FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for January 29, 2015

Going underwater is the best way to simulate it while on Earth.

I thought that helmet was starting to get heavy but it was only gravity getting him down.

Freefall is another way of simulating weightlessness.

Actually that’s exactly what the astronauts are experiencing. The best definition I’ve heard of an orbit is an object in free fall with enough sideways motion to keep missing the object about which it is orbiting.

I thought it would be something about evolution. The strip of Neanderthal, crouching, then standing upright, then sitting at a computer desk.

“There is an art (or rather a knack) to flying, which is to throw yourself as hard as possible at the ground and miss.” —Douglas Adams