Author Topic: XKCD Webcomic (Read 23529 times)

joncz · « **on:** 06/27/2012 10:07 am »

http://xkcd.com/1074/

jabe · « **Reply #1 on:** 06/27/2012 10:17 am »

and don't forget the "mouse over" on the comic on the webpage
jb

sdsds · « **Reply #2 on:** 11/12/2012 07:16 am »

Up Goer Five
http://xkcd.com/1133/

Garrett · « **Reply #3 on:** 11/12/2012 09:03 am »

Quote from: sdsds on 11/12/2012 07:16 am

Up Goer Five
http://xkcd.com/1133/

Brilliant! Saw it this morning when it came up on my Google Reader. Quite funny too.

Robert Thompson · « **Reply #4 on:** 11/12/2012 11:02 am »

Quote from: sdsds on 11/12/2012 07:16 am

Up Goer Five
http://xkcd.com/1133/

Thinkpol make up doubleplus good. S*F ~ const.

peter-b · « **Reply #5 on:** 11/12/2012 11:37 am »

Quote from: Hernalt on 11/12/2012 11:02 am

Quote from: sdsds on 11/12/2012 07:16 am
Up Goer Five
http://xkcd.com/1133/

Thinkpol make up doubleplus good. S*F ~ const.

Mmm. I suspect you may have missed the point. It's not written in Newspeak; it's explicitly written using the only the most common 1,000 words in the English language. Almost the opposite of Newspeak, in fact.

Rocket Science · « **Reply #6 on:** 11/12/2012 12:20 pm »

Finally, the lost blueprints of Apollo … Everything we need to build a new one…

iamlucky13 · « **Reply #7 on:** 11/12/2012 04:36 pm »

So...

"Rapid, Unscheduled Disassembly" = "Parts fall off your space car in the wrong order."

Unfortunately, I'm afraid the basic idea behind the joke is flawed. I'm pretty sure I know quite a few people with a vocabulary smaller than ten hundred words.

Quote from: Rocket Science on 11/12/2012 12:20 pm

Finally, the lost blueprints of Apollo … Everything we need to build a new one…

Definitely using this comic to respond next time somebody starts a rant about the blueprints.

I wonder if he'll offer this one as a poster on his store.

LegendCJS · « **Reply #8 on:** 11/12/2012 04:53 pm »

He is taking the liberty to add the suffix -ing to many of the words in the 1000 most common list. "Burning", "Landing", and I did not find "breath" or "breathing" in one list of 1000 (I did find "breath" in another 1000 word list). The word "computer" wasn't in either list I checked.

Side question: can humanity colonize space if the word "computer" isn't even in the the top 1000 most used words?

XKCD rocks!

Comga · « **Reply #9 on:** 11/12/2012 05:23 pm »

And one of my XKCD favorites: Places to go in space.
http://xkcd.com/482/
Look! The Moon is only two inches above the International Space Station.
Mars is only two inches above that. Should be a piece of cake, no? Let's use the new Up-Goer Six with two tubes of solid burning stuff!

kevin-rf · « **Reply #10 on:** 11/12/2012 06:53 pm »

Quote

And one of my XKCD favorites: Places to go in space.
http://xkcd.com/482/
Look! The Moon is only two inches above the International Space Station.
Mars is only two inches above that. Should be a piece of cake, no? Let's use the new Up-Goer Six with two tubes of solid burning stuff!

Okay, the cat really messes with my head, but I never trusted that guy with the hat

elmarko · « **Reply #11 on:** 11/13/2012 09:38 am »

I'm definitely getting a whiff of Kerbal Space Program from it. Apparently he plays it a lot.

"This end should point towards the ground if you want to go to space"

sdsds · « **Reply #12 on:** 07/01/2013 07:21 pm »

"Realistic Criteria"
http://xkcd.com/1232/

Falcon H · « **Reply #13 on:** 07/01/2013 09:45 pm »

Quote from: elmarko on 11/13/2012 09:38 am

I'm definitely getting a whiff of Kerbal Space Program from it. Apparently he plays it a lot.

"This end should point towards the ground if you want to go to space"

Have you ever read kerbal comics? http://www.kerbalcomics.com/