It's very funny!

Not funny... it´s a real idear.

@Flemming:
Yes there is. There is no point in space where gravity is non-existent. Only in this picture, "down" is not below him.

A tether would be more useful...

Loose the stick. He can't fall as there's no up and down in space.

I really like this one. It's so shiny!

Not very funny

NASA finally picks a balanced approach.

I see a small problem in the air supply in that guys suit, seems a bit small to contain fresh air for 8-9 years, don't you think?

How do you poop on the space rope?

The comments on this website are just as good as the strips themselves. (And sometimes even better!)

Keep 'em coming guys :D

Low-carbon space technologies.

how nasa deals with financial crisis .. pure and beautiful

The volcano will erupt in a colossal fireball, covering the earh in a thick cloud of ash that will create a 50 year long winter.
As the cloud slowly disappears survivors will declare the year 2064 as the year 0, new civilizations will grow but with a focus towards space colonization, so that any future eruption will not risk wiping out the human race.
W&M as some of the lucky few members of a secret organization have gotten early warning of these events and are currently on the way to hiding in the secret bomb shelter in the northern hills of Spain, that's why there is no comic today.

Aaaa... this is the last day of the earth! The end of the world! There is NO wm for today!!!!!
Apocalypse! I see the rain of fire and ash!

ur head might ache from the binge last night but wm u need to finish ur work asap!! Plz :P

How many WM guys are going to be fired for not posting todays cartoon :(

You're late WM!! We want a new one!!

So close... makes me wanna cut the wire >:D

...and without the stick...and also the rope...

I bet David Copperfield could do it without the space suit ;)

I saw this in a magazine recently :)

I had a conversation on this topic yesterday, quite weird. My semi-joking idea was a very flexible tunnel that is suspended from the moon to kind of hover over the earth. The moon orbits the earth so that the same side is always facing the earth.

Later on the idea developed into just flinging cars into space in the general direction of the moon and hoping they get there with their inertia.

What happens when the moon orbits around the earth a few times?

A wallpaper on this one would be nice! :D

Spacepirate: The rope would cost more than a rocket, but subsequent use of the rope wouldn't. Which is the whole idea of a space elevator.
After you've done the hard work it's free. (Well, there's maintenance etc, but you get the point.) The expensive part of getting into space is the overcoming of Earth's gravity.

Spacemonkey!

So NASA is now in Africa? :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator

That rope should be made of some not yet existing super durable super thin material.. and that would mean that our walker there would be sliced into two :)

Price of that rope by the way probably exceeds the costs of the rocket.

Beware of Somalian space pirates!

hahahahahha, this is brilliant :)

fawsome!!

Except there's no gravity in space, and they'd need a rocket to deliver the other end of the rope to the Moon.

Except there's no gravity in space, and they'd need a rocket to deliver the other end of the rope to the Moon.

Mozambique just got cooler.

Wulffmorgenthaler experiments with drawing as few elements as possible in their strip.

> ismael: it would take approx 8-9 years (speed = 5 km/h, distance = 363000-405000 km) ;)

it would take approx 8-9 years (speed = 5 km/h, distance = 363000-405000 km) ;)

Old strip....

I've done this when i was a kid. Pretty cool up there

They're actually working on that space elevator.

Kilimanjaro? NICE!

A space-elevator, basically. Thing is, it could actually work pretty brilliantly, once you figure out a way to get past the gale-force winds in the upper atmosphere.

He/She need the rod to fight manbearpig!

> Stein: Maybe the rod is somehow causing that he wouldn't fly somewhere far into space :)

I wonder when a physics nerd will come up with a calculation how much time it would take the guy to reach the Moon on foot.

Blue space, Wonder why he need the rod