xkcd #3294: Asteroid Mission

xkcd #3294: Asteroid Mission

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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.

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DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 14d (2 replies)

And then they fall through it along with their lander.

Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 14d

Should've done >nograv on first.

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 14d

Incorrect, noclip turns on fly by default

Vince@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 14d

Basically what happened in Astonishing XMen

Etterra@discuss.online · 8 pts · 13d (1 reply)

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@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 12d

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

DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 14d (1 reply)

IDSPISPOPD

SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 4 pts · 13d

IDDQD?

AmidFuror@fedia.io · 4 pts · 14d

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 · 0 pts · 14d

Muskrats everywhere, those little pests!