Excuse me, the meme very clearly specifies it is a form of ballista since it works off of bent spring power

I just passed the post you meant to reply to and it clicked for me. Weird!

I am so confused by your comment. Did you comment on the right post? What would you make smell bad in this context

He is doing an big steppy

lmao needing caffeine apparently. Leaving it up because I’d love shuttles to go that far one day :P

I believe they are referring to the Challenger lunar launch that exploded. What they believe it came down to was a tolerance issue in the O-Rings they were using which if I remember right was a concern already placed by the engineers.

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

The original image has something along the lines of “I hate this system” and the smug guy in the well is saying “Ah, and yet you participate in said system!” as a gotcha. I think the purpose in this one is just carrying over the smugness with which people post the XKCD when any new possible technological standard is proposed (whether or not it has any merits)

Works on my machine

Assuming we ever find a way to get the plastic out of everything