I’d like to go back and introduce — from the beginning — an “adventures in brown” tag. That being my first thought here, and we’ve seen many. WHY is space brown here instead of pitch black?
Why the video-game playing astronaut is wearing gloves like Mom used when washing dishes, and cheap boots like Mom wore when gardening, who knows? And hers weren’t purple. @Ryan is correct about those. And he also has nice clean hands.
Minus helmet, I could approximate this with things I already have around the house for deep cleaning; the gloves and boots, plus a Tyvek jumpsuit. If I ever see friend of the site Lee Moyer again, I might.
The whole suit doesn’t seem air-tight enough. Whatever he’s got on his hip/butt also looks very pointy and the balloon animal ship is stupid.
@Tor: GSS! Perfect. Everyone’s quite on form today, good show sirs for a Monday!
@GSS ex-noob: perhaps it’s an edges thing arising from physical media? The dark lines drawn or painted outlining the spacemen and spaceships tend to merge into a solidly black background?
@Bruce: But then what’s the slightly-lighter-brown circle/sphere up right? It’s not the sun, because of the angle. And the men and ships don’t have black lines around them so that can’t be why either.
May 20th, 2024 at 1:20 pm
Sufficiently breathtaking is the green, orange, and purple colour palette.
May 20th, 2024 at 1:31 pm
My god, it’s full of antennas.
May 20th, 2024 at 2:16 pm
“Breathtaking adventures in space” – isn’t that commonly called a “space murder mystery”?
May 20th, 2024 at 2:58 pm
Space DDR lets you do backflips but is lacking in atmosphere.
May 20th, 2024 at 3:04 pm
When spaceships were modelled after failed balloon animals.
May 20th, 2024 at 4:44 pm
Commuters – THIS is how you deal with people who use the Quiet Carriage for gaming and aggravating conversations.
May 20th, 2024 at 6:27 pm
It was the purple-gumboot-and-dishwashing-gloves combination that really sold this cover to me.
May 20th, 2024 at 6:59 pm
“Roger, Houston. I put my space boot in. I took my space boot out. I put my space boot in and I shook it all about.
Over.”
May 20th, 2024 at 9:02 pm
I’d like to go back and introduce — from the beginning — an “adventures in brown” tag. That being my first thought here, and we’ve seen many. WHY is space brown here instead of pitch black?
Why the video-game playing astronaut is wearing gloves like Mom used when washing dishes, and cheap boots like Mom wore when gardening, who knows? And hers weren’t purple. @Ryan is correct about those. And he also has nice clean hands.
Minus helmet, I could approximate this with things I already have around the house for deep cleaning; the gloves and boots, plus a Tyvek jumpsuit. If I ever see friend of the site Lee Moyer again, I might.
The whole suit doesn’t seem air-tight enough. Whatever he’s got on his hip/butt also looks very pointy and the balloon animal ship is stupid.
@Tor: GSS! Perfect. Everyone’s quite on form today, good show sirs for a Monday!
May 21st, 2024 at 1:58 am
Entranced by the latest robo-cat videos on SpaceTube, Ralph was quite unaware just how far from the space station he’d drifted.
May 21st, 2024 at 2:01 am
@GSS ex-noob: perhaps it’s an edges thing arising from physical media? The dark lines drawn or painted outlining the spacemen and spaceships tend to merge into a solidly black background?
May 21st, 2024 at 7:37 pm
His machine doesn’t look all that silvery…
May 22nd, 2024 at 1:13 am
@Bruce: But then what’s the slightly-lighter-brown circle/sphere up right? It’s not the sun, because of the angle. And the men and ships don’t have black lines around them so that can’t be why either.
July 13th, 2024 at 8:06 pm
“Houston, be honest – does this space suit make my thighs look fat? Over!”