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a street in western sydney

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it’s illustration day lads! not 100% happy with the colours in this one but i’ve spent so much time fruitlessly tweaking it that i really just need to move on with my life. hope you guys like it.

being able to do chalk art like this is one nice perk about living in a cul-de-sac in a country that doesn’t rain every second day. for reference, a diplodocus is about 26 metres (85 feet) long , and a redstone rocket (which carried alan shepard, the first american into space in 1961) is 25 metres (82 feet) tall. so i think the rocket is a little scaled down in this illustration, but if i zoomed out any further, sedna and dini would have just been tiny little specs.

morning alarm

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i like to imagine the ridiculous amount of time sedna must have spent practising and fine-tuning in order to nail that shot instead of just knocking on dini’s door. but then again, what was sedna gonna do with her time anyway if not launch rockets?

the best dad

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whenever you think you’re the best at something, just remember there are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10^24) star systems in the observable universe. there’s almost certainly someone out there better than you. ;)

alien life

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unfortunately, trappist-1e is over 40 light years away, so it’s going to take a while for the rest of humanity to hear the wonderful news,

now that i think about it, when you have a head that big, a laundry basket is actually the perfect size for a helmet.

have you seen my rocket?

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if only sedna had powered the rocket with whatever anti-gravity magic is in her ponytail, then she wouldn’t have had any problems.

emu 3

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kids, always remember your parachute. or at least make sure your neighbours have insurance.

for the curious:
specific impulse = fuel efficiency
delta-v = amount of fuel (measured in potential velocity)
t.w.r. = thrust-to-weight ratio = rockety-power vs gravity
(if it’s less than 1, you won’t be going to space today)

who is sedna?

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pity they don’t teach rocketry in primary school. would’ve made maths class just a tad more interesting.

rocket scientist

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hey, look! a full-colour illustration. that’s the thing that real artists do, right?

i’m gonna do one of these every ten comics or so to have a bit of fun with colour and see what fun situations sedna and dini dream themselves up in. i kinda suck at digital illustration though, so be gentle with me. i’m still figuring this out as i go.