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US Space Team's Up Goer Five

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http://xkcd.com/1133/

Plans for the US Space Team's Up Goer Five: the only flying space car that's taken anyone to another world, explained using only the ten hundred words people use the most often. :D
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Ah, so that's how it works!
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Smivs wrote:
Ah, so that's how it works!
Yes, it's not rocket science ... or is it?
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Dang, I don't feel very bright today, I had to see the picture before I got the clues in your post D... :wink:

I think Neil, Mike & Buzz liked the ride 8)
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Bill: “We are having a bad problem. The up goer part of our space car is pointing toward space.”
Bob: “Argh!”
Jeb: “Woohoo!”
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JensAyton wrote:
Bill: “We are having a bad problem. The up goer part of our space car is pointing toward space.”
Why would this be a problem? :P
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Zieman wrote:
Why would this be a problem? :P
See the bottom of the reference diagram. :-)
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Completely unrelated, there is also this.
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Zieman wrote:
JensAyton wrote:
Bill: “We are having a bad problem. The up goer part of our space car is pointing toward space.”
Why would this be a problem? :P
:( You will not go to space today.
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Well, I thought the whole structure is "Up Goer".

If the phrasing had been something like: "We are having a bad problem. The part of our space car where lots of fire comes out is pointing toward space.", I'd concur with the assessment that there might be a wee problem...
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Re: US Space Team's Up Goer Five

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Subtle... http://xkcd.com/1125/

xkcd is the bomb diggity, my all time fave was the diagram of all known exoplanets to date... to scale!
So then I says to him, I says "naw dude, Oolite ain't no Space Opera... Oolite is Space Rock and Roll!"
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