probably should’ve given her a teddy bear instead.
Posts tagged balloon
helium-3
helium-3 is theoretically useful for nuclear fusion (instead of fission), a technology which still isn’t yet viable, and even if it becomes so, it might just be cheaper and easier to build a bunch of solar panels and batteries on earth than set up a mining operation on the moon. still, it makes for a neat science fiction concept, which is something i guess.
and yes, technically i just made a sequel to the comic “helium” called “helium-3”. hire me, microsoft.
helium
i hope people don’t expect me to do a comic about every element of the periodic table. chemistry jokes are hard.
up
nice idea sedna, but there is one tiny flaw to this plan. you’ll need approximately 2,000 balloons to lift your body off the ground and think of all the plastic pollution that would create.
girl with balloons
(click here for a high resolution version of this illustration)
hurray! a considerably less ridiculously time-consuming illustration than the last one. i bet people will like it more than that one anyway because clouds are pretty and life is unfair. :(
apparently i have a thing for painstakingly drawing all the stars 100% accurately and then covering half of them with clouds anyway. but it’s the thought that counts, right guys?
perseverance
hearing about all the new technology perseverance used for it’s propulsive landing just made me think about how much of a miracle it was we succeeded the first time with curiosity.
but even that might not be as crazy as curiosity’s predecessors spirit and opportunity, which were covered in giant airbags, dropped from 10 metres above the ground, and bounced around on the martian surface for a while until they finally settled in an upright position. and somehow this worked perfectly both times. hey, if it’s stupid and it works, it ain’t stupid.