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{{comic | number = 4063 | date = March 28, 2016 | title = the-space-fountain | image = 1459176015-20160328.png | votey = 1459176015-20160328after.png | titletext = It's really important to me to do educational comics. }} ==Explanation== {{incomplete}} ==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Perhaps the most elegant proposal for non-rocket space launch is the so-called :Space fountain." :The idea is to use a system :Of accelerated pellets :Moving past a large space station, in order to create an enormous :Two-dimensional :Sky-boner. :The station magnetically harvests kinetic energy from the pellets, so as to keep itself aloft in the manner you would expect from the tip of a gigantic space-dong, :T :The remaining harvesteo energy will be used to move the pellets around the station, then rapidly fire them down, where they hurtle into a lower chamber that serves to re-accelerate the pellets and to look like the balls of a titanic :Cosmo-schlong :Once the pellets are cycling, payloads can be borne up by their kinetic energy, reaching such high speeds that they mav be spewed onto the man in the moon or the mons of venus, as one would expect from a gargantuan astro-dick. :Incidental to the process, we expect this system to cut launch costs by 99% allowing mankind to fulfill our destiny of :Question: How in the world do you expect to receive :Funding? :Blah blah blah et cetera. :We believe that elon musk will telepathically detect :One billion is fine, sir. Yes, we can strap one to mars. :A proposal for a :Colossal galacto-c :smbc-comics.com ==Votey Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Yes, sir, substantially larger than a rocket :00 if {{comic discussion}}
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