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saturday morning

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illustration day mates! i think i really should study how cool/warm light and shadow works because i have no idea what i’m doing. this time i snuck in a few sedna easter eggs. see if you can spot any (that is if you can be bothered).

fun fact: the saturn jigsaw puzzle is actually based on a true story. my sister gave me a 1,000 piece jupiter jigsaw last christmas and is was by far the hardest puzzle i’ve ever completed in my life. still, it was worth it just for the moment when we put the last piece in while blasting the musical piece ‘jupiter’ from ‘the planets, op 32’ by gustav holst. i know i’m a dork but it felt good man.

friends

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i usually use a star chart app to make sure the stars are accurate in each comic (based on where i live), and it just so happened that the twinkly “star” hovering over sedna’s room in the 4th panel is actually mars. i swear i didn’t plan it that way, that’s just where it happened to be when i drew this comic.
a happy little accident. (*´ω｀*)

school day

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that’s right, we’re doing a school arc mates. apparently i still have some childhood trauma to work through or something, and this is as good an output as any. also, do kids in any other countries wear these wide-brim hats as part of their school uniform, or is it just an aussie thing?

relativity

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look at me, actually drawing launch towers properly for once.

plugging some quick numbers into wolfram alpha, the energy required to propel a 100 metric tonne ship to 99% the speed of light is roughly 5.472×10^22 joules. this is equivalent to 1/9th the energy of the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, or 225,000x the energy of the tsar bomba, the largest nuclear bomb in history. and that’s not even to mention the energy required to stop, come back, and stop again.

which is to say, sedna’s being a little optimistic in her dream here.

meteor

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you probably learned in primary school that it’s a “meteoroid” when it’s in space, “meteor” when it’s falling down to earth, and “meteorite” when it’s splattered itself across your backyard.

personally i think we should change these three terms to “space rock”, “firey space rock”, and “ex-space rock” for clarity’s sake.

shooting star

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fun fact: if you catch a train of starlink satellites just after launch, you’ll be granted 60 wishes at the same time!

some of you clever lot might recognize this as one of the classic sedna comics. but before you accuse me of self-plagiarism or running out of ideas, i actually had a sequel comic to this planned that i never ended up drawing for classic sedna, so i had to bring this one back for context. plus, i just really wanted to see this one drawn properly. can you blame me?

moonwalk

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now you can add “extra-vehicular activity” (e.v.a.) to the list of technobabble acronyms you can use to sound like the very smart person you know you are.

i’ve been told that you don’t actually need to put dots after each letter if you write it in something called… “capital letters”? whatever that is.

soyuz

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confusingly, the soyuz is both the name of the rocket and the spacecraft, the latter of which has had 148 crewed missions as of this post (more than the space shuttle’s 135), with the first one being in 1966! if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, the russians say, especially when you’re working on a soviet budget.

there’s something so kerbal about landing in the middle of the desert with a single enormous parachute and tiny landing rockets firing just before touchdown to soften the impact. spare a thought for boris volynov, who rode soyuz 5 in 1969 when its parachute tangled and landing rockets failed, resulting in the spacecraft hitting the ground so hard it broke volynov’s teeth.