[[Other ranks pinstripe uniform with pill box cap, swagger stick and moustache on left talking to smaller gent in suit with hat, walking stick and more luxuriant moustache on right. Outdoor ice skating in background.]]
Uniform: An easy way to picture the size of an acre is that it's a bit smaller than a football field!
Gent: People always say that like it makes it easier. But it presumes that everyone shares a very particular set of specialized knowledge! See, I don't watch football! I've seen a dozen games in my whole life, and all of them on TV! I don't have the scale of a football field imprinted in my memory as a unit of measurement!
Uniform: OK, put another way, an acre is just larger than the dish area of the "Mars" Radio Telescope at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California.
Gent: Well why didn't you just say that to begin with!
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Come ON, you don't have to tell me WHERE the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex is
This comic is dedicated to the engineers at JPL! Yesterday I was lucky enough to get to tag along on a tour my wife organized for her fellow crew members from the TV show Robot Chicken. Mars rover driver Scott Maxwell and his colleagues were kind enough to show us all around the facility! Check it out
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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