Comic 1133 - Up Goer Five

It’s pretty cool getting to know
How these space up-goers up-go
And if tech makes you queasy,
Relax! It's quite easy —
It’s not rocket science, you... D’oh!

Original comic here.

Comic 1132 - Frequentists vs. Bayesians

When predicting unlikely events
False positives give an immense
Skew to any data
So best wait till later
Before you get coaxed off the fence.

Original comic here.

Comic 1091 - Curiosity

I didn’t spend last night in bars
Or googling powerful cars.
I’m ashen of face
And a touch off the pace
Cos they’ve landed a robot ON MARS.

Original comic here.

Comic 1074 - Moon Landing

If those landings were all just a mock-up
Filmed grainily in Aldrin's lockup
Then why've NASA peeps
Not made more “giant leaps”
In the last fifty years? What a cock-up.

Original comic here.

Not the first XKCD comic to call to mind Sleeping Satellite. Ah, Tasmin Archer.

Comic 984 - Space Launch System

You can’t just sit round being artsy
If you want to roll the space-race yahtzee.
You need über-smart guys
And surprise surprise,
That usually means an ex-Nazi.

Original comic here.

I should perhaps stress that I personally am not in favour of recruiting Nazis for technological projects, although I do very much enjoy a game of Yahtzee.

Comic 962 - The Corliss Resolution

Life forms never show much proclivity
To fly from their earthbound captivity.
Space race and survival
Lose pace to their rival:
Some risky, fun, frisky activity.

Original comic here.

Comic 941 - Depth Perception

The clouds that make lightning and thunder,
The stars and the planets we're under
All look far too flat;
If we could fix that
We'd gaze upwards in wide-eyed wonder.

Original comic here.

Starting to catch up after my break. More soon!

Comic 893 - 65 Years

Our drive to send men into space
Is no longer moving apace;
Not quite decades seven
Post-Apollo 11
We'll be once more a planet-bound race.

Original comic here.