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| − | :[This | + | :[This is one of the very large drawings that needs to be clicked at xkcd in order to get to the full version. As in [[:Category:Comic subpages|other cases]] like this, here will only be a transcript of the text readable in the smaller version on the main page, as it is shown here at the top. A full transcript will be relegated to a sub page and can be found here: [[1461: Payloads/Transcript]].] |
| − | :[The black section | + | :[The comic is divided in two main sections the top third of the comic being black and the bottom section white. At the very bottom is a timeline in a black section that runs like a border along the bottom. In the two black sections the readable text is white and in the white it is of course black. All the smaller print that is completely unreadable in the small version is in red, and the text is clearly visible but not discernible.] |
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| − | + | :Spacecraft mass | |
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| − | :[ | + | :[Below and right of this are several small white horses drawn (almost impossible to see it is horses, but it is clearly not just white dots. To begin with there are less than a full horse, but then there are so many horses that they are divided into compartments that forms squares of five times five horses, which again when there are more than 50 is stacked two next to each other and then the rest on top, filling entire rows of ten over two squares. When over 100 they form four squares in a two by two format. And then two extra squares are added for every 50 extra horses, and those above 100 will then be added in columns of 10. This goes on all the way from left to right except for one spacecraft which is clearly the space-shuttle as the horses are stacked in the shape of the shuttle, and in the center of the shuttle (where the shuttles payload goes) the horses are drawn in light gray rather than white. One section is very huge - almost 1000 horses and must clearly be the international space station, and knowing this you may be able to read it in this small version. After this there are six smaller groups of horses. Then there is a black part of the section and then four more spacecrafts, one of which is somewhat larger than all other after the ISS. These four groups of horses are in a dark gray shade, because they are in the future (according to the time scale below). Near each of all these 32 spacecrafts there is a red label. (A 33 label is near the payload of the space-shuttle which thus have two). None of these can be read here]. |
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| − | + | :Launch vehicle capacity | |
| − | + | :<small><small>(Payloads to low earth orbit)</small></small> | |
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| − | :[The | + | :[Below and right of this are several small black horses drawn (just as above). They are again stacked in squares of columns of five horses in each column, if there are more than five horses. When there are more than 25 horses a five by five square will again be used, and for more than a hundred it will again be four squares of 25 in a two by two stack. However here further horses will be stacked on top of each other to form a high column, and on top of these columns there will be inserted the tip of the rocket (vehicle). When the top row (or column) is not filled out, the tip is either deeper where there is no horses in the top row, or longer down if there is not enough horses in the right column. so there will not be a "hole" in the rocket where there are no horses. Below the horses there are slim rectangles below which there is a rocket engine (or more) from which exhaust flame(s) will be emanating. For the smallest rockets up to all rockets with less than 100 horses there is just one. For rockets with two columns of 25 squares (and thus more than 100 horses), there will have at least two engines shown and from all but two of these six rockets there will be shown three rather than just two flames (which is the case in the last). This indicates that those rockets must have at least three engines, one of which is behind the two in front, and in the middle between them, so the three flames are seen next to each other. The three engines must form a triangle seen from below. There is also one with no flames visible, see below. The first of those set in the future to the right is the one with only two flames. The first few rockets are very small, but then quickly they get bigger. After the first plus 100 horses rocket (which have more than 250 horses) there is a rocket of similar size that is lower than the other and the horses are drawn in very light gray color. The engines can only partly be seen and there is not fire. Seems like this rocket never took off, but again not readable. After this there are five very small rockets and then something that looks very different with a line curving up behind it as the vehicle starts to move horizontally. It does not look like a rocket and there is no clear engine and no fire, it rather looks like a car... Then below this and further left five more smaller rockets in differing sizes and then another large with more than 200 horses. After this at it's top there is the first rocket that flies horizontally, it is very small. Below and the to the left are three smaller rockets. Then follows a hole string of 11 rockets almost all with more than 20 horses, but none with more than 75. Six of them have more than 25 and only two are tiny. The last five rockets are set in the future and are thus in gray, both horse and the tip and engine. The first is the only second rocket to fly horizontally and it has 15 horses. The other four rockets are much bigger and the last us the largest with almost 300 horses. The other three back towards the present have more than 200, more than 150 and more than 100 respectively. The last mentioned with more than 100 is the one with only two engines and two exhaust fires. Near each of all these 42 rockets (and one car) there is a red label.] |
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| − | + | :[At the bottom is the second black section which is just a thin border, but on this is a time-line in white with white labels. The line has six division ticks which breaks the timeline. To the left of where the line begins and then between each set of ticks a year range is given. The timeline is not drawn where the numbers are. After the line ends to the right there is also a label:] | |
| + | :1950s | ||
| + | :1960s | ||
| + | :1970s | ||
| + | :1980s | ||
| + | :1990s | ||
| + | :2000s | ||
| + | :Future | ||
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| + | :[Now go read the [[1461: Payloads/Transcript|full transcript]] for the large version of the comic.] | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
| − | * | + | *It is actually embarrassing for explain xkcd, but in the [https://xkcd.com/1461/info.0.json official transcript] for this comic on xkcd it actually says: |
| + | **(( This comic is an infographic. A very good transcription is available in complete form here: http:\n\nwww.explainxkcd.com\nwiki\nindex.php\n1461 )) | ||
| + | ***The link translates into http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1461:_Payloads (the one for this page) when the "\n" is turned into "/". | ||
| + | **Why is this embarrassing? | ||
| + | ***Because more than two years after the release of this comic (2014-12-17), there have never been a "[[#Transcript|real transcript]]" on this page. | ||
| + | ***A small one only for the small version seen above was inserted along with this trivia item on 2017-01-28. | ||
| + | ***The [[1461:_Payloads/Transcript|full transcript]] was then inserted the day after on on 2017-01-29. So finally Randall's comment in his own "transcript" is literally true. | ||
| + | **However the tables (which is a kind of transcript) was filled out already within two days of the release, and those are probably what Randall referred too. | ||
| + | ***And nice to know that Randall keeps track of what's happens on this page, when he can use the pages extreme details. | ||
| + | ****Anyone who knows if Randall has referred directly to Explain xkcd before like this or in any other way? | ||
| + | *In July 2014 about half a year before this comic, a horse was send to the [http://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/earth-and-moon/ Moon by the Earth] in the web comic {{w|Poorly Drawn Lines}}. | ||
| + | **It is not much to do with this comic, and horse powers are already used to measure a cars strength, but it could have given Randall the inspiration for measuring rockets lifting power in horse mass. | ||
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