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Since the sun is too hot to visit during the day, we'll go at night when it's turned off.

• wmf 8y ago
  Since we're already off topic, check out Karl Schroeder's Virga novels about a world where space has air and the sun does turn off at night.
• mirimir 8y ago
  But dude, that's not funny. Or maybe, funny because it's not funny. But then, anything is funny. And why not, I guess?
  • coldtea 8y ago
    It is funny, you're just not getting the joke. Which is not about understanding the mechanics of the joke (what it's supposed to say) but getting the feeling that it should invoke.
    • mirimir 8y ago
      What? As in "Bro, that's totally stupid"? I guess that I'm more into cleverness and subtlety. Humor that directly or indirectly makes fun of people strikes me as sad, not funny.
      • coldtea 8y ago
        >I guess that I'm more into cleverness and subtlety. Humor that directly or indirectly makes fun of people strikes me as sad, not funny. The parent's joke (about the probe going to the sun at night, since during the day the sun is hot) is both clever (though not original, it's old), and in no conceivable way "directly or indirectly makes fun of people".