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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
| Google Solar Cycle |
 Title text: From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours. |
Explanation
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This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Created by a SOLAR FLARE SEARCHING UP SOLAR FLARES - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon. |
Solar flares appear on the Sun's surface in different numbers at different times. A solar cycle is the amount of time it takes for solar flares to occur in approximately the same proportion. This period is approximately 11 years.
People are interested in solar flares because they can sometimes cause power outages and other similar issues. Hence people will search "solar flares" on Google to learn more about them. This trend somewhat matches the solar cycle since people will be more concerned about solar flares during the times they are abundant and search them up more often. Randall notes that Google has existed for long enough to see the trend in searches for "solar flare" matching the solar cycle.
The title text comments that people usually Google "hangover cure" 14 hours after they search for cocktail recipes. This suggests that people decide they want cocktails, look for ways to make cocktails, make (and presumably drink) the cocktails, wake up with a hangover and look for ways to get rid of the hangover. However, Google Trends is not nearly precise enough for that [citation needed], so this is clearly a joke.
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This transcript is incomplete. Please help editing it! Thanks. |
- Google Trends search traffic for "Solar Flare"
- [A graph starting in 2005, peaking in 2013. It rises until 2024, where the graph cuts off. There is an arrow in between the two peaks labeled "11 years".]
- [Caption below the panel:]
- I like that Google has existed almost long enough for us to observe the solar cycle using Google Trends.
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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.
