3019: Advent Calendar Advent Calendar

2024-12-02T17:18:32Z

108.162.241.175: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 3019
| date = December 2, 2024
| title = Advent Calendar Advent Calendar
| image = advent_calendar_advent_calendar_2x.png
| imagesize = 482x324px
| noexpand = true
| titletext = The growth rate of items per day may may seem absurd, but it's actually much less than the acceleration in the 12 Days of Christmas song.
}}

==Explanation==
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Advent calendars are a form of countdown where you get a small present (traditionally, just a thematic picture or chocolate) every day until Christmas. However, in this comic, he states that each day, he gets another advent calendar, which each contains 24-25 different items. by the time he reaches Christmas, he will have between 576 and 600 different items.

On the ith day of the 12 Days of Christmas, you add 1 + 2 + 3 + … + i items (counting the partridge and pear tree as a single item). This is i*(i+1)/2 items per day; as i increases, it approaches i^2/2.

For the Advent calendar Advent calendar, each day simply adds 25 new items. Once we reach the 8th day of Christmas, the song’s growth rate exceeds the calendar’s. However, while the growth rate of the song exceeds that of the calendar, the number of items does not - there are 364 items total in the 12 days. We need 15 days of Christmas before the song would surpass the calendar.

It is not clear what is inside each calendar. The usual filling would be chocolate, however it could also be possible that the advent calender advent calendars had even more advent calendars within.

==Transcript==
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:[On a grey board, are 23 advent calendars behind large windows, numbered from 3 to 25, plus two open calendars.]
:[Each calendar numbered n has 26-n squares in it.]
:[One open calendar has 25 squares, 2 of which are black. The other open calendar has 24 squares, one of which is black.]
:[Caption below the comic:]
:I like advent calendars, so I got an advent calendar that gives me a new one every day until Christmas.

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Talk:3012: The Future of Orion

2024-11-20T17:48:14Z

108.162.241.175:

this is my second first comment. -[[User:Psychoticpotato|P?sych??otic?pot??at???o ]] ([[User talk:Psychoticpotato|talk]]) 17:47, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
:This is my first second comment. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.63.8|162.158.63.8]] 17:56, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
::I plead the third. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.136.188|172.69.136.188]] 19:57, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
:::you mean the fifth????? [[User:CalibansCreations|'''<span style="color:#ff0000;">Caliban</span>''']] ([[User talk:CalibansCreations|talk]]) 20:18, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
::::Probably not. I believe it's a perfectly legitimate request. If not because of the muddy boots, then because of the MRE wrappers they leave around (or don't put in the right recycling bin). [[Special:Contributions/172.68.205.92|172.68.205.92]] 21:51, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
:::::This is my French: comment?[[Special:Contributions/172.69.194.226|172.69.194.226]] 13:26, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

okay we need to destroy the stars, any suggestions? [[User:CalibansCreations|'''<span style="color:#ff0000;">Caliban</span>''']] ([[User talk:CalibansCreations|talk]]) 19:02, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
:Don't worry, the [https://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4264 insects] should take care of it. (If the rocks don't do it first) [[User:Trogdor147|Trogdor147]] ([[User_talk:Trogdor147|talk]]) 20:23, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Maybe add a reference to #1020? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.147.100|172.71.147.100]] 19:43, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

now instead of a hunter [[1020: Orion Nebula|with a dong]], its a dinosaur with diarrhea! [[User:Firestar233|guess who]] ([[User talk:Firestar233|if you want to]] | [[Special:Contributions/Firestar233|what i have done]]) 19:47, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

"There are no dinosaur constellations, because dinosaur fossils had not yet been discovered when constellations were first being named in around 3000 BCE." Faulty logic, compare: "There are no microscope constellations, because microscopes had not yet been discovered when constellations were first being named in around 3000 BCE." [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.221|162.158.154.221]] 20:03, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
: {{w|Microscopium|link}}. Besides, weren't legends about dragons blamed on people finding dinosaur bones? -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 21:48, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

::Besides, Microscopium isn't even 300 years old, much less 5000 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.113|108.162.245.113]]

Has anyone figured out how far in the future Randall has projected the new star positions? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.135.5|172.69.135.5]] 21:04, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

There ARE dinosaur constellations, [[1211: Birds and Dinosaurs|nine of them in fact]]p [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.113|108.162.245.113]]

Meh, dinosaurs. Where are the zombie constellations? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.109.77|172.69.109.77]] 08:54, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

My favorite part is that the dinosaur sill has a dong [[User:Apollo11|Apollo11]] ([[User talk:Apollo11|talk]]) 20:04, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
:If dinosaurs had penises, they would have usually been retracted within their cloaca (Alnilam) so North's ''T. rex'' is either excited to get with a female, or Orion's sword could instead be excrement being expelled. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.207.184|172.70.207.184]] 08:14, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

:: It's funny because one of the first attempts to depict dinosaurs in their natural environment - the painting "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duria_Antiquior Duria Antiquior]" - had pooping dinosaurs. It was apparently both a reference to coprolites as well as simple scatological humour. --[[Special:Contributions/172.71.164.73|172.71.164.73]] 08:35, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Dinosaur Comics nearly always uses the same art in every strip, with the T-Rex in the same six poses. But the pose used in this XKCD strip isn't one of them. --[[Special:Contributions/172.71.254.101|172.71.254.101]] 18:05, 17 November 2024 (UTC)
:Yes-and-no. It seems to be a pretty much perfect (or even exact, I haven't dug down into it at the pixel level to check it's ''not'' just a very good Randall-redrawn version) mirror image of the [https://qwantz.com/ 'panel 6' pose]. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.58.5|172.70.58.5]] 19:33, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

When I was a kindergartner my parents had a mini wet bar inside a 1.5+ foot diameter star globe. I remember thinking how much higher quality my own drawings for class were than the really terrible stick figures formed by the lines of the constellations, and how poorly they matched their intended subjects. I still think about that when I see stick figure comics like XKCD. But as an adult I realize that their purpose wasn't art, it was mnemonic help for navigators, just like everyone in the northern hemisphere growing up away from city lights learns the big dipper instead of the Ursa bears, because it's easier to remember for finding the north star.

So, what I'm getting at is, maybe it would be a good idea to replace a bad constellation with the winner of a competition (including with the status quo) for something better every century or so. I'm not sure we really need to take proper motion into account for that though. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.132|108.162.245.132]] 02:56, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
: that competition gives the risk of a constellation named 'Starry McStarface.' {{unsigned ip|172.71.195.49|00:22, 19 November 2024}}
:: I would vote for that over Fornax the furnace or Caelum the chisel. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.23.92|172.68.23.92]] 10:21, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Should there be a Dinosaur Comics category? This one, 145, 1452, 1350, 2712, 2765, a few featuring Ryan North... [[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.175|108.162.241.175]] 17:48, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Talk:1555: Exoplanet Names 2

2015-07-24T04:43:12Z

108.162.241.175: /* Novella */ new section

== Novella ==

I'm not 100% sure what "Novella" refers to, aside from the dictionary definition of the word (and if that's the case I'm unsure of the context), but in case it's not widely-known on this wiki, I want to suggest the possibility that it's a tribute to the Novella brothers, who are among the co-hosts of the popular science podcast The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe. - [[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.175|108.162.241.175]] 04:43, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

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