Is awesome http://xkcd.com/

That's brilliant

*goes off to redub scenes from 2001 with a GLaDOS voice and upload it to youtube before anyone else can*

I don't get it...

You have to have watched 2001: A Space Odyssey and played Portal to understand it.

I liked the xkcd too.

Oh yeah, Kyle please post the vid in the thread after you make it. I'd like to see too :D.

Seen space odyssey, didn't need to know the quote, seriously, who doesn't know that quote?

Found out from someone else (more helpful then you :p) that the last panel is from Portal.
That doesn't explain what the hell those things are, (space-ships??) they look bizarre, and the info when I hover over the comic just makes it more mysterious.

They're space-ships. It helps to have seen the 2001 movie, at the part where that quote is said.

The hover-info are the respective songs both HAL and GLaDOS sing when defeated.

How can you browse Massassi and not have discovered who GLaDOS is or have heard the Still Alive song at least 50 billion times?

Hi!

I only played through Portal once, got that goddamn credit song stuck in my head so I instantly replaced it with Russian karaoke songs.

... didn't do much. At least I forgot the song, though.

It's Jepman!

I get it but I didn't think it was very funny

I've seen 2001, I don't remember the ships looking anything like that. That was the major thing that threw me, wondering what the hell they were.

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Unfunny John Lithgow.

Well, I can see a likeness now, now that I know it's there. The small ship still looks pretty dodgey though
But then again, it's xkcd, it's not like they worry much about the comic looking 'pretty'

http://xkcd.com/66/

thats pretty

Thats how the probe ships look.


That scene takes place after the HAL 9000 makes a mistake checking a component, it then lip reads through a window two characters discussiong how to shut it down.

When one of them goes out to fix the component, it rams a shuttle into him and severs his air cable, as well as sending him into space. The other guy goes out to save him (don't know why, he was already dead) in another shuttle.

The scene in the comic is almost exactly what takes place. HAL won't let him in the shuttle.



Interestingly enough, space corpse guy is the main character in the last book in the series. The humans of that time find his space corpse, which has been frozen in the vacuum of space and are able to revive him.

3001 was a very odd book. I thoroughly enjoyed it though.

ditto, birdo