https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=82.71.120.214explain xkcd - User contributions [en]2026-04-16T18:30:28ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2074:_Airplanes_and_Spaceships&diff=404568Talk:2074: Airplanes and Spaceships2026-01-29T15:42:06Z<p>82.71.120.214: Mention of Patrick Moore, who has a connection to the topic of the comment.</p>
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Damn, Randall was 3 months late with this comic ;-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 15:38, 19 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
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:Should the Explanation section contain a note on when the comic was posted; and the correct difference in time? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.2.76|172.68.2.76]] 06:58, 20 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
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By the time of the first spaceflight, air travel was available to the general public. Where is the space plane today??[[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.28|108.162.229.28]] 16:24, 19 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
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:Elon's working on it, isn't he? (Hate him all you want. He's doing more to advance space flight than anyone else just be being highly visible.)[[Special:Contributions/162.158.79.101|162.158.79.101]] 20:21, 19 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
:Branson is too. https://www.virgingalactic.com - I believe prices start at a mere quarter-million.[[User:Daemonik|Daemonik]] ([[User talk:Daemonik|talk]]) 16:25, 20 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
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NASA released a video 2 days back - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeA7edXsU40 <br />
Do you think that's why this comic was uploaded? I would have added it in, but I could use an opinion [[Special:Contributions/162.158.167.120|162.158.167.120]] 17:56, 19 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
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This is... depressing. RIP Project Constellation, you will be missed.[[User:Linker|Linker]] ([[User talk:Linker|talk]]) 18:03, 19 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
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I suggest adding something related to steam-powered rail travel to the explanation or in a trivia section. Though, exactly what is beyond my expertise, given the information found in a quick search of Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_locomotive#United_Kingdom[[Special:Contributions/162.158.79.101|162.158.79.101]] 20:21, 19 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
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Randall referenced ''The Core'' a little while back. Given that it's a relatively obscure movie from the early 2000's, I have no idea why this would be. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.48.117|173.245.48.117]] 21:54, 19 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
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Is there a collection of all of the "there is now more time between X and Y, than Y and Z" style comics? He's done them with 9/11 and the pyramids also<br />
:There's a "Comics to make one feel old" category, but I'm not sure if the ones you mention are there.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.88.128|162.158.88.128]] 14:35, 20 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
:You could make a subcategory in [[:Category:Timelines]] [[Special:Contributions/141.101.76.157|141.101.76.157]] 08:29, 3 November 2021 (UTC)<br />
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Maybe this is the current next step https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0707-9<br />
Javier Jelovcan from Argentina [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.100|108.162.210.100]] 16:39, 23 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
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Very belatedly, just noting that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore Patrick Moore] (who many Brits will remember presenting the Sky at Night for many decades) claimed to have met Orville Wright, Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong. And he died more than a decade ago. [[Special:Contributions/82.71.120.214|82.71.120.214]] 15:42, 29 January 2026 (UTC)</div>82.71.120.214