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xkcd #3294: Asteroid Mission

Title text:

Lander, this is Houston. There's been a request that you turn clipping back on and instead set the mass to 1kg. The theorists believe that will be pretty funny.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3294/

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And then they fall through it along with their lander.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Should've done >nograv on first.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Incorrect, noclip turns on fly by default

[–] Vince@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Basically what happened in Astonishing XMen

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can tell by the syntax that our reality simulation isn't a Bethesda product. Well that and the lack of random at collision doesn't regularly launch things across the sky.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

And robbing stores standing on someone's head never seems to work, either.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

Hopefully, they sent a professional coder up there whom they had to train very intensely over a short period to be ready for space flight.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago

Muskrats everywhere, those little pests!