Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for July 23, 2024

Given the presence of Dr. Mel and Cliff, Dirk doesn’t actually need stormtroopers to eventually take out the Sirius.

They do keep up appearances while waiting, though.

“Good news, everyone!”

Okay, that’s great. Just how do the packages get to the space station in the first place? Also is there a market for smoldering remnants of Amazon orders?

They ALL deliver at speeds of “up to” 3000mph….

Better to deliver steel bolts to invading armies.

If the R.U. Sirius is only doing 3,000 mph, they’re in trouble. The ISS needs to travel nearly 6 times that speed to maintain orbit. Even assuming they are high enough for a geosynchronous orbit, they would still need to be going around 7,000 mph.

If the object has a small enough mass then the force of impact can’t be that dangerous, with F = mv/2t.

Smoking hot delivery

Something goes wrong…I think EVERYTHING goes wrong!

At least a pizza wouldn’t arrive cold.

Cost of Delivery? The goods must first come up to the space station R.U. Sirius at US$69 million per launch. Then cost of sending it back to earth per package, Cost maybe as low as one or two million. A real bargain.

Nothing can go wrong…go wrong…go wrong…go wrong.

Assuming the package survives the heat upon entry to the earth’s atmosphere, I’m not quite certain it will survive the sudden stop upon its arrival to the planet. But then again, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner did seem to have some sort of “pause control” with some of the falling objects they came across. Maybe Warner Bros. is really a military lab with some hidden secrets that happened to slip into the Saturday morning cartoons!

Reminds me of when Les Nesman delivered turkeys from a helicopter on WKRP in Cincinnati…

Converging on Futurama?

“What can go wrong?” is a classic flag.

Any of you ever get hit with anything going 3,000 MPH?

What can go wrong, let me count the ways.

My favorite is a bumper sticker (or it may have been a t-shirt) that said – Tardis Express, when it absolutely has to be there yesterday.

Sending something down to Earth is relatively cheap compared to how much it costs to get it into orbit. SpaceX currently has the cheapest service at approximately $1300 per pound.

Yeah, but returns are gonna be a bi*ch!

Professor Farnsworth origin story?

Burning up in the atmosphere due to friction could negatively impact the quality of the package.

If he just delivers meteorites then there should be no problem!