Comic #5394: mars

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Comic Title: SMBC Comic

Panel 1: Characters: One character standing in front of a crowd, speaking. Text:

• Character: "A Mars mission requires a 7 month trip, followed by a 26 month surface stay before the 7 month trip home. This is NOT an easy psychological task."

Panel 2: Text:

• Character: "We scanned the globe for people willing to forgo most human contact for years and spend their days fixing tedious hardware problems."

Panel 3: Text:

• Character: "Experienced astronauts?"
• Character: "Submariners?"
• Character: "Zen masters?"
• Character: "Sysadmins?"

Panel 4: Text:

• Character: "They're already en route and don’t even realize they've left the office."

Panel 5: Text:

• Character (from previous panels): "Goddammed users. Someone switched off the goddamn gravity."

The comic combines humor with commentary on the nature of work in remote environments, particularly in fields requiring extensive time away from typical social interactions.