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		<title>Talk:2851: Messier Objects</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;172.69.134.130: The existence of a Messier catalog implies the existence of a Neater catalog. ~~~~&lt;/p&gt;
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addededededded transcript [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;&amp;amp;#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]&amp;amp;#93;[[Category:Pages using the &amp;quot;citation needed&amp;quot; template]]&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; 17:34, 6 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: meow &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;  17:54, 6 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
Is M30712050 that specific squirrel, or just the general category of squirrels? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.247.56|172.69.247.56]] 17:57, 6 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:The debate about the Ship of Theseus suggests that every ship gets its own number, so why not every squirrel? Although then the numbers would be much larger. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 18:04, 6 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::...and the list would be much messier. [[User:Yorkshire Pudding|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding|talk]]) 18:32, 6 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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could the numbers have been picked to represent something rather than be entirely random? like 41592 coming from pi and 137 being FSC... idk maybe i'm just reading too much into it... [[Special:Contributions/162.158.186.11|162.158.186.11]] 18:09, 6 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Between the Messier catalog and the Marvel multiverse, we've got a well-defined numbering system that indexes all objects in all universes. (Or, I guess at least those universes with Messier catalogs. Damn.) [[Special:Contributions/172.69.58.18|172.69.58.18]] 19:03, 6 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Wait a minute... this is just the wikidata QID system again[[User:AtaraxianAscendant|ataraxianAscendant]] ([[User talk:AtaraxianAscendant|talk]]) 19:34, 6 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Yes, it's like Wikidata. Not sure if it's worth mentioning. Unfortunately, the numbers don't match those Wikidata for equivalent objects.&lt;br /&gt;
:Furtermore, Wikimedia Commons ID use an M and a number. For example, https://commons.wikimedia.org/entity/M205.--[[User:Pere prlpz|Pere prlpz]] ([[User talk:Pere prlpz|talk]]) 19:39, 6 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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The existence of a Messier catalog implies the existence of a Neater catalog. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.134.130|172.69.134.130]] 19:42, 6 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:2734: Electron Color</title>
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Electrons have no color?!  BUt lIgHTnIng strIKeS aRe YEllOw, aND LigHTNing IS MaDe uP of eLECTrOns.[[Special:Contributions/172.71.254.115|172.71.254.115]] 22:43, 6 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: Actually most colors are emitted by electrons orbiting atoms after absorbing light. The color electrons emit depend on their kinetic energy and available places they can travel, a tiny bit similar to how things change color as they get hotter, but more extreme and general. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.114.198|172.70.114.198]]&lt;br /&gt;
: I'm pretty sure lighting strikes are white. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 20:58, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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It may refer to the Greek etymology of the word &amp;quot;electron&amp;quot;. Originally it meant amber, a yellow gem. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.118.146|172.68.118.146]] 23:20, 6 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:But amber isn't yellow - it's... amber. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.222|172.70.85.222]] 10:40, 8 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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To me, this is 1000% building on the idea of debating the colors of school subjects. I've added a bit of explanation to the text about it. I used my own color associations &amp;amp; reasons (science = green, history = red) as an example, and I'm sure people will disagree with me. Leave your color/subject associations in a reply to this comment, could be a fun little debate! (also, English = blue) &lt;br /&gt;
[[User:Zman350x|Zman350x]] ([[User talk:Zman350x|talk]]) 23:50, 6 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: SocStud is yellow, Math is red, Science is green?, ELA is gray, French is blue, and orange is my least favorite subject out of the rest. I have gotten into many arguments with my friends. &lt;br /&gt;
:[[Special:Contributions/172.70.230.157|172.70.230.157]] 00:10, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:: Science = Green (green flask bubbling)&lt;br /&gt;
:: Social Studies = Blue (blue and green globe, green is taking)&lt;br /&gt;
:: Math = Red (math is reliable, red is a strong color so i associate it with reliability)&lt;br /&gt;
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:: English = Yellow (all other colors are taken)&lt;br /&gt;
:: Also electrons are blue &lt;br /&gt;
::[[User:Iffy|Iffy]] ([[User talk:Iffy|talk]]) 23:53, 6 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::: Hm! I've never heard of school subjects having any assigned colors; much less any debate about it! If we're identifying them by the folders they're kept in, my favorite subject was Ferrari &amp;amp; my least favorite was Porsche. &lt;br /&gt;
::: [[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 04:41, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::: I don't recall colour-coded (UK) schoolbooks, in particular (except the &amp;quot;red pirate, green pirate, blue pirate, etc&amp;quot; stories for young kids, the red pirate like only rubies, the green one emeralds, the blue probably sapphires, and had clothing/etc that matched, naturally), but I had (have still, somewhere!) a collection of Usborne Encyclopaedias at home with a veritable rainbow of colours. Mathematics was yellow, I think, Computers a shade of blue, one of the Red or off-Red (slightly pinker, but still deep red) might have been Physics (had geophysics in it, IIRC), I think History was a light-green. I'm sure I never had the whole set, but I had enough to arrange in as close to Richard Of York order as I felt most content to do, when on the bookshelf.&lt;br /&gt;
::::: Obviously there ''were'' colours involved with the school stuff. I'm sure different levels of SPMG (Scottish Primary Maths Group?) workbooks were colour-coded, perhaps more for the benefit of the teacher, though the later {{w|School Mathematics Project|SMP}} ones were probably more just identified as &amp;quot;13a&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;5b&amp;quot;, etc, to work through various sub-subjects and the increasingly advanced techniques thereof, perhaps coloured with highlights only to not be boring black-on-white monochrome covers.&lt;br /&gt;
::::: And there's so many other colour-classifications that I instituted for myself, over the years, showing just how useful a hue can be to represent and differentiate a class of something, such as various 3M-style &amp;quot;post-it&amp;quot;-like arrow stickers stuck into the pages of a book for quick reference to all instances of one particular thing or another. For which I suppose I'm grateful to not having any notable form of colour-blindness, to limit my options.  [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.114|172.70.91.114]] 08:20, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::: Personally, I've always thought that English is red, Math is blue, Sciences are green, History is yellow, and &amp;quot;personal events&amp;quot; are orange.&lt;br /&gt;
::::::This is completely BS. This is about the diagrams used for drawing atoms where colors are used for different elementary particles. And Randall clearly explains that they do not have real color. And the jokes that people still have feelings for what colors are chosen based on the conventions used where people first learned about atoms. Have removed the color on subjects completely as it has nothing to do with this comic. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:43, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::PS you cannot be more than 100% on anything :-D  --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:46, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I believe this comic was made in response to a book talk Randall did in Seattle, where this question was actually asked to him in person! If you want to hear it yourself, someone recorded the talk here: https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/xjuc4i/a_recording_and_autotranscript_of_randalls_latest/&lt;br /&gt;
[[Special:Contributions/172.71.142.6|172.71.142.6]] 00:45, 7 February 2023 (UTC) A random new user&lt;br /&gt;
: Was it the dorky randall with red hair or the photogenic one with brown hair and blue eyes or am I going wildly mad? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.114.198|172.70.114.198]] 00:51, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Am I crazy, I always thought of electrons as blue to contrast with the protons which are red[[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.89|172.70.211.89]] 04:47, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:You're all crazy! Elections are 2817.9am &amp;amp; protons are 1.5am. &amp;quot;Yellow&amp;quot; is over 557,000,000,000am! Maybe you've all got your displays' color gamut set too low?   ;S&lt;br /&gt;
:[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 09:18, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::I have also seen protons as red and neutons as white and electron as blue in the diagrams I remember. Never yellow electrons. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:43, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I'm not entirely sure about proton and electrons, but neutrons were black. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 20:58, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;This comic appears to &amp;quot;elevate&amp;quot; that discussion to the college level.&amp;quot; - considering that the students are considerably smaller than the teacher (notice the heads), I seriously doubt this is meant to be set in a college classroom - high school at most, IMHO. Also, &amp;quot;One common debate among schoolchildren is over the &amp;quot;color&amp;quot; of various subjects. Because of the brightly colored folders commonly used to separate subjects in the binder of a young student, the students tend to associate those colors with the subject.&amp;quot; - well, not in any school I ever attended, nor with any school class I've ever worked with. I'd be inclined to dispute that this is at all common. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.46.85|172.70.46.85]]&lt;br /&gt;
: I agree that this is probably not supposed to be college-level, but the color-subject coordination is definitely real (albeit not a very common topic of debate). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.90.38|162.158.90.38]] 08:01, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::I find it hard to believe Randall is referencing colors of school subjects without alluding to them in any way; to the contrary, I feel fairly certain he's directly referencing the various colors assigned to electrons, protons, quarks, etc, in diagrammatic illustrations of atomic structure. I think the whole first paragraph is way off base (though interesting tangentially). &lt;br /&gt;
::[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 09:18, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I agree with all above here and have corrected the explanation to school class and pupils and diagram colors removing school subject color completely! --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:43, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Was it also worth removing the synesthesia bit? Entirely unrelated to school-subject organisation-by-colour that I also think was an {{w|Red herring|incarnadine ''clupea harengus''}}, but very possibly relevent to &amp;quot;but I happen think it's obvious that &amp;lt;concept&amp;gt; is a &amp;lt;hue&amp;gt; thing!&amp;quot;... For consideration, or as a side-note, whether or not you restore that possible reference. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.203|172.71.242.203]] 10:42, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Electrons are blue, right? In all my textbooks (Germany) electrons are blue. Is this a generally accepted addition? [[Special:Contributions/198.41.242.166|198.41.242.166]] 07:13, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: I stopped the explanation saying that electrons were (by implication, ''solely'') yellow. If green is used for a nucleon (neutron? red being proton?), they might choose blue for an electron, as contrast. Or black dot or white (black-outlined) small circle to contrast with whatever the nucleons are with their much bigger circles clumped in the middle.&lt;br /&gt;
: But, given other regular colour-conventions, I could imagine yellow as a popular 'electron' colour. Either in its own right (influencing the choices given to the other things depicted) or as the main obviously remaining option (the other things having been decided upon first). Horses for courses. And I can imagine cultural/national differences (e.g. what colours your household wiring was set up as, at least before EU standardisation but then red and black still exists in the mindset, despite blue and brown, or whatever it might have been) if not localised 'linguistic puns' to make some choices more 'obvious' than others. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.114|172.70.91.114]] 08:20, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Indeed, yellow is sometimes indicative of electrical hazard, as opposed to red for flame... So many ways to draw associations! &lt;br /&gt;
::[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 09:18, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Yes blue electrons, red protons and white neutrons are probably common on Europe, it is in Denmark. I'm a physicist and word with radioactive isotopes and teach about them. My drawings are red protons and white neutrons and blue electrons. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:43, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I don’t know what Ms. Lenhart is talking about. Electrons are blue, protons are red, and neutrons are definitely grey. Not sure how to sign my comment tho. Oh well {{unsigned ip|172.70.174.115|13:00, 7 February 2023}}&lt;br /&gt;
:(You sign your comments with a string of &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;~~~~&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; (as suggested by the comment at the top of many a comic-discussion page, when you start to edit it)... or you wait for someone else to do what I just did for you, but that's more effort than the four tildes on your part.)&lt;br /&gt;
:For what it's worth, I'm mostly with you. Red and grey/dark-grey/black in the centre, as you say. Light blue (or yer actual electric blue?) or (bluish?) white electrons. Depends what colour-pallettes are available to the illustrator/modeller, I imagine, and what else needs a distinct colour alongside the basic trio (e.g. yellow fission/fusion &amp;quot;sparky-flame energy things&amp;quot; or general labelling stuff). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.246|162.158.158.246]] 13:15, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::I did some data collection on image searches for atom diagrams, and yes, the defacto color standard is protons red, neutrons grey (less commonly yellow or green), and electrons blue.&lt;br /&gt;
::I like this because it gives opposing colors to the opposing positive and negative charges, (the same color choices as the traditional magnet north and south ends, likely not coincidentally,) and a neutral color to the uncharged neutron.&lt;br /&gt;
::Which makes me think that when Lenhart says &amp;quot;electrons are yellow&amp;quot; she does not mean in the diagram sense, but rather in the sense &amp;quot;if you make an electron big enough to see, it is yellow&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
::[[User:SomeDee|SomeDee]] ([[User talk:SomeDee|talk]]) 16:58, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:electrons are green. y'all are trippin [[Special:Contributions/172.71.154.159|172.71.154.159]] 17:27, 7 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::definitely green. Have none of you ever used a transmission electron microscope? Or an oscilloscope? Green shine everywhere! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.95.22|162.158.95.22]] 09:01, 8 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I made a survey for this: https://forms.gle/Pu5mkEtBZPUZ6dbb8&lt;br /&gt;
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Electrons are yellow, protons are red, and neutrons are gray. End of discussion.&lt;br /&gt;
:What about roses and violets? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.172|172.71.242.172]] 10:49, 8 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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{{w|Quark_(dairy_product)|Quark}} is white, or off-white.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.96|172.70.85.96]] 10:47, 8 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:I find this comic puzzling. Virtually all colors we see are due to electrons (transitions between different states in atoms, molecules, and solids), so saying they are &amp;quot;too small to interact with visible light&amp;quot; is quite incorrect. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.134.130|172.69.134.130]] 18:48, 8 February 2023 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>2120: Brain Hemispheres</title>
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| titletext = Neurologically speaking, the LEFT hand is actually the one at the end of the RIGHT arm.&lt;br /&gt;
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As a general rule, each cerebral hemisphere controls the opposite side of the body; things on the left half of the body are controlled by the right side of the brain and vice-versa. Biology is complicated, of course, so as with most biology &amp;quot;rules&amp;quot; there are exceptions, such as the {{w|cranial nerves}}, but it's true for most motor functions, if not strictly correct in all cases.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Randall]] spoofs this by saying that rather than controlling the left half of the body, the right brain controls the top. This Euler-diagram-like picture echoes maps that display a {{w|territorial dispute}}, suggesting that the halves of your brain fight for control of the region, or &amp;quot;{{w|dual control}}&amp;quot; like in an airplane, where the pilot and the copilot both can control the plane at any time. The reorganization also leaves a gap in the bottom left, implying that the left leg is not controlled by any part of the brain, and instead has a mind of its own.&lt;br /&gt;
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The title text proposes that the hands should be referred to not by their physical location, but by the hemisphere of the brain they're connected to. Of course, this is not only silly but inconsistent: if the hands were labelled by hemispheres of the brain, the same would presumably apply to the arms. Furthermore, there would be no reason to give left/right names to the hemispheres themselves, since their placement in the skull would be irrelevant.&lt;br /&gt;
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:[Cueball is shown with the right half of his brain (on the viewer's left) colored in orange and the left half (on the viewer's right) in iris blue. An iris blue box is overlaid over the right half of the  body (on the viewer's left), and an orange box is overlaid over the top half. The boxes are overlapping in a greenish color on the upper right quarter of the body (on the viewer's left).]&lt;br /&gt;
:'''Neuroscience Fact:'''&lt;br /&gt;
:[An arrow pointing to the iris blue rectangle on top with the text above:]&lt;br /&gt;
:The ''left'' half of the brain actually controls the ''right'' half of the body...&lt;br /&gt;
:[An arrow pointing to the orange rectangle at the right, the text reads:]&lt;br /&gt;
:...while the ''right'' half of the brain actually controls the ''top'' half of the body.&lt;br /&gt;
:[An arrow pointing to the overlapping area (the top left body from the viewers perspective) with the text below:]&lt;br /&gt;
:Disputed/dual control&lt;br /&gt;
:[An arrow pointing to Cueball's left leg area (on the viewer's right), not highlighted by any color, and the text is:]&lt;br /&gt;
:This leg is fully autonomous&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Talk:2713: Data Point</title>
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My theory: Randall got some interesting patterns drawing stars for the previous [[Gravity]] game, and wanted to show us how cool this one looks. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.134.130|172.69.134.130]] 10:53, 20 December 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kudos to whomever used &amp;quot;datum&amp;quot; in its correct singular form. And also a kudo to the same person for their use of &amp;quot;data&amp;quot; correctly.  [[Special:Contributions/172.70.179.3|172.70.179.3]] 12:27, 20 December 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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: Anti-kudos for neglecting the etymology of kudos, ancient Greek κῦδος. In spite of ending in &amp;quot;s&amp;quot; it's a singular noun that means praise. Would a singular kudo be a pray or a prey? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.94|172.70.134.94]] 13:14, 20 December 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::The irony is sweet as a molass. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.27|162.158.78.27]] 18:11, 20 December 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::This reminds me of a “dad joke” my mom would make every time we had molasses out on the dining table: she would inevitably, at some point, ask me to “pass the lasses.” And I would follow the script, and say, “don’t you mean MOlasses?” To which she would reply, in her best (meaning: awful) fake southern drawl, “hows ken it be MOlasses, whens I ain’t had none yet.”[[User:John|John]] ([[User talk:John|talk]]) 05:25, 21 December 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Molasses are one of the most irony foods they is. I have a molass to increase my iron all the time![[Special:Contributions/172.71.254.26|172.71.254.26]] 10:07, 21 December 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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In the business of quality engineering it's all too common for the lab to be asked to neglect &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; data points. The method is known as &amp;quot;Test until good.&amp;quot; -- &amp;quot;Aha! You finally got one data point that says the stuff's okay. Ship it!&amp;quot; [[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.94|172.70.134.94]] 13:14, 20 December 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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This comic finally explains the reason for the diffraction spikes on the stars in JWST images.&lt;br /&gt;
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to be fair, there are certain data points which are mainly important in comparison to widely understood baselines,  not to other data points in the actual test.   things like fusion-energy-gain numbers, rocket ISP, nuclear warhead yield,  etc.   For those types of results, one valid data point that breaks the previous record is all that really matters. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.232|172.70.126.232]] 01:32, 21 December 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Isn't there a TIE fighter in the center of the picture? --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.129.80|162.158.129.80]] 11:50, 21 December 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:The usual convention is that whiskers around a solitary point are standard deviations (68% confidence intervals) but if they have perpendicular caps they're two standard deviations (95% confidence), although I am more than a little concerned I can't easily confirm this which I thought was common knowledge. The convention for box-and-whiskers plots are different, where the whiskers are 95% confidence intervals whether they have caps or not, and the boxes are two quartiles (50% confidence intervals), and an off-center designation inside the box, by notches, or by the shape of the box represents the arithmetic mean (the median necessarily always being at the center of the box, which is often designated with a single perpendicular line.) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.158.230|172.71.158.230]] 03:03, 22 December 2022 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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My theory: Randall got some interesting patterns drawing stars for the previous [[Gravity]] game, and wanted to show us how cool this one looks. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.134.130|172.69.134.130]] 10:53, 20 December 2022 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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my theory: Randall got some interesting patterns drawing stars for the previous [[Gravity]] game, and wanted to show how cool this one looks. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.134.130|172.69.134.130]] 10:53, 20 December 2022 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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There was a time when just the fact that she was looking at her cellphone during the date would be evidence that it's not going well. Sadly, it's probably normal these days. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 15:05, 14 November 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1iH1hppneo [[Special:Contributions/172.71.158.90|172.71.158.90]] 16:34, 14 November 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:She went on a date with an Explainxkcd editor, obvs. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.158.216|172.71.158.216]] 19:55, 14 November 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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@Kynde, but more generally putting it out there: &amp;quot;[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2698:_Bad_Date&amp;amp;diff=298707&amp;amp;oldid=298705 For sure it is Megan who came into the date with jumanji. Else playing dumb by Cueball would not make sense, because Megan would likely not have mentioned Jumanji. How should Cueball mention it and then say that he don't know it?]&amp;quot; - the aside that this refers to/removed was written to cover if Cueball had sneakily forced conversation about Jumanji by somehow steering the conversation towards (&amp;quot;No film has had a rhino charge through an American town&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be a video-game character&amp;quot;, ...) while pretending not to have seen it, or perhaps 'clearly' have not watched it correctly. All to incite the date (Megan) into being loudly enthused. Cueball's &amp;quot;Oh no&amp;quot; is more like how Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka would have said it (a cursory level of concern about how 'bad' things have gone, it actually being his plan all along to seed the events; but also perhaps instead some awkwardness that Megan picked up on the live-posting). Megan independently has her ideas and Cueball (as the usual voice of Randall) decides shifting to her newly acquired sponsor is worthwhile.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;The alternative currently promoted is that Megan came with the Jumanji idea, somehow exasperatingly runs out of steam of how to promote &amp;quot;Jumanji: Deeper Into the Metaverse&amp;quot; (or whatever fictional/factual thing she's supposed to be spreading news of) and isn't happy that her outbursts are reaching the large audience (that would surely be so good for her attempt to put the word out, even if she was originally supposed to be individually advertising to just the one date at a time..?) and yet somehow gets the inspiration to spend precious moments breaking the (in-date) fourth wall to clue Cueball in on the fuss she has caused, find and accept an alternate backer, announce it as a new idea that Cueball should roll with (perhaps ruining the date more, such that he does play along but definitely hates Megan more than when she was irrationally going on about this 'Jumanji' thing) and then breaks the mood ''yet again'' by revealing that the interesting idea of a &amp;quot;sponsored conversation&amp;quot; was not necessarily an opportunistic turn of events, but had (in another form, for another sponsor) been her basic idea all along.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;I'm still willing to believe it's Megan who says the title text (there's some possibility that it flows that way, in arguments that I haven't bothered to voice above), but I find the idea that it is Cueball to have more than a little attractiveness in various key ways. Definitely it isn't sure that it isn't him, and potentially quite confusing as to who it really is. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.207|172.71.178.207]] 21:57, 14 November 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I actually don't think it mattes who said the title text. But since the whole explanation is already overexplaining the comic it might not matter. --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.246.98|172.70.246.98]] 23:20, 14 November 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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In Nathan For You S01E08, a scenario is engineered where they get someone on a date, but one of the participants has to give product endorsements for Quiznos. A Quiznos marketing rep is wired in to a hidden earpiece giving the marketing keywords to say while watching the date from a hidden camera. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.93.37|172.70.93.37]] 11:53, 15 November 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I like how Cueball somehow included the registered trademark in his dialogue(®).  Seems small, but certainly intentional, for Randall to add it.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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