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Revision as of 17:59, 4 March 2014
Welcome to the explain xkcd wiki!
We have an explanation for all 2 xkcd comics,
and only 5
(0%) are incomplete. Help us finish them!
Latest comic
| Scary Triangles |
 Title text: Concealed mostly beneath the surface, sharks are the icebergs of the sea. |
Explanation
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This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Created by the Bermuda Triangle of the sea - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon. |
Cueball is giving a lecture about sharks and seems to mix up icebergs with the topic. In pop culture, sharks will often approach prey or people with only their front dorsal fin, which looks like a triangle, above the water. As far as prey are concerned, this is inaccurate, as most sharks will attack from below to keep the element of surprise. In this case, the joke is that Cueball hasn't understood that a shark doesn't always have their dorsal fin above water. He thus concludes that sharks are 90% undiscovered (i.e. the rest of the shark's body.) However, Cueball seems to have already drawn the outline of the shark's body, indicating that he already knows the shape of the shark.
Meanwhile, icebergs are usually described as having 90% of their volume underwater.
The title text continues the joke explicitly saying that sharks are icebergs of the sea, except icebergs are already of the sea.
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- [Cueball points with a stick to a poster behind him that has a diagram of a shark in the water with some unreadable labels pointing to its dorsal fin and gills. The outlines of the shark under the water are in dashed lines.]
- Cueball: Today's marine biology lecture is on sharks. We all know them as the scary triangles of the sea, but recent research has revealed that the triangle is only a small portion of the shark - over 90% of it is hidden beneath the surface.
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- If you're new to wikis like this, take a look at these help pages describing how to navigate the wiki, and how to edit pages.
- Discussion about various parts of the wiki is going on at the Community portal. Share your 2¢!
- List of all comics contains a table of most recent xkcd comics and links to the rest, and the corresponding explanations. 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.
