#2950: Situation
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[An airship flying, labeled:]
Hydrogen-filled scout airship for iceberg spotting
[The airship is chained to a ship, going along a river, labeled:]
Unsinkable ocean liner
[In the background on the coast a nuclear power plant, labeled:]
Soviet-era nuclear reactor undergoing a turbine test
[The boat and airship are steering towards a bridge, labeled:]
Bridge prone to aeroelastic flutter in high winds
[Two unlabeled icebergs are on the water on either side of the bridge.]
[Caption below the panel:]
In retrospect, we should have noticed how nervous the situation was making the engineers.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:We're right under the flight path for the scheduled orbital launch, but don't worry--it's too cold out for the rockets to operate safely, so I'm sure they'll postpone.