Six Astronauts Over for Dinner
WE DON'T HAVE HOUSEGUESTS OFTEN, BUT WE ONCE HAD SIX ASTRONAUTS OVER FOR DINNER. ... FOR 7½ MILLISECONDS IN MID-AUGUST 2012. OH, WOW! IF YOU SPEND ENOUGH TIME LOOKING AT ORBITAL RECORDS AND PROPERLY LINES, YOU CAN MAKE THIS CLAIM IN A LOT OF PLACES.
A family sits around a dinner table while one person boasts that they once hosted six astronauts. The punchline is that the astronauts were only overhead for 7½ milliseconds, exploiting orbital trajectories and technical wording to make an absurdly misleading claim. It is used as a reaction to pedantic technicalities, exaggerated statements, or technically true but ridiculous claims.
- @rzeczyzabawne / 14666 2024-01-20
- Template
- xkcd comic
- Type
- image
- Size
- 331×391 · 27.3 KiB
- Mood
- sarcastic, absurd
- Language
- en
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