Today's XKCD
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Visiting
thea U.S.S. Enterprise in a rocket ship turned into a football was not among the things I thought I'd be doing today.
Edit:
https://xkcd.com/2712/
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@Zecc I never found anything. I guess I didn't try hard enough...
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@Tsaukpaetra Once you're flying, you'll have little dots show up around your ship that indicate the direction and distance of the nearest bodies (a lighter dot means the object is closer). After that, it's just a matter of getting your ship going in the right direction (which is slightly tricksy, because... orbits!)
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The gravity on the edge of the universe is kinda screwy, but if you approach it from the right direction, you can stand there.
Edit: On the other side of the edge of the universe, you're making a head-stand:
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@cvi Are you standing on the edge of a moebius strip, and trying to get to the other side?
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@BernieTheBernie said in Today's XKCD:
@cvi Are you standing on the edge of a moebius strip, and trying to get to the other side?
I recently showed my son what happens when you bisect a mœbius strip to the 3rd degree, he was duly impressed. Unfortunately, during the cutting process, I was exposed to several novel Angles and Curvatures, these are not without effect, but are survivable.
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I found a cluster of black holes at one point. There might have been a joke somewhere among them, but they were a giant pain to navigate near, so I gave up.
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@PotatoEngineer I don't recommend landing on the Sun either. Or not twice.
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@dkf said in Today's XKCD:
@PotatoEngineer I don't recommend landing on the Sun either. Or not twice.
Oh, yeah, I did that. It's, um, got a bit of gravity. I had to bounce along the sun for a while until I built up enough speed to make orbit.
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@dkf said in Today's XKCD:
@PotatoEngineer I don't recommend landing on the Sun either. Or not twice.
But just like fashion, it's a passion for the wizard and hip.
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@Gribnit said in Today's XKCD:
@dkf said in Today's XKCD:
@PotatoEngineer I don't recommend landing on the Sun either. Or not twice.
But just like fashion, it's a passion for the wizard and hip.
So if I want to hit him with a grenade, I should aim high?
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@PleegWat said in Today's XKCD:
@Gribnit said in Today's XKCD:
@dkf said in Today's XKCD:
@PotatoEngineer I don't recommend landing on the Sun either. Or not twice.
But just like fashion, it's a passion for the wizard and hip.
So if I want to hit him with a grenade, I should aim high?
Well, yeah. You'll need to throw it hard enough for it to get free - get free right into the Sun.
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I regret nothing.
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@Zecc I think I found the DC museum of air and space.
Again.
You've found:
a cool bug a pretty leaf a secret glade a holographic Charizard business card 11 squares packed into a larger square a DVD of The Core (2003) an orb wren a rock with neat stripes a curious humboldt squid a bathyscaphe a wayward Roomba full of moondust a glass of heavy water a sixth lagrange point a strangely heavy subway token a piece of space shuttle food a broken smoke machine The Long Now Foundation's archive of every Animorphs book Voyager 1 a single caffeine molecule a festive but somehow unnerving holiday card from Junji Ito a podcast episode a friendly bee a spiral-cut diamond a golden radio tuned to 1.618 MHz a burrito a cool pair of shoes with flames on the side a scroll lock key a primordial black hole a tree-filled grove and a nice spot for quiet contemplation a spider-silk scarf a friendly jumping spider a friend baby shoes (and baby) two Andalites, one canonical a sensible cheese platter a swatch pop-out wristwatch a bottle of Coke Absolute Zero a hot dog a relativistic bowling ball $30 in Yahoo a Cybiko® wireless handheld computer for teens (2000) a brightly-lit billboard Voyager 2 the Principality of Sealand the Heart of the Ocean some tin from the pantai remis mine a sunspot the 3 million point line
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@PleegWat
But no Win7 CD or those tax papers?
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