Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for September 17, 2023

Okay, so there’s no intelligent life out there either.

Orientation relative to the nearest gravitational mass.

Busted!

The stronger gravitational field from the R. U. Sirius is affecting the smaller craft.

Not only is the clockwise direction of clocks resultant from civilization arising in the Northern Hemisphere first, but “up” in space may be influenced by that too.

There’s Starbucks in intergalactic space? Nooowayyy!

There is always a up and down. However it your choice to call which one up and which one down.

I’m pretty sure I don’t want to see what kind of mess is in that saucer’s bathroom.

Maybe this encounter is being faked. Maybe Brewster is not even really in space. Maybe we really didn’t land astronauts on the moon.

I asked the question a couple weeks ago… Wonder if I could have provided an inspiration??

Probably not… But in my own mind I might give myself the credit anyway. Hey, there are people with crazier self delusions.

Wait Brewster is actually smart today? :P

The cleanliness of your feelings is no match for the mess of reality

Well that’s a downer.

It’s the alien’s fault. The cup wasn’t in a saucer.

ka-splorch

I’m surprised that Brewster figured that out on his own.

Gravity in low Earth orbit is only about 4% to 6% less than at Earth’s surface. Earth-orbiting astronauts are weightless for the same reasons that riders of a free-falling amusement park ride or a free-falling elevator are weightless. They are weightless because there is no external contact force pushing or pulling upon their body. In each case, gravity is the only force acting upon their body.

And the alien says, “I gotta get a better cup holder”.

The enemy’s gate is down.

He even knows our swear words.

When we watched the most recent season of Picard, the husband mentioned that whenever you see a scene in a sci-fi show or movie where a bunch of spaceships get together, they’re all always oriented the same way up — and they probably shouldn’t be. Now I can’t get that idea out of my head whenever I see a scene like that.

When you think about it, just getting two ships in space to face each other and be close enough to talk without crashing is quite a feat.

I think it will be a convention that all ships up to a certain really inconvenient size will orient the same way as a courtesy. It probably won’t be an issue. Direct views outside will not be a major feature of advanced spacecraft.

Ah, the ol’ “cup-and-saucer” gag!

It turns out there actually is a universal orientation.

WHODATHUNKIT??

The R. U. Sirius’s artificial gravity field must have extended around the saucer.

Curse that artificial gravity.

But it’s COMIC STRIP space!