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I'm coming up on a landmark decade, probably somewhere near the half-way mark of my future-projected life expectency, and I can ''totally'' relate to that feeling of being a child in an adult world... And did I ''really'' just use the word 'totally' in that manner? [[Special:Contributions/178.99.247.73|178.99.247.73]] 22:03, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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I can probably help Cueball (or whoever it is) out in his title-text musings, with an entire bookshelf (floor to ceiling) dedicated to Pratchett books in both Hardback and Paperback versions and related works by him and his collaborators. Apart, that is, from the totally separate bookshelf space reserved for the unabridged audio books of same - these mostly in cassette format, with just a couple of Audio CDs (a purchase error, at the time) and a couple of the newest in MP3-on-CD format (my reluctant nod towards progress). Now talk to me about how long magnetic and optical media can last, in relation to paper. Assuming I don't get hit by a house-fire, flooding, supervolcano, coronal mass ejection, etc. Hmmm... I wonder if I can get them carved onto stone tablets in a reinforced vault? [[Special:Contributions/178.99.247.73|178.99.247.73]] 21:26, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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clearing up confusion

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1052: Every Major's Terrible

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1052: Every Major's Terrible

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1052: Every Major's Terrible

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‎Explanation: First part of enhancement. Help me on my English because I am not a native speaker.

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‎May 2013:

578: The Race: Part 2

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178.99.247.73 — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:22:59 GMT

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Not wishing to detract from the gravity of the 9/11 events (expounded at very great length), but the first thing we read, "...never found the ghosts head", is perhaps a lighter parody of the kind of endings that accompany "It was a dark and stormy night..." at the start. Usually in a ghost and/or a horror story (headless ghosts aside) it's usually a newly-found ''corpse'' whose head is missing. Hence there's strange imagery involved in the concept of a decapitated ghost (as opposed to a ghost of a decapitee). It ''could'' have been an interestingly compounded set of tropes, of course, but given its apparent lameness it probably wasn't. [[Special:Contributions/178.99.247.73|178.99.247.73]] 17:22, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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Talk:1052: Every Major's Terrible

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In panel 22 (History), what's the theme connecting the years 1935, 1969, and 1991?

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Interesting (or deliberate?) that there's no reference at all in the explanation to [[wikipedia:Sunshine_(2007_film)|Sunshine]], released two years previously. [[Special:Contributions/178.99.247.73|178.99.247.73]] 21:07, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

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	Thanks for your edits. I am not native English so any help is welcome. But please do not remove too much from that story. This comic will run for months ahead from now and we should explain the entire story.--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 22:01, 21 May 2013 (UTC)		Thanks for your edits. I am not native English so any help is welcome. But please do not remove too much from that story. This comic will run for months ahead from now and we should explain the entire story.--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 22:01, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
		+	:I don't see that much of an issue with his edits. He seems to have just cut a couple of extraneous sentences and words, not really that much content was lost. '''[[User:Davidy22\|<u>{{Color\|#707\|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22\|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 00:51, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

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 Not only have Statue of liberty lots of replicas, also the original is in Paris. On the other hand, I don't suppose you can mistake the original with New York replica give the size difference. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 08:17, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
-:I'm not sure where you're getting that from, but the original Statue of Liberty is the one in New York. It was assembled in paris, but not as a copy of any prior existing sculpture.
+:I'm not sure where you're getting that from, but the original Statue of Liberty is the one in New York. It was assembled in paris, but not as a copy of any prior existing sculpture. {{unsigned|Zuffelnok}}
 ::Here is a list of replicas: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicas_of_the_Statue_of_Liberty Replicas of the Statue of Liberty]. So it seems the original is that one in New York.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 18:33, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 :::In the {{w|Replicas of the Statue of Liberty#Jardin du Luxembourg|Jardin du Luxembourg}} section of that page it states that it is the 'first' that the artist used as a model for the full size version in New York, this is probably what Hkmaly is referring to. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 20:20, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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 :: Megan: Is this like the one you found?
 :: Cueball: Yeah.
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	:::*After a little thought on the 'naive'-comment I thought, whataheck, that even happened to {{w\|Naive set theory\|Cantors theory of sets}}, and I certainly hope that ''he'' wasn't offended.		:::*After a little thought on the 'naive'-comment I thought, whataheck, that even happened to {{w\|Naive set theory\|Cantors theory of sets}}, and I certainly hope that ''he'' wasn't offended.
	:::I can also understand the frustration when you found that I blanked you in Countdown (on the prospect of a lengthy discussion on it). I would ''not'' have blanked it if I knew or even suspected that it was from you or someone else that knew that much math. –[[User:St.nerol\|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol\|talk]]) 00:38, 15 January 2013 (UTC)		:::I can also understand the frustration when you found that I blanked you in Countdown (on the prospect of a lengthy discussion on it). I would ''not'' have blanked it if I knew or even suspected that it was from you or someone else that knew that much math. –[[User:St.nerol\|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol\|talk]]) 00:38, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
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		+	Thanks for your edits. I am not native English so any help is welcome. But please do not remove too much from that story. This comic will run for months ahead from now and we should explain the entire story.--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 22:01, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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 ::Here is a list of replicas: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicas_of_the_Statue_of_Liberty Replicas of the Statue of Liberty]. So it seems the original is that one in New York.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 18:33, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 :::In the {{w|Replicas of the Statue of Liberty#Jardin du Luxembourg|Jardin du Luxembourg}} section of that page it states that it is the 'first' that the artist used as a model for the full size version in New York, this is probably what Hkmaly is referring to. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 20:20, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 So by being in the same country you get a few thousand points. But, then I got an easy one because the street view showed a restaurant called Vila Cha, and sure enough TripAdvisor took me to Vila Cha in Campos Do Jordao in Sao Paolo, Brazil. I double checked in a separate tab the street view of the area, and I hit the point 0.023km off, and got "only" 6477 points. For the difficulty of the game, I'd think you'd get 5 digit scores for that at least.  [[User:Uctriton00|Uctriton00]] ([[User talk:Uctriton00|talk]]) 15:59, 20 May 2013 (UTC) uctriton00

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 ==Explanation==
 This comic is a commentary on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The ant's dialogue describes the narrow scope of their search (a few tiles, and only looking for pheromone trails), and thus they conclude that there is no other life. The irony is that humanity does of course exist, but were simply not present in the kitchen at the time of search, nor do we communicate with ant pheromones. Similarly, our ability to search outer space for other life is limited to our ability to detect specific modes of communication (i.e. radio waves) and to the very limited area of space imposed by technological limitations on transportation, range, and sensitivity of our equipment.
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	The latest frame (1506) has two trees. They are almost certainly baobab trees. There are 8 species of baobab tree, but of those 8, 6 are endemic to the island of Madagascar, including the species which the trees in the comic most resemble, the Grandidier baobab. Even if they are not one of the six species endemic to Madagascar, the fact that they are baobabs still limits them to the continent of Africa, the countries of Oman and Yemen, and northwestern Australia. This means that the big sea, if it is an ocean, is most likely the Indian Ocean. [[Special:Contributions/76.92.118.150\|76.92.118.150]] 18:30, 21 May 2013 (UTC)		The latest frame (1506) has two trees. They are almost certainly baobab trees. There are 8 species of baobab tree, but of those 8, 6 are endemic to the island of Madagascar, including the species which the trees in the comic most resemble, the Grandidier baobab. Even if they are not one of the six species endemic to Madagascar, the fact that they are baobabs still limits them to the continent of Africa, the countries of Oman and Yemen, and northwestern Australia. This means that the big sea, if it is an ocean, is most likely the Indian Ocean. [[Special:Contributions/76.92.118.150\|76.92.118.150]] 18:30, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
		+	:I think we are just at a fantasy world. And Randall is working against every prediction done here or at some forums. We only have to "Wait for it!".--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 21:07, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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 And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3zAbQ0aMK8 here] is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from Mary Poppins.
 In panel 4, {{w|Methyl acetate}} is the solvent used to remove stamps from their envelope.
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 Panel 1: Philosophy's just math sans rigor, sense, and practicality
-Panel 2: And math's just physics unconstrained by precepts of reality.
+Panel 2: and math's just physics unconstrained by precepts of reality.
 Panel 3: A business major's just a thing you get so you can graduate
-Panel 4: And chemistry's for stamp collectors high on methylacetate.
+Panel 4: and chemistry's for stamp collectors high on methylacetate.
 Panel 5: Why anyone who wants a job would study lit's a mystery
-Panel 6: Unless their only other choice were something like art history.
+Panel 6: unless their only other choice were something like art history.
 Panel 7: A ba in communications guarantees that you'll achieve
-Panel 8: A little less than if you'd learned to underwater basket-weave
+Panel 8: a little less than if you'd learned to underwater basket-weave
 Panel 9: I'd rather eat a fowler's toad than major in biology, RIBBIT (a frog)
-Panel 10: And social psych is worse than either psych or sociology.
+Panel 10: and social psych is worse than either psych or sociology.
 Panel 11: The thought of picking any one of these is too unbearable.
-Panel 12: Just put me down as "undecided" - every major's terrible.
+Panel 12: Just put me down as "undecided" - Every Major's Terrible.
 Panel 13: Now, if you can't prognosticate, that's ok in seismology,
-Panel 14: But if your hindsight's weak as well, you'd best stick to theology.
+Panel 14: but if your hindsight's weak as well, you'd best stick to theology.
 Panel 15: CS will make each day a quest to find a missing close-paren.
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 Panel 18: As pratchett said, "Geography's just physics slowed with trees on top."
-Panel 19: Thought physics seems to promise you a Richard Feynman-like career,
+Panel 19: thought physics seems to promise you a Richard Feynman-like career,
-Panel 20: The wiki page for "Physics Major" redirects to "Engineer."
+Panel 21: They say to study history or find yourself repeating it,
-Panel 21:
+Panel 22: but all that it prepares you for is forty years of teaching it.
-Panel 22:
+Panel 23: I recognize my four-year plan's at this point not repairable,
-Panel 23:
+Panel 24: but put me down as "undecided" - Every Major's Terrible.
-Panel 24:
+Panel 25: Astronomers all cringe when they hear "Supermoon" or "Zodiac".
-Panel 25:
+Panel 26: agronomy's a no-go; I'm a huge agorophobiac.
-Panel 26:
+Panel 27: I'm too ophiophobic to consider herpetology,
-Panel 27:
+Panel 28: and I can't stomach any part of gastroenterology.
-Panel 28:
+Panel 29: While pre-med gives you twitchy-eyed obsession with your GPA,
-Panel 29:
+Panel 30: a poetry degree bespeaks bewildering naivete.
-Panel 30:
+Panel 31: TV's behind the rush into forensic criminology
-Panel 31:
+Panel 32: (or so claims meta-academic epidemiology).
-Panel 32:
+Panel 33: By dubbing ECON "Dismal science" adherents exaggerate;
-Panel 33:
+Panel 34: the "Dismal"'s fine - it's "science" where they patently prevaricate.
-Panel 34:
+Panel 35: In terms of choices, I'd say only sophie's was comparable.
-Panel 35:
+Panel 36: Just put me down as "undecided" - Every Major's Terrible!
 Title text: Someday I'll be the first to get a Ph. D in 'Undeclared'.

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	Couldn't this be when all the older Christmas carols and such were popularly released, id est, when radios were becoming common? [[Special:Contributions/107.204.46.198\|107.204.46.198]] 15:13, 13 January 2013 (UTC)		Couldn't this be when all the older Christmas carols and such were popularly released, id est, when radios were becoming common? [[Special:Contributions/107.204.46.198\|107.204.46.198]] 15:13, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
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		+	It also doesn't include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandma_Got_Run_Over_by_a_Reindeer Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer] which is also played incessantly. [[Special:Contributions/63.239.65.11\|63.239.65.11]] 20:26, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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 So by being in the same country you get a few thousand points. But, then I got an easy one because the street view showed a restaurant called Vila Cha, and sure enough TripAdvisor took me to Vila Cha in Campos Do Jordao in Sao Paolo, Brazil. I double checked in a separate tab the street view of the area, and I hit the point 0.023km off, and got "only" 6477 points. For the difficulty of the game, I'd think you'd get 5 digit scores for that at least.  [[User:Uctriton00|Uctriton00]] ([[User talk:Uctriton00|talk]]) 15:59, 20 May 2013 (UTC) uctriton00
 "if you recognize Japanese characters on a sign, the nation of Japan actually encompasses an enormous area, so unless you can recognize a specific region, there's no obvious place to guess where you can hope to get high points. (Unlike somewhere like England, where guessing London is guaranteed to put you within reasonable distance from a global perspective.)" -- Japan is about three times as big as England, so I wouldn't say that Japan is "enormous" in comparison. Furthermore, since the part about Japan refers to recognition of Japanese characters, this would be equivalent to connecting signs in English to England, which apparently is not the most obvious conclusion. [[User:Jolindbe|Jolindbe]] ([[User talk:Jolindbe|talk]]) 19:26, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
 "For every famous object, there are countless replicas, and the vast majority of famous objects (...) exist in only one place in the world".  ???  Someone might need to clarify the meaning here, as this reads as self-contradictory to me.  Also, can I guess Legoland Windsor as being (very inaccurately) half way between Billund and wherever the California one is? ;) [[Special:Contributions/178.99.247.73|178.99.247.73]] 20:41, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

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 ====Scene 2 (in progress)====
-Cueball and Megan are walking with bags across a relatively level surface. The scene shifts multiple times between views of them to the left of a river, and 90° rotated views of them walking overland, generally upstream. Sometimes these shifts in angle are marked by a corresponding shift from a front view to a profile view of their bodies.
+Cueball and Megan are walking with bags across a relatively level surface. The terrain looks like frame 1, albeit from a wider angle, showing they are walking along the coast. The scene shifts multiple times between views of them to the left of a river, and 90° rotated views of them walking overland, generally upstream. Sometimes these shifts in angle are marked by corresponding shifts between front and profile views of their bodies.
-Megan indicates she has never been so far "this way". The terrain looks like frame 1, albeit from a wider angle, showing they are walking along the coast. They begin to stand in frame 1001 and the scene returns to a front view.
+Megan indicates she has never been so far "this way". They reach a river they haven't seen before. Cueball slips in and loses his bottle. He contemplates swimming out to get it, but Megan says it is too dangerous. Later when Megan gets too close to the edge, Cueball senses danger and pulls her back.
-−
-They begin walking again and reach a river they haven't seen before. They sit on the river bank and after the ground crumbles beneath him Cueball slips in and loses his bottle. Megan helps Cueball out, and the two try to lasso the bottle but are unsuccessful. Cueball contemplates swimming out to get it, but Megan says it is too dangerous. Later when Megan gets too close to the edge, Cueball senses danger and pulls her back.
 After a small talk both agree to find a ford. After walking for awhile, Megan realizes that the river was wider than they realized. The branch of the river they were walking along joins up with another branch and the opposite bank eventually comes into view.

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 ====Scene 2 (in progress)====
-Cueball and Megan are walking with bags across a relatively level surface. They stop for a drink. Megan indicates she has never been so far "this way". At frame 997, they sit down and in frame 998, the scene shifts from a front view to a profile view. The terrain looks like frame 1, albeit from a wider angle, showing they are walking along the coast. They begin to stand in frame 1001 and the scene returns to a front view.
+Cueball and Megan are walking with bags across a relatively level surface. The scene shifts multiple times between views of them to the left of a river, and 90° rotated views of them walking overland, generally upstream. Sometimes these shifts in angle are marked by a corresponding shift from a front view to a profile view of their bodies.
 They begin walking again and reach a river they haven't seen before. They sit on the river bank and after the ground crumbles beneath him Cueball slips in and loses his bottle. Megan helps Cueball out, and the two try to lasso the bottle but are unsuccessful. Cueball contemplates swimming out to get it, but Megan says it is too dangerous. Later when Megan gets too close to the edge, Cueball senses danger and pulls her back.
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 A bird appears in the sky. They watch it until it's gone, then begin walking again. Some vegetation appears, grass and then small trees. They stop and nap beneath a larger tree, seeming to have never seen one before.
-After a rest Cueball goes off to explore. He picks some berries and finds a campfire pit, then walks back to Megan. A small chipmunk appears near the fire pit for one frame.
+After a rest Cueball goes off to explore. He picks some berries and examines a campfire pit, then walks back to Megan and shares his findings. They wonder why the other people have left.
-−
-Back at the tree, Cueball gives Megan some berries and tells her about finding evidence of other people.
-Megan is questioning Cueball more about that campfire findings but eventually they did decide to move to the river because Megan is thirsty.
+They stop at the river to drink, then climb a ridge, and are awestruck by two tall trees.
 === Viewing the comic's history ===

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 From the title text 'Undeclared' is sometimes called "General Studies".
 {{Comic discussion}}
 [[Category:Comics with color]]
 [[Category:Songs]]

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	In panel 22 (History), what's the theme connecting the years 1935, 1969, and 1991?		In panel 22 (History), what's the theme connecting the years 1935, 1969, and 1991?
	[[User:Wwoods\|Wwoods]] ([[User talk:Wwoods\|talk]]) 15:40, 21 May 2013 (UTC)		[[User:Wwoods\|Wwoods]] ([[User talk:Wwoods\|talk]]) 15:40, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
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		+	This explanation is very small for that big comic. I am starting to add the transcript and after that I will do more investigations to that opera. This should be the key to explain all the panels.--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 19:13, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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 ==Explanation==
 {{incomplete}}
 Here's a YouTube video of "I Am the Very Model of A Modern Major's General" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSGWoXDFM64] for those who need to get the tune.
 Here's is Tom Lehrer's Elements.[http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html]
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 People have done renditions of this song. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seGpYa8UO0E]
 {{Comic discussion}}
 [[Category:Comics with color]]
 [[Category:Songs]]

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	In the fourth panel Cueball suggests they race for charities, which would mean the winner gets to donate the prize money to their charity of choice. In the fifth panel Fillion, takes the phrase and twists it to mean that the winner gets the charity. This is why Cueball says the confused line "Come again?"		In the fourth panel Cueball suggests they race for charities, which would mean the winner gets to donate the prize money to their charity of choice. In the fifth panel Fillion, takes the phrase and twists it to mean that the winner gets the charity. This is why Cueball says the confused line "Come again?"
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		+	The title text refers both to Captain Underpants, a superhero in a children's novel series, and to Captain Hammer, a superhero played by Nathan Fillion in another series created by Joss Whedon: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

	All comics in "[[The Race]]" series:		All comics in "[[The Race]]" series:

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	--[[User:Smartin\|Smartin]] ([[User talk:Smartin\|talk]]) 02:33, 1 January 2013 (UTC)		--[[User:Smartin\|Smartin]] ([[User talk:Smartin\|talk]]) 02:33, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
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		+	Applying dimensional analysis suggests the 'How much she's still in my life' has the same units as 'Pain'. This makes no sense.
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		+	In addition, the explanation that pain will eventally reach zero after 'how much she's still in my life' reaches zero (either through drifiting apart or death?) 'after a number of years' is contradicted by the text of the comic (...we can be friends). Perhaps the formulation is incorrect?
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		+	I would like to suggest that the first term be corrected to : (-k1.pain.(1-megan)) where 'megan' lies between 0 and 1. This makes dimensional sense.
		+	I would also like to suggest that the denominator of the second term be amended to: (1+ e^((K2-t)/d))). By my reckoning this allows a time period approximately equal to K2 where dPain/dt is small, so providing the cut-off period. After this period, dPain / dt gets increasingly negative.
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		+	My own experience is that K2, in my terms, is proportionate to the amount of denial you indulge in and inversely proportionate to the presence of someone else to help you pull through! Whatever, the cartoon provided a good amount of laughter which also helps.
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		+	--[[User:HandyAndy\|HandyAndy]] ([[User talk:HandyAndy\|talk]]) 19:36, 20 May 2013 (UTC) HandyAndy 20:35 BST, 2013-05-20 (ref ISO 1806 ;-))

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−	+	And in the title-text we see that the search for sustanence still has a priority over more intellectual queries. (Well, it's ''one'' interpretation... ;) [[Special:Contributions/178.99.247.73\|178.99.247.73]] 18:49, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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	Here's another example of the slightly 'strange' way of talking: "I'm surprised we haven't been seen by any people yet". Wouldn't most people say: "I'm surprised we haven't seen any people yet"? So who are 'people'? Are 'people' somehow invisible to both Cueball and Megan? Are 'people' a threat? Have 'people' also moved on because of the rising sea level? [[User:Joncaves\|Joncaves]] ([[User talk:Joncaves\|talk]]) 19:25, 17 May 2013 (UTC)		Here's another example of the slightly 'strange' way of talking: "I'm surprised we haven't been seen by any people yet". Wouldn't most people say: "I'm surprised we haven't seen any people yet"? So who are 'people'? Are 'people' somehow invisible to both Cueball and Megan? Are 'people' a threat? Have 'people' also moved on because of the rising sea level? [[User:Joncaves\|Joncaves]] ([[User talk:Joncaves\|talk]]) 19:25, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
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		+	The latest frame (1506) has two trees. They are almost certainly baobab trees. There are 8 species of baobab tree, but of those 8, 6 are endemic to the island of Madagascar, including the species which the trees in the comic most resemble, the Grandidier baobab. Even if they are not one of the six species endemic to Madagascar, the fact that they are baobabs still limits them to the continent of Africa, the countries of Oman and Yemen, and northwestern Australia. This means that the big sea, if it is an ocean, is most likely the Indian Ocean. [[Special:Contributions/76.92.118.150\|76.92.118.150]] 18:30, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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	'Undeclared' is sometimes called "General Studies".		'Undeclared' is sometimes called "General Studies".

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-:Cueball:What!Why the heall there is a Parthenon in ''Nashville''?
+:Cueball:What!Why the hell there is a Parthenon in ''Nashville''?
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	Not only have Statue of liberty lots of replicas, also the original is in Paris. On the other hand, I don't suppose you can mistake the original with New York replica give the size difference. -- [[User:Hkmaly\|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly\|talk]]) 08:17, 20 May 2013 (UTC)		Not only have Statue of liberty lots of replicas, also the original is in Paris. On the other hand, I don't suppose you can mistake the original with New York replica give the size difference. -- [[User:Hkmaly\|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly\|talk]]) 08:17, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
		+	:I'm not sure where you're getting that from, but the original Statue of Liberty is the one in New York. It was assembled in paris, but not as a copy of any prior existing sculpture.

	So by being in the same country you get a few thousand points. But, then I got an easy one because the street view showed a restaurant called Vila Cha, and sure enough TripAdvisor took me to Vila Cha in Campos Do Jordao in Sao Paolo, Brazil. I double checked in a separate tab the street view of the area, and I hit the point 0.023km off, and got "only" 6477 points. For the difficulty of the game, I'd think you'd get 5 digit scores for that at least. [[User:Uctriton00\|Uctriton00]] ([[User talk:Uctriton00\|talk]]) 15:59, 20 May 2013 (UTC) uctriton00		So by being in the same country you get a few thousand points. But, then I got an easy one because the street view showed a restaurant called Vila Cha, and sure enough TripAdvisor took me to Vila Cha in Campos Do Jordao in Sao Paolo, Brazil. I double checked in a separate tab the street view of the area, and I hit the point 0.023km off, and got "only" 6477 points. For the difficulty of the game, I'd think you'd get 5 digit scores for that at least. [[User:Uctriton00\|Uctriton00]] ([[User talk:Uctriton00\|talk]]) 15:59, 20 May 2013 (UTC) uctriton00

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+:Cueball:THis one's easy;There's the Parthenon.Athens
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		+	-- [[Special:Contributions/75.103.23.206\| 75.103.23.206 ]] 22:04, 7 December 2012‎
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		+	----
		+	In panel 22 (History), what's the theme connecting the years 1935, 1969, and 1991?
		+	[[User:Wwoods\|Wwoods]] ([[User talk:Wwoods\|talk]]) 15:40, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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 The end of the world has been envisioned in many ways. One of the most common is with a {{w|Deep Impact (film)|really}} {{w|Armageddon (1998 film)|big}} {{w|Asteroid (film)|rock}} {{w|Meteor (film)|hitting}} {{w|The Day the Sky Exploded|Earth}}. There is an [http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects online calculator] for asteroid impacts, but don't worry as any rock that does hit Earth [http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2010/11/04/calculator-shows-effects-of-asteroid-collision-with-earth isn't likely] to kill [http://www.sott.net/article/124099-Catastrophe-Calculator-Estimate-Asteroid-Impact-Effects-Online everyone]. And, as seen in a [[what if?|what-if]] article, [http://what-if.xkcd.com/20/ speed counts too].
-The joke here, though, is that, after sending up a robot to blow the asteroid to smithereens, said rock is actually the home of {{w|The Little Prince|the Little Prince}} from the wildly famous tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. To save our world, we must destroy his. And probably the prince along with it. If the only way to save our species is by killing off another species, is the act still ethical? In none of the world-destroying asteroid stories were said rocks actually home to intelligent life. Or any life, for that matter. A second joke can bee seen in that in said movies the "heroic" mission always involves humans in some way imperiling themselves to save humanity, rather than, say, staying safely at home and using a robotic rover to do all the dangerous stuff.
+The joke here, though, is that, after sending up a robot to blow the asteroid to smithereens, said rock is actually the home of {{w|The Little Prince|the Little Prince}} from the wildly famous tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. To save our world, we must destroy his. And probably the prince along with it. If the only way to save our species is by killing off another species, is the act still ethical? In none of the world-destroying asteroid stories were said rocks actually home to intelligent life. Or any life, for that matter. A second joke that can be seen is that in sad movies the "heroic" mission always involves humans in some way imperiling themselves to save humanity, rather than, say, staying safely at home and using a robotic rover to do all the dangerous stuff.
 The title text is a reference to the 1998 asteroid movie {{w|Deep Impact (film)|Deep Impact}}. "Crossover" is a term used to refer to a technique of taking two independent (and usually already existing) stories and creating a scene or short story in which characters from both worlds collide and interact with each other.  Or, in other words, characters from one story "crossover" into the second. Fanfic is short for {{w|fanfic|Fan Fiction}}, e.g. a fictional story written by someone who loves a particular story/series/idea so much they wanted to write their own tale about it (or one who hated said story so much they felt compelled to fix it). It suggests that most people were either unwilling to play a game involving build asteroids to destroy the earth, or watch a movie of people nuking miniature kingdoms to save civilization. A tough entertainment call any day.

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	"if you recognize Japanese characters on a sign, the nation of Japan actually encompasses an enormous area, so unless you can recognize a specific region, there's no obvious place to guess where you can hope to get high points. (Unlike somewhere like England, where guessing London is guaranteed to put you within reasonable distance from a global perspective.)" -- Japan is about three times as big as England, so I wouldn't say that Japan is "enormous" in comparison. Furthermore, since the part about Japan refers to recognition of Japanese characters, this would be equivalent to connecting signs in English to England, which apparently is not the most obvious conclusion. [[User:Jolindbe\|Jolindbe]] ([[User talk:Jolindbe\|talk]]) 19:26, 20 May 2013 (UTC)		"if you recognize Japanese characters on a sign, the nation of Japan actually encompasses an enormous area, so unless you can recognize a specific region, there's no obvious place to guess where you can hope to get high points. (Unlike somewhere like England, where guessing London is guaranteed to put you within reasonable distance from a global perspective.)" -- Japan is about three times as big as England, so I wouldn't say that Japan is "enormous" in comparison. Furthermore, since the part about Japan refers to recognition of Japanese characters, this would be equivalent to connecting signs in English to England, which apparently is not the most obvious conclusion. [[User:Jolindbe\|Jolindbe]] ([[User talk:Jolindbe\|talk]]) 19:26, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
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		+	"For every famous object, there are countless replicas, and the vast majority of famous objects (...) exist in only one place in the world". ??? Someone might need to clarify the meaning here, as this reads as self-contradictory to me. Also, can I guess Legoland Windsor as being (very inaccurately) half way between Billund and wherever the California one is? ;) [[Special:Contributions/178.99.247.73\|178.99.247.73]] 20:41, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

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	So by being in the same country you get a few thousand points. But, then I got an easy one because the street view showed a restaurant called Vila Cha, and sure enough TripAdvisor took me to Vila Cha in Campos Do Jordao in Sao Paolo, Brazil. I double checked in a separate tab the street view of the area, and I hit the point 0.023km off, and got "only" 6477 points. For the difficulty of the game, I'd think you'd get 5 digit scores for that at least. [[User:Uctriton00\|Uctriton00]] ([[User talk:Uctriton00\|talk]]) 15:59, 20 May 2013 (UTC) uctriton00		So by being in the same country you get a few thousand points. But, then I got an easy one because the street view showed a restaurant called Vila Cha, and sure enough TripAdvisor took me to Vila Cha in Campos Do Jordao in Sao Paolo, Brazil. I double checked in a separate tab the street view of the area, and I hit the point 0.023km off, and got "only" 6477 points. For the difficulty of the game, I'd think you'd get 5 digit scores for that at least. [[User:Uctriton00\|Uctriton00]] ([[User talk:Uctriton00\|talk]]) 15:59, 20 May 2013 (UTC) uctriton00
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		+	"if you recognize Japanese characters on a sign, the nation of Japan actually encompasses an enormous area, so unless you can recognize a specific region, there's no obvious place to guess where you can hope to get high points. (Unlike somewhere like England, where guessing London is guaranteed to put you within reasonable distance from a global perspective.)" -- Japan is about three times as big as England, so I wouldn't say that Japan is "enormous" in comparison. Furthermore, since the part about Japan refers to recognition of Japanese characters, this would be equivalent to connecting signs in English to England, which apparently is not the most obvious conclusion. [[User:Jolindbe\|Jolindbe]] ([[User talk:Jolindbe\|talk]]) 19:26, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

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