2805: "Global Atmospheric Circulation"

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2805: "Global Atmospheric Circulation"

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Title text: Refs generally say that you can exercise enough altitude control to avoid the ground, but if you start strategically choosing air layers to steer yourself, that's traveling.

I wonder about how long Beret Guy has lived across all the strips he's been in. There was that one with an interview where they stayed in place for years.
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ratammer wrote: Mon Jul 24, 2023 8:47 pm
I wonder about how long Beret Guy has lived across all the strips he's been in. ...
There was the one where he hid / waited in a time capsule in order to travel into the future and thus convince people to kill Hitler. Overshot by a few decades but figured if Hitler was dead all was good. Plus he still had some sandwiches.
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Old Bruce wrote: Tue Jul 25, 2023 2:15 am There was the one where he hid / waited in a time capsule in order to travel into the future and thus convince people to kill Hitler. Overshot by a few decades but figured if Hitler was dead all was good. Plus he still had some sandwiches.
I'm reminded of Marvin from the Hitchhiker's Guide, who (through various time-travel shenanigans) winds up 37 times older than the universe
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