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<div>It really depends on how good the hammers are. Good, solid machined hammers are enough to win any girl's heart. '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 13:07, 18 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
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In frame 4, is Megan holding a laptop or the stapler? Looks more like a stapler... [[User:Sabik|Sabik]] ([[User talk:Sabik|talk]]) 08:34, 10 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
:Given that she appears to be gripping it as though it was a narrow object, and in the next frame mentions that she stapled her hand to her face, I'd say it's quite likely that it is a stapler.[[User:Pennpenn|Pennpenn]] ([[User talk:Pennpenn|talk]]) 03:42, 26 February 2014 (UTC)</div>Pennpennhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:668:_Pandora&diff=61048Talk:668: Pandora2014-02-26T03:33:21Z<p>Pennpenn: </p>
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<div>There is also the semantics behind "embarrassing". Embarrassment requires an audience. Anonymous 17:46, 4 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
:I beg to differ.[[User:Pennpenn|Pennpenn]] ([[User talk:Pennpenn|talk]]) 03:33, 26 February 2014 (UTC)</div>Pennpennhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1146:_Honest&diff=61047Talk:1146: Honest2014-02-26T03:30:36Z<p>Pennpenn: </p>
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<div>Ya can't explain this one![[Special:Contributions/176.61.46.230|176.61.46.230]] 11:06, 12 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
:No, other work is getting in the way. Someone else'll do it. [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 11:15, 12 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
:The honesty of this comic makes it pretty self-explanatory. I like it. [[Special:Contributions/76.122.5.96|76.122.5.96]] 12:21, 12 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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That 1-line explanation by anon 69.143.0.147 is ''brilliant''.<br />
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Most people, despite looking generally competent, are just barely making it through the day.<br />
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Let's be honest, how can one tell which character is Cueball? Personally, I think this character is far too generic to bother anyways. [[Special:Contributions/46.142.60.241|46.142.60.241]] 20:28, 12 December 2012 (UTC) madd<br />
:Cueball is the first "Cueball" to speak in a comic, everyone else is called something else.[[User:Pennpenn|Pennpenn]] ([[User talk:Pennpenn|talk]]) 03:30, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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can't be reference to #overlyhonestmethods since comic came out a month before.</div>Pennpennhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:415:_Restraining_Order&diff=61045Talk:415: Restraining Order2014-02-26T02:02:22Z<p>Pennpenn: </p>
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<div>Looks like something [[Danish]] would do, not Ponytail.Classhole 00:31, 14 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Therein lies the problem with presuming "Ponytail" is a singular, consistent character, which she isn't, and never has been. It's kind of ridiculous to say something is out of character for Ponytails, Megans, or Cueballs (and probably White Hat), since they're rarely the same person.[[User:Pennpenn|Pennpenn]] ([[User talk:Pennpenn|talk]]) 02:02, 26 February 2014 (UTC)</div>Pennpennhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=449:_Things_Fall_Apart&diff=61044449: Things Fall Apart2014-02-26T01:55:58Z<p>Pennpenn: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 449<br />
| date = July 14, 2008<br />
| title = Things Fall Apart<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
This is a comic about romance, there is not much to explain.<br />
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[[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] are about to break up, Megan is trying to explain things but Cueball is constantly saying "I love you".<br />
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And the title text relates that the mindset of someone believing that they are nothing without their partner is a dangerous and unhealthy sentiment.<br />
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:Megan: I wonder about us.<br />
:Cueball: I love you.<br />
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:Megan: We don't have fun together.<br />
:Cueball: I love you.<br />
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:Megan: It's like we're clinging to the "relationship" framework like it's all we got.<br />
:Cueball: I love you.<br />
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:Megan: Who are you trying to reassur—<br />
:Cueball: I love you I love you I love you I love you<br />
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<div>Aaaand this is up, This is one of my favorite comics of xkcd. [[User:StuckInReality|StuckInReality]] ([[User talk:StuckInReality|talk]]) 07:30, 8 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Please start only pages with a proper explanation.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 14:43, 8 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
::I do understand, Sir. [[User:StuckInReality|StuckInReality]] ([[User talk:StuckInReality|talk]]) 00:25, 9 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
I think that there is a bit of "the Cueball doth protest too much" in here. He's fighting Megan's explanations without giving his own.{{unsigned|Theo}}<br />
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The explaination of the title text seems off. It reads more like the author saying that an obsessive mindset (going so far as to think that you are nothing without the other person) is "fucked up" in the sense of dangerous or undesirable, implying that people shouldn't measure self worth by a relationship to another. In fact, I'm gonna change the comment.[[User:Pennpenn|Pennpenn]] ([[User talk:Pennpenn|talk]]) 01:51, 26 February 2014 (UTC)</div>Pennpennhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:990:_Plastic_Bags&diff=59991Talk:990: Plastic Bags2014-02-14T04:11:58Z<p>Pennpenn: </p>
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<div>This time the lesson I learned came mostly from alt-text. The high we can experience from helping the world can last for days indeed, way better and healthier then drugs, want to try it? - e-inspired [[Special:Contributions/98.211.199.84|98.211.199.84]] 15:45, 27 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
:You make it sound like it's an either/or choice. [[Special:Contributions/69.207.73.11|69.207.73.11]] 08:02, 26 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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As a former service cashier/bag filler I can confirm that there is a counterpoint, customers with reusable bags who will absolutely refuse to use any plastic bags whatsoever, no matter how ridiculously overful their bags become, and no matter how much of a bad idea it might be ("Yes, sure, lets put your hot chicken in with the ice cream, along with the crusty laundry powder box on top of the soft fruit! I can't see how this could possibly go wrong!").[[User:Pennpenn|Pennpenn]] ([[User talk:Pennpenn|talk]]) 04:11, 14 February 2014 (UTC)</div>Pennpennhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:583:_CNR&diff=59989Talk:583: CNR2014-02-14T03:57:35Z<p>Pennpenn: Created page with "It's kind of silly that they'd need to make a new kid. There are plenty of them for free in any given shopping mall on any day! (No, I do not condone abducting children, even..."</p>
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<div>It's kind of silly that they'd need to make a new kid. There are plenty of them for free in any given shopping mall on any day!<br />
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(No, I do not condone abducting children, even for science.)[[User:Pennpenn|Pennpenn]] ([[User talk:Pennpenn|talk]]) 03:57, 14 February 2014 (UTC)</div>Pennpennhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1326:_Sharks&diff=59480Talk:1326: Sharks2014-02-05T22:54:29Z<p>Pennpenn: </p>
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<div>Um... Are the sharks the prisoners? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.222.227|108.162.222.227]] 11:00, 5 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
:Yeah, it's awfully quiet... looks like nobody gets this one? :) --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.179|108.162.254.179]] 12:05, 5 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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No - a real prisoner escapes - and then the evil guy has a reason to release the sharks. And as the sharks are just happy to be free, they escape instead of going for the prisoner. So he can release more sharks ad ifinitum - except that his hang-man can see the problem with the plan - to release sharks into an ocean - that humans are emptying of sharks to use only their fin... [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 12:50, 5 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Makes me wonder if Randall recently watched Despicable Me 1 and/or 2... [[User:Condor70|Condor70]] ([[User talk:Condor70|talk]]) 13:01, 5 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
:Yeah, or a Sean Connery-era James Bond film... [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.62|173.245.55.62]] 13:51, 5 February 2014 (UTC)Pat<br />
::Even still, I feel this one is lacking a bit. It would have been better if there was a stick-minion in one of the frames. ;) [[User:Jarod997|Jarod997]] ([[User talk:Jarod997|talk]]) 13:52, 5 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
::Thunderball, Licence to Kill and Despicable Me 1 all feature sharks. But none of them have the same setting as this comic. [[User:Condor70|Condor70]] ([[User talk:Condor70|talk]]) 14:11, 5 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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A quick google search reveals that "Doom Island" is a location in a game called "Fish Wrangler": http://fishwrangler.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_Island. This may tie into the sharks theme...? [[User:Thegreatsasquatch|TheGreatSasquatch]] ([[User talk:Thegreatsasquatch|talk]]) 19:56, 5 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
:Occam's Razor would suggest that it's just a generic sounding "Evil Villian Lair" name, rather than a reference to something.[[User:Pennpenn|Pennpenn]] ([[User talk:Pennpenn|talk]]) 22:54, 5 February 2014 (UTC)</div>Pennpennhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1204:_Detail&diff=58983Talk:1204: Detail2014-01-30T05:20:32Z<p>Pennpenn: </p>
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<div>I'm not certain as to what the date should be, as I'm in New Zealand. I've taken one off of my current date (26th) as a precaution. Anyone who knows the right date (or right timezone) please edit it accordingly. --[[User:ZephireNZ|ZephireNZ]] ([[User talk:ZephireNZ|talk]]) 04:25, 26 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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This comic arrive a day early, right?[[User:Afhoke|Afhoke]] ([[User talk:Afhoke|talk]]) 04:42, 26 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Most likely a result of the time machine. [[Special:Contributions/184.66.160.91|184.66.160.91]] 05:02, 26 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Any idea if the typo Ne*ghborhood is intentional and what it might refer to? [[Special:Contributions/141.17.83.10|141.17.83.10]] 07:11, 26 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
: It appears to have just been a mistake, as it's now been corrected on the panel at kxcd. [[Special:Contributions/67.51.59.66|67.51.59.66]] 16:48, 26 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:: I see what you did there. ;) --[[Special:Contributions/24.145.230.202|24.145.230.202]] 23:31, 26 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Forget electronic microscope. Where do you think they would be STORING the maps? Nearby galaxies? Other dimension? .... oh, I see: Black Mesa Research Facility is a google service company researching storage technologies. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 08:13, 26 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Shouldn't the vertical axis be reversed? If the Planck length is the theoretical smallest length, wouldn't most readers expect the smallest value to be lowest on the vertical axis? Thus the log scale line would angle downward, more clearly indicating that the resolution lengthy is getting smaller with time. The way it it is drawn, the first impression might be that the resolution length is increasing, not decreasing. Just a suggestion. XKCD is my favorite comic because I learn something new almost every day! {{unsigned|Matthew-e-hackman}}<br />
: I had the same thought. Had to pause a moment to reassure myself Planck Length is a small thing. [[Special:Contributions/67.51.59.66|67.51.59.66]] 16:48, 26 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
:: The vertical increase works better for the joke, as it is representing the concept of the resolution increasing, rather than the resolution distance decreasing, even though the latter naturally leads to the former.[[User:Pennpenn|Pennpenn]] ([[User talk:Pennpenn|talk]]) 05:20, 30 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Randall really likes pointing out the dangers of excessive extrapolation, doesn't he! One of his key themes. And this one is taking extremes to the extreme. [[User:Robbak|Robbak]] ([[User talk:Robbak|talk]]) 13:00, 26 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Representation == Reality? {{unsigned|24.84.201.240}}<br />
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Whoa i just figured. the lines meet around 2100 - and in 2101.war was beginning - a coincidence? --[[Special:Contributions/178.203.192.19|178.203.192.19]] 20:25, 26 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
: Remember, [[286: All Your Base]]. [[User:Tryc|Tryc]] ([[User talk:Tryc|talk]]) 15:05, 13 September 2013 (UTC)<br />
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"Shouldn't the vertical axis be reversed?" I would say no. As the smallest resolvable detail shrinks, people refer to resolution as increasing, so a rising line makes sense. Maybe the axis should be denominated in pixels per meter though... [[User:Gardnertoo|Gardnertoo]] ([[User talk:Gardnertoo|talk]]) 15:19, 27 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Can somebody explain the line labeled "Earth" at the top of the diagram? [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]])<br />
:The resolution of actual Earth remains constant as the resolution of Google Earth approaches [[Special:Contributions/96.33.168.232|96.33.168.232]] 04:40, 29 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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It's also quite fun to compare the graph to the first publication of Moore's law, which had just one datapoint more but looks more or less identical to the comic. (And it still holds after 50 years... although there are signs it'll be slowing down soon...) {{unsigned ip|212.64.51.153}}<br />
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"The images get finer as satellite imaging technology improves" - this is wrong; however, I have no idea currently how to rewite the sentence elegantly, maybe someone else does. The Google Maps/Earth finer images do not come from satellites, but are obtained by aerial photography. No commercial satellite can produce such images (maybe military ones come close - just maybe). In fact, Randall has written about that: http://what-if.xkcd.com/32/ [[Special:Contributions/89.174.214.74|89.174.214.74]] 13:19, 29 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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"Each tick in the scale represents a resolution improvement by 1000x." Am I being dense, or does the term "log scale" necessarily mean jumps of 10x? [[Special:Contributions/149.161.34.44|149.161.34.44]] 20:50, 1 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:"A simple example [of a logarithmic scale] is a chart whose vertical or horizontal axis has equally spaced increments that are labeled 1, 10, 100, 1000, instead of 1, 2, 3, 4." Taken from wikipedia's article titled "Logarithmic scale". [[Special:Contributions/24.251.209.253|24.251.209.253]] 03:40, 16 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Looks like Google Earth resolution will surpass actual resolution by 2120*...<br />
*must have "Google Eyes" (TM) to experience better than actual resolution [[Special:Contributions/207.126.189.4|207.126.189.4]] 17:31, 20 May 2013 (UTC)dabeansdad<br />
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Can someone please explain why the Plank length being the resolution of the universe is a "myth", as it says in the explanation? [[Special:Contributions/75.69.96.225|75.69.96.225]] 01:22, 27 October 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Thanks for your hint. It isn't a myth but fact in quantum mechanics. It's fixed.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 16:18, 27 October 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Randall is wrong: Google Earth does not gain resolution exponentially, but logistically. Admittedly, that's somewhat less funny. --[[User:Jolbucley|Jolbucley]] ([[User talk:Jolbucley|talk]]) 04:31, 29 January 2014 (UTC)</div>Pennpennhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1053:_Ten_Thousand&diff=58982Talk:1053: Ten Thousand2014-01-30T05:02:08Z<p>Pennpenn: </p>
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<div>Regarding: "This also assumes that 10,000 people learn of something every day from the day they are born." That's not accurate. Whatever the any distribution of "age you learn" is, the average will hold. For example, if everybody learns some particular fact on their 21st birthday, it holds simply becuase there are roughly 10,000 people having their 21st birthday each and every day.<br />
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I think it also may be referring, in a tongue-in-cheek manner, to the fact that people who call people idiots because they don't know something, and yet fail to explain it, are creating ignorance to criticise it. <br />
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Person A says, "What is x?"<br />
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Person B is now responsible for the idiocy he claims Person A to have, thus making Person B the ''real'' idiot. In this comic, he makes this point by refusing to be Person B, while at the same time making subtle references to still having the sadistic glee person B has.[[Special:Contributions/76.29.225.28|76.29.225.28]] 22:37, 24 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I think he's getting the pleasure of seeing the look on Person A's face when Person A learns/sees something incredible! I think it's more of a positive. {{unsigned|Theo}}<br />
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I wonder which relative came back to life?[[User:Pennpenn|Pennpenn]] ([[User talk:Pennpenn|talk]]) 05:02, 30 January 2014 (UTC)</div>Pennpennhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:820:_Five-Minute_Comics:_Part_2&diff=58981Talk:820: Five-Minute Comics: Part 22014-01-30T04:53:45Z<p>Pennpenn: </p>
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<div>I don't know. I think the buckets in the Bailout comic are full of money. That's what ''I'' saw anyway. I think it's a political reference to throwing money at problems, which is also colloquially referred to as a "Bailout."[[Special:Contributions/76.29.225.28|76.29.225.28]] 15:26, 27 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Not everything is a political jab. Also money wouldn't be represented (even in this stylised case) as circular globs of randoms sizes. So yeah, it's probably water or some other fluid.[[User:Pennpenn|Pennpenn]] ([[User talk:Pennpenn|talk]]) 04:53, 30 January 2014 (UTC)</div>Pennpennhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=427:_Bad_Timing&diff=58805427: Bad Timing2014-01-28T13:41:30Z<p>Pennpenn: /* Explanation */</p>
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| number = 427<br />
| date = May 23, 2008<br />
| title = Bad Timing<br />
| image = bad_timing.png<br />
| titletext = Protip: Even without the red spiders, never have that conversation halfway through a balloon ride.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
[[Cueball]] breaks up with [[Megan]] in the middle of a {{w|hot air balloon}} ride. Then {{w|Non sequitur (literary device)|the red spiders attack}}.<br />
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The red spiders are among the earliest xkcd [[characters]], first appearing in [[8: Red spiders]].<br />
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As the protip in the title text states, a break-up conversation while you are stranded in an inaccessible location is very poor manners. Also, the suggestion may be interpreted that breaking up in a hot air balloon is a very dangerous way to do it; the reaction may result in one or both parties falling out of the basket, or at least make the remainder of the flight very awkward.<br />
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:[Cueball and Megan, flying in a hot air balloon.]<br />
:Cueball: I like you. I'm just not feeling the relationship.<br />
:Cueball: I'm sorry.<br />
:Cueball: It's just bad timing. Me with my classes, you with your work, the spiders...<br />
:Megan: The what?<br />
:[Red Spiders crowd onto balloon, causing it to fall.]<br />
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<div>I really hate when articles on science get a POV tag. Science isn't politics (hint: evolution and gravity aren't POV either). Related to the comic, I just had a similar rant on Facebook in the last week or two where I linked to [http://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=54 this article] when someone said it was too cold for Global Warming. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.64|108.162.237.64]] 12:24, 24 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I really hate it when people think the global warming scam is science, when it really is nothing more than politics masquerading as science. The IPCC has been proven to be a bunch of liars, and really there's nothing left but a bunch of whining left-wing lunatics who are desperately clinging to their hope of continuing to use this lie to raise energy prices/taxes. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.17|108.162.219.17]] 12:55, 24 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
:Well you're wrong, and apparently delusionally paranoid about what the political left wants, but the bigger question is why is this in a wiki discussion page? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.117|108.162.249.117]] 13:21, 24 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
::No, ''you'' are wrong, and still buying into the AGW myth that has been proven false (IPCC and others were basically caught lying). Why is this in a wiki discussion page? Well, apparently Randall has decided to use his webcomic as a vehicle to promote a left-wing agenda, so discussion of it here is totally legit. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.17|108.162.219.17]] 14:03, 26 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
:::I think the most important words there are "his comic", so it's his call on what he writes. Also, honestly, the idea that climate change is a scam to control energy prices is pretty absurd.[[User:Pennpenn|Pennpenn]] ([[User talk:Pennpenn|talk]]) 13:39, 28 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Although it doesn't directly mention it, this is partly related to people's confusion over the difference between 'weather' and 'climate' - the former being what the conditions are at a given moment in time, and the latter referring to long-term trends.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.228|141.101.98.228]] 14:52, 24 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I think the one with whit wolly hat is whitehat [[User:Halfhat|Halfhat]] ([[User talk:Halfhat|talk]]) 16:10, 24 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Can anyone provide an exact URL for (or procedure for finding) the data shown in the upper-right panel? --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.71|108.162.221.71]] 18:00, 26 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Randall has cherry picked data for his conclusion and the graph in the comic. The full history is available from the NWS. The one for my home town can be found here http://www.erh.noaa.gov/iln/climo/below0.php The 1970's were unusually cold, which makes the present seem warmer by comparison. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.254|108.162.210.254]] 16:33, 24 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Apparently Randall hasn’t seen this:<br />
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To quote Michael Z. Williamson:<br />
29 years in the last century is not an "average" of the last 300 million years.<br />
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Any finding based on that "average" is complete bullshit. You may as well use 1300-1305 hours on Apr 23 as your "average." You'll be about as accurate, and save time over actual data collection. {{unsigned ip|173.245.55.67}}<br />
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The claim that 0 Fahrenheit / -17 Celsius is ''really fucking cold'' is supported by [[526: Converting to Metric]]. [[User:Fryhole|Fryhole]] ([[User talk:Fryhole|talk]]) 00:41, 25 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
:We've been getting some ball-chilling winter with the cold fronts suddenly appearing in Florida, which is a drastic change from the sweaty weather just last week. I've added "fuckfuckfuckcold" to my personal lexicon. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.64|108.162.237.64]] 04:16, 25 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Is that possibly WHITE HAT not CUEBALL (except for the last panel)? {{unsigned ip|108.162.240.18}}<br />
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The one in black is not black hat.<br />
He sits around memorising weather data, and lack malice. [[User:Halfhat|Halfhat]] ([[User talk:Halfhat|talk]]) 18:29, 25 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Can anyone provide an exact URL for (or procedure for finding) the data shown in the upper-right panel? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.71|108.162.221.71]] 18:00, 26 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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;rcc-acis.org/climatecentral<br />
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The source [http://rcc-acis.org/climatecentral rcc-acis.org/climatecentral] provided by Randall doesn't work. What's wrong? --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:30, 26 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
:The source quoted on [http://xkcd.com/1321/ xkcd] is no long a URL, but simply "'rcc-acis/climatecentral'" [[User:Boxy|Boxy]] ([[User talk:Boxy|talk]]) 03:07, 27 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Oh Dear. I can't believe what I'm reading. Either you guys are being ironic or Randall needs to expand his comic to encompass some of you.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.235|141.101.99.235]] 09:00, 28 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
I'm really surprised that so many people could love xkcd (apparently) but also hate science. {{unsigned ip|108.162.238.197}}</div>Pennpenn