1278: Giraffes
| Giraffes |
 Title text: If you fund my Kickstarter ... |
Explanation
Following in an xkcd theme that dinosaurs and dinosaur-like traits make life more interesting, Randall Munroe explains his desire to see genetic engineers take DNA from extinct sauropods and mix it with that of giraffes. The result would be giraffes with larger, thicker tails.
The title text refers to a funding platform for creative projects. Any person who wants to start a creative project, but lacks the resources to do so, can create a Kickstarter where donors can contribute donations. Usually, the owner of the Kickstarter promises exclusive benefits to donors of certain tiers.
For example, the title text could well be finished to say If you fund my Kickstarter with a donation of $20 or more, I will give you exclusive access to my weekly blog on the development stages of the giraffosaurus. If you donate $100 or more, you can receive a life-sized cardboard cutout of the giraffosaurus. Donations of $10,000 or more will earn your name in a raffle for ownership of the first three giraffosauruses.
Transcript
- My Hobby:
- [Silhouette of a giraffe with a sauropod's tail]
- Convincing genetic engineers that giraffes would look better if they had sauropod tails
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Woohoo! I made an explain xkcd article. This one wasn't that confusing, nor did it require much extra information. I am still a little new to the formatting, so please let me know what I need to improve.
The hardest parts were the date format and the transcript format. I also am unsure of how formal my explanation has to be. All of the other explanations sound so formal, and it is weird to be contributing to a community with such high standards.
Perhaps a link should be provided to say this is an allusion to Jurassic park? Perhaps? Crossing of frogs with dinosaur DNA?
Any feedback would be appreciated. (This is soo cool!)
Zyxuvius (talk) 04:59, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
- I'd think that'd be a giraffopod, wouldn't it? *(~.^)
- Perhaps the recurring theme of giraffes could be mentioned (not as much in the comic as in the what-if).
- Kupiakos (talk) 07:23, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
- Not sure "utopical" is a good word choice. Maybe "exotic" would be better? --B. P. (talk) 23:21, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Where does the joke about Pi come in? I don't think it's in there. I think the "joke" is just that giraffes would look amazing with dinosaur tails. --Grimertop90 (talk) 15:17, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
I think there was a kickstarter some time ago for a glowing plant of some kind. The alt-text might be referencing that. 70.26.44.112 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
