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As one of my medical friends has told me, "Surgery would be so much easier if we didn't have to worry about the patient surviving..."

edited 17th Oct '14 10:05:39 AM by Noaqiyeum

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New one. It seems like these guys will not go to space today.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.

"Orb" is one of the common English words?

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

I don't think it's supposed to be using only the most common words.

It's slightly similar, and "not going to space today" was a reference.

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Not too far off. (Although, the original "Up Goer" was Saturn 5, not Apollo 5 - that was unmanned - so I had to make it a little more specific.)

edited 21st Oct '14 8:30:03 AM by ShadowHog

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Weird science. ;)

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I thought the response to the last What If was insufficiently imaginative. I figured the clear point to focus on is the most effective way you can shore up the human to get them around the track while technically alive.

I think the first step would probably be to start with a passenger with no limbs (less susceptibility to blood pooling, less work for the heart.) To escalate from there you'd probably want some kind of extreme heart/lung machine designed to keep the body enervated under higher levels of acceleration than the human circulatory system can handle on its own. I don't know whether we have the technology to build such a thing at this point, although it's almost certainly never been done before considering how little incentive we have to make such a thing outside absurd hypotheticals.

...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.

Speaking of, that's running a little late. Guess there isn't one this week?

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I suppose Randall keeps missing his self-imposed deadline. Speaking of which, What-If #117: Distant Death.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Today's comic. The Geico commercials turned Up To Eleven.

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What Geico commercial, exactly? I'm not sure if I'm recalling the right one, or if I'm just not getting it.

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...

I don't see this as a GEICO commercial parody. It is a serious case of skewed priorities, though.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

They had this series of commercials where a person would end a string of bad news with saying "I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico," much to the other person's dismay.

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The Switching To GEICO redirect still exists, by the way. Sadly the original name for this trope doesn't.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

I know of the Geico commercials, but I don't think this is related to them at all.

Not entirely sure what it is about, however. I mean, yeah, between the image ant the Alt Text the ground controller just doesn't give much of a shit, but where's the joke?

All your safe space are belong to Trump

Definitely not a GEICO joke. Not even sure how you could make that connection.

As far as I can tell, the joke is the Houston operator treating the doomed space launch as if they were a mother listening to her whiny college student's trivial life problems while she's busy at work. That's it.

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I figured it was just some random schmuck from Houston somehow getting connected to the space station's calls, and not really caring.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."

Or hacking in just to be a jerk. But that's more a Black Hat Guy thing.

Fresh-eyed movie blog

I think it's a customer service call center joke.

Black Hat strikes again

Loophole Abuse much?

All your safe space are belong to Trump

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The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable

Ponder Stibbons?

Him too.

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Who's that?

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