Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for May 24, 2010

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    margueritem  over 14 years ago

    Times a wastin’!!!

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    luezer  over 14 years ago

    Wait-this could be a good thing.

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    rayannina  over 14 years ago

    Not for Brewster – his life isn’t the same if he misses “The Real Housewives of the Asteroid Belt.”

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    Pacejv  over 14 years ago

    Depends….Uh, does it knock-out FOX?

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    jmcenanly  over 14 years ago

    Truth is even stranger than ’ Brewster Rockit’. The Galaxy 15 communication satellite which slipped its moorings in April, may jeopardize the ‘Lost’ series finale http://news.discovery.com/space/wake-up-call-zombiesat-could-interrupt-lost-season-finale.html

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    zero  over 14 years ago

    @jfmcenanly - any chance Galaxy 15 can do that retroactively?

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    pbarnrob  over 14 years ago

    When are we going to send out the 226,000 km of cable, to clip the satellites onto so they stay in their slots?

    It shouldn’t need to be very strong string, just a nudge occasionally.

    Fuel would then be saved for that end-of-life thrust out into the Big Dark, someday.

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    lewisbower  over 14 years ago

    Let the scientists at BP handle it.

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    Dkram  over 14 years ago

    jfmcenanly said, about 3 hours ago

    “Truth is even stranger than ’ Brewster Rockit’. The Galaxy 15 communication satellite which slipped its moorings in April, may jeopardize the ‘Lost’ series finale”

    Saw it. I’m still Lost.

    \\//_

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    alan.gurka  over 14 years ago

    Obviously not PBS satellites, judging from Brewster’s reaction.

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    Varnes  over 14 years ago

    pbarnrob, the orbits of satelites deteriorate as time goes on, and get closer and closer to the earth. So, the problem would be giving it a boost up every once in a while, so the satelite doesn’t come raining down on our heads in a blaze of colorful glory…I actually saw one hit the atmosphere once. It was a beautiful display of blues and greens, heading silently towards the horizon. Cool as all get out!

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    dr.mel Premium Member over 14 years ago

    jfmcenanly had it right, this week’s strips are based on the story about the Galaxy 15 satellite. However, by the time this series started running, apparently the satellite situation cleared itself up. Oh, well. The perils of having to work weeks in advance. Tim Rickard - Creator, Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!

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    cyphercube  over 14 years ago

    Anyone who says truth is stranger than fiction can’t tell the difference*

    *rational man, on the rational man show, youtube.

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    Trebor39  over 14 years ago

    Does this matter anymore now that “Lost” is over?

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    Ray_C  over 14 years ago

    Tim, I’m sure it will be hilarious as usual. Doesn’t have to be topical to be funny. Remember the donut people!!

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    PierrePoirier  over 14 years ago

    AAAAAAA the last episode of “Lost” hasn’t aired yet….I’ll miss it !

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    Sherlock Watson  over 14 years ago

    Brewster Rockit has faced monsters and disasters of every kind, but now he faces the greatest terror of all: the imminent loss of Cartoon Network.

    LET THE ADVENTURE BEGIN!

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    starguy  over 14 years ago

    Why not have Barry send in a whole bunch of gummint lawyers to “investigate” the off-course satellite.

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    jmcenanly  over 14 years ago

    @pbarnrob You’ve just described an orbital elevator, also known as a ‘Beanstalk’. Arthur C. Clarke featured one in his novel, “the Fountains of Paradise” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheFountainsof_Paradise

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    W6BXQ, John  over 14 years ago

    From what I just found on-line the Galaxy 15 satellite still can’t be controlled. It is not expected to hit another satellite but will pass by and the signals will interfere with the one it passes by for a few days. The problem apparently was caused by a solar flare which knocked out some of the electronics on board even though all the electronics are hardened.

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    pbarnrob  over 14 years ago

    @W6BXQ; that’s the hazard we face with any space assets when the Sun gets frisky. A good big flare and Coronal Mass Ejection, that finds it way to Earth, could not just disrupt satellites, but the power grid and much of our terrestrial electronics as well. Sort of a dress rehearsal for an EMP. 73!

    @jfmcenanly; what I had in mind was a ring arrangement of cable, 2 x 36,000km x pi, with assigned slots for the satellites to clip onto, thus distributing the forces to keep everybody in alignment along the geosynchronous Clarke Orbit.

    While there might be some decay, at that distance, atmospheric drag is quite small, and fuel needs are mostly for station-keeping, which could be shared around the merry-go-round. Arrive at the right spot, match velocity, and clamp on.

    We then would have to have a ‘garbage-collection’ service, since nobody could dodge debris anymore without letting go.

    The elevator is either a rotating ‘wheel’ with no rim and one pair of spokes, that touches down at the right spot to take on passengers and cargo (see Robert Forward), or a heckuva tall tower, that passes through the zero-G point and balances itself with the pull outward of the outer part. Still a good idea (and of course, we appreciate Sir Arthur, including his 1945 expression of the whole idea of commsats).

    The material strength is getting pretty close to enough to do it, too! Kim Stanley Robinson used such a structure in his Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars epic trilogy, with homage to Clarke.

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    mistercatworks  over 1 year ago

    Sports channels!

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