XKCD today...

[sidew]

http://xkcd.com/1244/

[Whackjob]

Newton don't care if it's Kerbal or Solar.

[skykooler]

You couldn't pull that diagram off in KSP; the periapsis for the first gravity assist is in the wrong place!

[CalculusWarrior]

XKCD was the place I first discovered KSP from, in fact!

[Brenok]

Paralel thread, to mantain them connected.

I discovered KSP from xkcd, too.

[Fredonia]

http://xkcd.com/1244/

It gave me a pretty good chuckle.

[dlrk]

With regard to the alt text, does anyone think Orbiter has a great deal of potential, but is disturbingly underdeveloped.

[doggie015]

Yeah; you don't want to say those words there

[Pipcard]

With regard to the alt text, does anyone think Orbiter has a great deal of potential, but is disturbingly underdeveloped.

That's justifiable, because it's worked on by only one person (Martin Schweiger) in his spare time, without pay.

Edited July 29, 2013 by Pipcard

[karolus10]

Well, this is like sayig to airbus pilots - Hey, I'm using joystick too !

[wingnut]

Read the tooltip when you hover your mouse over the comic.

[karolus10]

Read the tooltip when you hover your mouse over the comic.

NASA, bunch of Orbiter fanboys (especially of their own).

[allmappedout]

I got giddy as soon as I saw this and rushed over here to make a thread....but I got ninja'ed.

Still, well done Randall Monroe.

[Iren]

I need to try this...

[katateochi]

nice 1 for posting this! lols. really lol'd at the onHover text!

[Arkantos22]

I figured this is the best place to post this, seeing as t does have to do with KSP.

http://xkcd.com/1244/

[softweir]

Well that nearly had me spitting tea all over my keyboard!

[Jon Tash]

Simply genius!

[BeefTenderloin]

Hope they brought heat-shields...

[Apollo1391]

nasa should be taking notes

[Ralathon]

Pretty accurate description of the Cassini Huygens trajectory.

"Hey guys, we have to go to Saturn... How about we do 2 Venus flybys and an earth flyby!"

Gravity assists are funny like that.

[The Jedi Master]

Alt text: "Ahem. We are STRICTLY an Orbiter shop."

Pure gold!

[Gojira]

I think it's confirmed that he still plays it

[UrstMcRedhead]

Kerbal Space Program, Now with more blag-credit.

[sidew]

Another thread? See here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/43246-XKCD-today