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by Disembodied » Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:06 am
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.
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by Smivs » Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:47 am
Ah, so that's how it works!
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by Disembodied » Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:54 am
Smivs wrote: Ah, so that's how it works!
Yes, it's not rocket science ... or is it?
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by Zieman » Tue Nov 13, 2012 11:28 am
Dang, I don't feel very bright today, I had to see the picture before I got the clues in your post
D ...
I think Neil, Mike & Buzz liked the ride
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by JensAyton » Tue Nov 13, 2012 11:58 am
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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by Zieman » Tue Nov 13, 2012 12:29 pm
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?
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by JensAyton » Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:05 pm
Zieman wrote: Why would this be a problem? :P
See the bottom of the reference diagram. :-)
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by Commander McLane » Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:09 pm
Completely unrelated, there is also
this .
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by Disembodied » Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:22 pm
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?
You will not go to space today.
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by Zieman » Tue Nov 13, 2012 3:09 pm
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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by superbatprime » Tue Nov 13, 2012 6:42 pm
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!"