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Revision as of 21:08, 17 May 2018
Welcome to the explain xkcd wiki!
We have an explanation for all 2920 xkcd comics,
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Latest comic
| Survey Marker |
 Title text: Fun fact: The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-center by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place. |
Explanation
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This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Created by a GUIDED MISSILE THAT MISSED THE TARGET DUE TO COORDINATE DRIFT - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon. |
When they update the database, Cueball's position changes to compensate.
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This transcript is incomplete. Please help editing it! Thanks. |
[Zoomed in view of a marker on the floor] U.S. Geological survey bench mark Elevation above sea 447 feet
Cueball [standing on the marker]: I love finding these survey markers. It's somehow reassuring. I like that someone, somewhere, knows where this spot is. If I stand on it, they know where I am.
Megan: But the NAD83 and NAVD88 datums are getting replaced soon. That marker's coordinates could shift by like 5 feet.
Megan [looking at her phone]: Oh look, it just got updated.
Cueball [floating and waving his arms at the top right of the panel]: Hey! Put me back!
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Lots of people contribute to make this wiki a success. Many of the recent contributors, listed above, have just joined. You can do it too! Create your account here.
You can read a brief introduction about this wiki at explain xkcd. Feel free to sign up for an account and contribute to the wiki! We need explanations for comics, characters, themes and everything in between. If it is referenced in an xkcd web comic, it should be here.
- If you're new to wiki editing, see how to edit wiki pages. There's also a handy wikicode cheatsheet.
- Discussion about the wiki itself happens at the Community portal.
- You can browse the comics from List of all comics or by navigating the category tree at Category:Comics.
- There are incomplete explanations listed here. Feel free to help out by expanding them!
- We sell advertising space to pay for our server costs. To learn more, go here.
Rules
Don't be a jerk.
There are a lot of comics that don't have set-in-stone explanations; feel free to put multiple interpretations in the wiki page for each comic.
If you want to talk about a specific comic, use its discussion page.
Please only submit material directly related to (and helping everyone better understand) xkcd... and of course only submit material that can legally be posted (and freely edited). Off-topic or other inappropriate content is subject to removal or modification at admin discretion, and users who repeatedly post such content will be blocked.
If you need assistance from an admin, post a message to the Admin requests board.
