Right after he legally changes his name to:

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This end should point towards the ground if you want to go to space.

If it starts pointing towards space you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today.

In short, fuck mercator

I would have thought there was a fairly simple answer as to why 911 doesn't get location data from smartphones... privacy.

The reason uber, dominos, etc have access to your location is because they have an app on your smartphone that has been explicitly granted access to your location by you. 911 is just a simple phone call and so it can't read the location data.

To do so reliably across cell phones would require development of some kind of emergency location standard that all manufacturers could implement. Technically, it's not that difficult, but getting everyone to agree on a standard?

Not that easy

It is the first to return from an orbital mission, https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

As impressive as Blue Origin's achievement is, it's only 10% of the energy involved in this one.

xkcd?

Your video, How To Go To Space (with XKCD!), has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/713/

No-one gives a shit what your neolithic deity thinks. The same boring arguments were trotted out when interracial couples wanted to get married.

Here's the thing, most people are already in favour of gay marriage. It's just past the point where more than 50% of the US population lives in a state with legal SSM. Most of the developed world has either legalised gay marriage, allows civil unions or recognises marriages performed in other countries. You have more in common with Uganda than Utah.

Enjoy being on the wrong side of history (again).

Jalopnik and reddit have speculated, and both point to xkcd 413 as a possible inspiration.

http://jalopnik.com/the-new-star-wars-droid-is-not-cgi-so-how-does-it-wor-1698461524

https://xkcd.com/936/

*quality

So sad that we haven't been back.
http://xkcd.com/893/

The F1 engines were such an astounding bit of engineering.

If we built a moon rocket today, the computers would be immeasurably more powerful, but the engines would be almost exactly the same.

Obligatory XKCD reference

especially important is the alt text

I had a hard time with Ayn Rand because I found myself enthusiastically agreeing with the first 90% of every sentence, but getting lost at 'therefore, be a huge asshole to everyone.'

It's rare, but should be noted there is a brain parasite that affects spatial reasoning and can cause dreams with impaired sense of space, like driving from the backseat or swerving all over the road. In later stages dreams about body parts coming off, teeth in particular has been documented: more can be found here

lol on a related note https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/