frozen, radiation-blasted planet with no breathable air. At this point, colonizing Mars seems less challenging than getting Musk to stop wildly overpromising. Mars may someday have a thriving human settlement. A million residents by 2036? That’s not a plan—it’s a TED Talk with a rocket attached.
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Fun Art—Babysittin’ Foto Fun
I don’t know if these qualify as “art”, but I did create them on my iPad.
Whenever I babysat my grandsons during their parents’ date nights, I’d send Mom and Dad a goofy picture to reassure them that everything was hunky-dory on the home front. I don’t remember the exact circumstances behind these images, but I’m confident they made perfect sense at the time—and were, no doubt, hilarious.
I’ve always been a visual thinker, constantly looking for a funny angle. When it comes to my grandsons, though, I rarely have to look very far. Their next bit of inspiration is usually just around the corner.
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Steve, the Grand Daddy Kid art is very good. I'm sure Mom and Dad knew they were in great hands. Elon and Co. residing on Mars ASAP isn't such a bad idea.
Good Elon cartoon and use of the piggy banks is epic Sack. The grandkids' babysitting visual testament to the parents are loads of fun... my kind of humor (a bit warped). Reminds me of my wife coming back from a business trip to find our son's crib and nursery scattered with empty beer bottles nipples attached.
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