Lemmy.World
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
xkcd botB to xkcdEnglish · 6 days ago

xkcd #3294: Asteroid Mission

imgs.xkcd.com

message-square
10
link
fedilink
260

xkcd #3294: Asteroid Mission

imgs.xkcd.com

xkcd botB to xkcdEnglish · 6 days ago
message-square
10
link
fedilink

xkcd #3294: Asteroid Mission

Title text:

Lander, this is Houston. There’s been a request that you turn clipping back on and instead set the mass to 1kg. The theorists believe that will be pretty funny.

Transcript:

Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com

Source: https://xkcd.com/3294/

explainxkcd for #3294

alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • DaddleDew
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    45
    ·
    6 days ago

    And then they fall through it along with their lander.

    • Jankatarch
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      22
      ·
      edit-2
      6 days ago

      Should’ve done >nograv on first.

    • bitjunkie
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      6 days ago

      Incorrect, noclip turns on fly by default

  • Etterra@discuss.online
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    6 days ago

    I can tell by the syntax that our reality simulation isn’t a Bethesda product. Well that and the lack of random at collision doesn’t regularly launch things across the sky.

    • Strider
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      5 days ago

      And robbing stores standing on someone’s head never seems to work, either.

  • Vince
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    6 days ago

    Basically what happened in Astonishing XMen

  • DarkCloud
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    6 days ago

    IDSPISPOPD

    • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      6 days ago

      IDDQD?

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    6 days ago

    Hopefully, they sent a professional coder up there whom they had to train very intensely over a short period to be ready for space flight.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    6 days ago

    Muskrats everywhere, those little pests!

xkcd

xkcd

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

A community for a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 110 users / day
  • 502 users / week
  • 2.18K users / month
  • 5.81K users / 6 months
  • 6.84K local subscribers
  • 17.5K subscribers
  • 615 Posts
  • 11.6K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • koraro
  • UI: 0.19.20-5-ga406e80b
  • BE: 0.19.19-9-gc55dd700c
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org