Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 7 (Patreon)

I mean, I'm just saying, if it were ME designing a huge Mars base, it'd try to make it at least a BIT more inconvenient to deliberately set the whole thing to self-destruct.  Like, it would need to take at LEAST a minute to set up, not seven seconds.

Also, one of my great loves in this era of anime is pausing to look at the random English text that non-English speakers throw in to make things look exotic, and it really doesn't get much better than having an interplanetary distress signal be a few lines from a children's poem  ("If Mice Could Fly" by John Cameron, in case you were wondering)