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Explanation
This comic humorously describes air travel from the perspective of a pilot making an announcement, but strips away all the technical jargon to describe the experience in the most literal, childlike terms possible.
The single panel shows passengers seated in an airplane while the captain's announcement plays over the intercom: "This is your captain speaking. We did that thing again where we go fast and then the ground gets tiny. We expect the ground to get tinier for another 20 minutes and then stay that way for 2 hours and then get big again at the end."
The comedy comes from the contrast between the authoritative "This is your captain speaking" opening — which passengers associate with professional, technical communication — and the absurdly simplified description of flight that follows. Instead of altitude, speed, and flight time, the pilot describes takeoff as "the ground gets tiny," cruising altitude as the ground staying tiny, and landing as the ground getting "big again." The comic suggests that beneath all the technical language of aviation, the fundamental experience of flying really is just "the ground gets small and then gets big again." It plays on the idea that even highly trained professionals might secretly think of their jobs in these basic terms.