delta-v
Original: delta-v on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title (top banner): ROCKET ENGINEERS ARE THE ENGINEERIEST ENGINEERS
Panel 1 (label: NORMAL ENGINEER:)
A woman with dark hair (seen from behind/side) speaks to a man with reddish-brown hair.
Woman: WHAT'S DELTA-V?
Man: ... CHANGE IN VELOCITY?
Panel 2 (label: ROCKET ENGINEER:)
The same dark-haired woman speaks to a smiling woman with curly red hair and round glasses, who is holding a metal bucket.
Dark-haired woman: WHAT'S DELTA-V?
Red-haired woman: OH!! I HAVE SOME IN THIS BUCKET!
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Votey:
Large hand-lettered text: RUN!
Beneath it, a sketchy line-art drawing of a shocked/screaming face.
Panel 1 (label: NORMAL ENGINEER:)
A woman with dark hair (seen from behind/side) speaks to a man with reddish-brown hair.
Woman: WHAT'S DELTA-V?
Man: ... CHANGE IN VELOCITY?
Panel 2 (label: ROCKET ENGINEER:)
The same dark-haired woman speaks to a smiling woman with curly red hair and round glasses, who is holding a metal bucket.
Dark-haired woman: WHAT'S DELTA-V?
Red-haired woman: OH!! I HAVE SOME IN THIS BUCKET!
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Votey:
Large hand-lettered text: RUN!
Beneath it, a sketchy line-art drawing of a shocked/screaming face.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic titled "Rocket engineers are the engineeriest engineers." In both panels, a dark-haired woman (shown from behind) asks the same question: "What's delta-v?" In the first panel, labeled "Normal engineer," a calm man answers correctly, "...Change in velocity?" In the second panel, labeled "Rocket engineer," an excited curly-red-haired woman in glasses grins and holds up a metal bucket, replying "Oh!! I have some in this bucket!" The joke: a rocket engineer is so steeped in rocketry that she treats delta-v as a literal physical resource she carries around. The votey (bonus panel) shows the large word "RUN!" above a hastily-sketched, alarmed screaming face.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.