Can you think of any incidents where you misinterpreted a word or an action? How did you resolve the misunderstanding?
Answer:
Think-Tank misinterprets innocent nursery rhymes as threats to the Martians.
Omega reads the lines from the rhyme:
“Mistress Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With cockle shells and silver bells
And pretty maids all in a row”
Listening the above lines, Think-Tank thinks that people on Earth are so advanced that they can actually grow crops of rare metals and high explosives.
Iota reads another rhyme from the book:
“Hey diddle diddle! The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.”
Listening the above lines, Think-Tank thinks that Earthlings have taught their domesticated animals musical culture and space techniques. Even their dogs have a sense of humour.
Oop reads lines from another rhyme:
“Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall…”
Listening this, Think-Tank gets frightened because the picture of the Humpty-Dumpty resembles Think-Tank’s mighty balloon brain. He thinks that the Earthlings have seen him and are after him. He infers that the people on Earth are planning to capture Mars Central Control and him.