[Split yesterday's comic up as it was causing some confusion. I'll keep playing with the format though.] Ah, my favorite target of ire. My dear friend. My favorite pal, the moon. The moon. The moon. The moon. The Moon. Yesterday Pop-Sci had an article about simulations showing that moon dust is toxic. It’s not what you think, though. You won’t die from [...]
With that our series winds to a close. I have a few bonus bits to make up for possible comic deficits at the end of the month. Good times were had by all. We met some astronomers in zombie form, had some real action, gained a roommate, and saw the return of Jim Farrelly, ironic [...]
I think the comic today speaks for itself. Our Super Woo adventure has reached its explosive climax, and much will be revealed in the next part. The advantage of running a series nearly two weeks after the event it is inspired from is that when I get really busy, at least I have a plan. [...]
It’s been about a week since lunar perigee, but I’ve still got one or two of these in me. Today we join Oz and Matt exploring a terrestrial phenomenon that rears it’s yolky head at every celestial occurrence. That’s right, balancing eggs. So far I haven’t seen anybody claim that you could balance an egg during the [...]
When I drew last Wednesday’s comic, it was intended as a throwaway. You know, mention the super moon, tie-in to running joke that making incorrect statements about astronomical phenomena cause astronomers to pop out of the woodwork like Candyman or Beetlejuice, throw in a zombie Phil Plait. It was in that last step where I [...]
UPDATE: I must apologize. I was made aware that an image of the lunar lander, correctly portrayed without the command module, was incorrectly added to this tableau of inaccuracies. I shall fix it at a later time. Happy New Year everyone! Hope you all celebrated to your heart’s content. While you were hungover, the Chinese were plotting. [...]
Neil deGrasse Tyson had to make an entire documentary, The Pluto Files*, just to wipe his hands clean of the sad excuse for a former planet. His moon troubles on the other hand** documented here were, I thought, imagined by us at Sci-ence. But I just stumbled upon this clip. Hilarious. I’m going to claim [...]