Talk:3111: Artificial Gravity

Note the motion lines around the main body of the spacecraft, showing that it is also shaking to a much lesser extent. 181.214.218.76 15:26, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

That is just Newton's Third Law, which is very often taken into account in space obviously. Thehydraclone (talk) 16:04, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

I prefer to think it's using thrusters either side of the main body to slightly oscillate that back and forth, which then translates into the larger movement of the capsule through the joint. 82.13.184.33 08:17, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

Report: Total crew bone mass remains constant. 2804:7f0:bf02:c680:390e:8bb5:b4a9:db40 (talk) 16:05, 4 July 2025 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Now you made it sound like some bones have changed owner. Whether intentional or not, very xkcd. --Coconut Galaxy (talk) 13:28, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

"We may have made the change of direction a little too abrupt..." 82.13.184.33 15:58, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

The spinning idea reminds me of the spin drive from Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary."136.47.216.1 17:34, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

Wait, nothing about the 4th of July today? That's odd. 2601:647:8500:1E09:55BB:EEBB:23EA:178A 23:04, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

this rocket was clearly sent up mistaken for a firework 2600:4040:52f1:300:8c1d:959a:d4c2:80be (talk) 14:07, 5 July 2025 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Not at all surprising - clicking through Category:Comics from July to find the relevant week each year, the only one I can see in twenty years directly referencing it is 1858: 4th of July; at a stretch, you could suggest that 285: Wikipedian Protester was also specifically timed. More notably, it's the 19th anniversary of 123: Centrifugal Force, which feels relevant. - IMSoP (talk) 10:00, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

aw, great, "steadily"--me, hi (talk) 03:37, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

This rocket design and the intent to provide artificial gravity to the crew module is similar (but not identical) to the design of the ship in Andy Weir's novel Project Hail Mary, for which the film adaptation's trailer was released on June 30. 24.85.198.95 16:36, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

Could this possibly be a reference to james bond preferring his drinks "shaken not stirred?" Especially given how the engineers never even considered spinning the capsule, despite the obvious impracticality of having it "shaken not spun," like they had some kind of personal preference. Ip36 (talk) 00:02, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

No obvious Bondian reference (saving for prior centrifugal/centripetal death-traps). And incidentally also interesting to note that stirring is also the prefered method of mixing, by anyone not solely influenced by Fleming's œuvre. 82.132.236.42 12:33, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Woah i got this comic twice in a row from the "random explination" button. What is the chances that, if you click on it, you will get the comic you were already on? Seems maybe not one hundred percent random. --Kirinhatchi (talk) 14:00, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Assuming random selection, as of this moment, 1 in 3111. Which isn't likely, but unlikely things do happen occasionally. How many times have you clicked that button in total? One tends to pay no attention to all the times that coincidences don't happen, and focus on the times that they do come up; there's a bias to our attention. BunsenH (talk) 14:10, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Because of a known flaw in the randomising mechanism (as currently implemented), it's also probably less than 1 in 3111 (erm, I mean 1 in less-than-3111, as in more likely than 1 in 3111... IYSWIM). And it would be a 1-in-3256 as 'baseline', right now as we write, anyway.

But exactly how much more than whatever-it-should-be, I don't know. But I recall testing out the 'randomness' back when the biased randomness was first noted, and getting several 'revisits' (but not immediate revisits) within short blocks of just ten sequentially "random comic" clicks. With a bit of testing, you could try to pin down the 'long tail' 8n the frequency stats and pin down a normal distribution for getting a random-revist straight off any particular prior random landing spot. 82.132.237.84 16:44, 10 June 2026 (UTC)