FoxTrot by Bill Amend for February 10, 2004
Transcript:
Andy: The mars rover uses 40 watts of power to beam critical data 200 million miles to earth. And yet our son somehow needs 100 watts to hear deliberately distorted guitar chords five feet away! Roger: Don't ask me. I was never good at science. Peter: Sorry to interrupt, but my ceiling light fell down again.
The Mars rover isn’t sending the data via sound, you ditz.