Socks and Puppets, the comic

This thing has been going around on Tumblr recently, and my first impression given the question was to do this.

I love how all forms of journalism and reporting comes with a need to build up the content for a few sentences before introducing it. You could write this article as “Here’s a cool video of some engineering” (video_link) and write nothing else, but the writers of the blurb felt the need to build this up as a seemingly impossible task. In doing so, they’ve phrased the question in such a fashion as to allow this trivial solution.