3005: Disposal

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Disposal

Title text: We were disappointed that the rocket didn't make a THOOOONK noise when it went into the tube, but we're setting up big loudspeakers for future launches to add the sound effect.

Explanation

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This comic is about humorous solutions to problems. Instead of trying to make a rocket that doesn’t explode upon impact, Randall’s team has decided to make a rocket disposal hole, hence the comic name.

SpaceX initially had many instances of explosion on impact, as illustrated in montage.

This comic came out about 2 weeks after SpaceX successfully caught the returning Super Heavy booster rocket using giant arms on the launch tower.

Transcript

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[A two-stage rocket is ascending with a plume of exhaust behind it]

[The first stage falls off and the second stage ignites]

[The first stage begins to fall, turned off]

[The first stage reignites to control trajectory and attitude]

[The first stage falls toward a large hole with a lid. A Cueball is holding the lid open]

[Cueball pushes the lid closed]

Click

[The first stage, now out of sight, explodes, Cueball shielding his ears and flinching away from the loud noise]

BOOOOM

Caption below comic:

Our rockets were good at steering, but we couldn't get them to land without exploding, so we just dug a rocket disposal hole.

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Discussion

That's either a giant Cueball, or a really tiny rocket. Barmar (talk) 23:05, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

It's an Electron? Or maybe Falcon 1? Redacted II (talk) 00:23, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

It seems strange to me to see Randall drawing a rocket landing with its engine pointing upward instead of downward, when he traditionally has expressed so much interest in rocket and space physics. It's also notable that the rocket-landing problem was solved by others before SpaceX was considered to have, I bumped into a successful project on a maker site in the past couple years. 172.68.3.71 01:23, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

SpaceX was the first to propulsively land an orbital booster. Redacted II (talk) 01:39, 31 October 2024 (UTC)