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Ground Control to Major Jerk

Ground Control to Major Jerk

by Adam on May 15, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: comics
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  1. Lord-z
    Lord-z
    May 15, 2013, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    At first, I somehow missed the word “quote”, which made it a very different joke.

    • Jeff Clough
      Jeff Clough
      May 15, 2013, 10:59 am | # | Reply

      Dude…**LIKE** so hard!

    • xthorgoldx
      xthorgoldx
      May 15, 2013, 8:58 pm | # | Reply

      Holy LORD that is hilarious.

  2. DressesAreStupid
    DressesAreStupid
    May 15, 2013, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    Experiencing zero-g is on my bucket list. Being naked in space is in the maybe pile…

  3. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    May 15, 2013, 5:49 am | # | Reply

    You should share this with Chris Hadfield. For those who don’t know, he’s a Canadian astronaut who’s been tweeting pictures of Earth while in space. He’s no longer in space but his photos are amazing (follow him @Cmdr_Hadfield).

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      May 15, 2013, 7:36 am | # | Reply

      Why don’t YOU do that?

      • Jimmy
        Jimmy
        May 15, 2013, 8:05 am | # | Reply

        Haha didn’t want to do it without Adam’s permission 🙂

        • Adam
          Adam
          May 15, 2013, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

          You never need my permission to share one of my comics. I appreciate that kind of stuff!

    • David
      David
      May 15, 2013, 9:13 am | # | Reply

      It would surprise me if this wasn’t a reference to him. Why? Because although he is not a jerk, he sings, and he just released on Youtube the world’s first music video filmed in space — Space Oddity.

      • Jimmy
        Jimmy
        May 15, 2013, 11:17 am | # | Reply

        You’re probably right. Adam, do you follow Hadfield?

      • Adam
        Adam
        May 15, 2013, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

        That video is why I drew the strip. That guy is so awesome.

  4. Someone
    Someone
    May 15, 2013, 8:23 am | # | Reply

    Oh, making Satellites kiss each other is going to be creating so much more space junk and debris. (Check Mir)

  5. NeverSerious
    NeverSerious
    May 15, 2013, 9:27 am | # | Reply

    Astronauts can’t be assholes – somebody has to send a ship to bring them back down eventually, and they really shoudn’t piss those guys off.

  6. Jeff Clough
    Jeff Clough
    May 15, 2013, 11:01 am | # | Reply

    “Lick my Solar Panel” is now my safe word/phrase.

  7. LanceThruster
    LanceThruster
    May 15, 2013, 1:32 pm | # | Reply

    Buzz Aldrin punched a guy…but did it on the ground.

    Some sources have claimed that Yuri Gagarin commented during the flight, “I don’t see any God up here.” However, no such words appear in the verbatim record of his conversations with Earth-based stations during the spaceflight.[20] In a 2006 interview, Gagarin’s friend Colonel Valentin Petrov stated that the cosmonaut never said such words, and that the quote originated from Nikita Khrushchev’s speech at the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU about the state’s anti-religion campaign, saying “Gagarin flew into space, but didn’t see any god there.”

    And from the God botherers —

    December 24, 1968 when Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit on the first manned mission to the Moon. Before retiring that evening, the astronauts did a live television broadcast to Earth, showing pictures of the Earth and Moon seen from their space capsule. They concluded the broadcast in the following fashion. Lunar Module Pilot William Anders said: “For all the people on Earth the crew of Apollo 8 has a message we would like to send you.” He then began reading from the Bible, specifically Genesis 1:1-4. Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell then continued the reading with Genesis 1:5-8. Finally, Commander Frank Borman completed the reading with Genesis 1:9-10, and then closed the broadcast with the words, “And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you—all of you on the good Earth”

    —

    At least they had God bless the whole world for once and not the usually provincial “God bless America.”

    I think even if it would only be symbolic, emptying their waste tanks to fall back to Earth (even though it would burn up upon re-entry) sends a pretty clear message.

  8. gscratch
    gscratch
    May 15, 2013, 4:21 pm | # | Reply

    You know, all the original astronauts were test pilots (think Maverick in “Top Gun”, but more cocky) I wonder how much of this there actually was…

    • LanceThruster
      LanceThruster
      May 15, 2013, 6:09 pm | # | Reply

      I do remember that there was some genuine friction at times with ground control during exceptionally tense moments…but on an open mike they were far too disciplined professionals to allow that to bleed through.

  9. Music-chan
    Music-chan
    May 15, 2013, 8:29 pm | # | Reply

    The title of this strip wins so hard.

  10. VaguelyCreepy
    VaguelyCreepy
    June 10, 2013, 2:10 pm | # | Reply

    Adam, all of your strips are funny – that’s not even an exaggeration, as I don’t think I’ve seen a did yet – but this one really made me laugh For some reason. Keep it up.

  11. Marko
    Marko
    November 19, 2013, 1:22 am | # | Reply

    The thing about being an asshole in space, you’re relying on a LOT of people. They don’t have to bring you back, they could just leave you there.

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