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Seriously, WTF?



What's the deal with the philosopher on Neptune? Why did he pass on the obvious opening in Uranus? Is this really just an elaborate Your Mother joke?

The chart represents the gravity wells of the various planets and moons. Imagine the wells are a cliff face you have to scale in order to escape that particular planet's gravity.

To answer your questions:
That would be Carl Sagan, just a basic reference, really. It'd be too easy to make that kind of joke. Essentially, yes.

Just a quick note, we are working on the image resizer. As it stands it does not show full size when clicked, apparently. We are looking for a solution.

just open in new tab, until the board resizer fix is in.

hmm . . . the link that XKCD provided might not have even been to the full-sized picture.

I hope I am not the only one who got the Titan reference. One of my favorite books of High School