Strip 497 -- First Seen: 2010-08-03
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Panel 1
Tall panel. Bert is kneeling in the top center of the inverted Mass Driver, ready to catch a large rock (about 25 cm in diameter, with one flat side) being tossed at him (remember, very low gravity, so if you show an arc, it should be a really flat one) by Ernie.
Caption: The Brothers formed a two-man 'bucket brigade' to load rocks into the hoppers.
 
Panel 2
Medium shot of Bert, slightly elevated, as he carefully places the rock he just caught into one of the three hoppers welded to the inverted top side of the Mass Driver (refer to the sketch). There would be several smaller rocks already in that hopper, and if we see the other two hoppers, they are also partially filled with rocks of roughly the same size. (The rocks will be varying sizes, starting at about soft-ball sized, with the smallest rocks on the bottom and getting progressively larger as the hoppers fill up.)
 
Bert: More rocks, Ernie, more rocks!
 
Panel 3
Medium shot of Ernie, on the surface, picking up another good-sized rock.
Ernie: Aye Captain, I'm giving it all I can.
Ernie: I canna change the laws o' physics!