Study the editorial cartoon Mars Probe by Mike Keefe. How does the alien with the baseball bat contribute to the effectiveness of the political cartoon? It suggests that aliens are like people because they play baseball, a human sport. It uses humor to show that unknown factors keep damaging the probes humans send. It shows how to cope with the surface of Mars, which is rocky and full of craters. It exaggerates the size of the bat in relation to the Mars probe in the cartoon.

Mike Keefe was born on November 6, 1946 in California. He is now a very popular American editorial cartoonist. He has worked for the Denver Post from 1975 to 2011, while his cartoons appeared in newspapers throughout Europe, as well as Asia and United States. He is now working for The Colorado Independent. In this particular cartoon, two aliens are playing baseball - one is holding a baseball bat, while the other is wearing a mitt. This humorous cartoon is intended to illustrate that factors unknown to human race are damaging the probes sent from Planet Earth.

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It uses humor to show that unknown factors keep damaging the probes humans send.

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