this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
425 points (97.3% liked)

xkcd

13691 readers
73 users here now

A community for a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

https://xkcd.com/2865

Alt text:

The phantom found Edward Everett Hale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his 'brick moon' proposal were dismissed as science fiction.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why the Trojan horse? It was made out of what they had available.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago

That's what I came in here to know about. Like, wasn't it wood? Didn't it do a great job?

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The Trojan horse wasn't made of Trojans, like the Spruce Goose wasn't made of Spruce. Nor was it made by Trojans nor filled with Trojans.
The name is misleading.

[–] Decoy321@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Usually horses aren't giant, nor are they made out of wood and Greeks.