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What would YOU expect in ECT-101's first class cabin?

Personal video screens.
- 10 (5%)
Lay-flat seats.
- 11 (5.4%)
Mini wet-bar.
- 9 (4.5%)
Wi-Fi/Internet Connection.
- 22 (10.9%)
Great Food.
- 7 (3.5%)
Wait, this flight will last what, 30 minutes?
- 27 (13.4%)
Barf bags.
- 11 (5.4%)
COOKIES!
- 2 (1%)
WAFFLES!
- 12 (5.9%)
Emergency EVA suits.
- 18 (8.9%)
Space Toilets.
- 10 (5%)
Space Sleeping Bags.
- 1 (0.5%)
Space Pillows.
- 4 (2%)
Space Space!
- 6 (3%)
Tethers for Null-G "bumps".
- 7 (3.5%)
Duct Tape for AnthroPC's.
- 13 (6.4%)
Richard Branson sitting next to you.
- 8 (4%)
Winslow sitting next to you.
- 5 (2.5%)
Something COMPLETELY Different.
- 10 (5%)
Gravity Dampeners.
- 9 (4.5%)

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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #200 on: 26 Jan 2012, 19:48 »

this is sorta old news but did anyone find the ships ding dong to be kind of
small?
I dont want to jump to any conclusions just because I've only ever seen ones bigger than that when flacid but guys help me out
is this a normal "sleeping" penis size
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« Reply #201 on: 26 Jan 2012, 20:22 »

The Flaccid Penis varies greatly in size based on a number of factors.

Holodong is well within design parameters for a holographic penis.
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #202 on: 26 Jan 2012, 21:07 »

Maybe Captain just got out of the pool
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #203 on: 27 Jan 2012, 00:19 »

Its a normal flacid size for a standard caucasian male holographic penis.

(That was weird.)
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #204 on: 27 Jan 2012, 00:56 »

Poor Marigold - I hope they have sick bags to hand (a bit tricky with weightless sick, I suppose)...
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #205 on: 27 Jan 2012, 00:57 »

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The lens flare was added because lens flares are awesome and if you disagree you are dumb.

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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #206 on: 27 Jan 2012, 01:11 »

This comic is why I hate 8 bit dithering... srsly Jeph, pngs can have full 24 bit lens flare goodyness!
Do it!

Also, now I can't help QC has gone the josie and the Pussycats route.. IN OUTER SPACE
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #207 on: 27 Jan 2012, 01:22 »

Jeph still cares about bandwidth - 24-bit png is three times bigger.  He has put up a jpg a couple of times when the dithering bothered him: 504 (because of the blur), 1719 (because of Faye's blush, I presume).
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #208 on: 27 Jan 2012, 01:24 »

Based on Jeph's comments about the star field, I was staring at the first panel thinking 'what's he talking about, they're faint but definitely there'. I then realized that i don't clean my screen as much as i should.  :oops:

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OMG THERES NO STARS THEYRE NOT REALLY IN SPACE THE HOLE THINGS A FAKE ITS ALL DONE BY STANLEY KUBRIC!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!

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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #209 on: 27 Jan 2012, 01:30 »

And the soundtrack for today's strip is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVcrfsXRN_A

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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #210 on: 27 Jan 2012, 01:35 »

Wait, is she just about to puke, or did she just finish puking?

/puke
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #211 on: 27 Jan 2012, 01:44 »

Wait, is she just about to puke, or did she just finish puking?

/puke

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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #212 on: 27 Jan 2012, 01:49 »

Jeph still cares about bandwidth - 24-bit png is three times bigger.  He has put up a jpg a couple of times when the dithering bothered him
I remember him complaining about having to do the comic in png because of a script... guess he had some exceptions put in since. This one deserves it :D
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #213 on: 27 Jan 2012, 01:51 »

Some kind of suction system would be best for cleaning up barf.
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« Reply #214 on: 27 Jan 2012, 01:58 »

That's what they used on Apollo, there are some fantastic stories of Frank Borman firing out of both ends on Apollo 8 and Jim Lovell's description of the way vomit behaves in 0g are fantastic. indeed the toilet on the ISS is basically a vacuum cleaner attached to a seat.
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #215 on: 27 Jan 2012, 01:59 »

so, is this the first time hannelore has had to deal with someone more nervous than she is? it would amuse me if up in space she was the calm and collected one, while marten was the nervous wreak afraid of everything.
Not gonna happen. This is quickly deteriorating into the usual patterns. Much to my joy. I've never seen any comic of work of fiction in general pull off a zero-G throwing-up bit. ^^

I am a bit disappointed, though, that the starting maneuver wasn't given its own strip. It must have been one hell of a pushback when it was anything like regular space-flight starts.
Or is it more like a regular plane start only it keeps an upward trajectory until it reaches LEO? Wouldn't - in that case - the flight take a very long time and bring the ship around the earth at least once? (I can't deliver any math on this right now, sitting in da office.)

And also, from a frequent PSCS4 user point of view:
OOOOOH! YEAH! LENS FLARE!



Some kind of suction system would be best for cleaning up barf.
I call emergency vent!


Open to interpretation.
Not really. Had she already barfed, it would be VERY VERY visible... and everywhere. And Hanners wouldn't be.
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #216 on: 27 Jan 2012, 02:18 »

I am a bit disappointed, though, that the starting maneuver wasn't given its own strip. It must have been one hell of a pushback when it was anything like regular space-flight starts.
Or is it more like a regular plane start only it keeps an upward trajectory until it reaches LEO? Wouldn't - in that case - the flight take a very long time and bring the ship around the earth at least once? (I can't deliver any math on this right now, sitting in da office.)

The flight profile for the EC-101 would be as follows:

1: Takeoff from a runway like a normal airplane and climb to an altitude above normal air traffic (about 50,000 ft)
2: Accelerate to supersonic and pitch up to climb out of the dense part of the atmosphere.
3: Pitch down and accelerate to orbital velocity (about 17,500 miles per hour)
4: MECO (Main Engine Cut Off) once a safe orbit is achieved.

The Space Shuttle took about 8 minutes to get to achieve orbit, but it began climbing and accelerating from liftoff. For a spaceplane,  it would be much easier and safer to get to high altitude before going full throttle. Think X-15 or Space Ship One not Apollo or STS.

All together, orbit insertion could be achieved in about an hour from wheels up.
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #217 on: 27 Jan 2012, 02:24 »

The flight profile for the EC-101 would be as follows:
[ ... ]
All together, orbit insertion could be achieved in about an hour from wheels up.
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #218 on: 27 Jan 2012, 03:44 »

Well, the second-panel quote sums up this entire arc pretty nicely. ;D
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #219 on: 27 Jan 2012, 04:04 »

WAYF, you are right.

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Poor Marigold. I've mostly grown out of motion sickness but I highly doubt I'd be fit for commercial space travel.  :(

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« Reply #220 on: 27 Jan 2012, 04:19 »

I wonder how the commercial spaceflight companies are going to handle zero-G vomit? Sedate the nausea prone? Or put in an enclosure around each seat? Or a face-mask that vacuums it up the moment you hurl? It's going to have to be a one size fits all solution once you try to market spaceflight as commercial transport.
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« Reply #221 on: 27 Jan 2012, 05:02 »

Maybe artificial gravity?  Could that actually be a thing?
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #222 on: 27 Jan 2012, 05:28 »

The "glamor" (heh) of space travel aside, I would so have Hanners's reaction to the idea of Zero G barf.  :psyduck:
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« Reply #223 on: 27 Jan 2012, 06:06 »

Maybe artificial gravity?  Could that actually be a thing?

Only of the rotating the vehicle kind, and I don't think you could rotate a small spacecraft fast enough for it to work.  The general consensus seems to be that artificial gravity of the classic sci fi kind, where there's some sort of gravity generator generating gravity waves or what have you, isn't possible.  It certainly isn't possible with our current tech.
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« Reply #224 on: 27 Jan 2012, 06:35 »

This arc is freaking awesome.


And also, from a frequent PSCS4 user point of view:
OOOOOH! YEAH! LENS FLARE!

Yesssssssss. For being so easy to do, lens flares are ridiculously fun. This strip also got me thinking about Jeph's process a bit. Does he start in Illustrator and then move to Photoshop? Or.....something completely different? I'm positive someone's asked about this before, but I can't remember it despite reading a bunch of his Q&A dumps.
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« Reply #225 on: 27 Jan 2012, 06:38 »

As I recall he draws in Photoshop, but uses Illustrator for the dialogue boxes.  You could try to catch his Ustream one day and watch him do it (he tweets when he's starting).
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« Reply #226 on: 27 Jan 2012, 06:44 »

As I recall he draws in Photoshop, but uses Illustrator for the dialogue boxes.  You could try to catch his Ustream one day and watch him do it (he tweets when he's starting).

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« Reply #227 on: 27 Jan 2012, 07:49 »

Once you can't use wings for lift any more, you're subject to the tyranny of the rocket equation, which greatly simplified tells you not to waste your fuel hovering (and the fuel to lift the fuel you wasted, and the fuel to lift the extra weight of fuel tanks for the fuel you wasted...).

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« Reply #228 on: 27 Jan 2012, 07:55 »

Surprised no one's started quoting the Space Core from Portal 2 yet.

And I think I'd keep my seat-belt buckled in such a situation. Call me provincial, but I'd prefer to remain tethered to the spacecraft at all times.
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« Reply #229 on: 27 Jan 2012, 08:48 »

As I recall he draws in Photoshop, but uses Illustrator for the dialogue boxes.  You could try to catch his Ustream one day and watch him do it (he tweets when he's starting).

Hmmm...Interesting. I really have to start using twitter more. I'll check the Ustream every once in a while, but I never seem to catch it at the right time.
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« Reply #230 on: 27 Jan 2012, 09:35 »

Marigold's situation reminds me of thing from Mad Magazine back in the '70's when one astronaut says to the other, "I think I'm gonna throw up."

"You can't throw up.  We're in zero-g."

"OK, then I think I'm gonna throw OUT."

Not particularly funny without the look on the guy's face, but for some reason has stuck with me for decades.
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« Reply #231 on: 27 Jan 2012, 10:02 »

Based on Jeph's comments about the star field, I was staring at the first panel thinking 'what's he talking about, they're faint but definitely there'. I then realized that i don't clean my screen as much as i should.  :oops:

The same thing happened to me. xD
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« Reply #232 on: 27 Jan 2012, 11:08 »

Poor Marigold. I've mostly grown out of motion sickness but I highly doubt I'd be fit for commercial space travel.  :(

I'm led to believe that space sickness isn't anything to do with motion sickness: instead, it's due to that stomach clenching feeling you might have had going over a hump on a rollercoaster or going horizontal on a swingset -- imagine that, but you can't stop it.

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« Reply #233 on: 27 Jan 2012, 12:09 »

Mostly it's when the visual cues around you don't tally with what your inner ear -- your balance mechanism -- tells you. So the swing set can do it -- anything that causes the balance and the visual cues to not line up. It can be induced, too, say if I tell you to imagine the sight outside your window going UUUUP and DOWWWWWNNNN, all ARRRROOOOUUUNNNNNDDDD ... hey, where are you going?
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« Reply #234 on: 27 Jan 2012, 13:12 »

Poor Marigold. I've mostly grown out of motion sickness but I highly doubt I'd be fit for commercial space travel.  :(

I'm led to believe that space sickness isn't anything to do with motion sickness: instead, it's due to that stomach clenching feeling you might have had going over a hump on a rollercoaster or going horizontal on a swingset -- imagine that, but you can't stop it.

(Sorry if I made anyone feel ill.)
I get motion sickness thinking about motion sickness, maybe Marigold has that too. Or holowang makes her queasy and she's still stuck on that.

Considering all the yaoi that girl consumes, I doubt that's the case  :laugh:
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« Reply #235 on: 27 Jan 2012, 13:41 »

What would YOU expect in ECT-101's first class cabin?

Personal video screens.    - 10 (6%)
Lay-flat seats.    - 9 (5.4%)
Mini wet-bar.    - 6 (3.6%)
Wi-Fi/Internet Connection.    - 19 (11.3%)
Great Food.    - 7 (4.2%)
Wait, this flight will last what, 30 minutes?    - 21 (12.5%)
Barf bags.    - 8 (4.8%)
COOKIES!    - 2 (1.2%)
WAFFLES!    - 11 (6.5%)
Emergency EVA suits.    - 14 (8.3%)
Space Toilets.    - 8 (4.8%)
Space Sleeping Bags.    - 1 (0.6%)
Space Pillows.    - 4 (2.4%)
Space Space!    - 5 (3%)
Tethers for Null-G "bumps".    - 6 (3.6%)
Duct Tape for AnthroPC's.    - 9 (5.4%)
Richard Branson sitting next to you.    - 6 (3.6%)
Winslow sitting next to you.    - 5 (3%)
Something COMPLETELY Different.    - 9 (5.4%)
Gravity Dampeners.    - 8 (4.8%)

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« Reply #236 on: 27 Jan 2012, 15:12 »

There was a poll??

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« Reply #237 on: 27 Jan 2012, 16:15 »

Presumably; it's happened before.
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #238 on: 27 Jan 2012, 19:07 »

To be annoyingly technical, a scramjet engine cannot move an object at rest. :)
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #239 on: 27 Jan 2012, 19:41 »

True. Presumably, a practical scramjet engine would be incorporated into a hybrid design with a low bypass turbofan, much like the J-58 (the engine used on the SR-71) was a hybrid tubojet/ramjet.
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #240 on: 27 Jan 2012, 22:05 »

Lens Flare? FUCK YAAA!!!

Star washout? naaahhhh....who cares if it's unreal? The whole fantasy of spaceflight being that easy PLUS a spacestation people live in is also out there.
Add the stars I say.

Hope the space station will be an intelligent rotation design (see Kubrick's 2001) with hydroponics bays.
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #241 on: 28 Jan 2012, 00:32 »

Hydroponics would explain why it's 60% plumbing.
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #242 on: 28 Jan 2012, 04:47 »

I'm having way too much fun with the poll as it exists to do any "moment of the week" polls. Heck, the entire WEEK was "moment of the week", arguably.
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #243 on: 28 Jan 2012, 08:29 »

Computer! Tom Collins in a squeeze bulb, stat!
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #244 on: 28 Jan 2012, 08:32 »

Funny, I thought it would be Marten upchucking first.

EC101 probably has a Bot for that.
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #245 on: 28 Jan 2012, 08:35 »

Computer! Tom Collins in a squeeze bulb, stat!

Perfect!
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #246 on: 28 Jan 2012, 13:57 »

You know, it's the strip a few after the Tom Collins appearance that does cement the idea that Hannelore would say Marten is one of her "best friends".

I mean, she saw him throw up, managed to recover (albeit with assistance from alcohol) to help clean it up, then decided to do something so it wouldn't happen again.

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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #247 on: 28 Jan 2012, 15:53 »

And I think I'd keep my seat-belt buckled in such a situation. Call me provincial, but I'd prefer to remain tethered to the spacecraft at all times.

Heh, I think you'd just miss out on all the zero-g fun.  Because unless you're afraid you'll waft into a vacuum chamber and get ejected accidentally, there's pretty much no situation in which being "tethered" to a spacecraft will stop you from dying in the event of a malfunction.

Being seatbelted into a car = you'll probably survive a crash.  Being seatbelted into a spaceship = who cares, all the air whooshed out when you hit that asteroid, and you're a popsicle to boot :P (or maybe you explode?  Any sciencey-types able to verify?)
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #248 on: 28 Jan 2012, 19:40 »

General consensus among sciencey types is that 2001 had it mostly right (but EXHALE and keep your mouth open) and dreckfests like Outland had it wrong. Still, you want to get back into pressure pretty quick. Clarke, quoting someone whose name I forget: "The skin makes a pretty good spacesuit." Also, check out "Space Activity Suit" for current thinking on what the well-dressed spacefarer will be wearing in the future. This 1950s sci-fi again covers weren't that far off.
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Re: WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
« Reply #249 on: 28 Jan 2012, 23:37 »

NASA accidentally exposed a worker to vacuum once. He didn't explode. The last thing he remembered before passing out was the feeling of his tongue fizzing as his saliva boiled.
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