Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 12, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  about 3 years ago

    Is it an electric spaceship?

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member about 3 years ago

    IIRC, these guys have discovered a more accessible (and much cheaper) way to get high.

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    kaffekup   about 3 years ago

    Elon couldn’t go, so he sent his car. With a dummy in the driver’s seat.

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    STEPUP  about 3 years ago

    That moron definitely needs to take the next rocket!!!!

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    pepwine  about 3 years ago

    After discoverers, scientists and necessary mission personnel, then the soldiers. And finally the tourists. Of course discovering The Americas was not quite as expensive as going to space, after all it was powered by wind and tides.So you start with founders of companies that make the means to get there, if they want to go and can get away from work long enough. This is to show it is safe and doable even by people not necessarily in astronaut shape. So billionaires advertising to other billionaires and getting the rest of the population thinking about the possibility. Placing the desire to be among the first to experience the adventure so you can brag to your friends about how it was out of this world and they really need to try it.

    Got to make money off this thing somehow.

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    Orcatime  about 3 years ago

    Zip is definitely reaching for the stars!

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    Bullet Bronson Premium Member about 3 years ago

    I say launch them all into space and don’t let them come back until they pay their fair share of taxes.

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    superposition  about 3 years ago

    That so few can implement their dreams is one of the problems of the inequity in our system … with its (multi-)millionaire Congress serving, not quite all, the people.

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    Petercowen  about 3 years ago

    Hello? Outer space ERECTIONS. Pass the Tang.

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    For a Just and Peaceful World  about 3 years ago

    In this era of global warming, why are we allowing these thrill rides that create a massive amount of pollution?

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    bmckee  about 3 years ago

    Elon hasn’t gone into space. He’s too busy making an actual business out of sending payloads and professional astronauts into orbit.

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    mourdac Premium Member about 3 years ago

    For those interested, you can see Jupiter shining in great brilliance in the SE-S sky starting about 1/2 hour after sunset with the naked eye. Use a pair of 10X binocs and you can see at least 2 of the Gallilean moons to the left and Saturn to the right and down about 15 degrees. Use binocs a bit more powerful and you’ll be able to see the other 2 Gallilean moons to the right.

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 3 years ago

    My father worked 3rd shift boiler room many years ago. He knew the orbits of all the satellites at the time and would watch them.

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    Geophyzz  about 3 years ago

    If you can’t feel the wind in your hair, it’s not dream worthy.

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    VegaAlopex  about 3 years ago

    Juding by the phase of the moon, it must be just before dawn. The disappearing glove from the sixth panel is some trick.

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    IshkaBibel1  about 3 years ago

    These “space tourists” are creating thousands of high tech jobs and supporting high tech manufacturing in the US. They started companies to compete for NASA and private contracts to take people to the space station and launch satellites. The space tourism is mostly just a PR stunt.Their willingness to ride early versions of their craft means that they are either very confident or not very smart.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    I’m not so sure about going to space. I mean really, what’s the in flight snack? Smoking? Booze? Sex? Pretty much anything I would want to do is prohibited. Weightlessness? Phooey, a good wet suit and a scuba tank and I’m all the weightless I want. Then up to the beach for fun.

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    montessoriteacher  about 3 years ago

    Well, isn’t this exciting?

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    MEPace  about 3 years ago

    For less than ten grand you can float around for much longer than 30 sec. on a zero gravity airplane flight.

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    basstenorman  about 3 years ago

    you just said Elon couldn’t go.

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    macksteelburner Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Gee, Garry, really miss seeing your drawings of the White House in nearly every strip. Is it because there’s no one living in it right now?

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    txmystic  about 3 years ago

    With the amount of product Zip has access to, he should already be flying high…

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    TheWildSow  about 3 years ago

    Could go out and wave to the ISS, or watch for a Starlink pass.

    https://www.heavens-above.com/StarlinkLaunchPasses.aspx?lat=40.43133&lng=-79.95503&loc=Oakland+Court&alt=0&tz=EST

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    jsimpso1  about 3 years ago

    Seriously? 26 Sacramento school kids trapped in Afghanistan, an “over the horizon” drone strike that killed more civilians than Taliban, an illegal immigrant crisis at the border with the added element of not screening for COVID, Sleepy Joe signs an unconstitutional order to prevent property owners from evicting tenants, now signs a second unconstitutional order to mandate vaccines, a President unable to answer press questions and this has been fool Trudeau has his irrelevant comic strip complaining about billionaires in space?

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    Lescoe Brandon  about 3 years ago

    To all… thanks for being anti-science. Oh, you might act like you care. In reality, no. After World War One, most aircraft production in the 1920s was for private people. The rich and mail routes provided incentives and payments for the aircraft producers. But all the anti-space people on this page are anti-science at heart. The ironic thing is the space program helped invent the internet and computer system you use now.

    Stay ignorant my friends.

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    JenSolo02  about 3 years ago

    While the Earth burns the Peter Pans play with their “ahem” rockets …

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    198.23.5.11  about 3 years ago

    Nah.That’s Santa’s sleigh.

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    gileshead  about 3 years ago

    gawd, they make such a big deal of capitalists accomplishing something laughable. NASA did this stuff sixty years ago. Weird.

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