Strip 202 -- First Seen: 2009-06-23
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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Looking again at the large navigation screen on Bert's console. TLP is now very large, about 10cm across, the air bubble is 25 cm across. The 'lump' just inside the airskin is an uneven chunk roughly 7mm across

Ernie (OP): This gets weirder and weirder.

Bert (OP): That lump, whatever it is, is in a 67-minute synchronous orbit just inside the airskin, maybe in contact with it.


Panel 2
Looking at Ernie and Bert, looking at the screen with expressions of incredulity.

Ernie: That's just crazy.

Bert: I'm not liking any of this, and I don't think that old flyboy was being straight with us.

Panel 3
Ernie, cracking a joke, is looking up with palms upraised in a beatific gesture. Bert tries to ignore him, looking at his console.

Ernie: Trust the Air Force, Luke, trust the Air Force.

Bert: At least the flight controller seems to know what he's doing. We're being vectored smoothly into a circular 50-kilometer orbit.

Panel 4
External view. The iceberg is in the foreground, and Toot is on the far side so we can't see it. In the distance, getting close now, is The Little Prince, a green-and-tan mottled sphere inside an air bubble, with a small dark rock just visible inside the bubble's surface. At this point we should be a little farther away from the near part of the air bubble as the bubble is from the planetoid's surface.

Ernie: That can't be right. The orbital period's gonna be 7.3 centimes?

Bert: Should be more like several days. What the hell is going on?