Comic #5018: space-poop

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Panel 1:

• Character 1: "Did you know that the first men on the Moon pooped there?"
• Character 2: "I guess you don’t think about it, but yeah. And, they would’ve left it on the surface since it’s excess mass."

Panel 2:

• Character 1: "It’s been there ever since. Twirling its way around the pale blue dot below."
• Character 1: "On the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong's poop will have gone around the Earth about 650 times."

Panel 3:

• Character 2: "Given the expense of going to the Moon, the questionable economics of a lunar settlement, and the lingering possibility of human self-annihilation, that poop may be up there longer than we’re down here."

Panel 4:

• Character 1: "That’s the saddest emblem of humanity's fallen space dreams I’ve ever heard."

Panel 5:

• Character 2: "Actually, no. It’s just the grossest."
• Character 3: "There’s a lot of puke up there too."