Elvie #088
Apr27
on April 27, 2022
at 10:43 am
This strip first appeared in issue #248 of Linux (Pro) Magazine and was created in 2021, shortly after NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity drone began operating on Mars.
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[Panel 1: Elvie is reading a newspaper]
Headline: Linux-powered rover lands on Mars
[Panel 2: Close-up of a "War of the Worlds" style Martian tripod]
Martian: I see you've cracked the code in the humans' surveillance drone…
[Panel 3: The Martian is revealed to be talking to another tripod which is tethered to the Perseverance rover. The tripod's eye is projecting a holographic image of Tux]
Martian: …and extracted an image of their supreme leader!
Headline: Linux-powered rover lands on Mars
[Panel 2: Close-up of a "War of the Worlds" style Martian tripod]
Martian: I see you've cracked the code in the humans' surveillance drone…
[Panel 3: The Martian is revealed to be talking to another tripod which is tethered to the Perseverance rover. The tripod's eye is projecting a holographic image of Tux]
Martian: …and extracted an image of their supreme leader!
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