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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 942<br />
| date = August 24, 2011<br />
| title = Juggling<br />
| image = juggling.png<br />
| titletext = Later: 'Why is there a book hovering over the trash can?'<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
In an attempt to learn to juggle [[Cueball]] begins practicing after reading an instruction book. In the third panel, it seems as though he is juggling normally after tossing the balls into their air. However, in a baffling phenomenon the balls he throws into the air seem to stop adhering to the strict laws of physics partway through his throw. As can be proven in simple demonstrations things tend to fall toward the largest center of gravity unless other forces are at play as well.<br />
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The joke here is partially making fun of the idea that in a comic, the visuals of juggling would be the same as the visuals sitting in place in the air. So at first while reading, we assume Cueball is juggling, until it is revealed he has no control over the position of the balls at all.<br />
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Cueball is understandably perplexed, but instead of ascribing the event to some inexplicable supernatural agent, he concludes that the book's juggling instructions were faulty and throws it away. The title text furthers the joke by implying the book too seems to have become caught up in this phenomenon, which might now occur whenever Cueball throws something.<br />
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Many things could be taken away from this. Perhaps Cueball is so spectacularly bad at juggling his failure breaks the laws of physics. Or perhaps the book assumes gravity and momentum are present where you choose to juggle. Or perhaps the book merely instructs you how to juggle like the picture on the front of the cover, where the balls can also be thought to hover. <br />
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However it seems that for some reason physics has only stopped acting on these objects as Cueball himself is able to jump and fall back down without any trouble and the book was previously on the floor, implying it had been dropped there.<br />
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'''How This Could Happen''' <br />
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While it is possible to reach zero gravity (or at least microgravity), there is no place in our universe where objects with mass have no momentum. Some possible explanations might be that Cueball is outside of our universe, he has just discovered something that's theoretically impossible, or he is just dreaming, or [[Randall]] has taken comedic license on the "momentum" part for the sake of the joke. Or he could be in a place where the surrounding fluid, instead of having the normal properties of earth's atmosphere, is a very thick or viscous fluid in which things simply become stuck.<br />
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This comic is part of the following unpublished comic from the [[:Category:Five-minute comics|Five-minute comics]]: [[Five-Minute Comics: Part 4]]<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[The panel shows a close up of Cueball reading a book. The book is called "How To Juggle" and has a picture of a person juggling on the cover.]<br />
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:[The view now shows the entirety of Cueball. The book is splayed on the floor behind them, and he is holding some juggling balls.]<br />
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:[Cueball throws the juggling balls in the air.]<br />
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:[He lowers his arms to prepare to catch the balls. The balls are hovering in mid-air.]<br />
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:[Cueball now stands with his arms by his sides. The balls have not moved and are still suspended in mid-air.]<br />
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:[Cueball jumps, trying to grab the lowest ball. He can't reach.]<br />
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:[Cueball scratches his head and stares at the still floating juggling balls.]<br />
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:[Cueball throws the book into a trash can.]<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]</div>141.101.107.150https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1876:_Eclipse_Searches&diff=1444131876: Eclipse Searches2017-08-23T11:04:21Z<p>141.101.107.150: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1876<br />
| date = August 14, 2017<br />
| title = Eclipse Searches<br />
| image = eclipse_searches.png<br />
| titletext = There were traffic jams for the eclipses in 1970 and 1979, and that was *before* we had the potential for overnight viral social media frenzies.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Seems rater complete by now.}}<br />
This comic is the first of of four consecutive comics published in the week before the {{w|solar eclipse}} occurring on Monday, {{w|Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017|August 21, 2017}} which is a total solar eclipse and visible in totality within a band across the {{w|contiguous United States}} from west to east. The other comics are [[1877: Eclipse Science]], [[1878: Earth Orbital Diagram]] and [[1879: Eclipse Birds]].<br />
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[[Cueball]] comes to tell [[Megan]] about a cool map showing that searches on Google on the word Eclipse trace the same path across the USA as the totality band does, implying that those living in the zone are more interested than the rest of the US population.<br />
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The "cool map" is hosted by ''{{w|The Washington Post}}'' and sourced from {{w|Google Trends}} data. The link shown in the comic is here: [http://wapo.st/2vkgIBv wapo.st/2vkgIBv] (subscription required); an archived version is available [https://web.archive.org/web/20170814171105/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/01/the-path-of-the-solar-eclipse-is-already-altering-real-world-behavior/ here] at archive.org<br />
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Since the eclipse searches are outpacing the 2016 election searches now, this is saying the eclipse popularity is going to rocket upwards just before the eclipse. Cueball is thus warned by Megan that the extreme amount of social media interest in the eclipse may lead to massive traffic jams, as last days frenzy regarding the eclipse will cause an enormous amount of people to decide to go to the eclipse in the last moment, causing huge traffic jams. Also as soon as people driving on the freeway enters the totality zone it has been seen happening that people just stop their cars and get out blocking the roads. This time also the eclipse-viewers will wish to post their content on the social media wich might also cause a cyber traffic jam, in which users may find that they experience delays in sending or receiving data due to a high demand on telecommunications infrastructure. Megan tells Cueball to bring water if he is on the road during the totality, the implication being that people who are on the road may be stuck in their vehicles for long periods of time, and thus need refreshments.<br />
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In the graph charting interest in the {{w|United States presidential election, 2016|2016 US presidential election}}, November 8 is an important date as it was the day the election was held. August 21, 2017 refers to the date of the upcoming solar eclipse.<br />
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The title text refers to the total eclipses from {{w|Solar eclipse of March 7, 1970|1970}} and {{w|Solar eclipse of February 26, 1979|1979}} which were also visible in the US, but both only for a few states. The traffic jams will be worse than those caused by previous eclipses, as we did not have viral social media in the 1970s, and also much less traffic on the roads.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Cueball walks up to Megan while holding his smartphone up in his hand. Megan sits in an office chair in front of her desk with an open laptop on it. She turns her head towards him. A footnote to Cueball's speech is at the bottom right of the panel.]<br />
:Cueball: Have you seen this cool map* showing how Google searches for "eclipse" trace the eclipse's path?<br />
:Megan: Yeah!<br />
:Megan: But you know what else I noticed?<br />
:Cueball: What?<br />
:Footnote: *wapo.st/2vkgIBv<br />
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:[Two panels are on top of each other. In the smaller top panel a colored graph is shown with a blue growing graph and a steeper growing red graph above it. Both are labeled. The x-axis (a black line) has labels and arrows below it in red and blue to indicate time periods. Text above the graph:]<br />
:Searches for "eclipse" in the weeks before the eclipse are outpacing searches for "election" in the weeks before the 2016 election.<br />
:Red line: <font color="red">Eclipse</font><br />
:Blue line: <font color="blue">Election</font><br />
:Red x-axis labels: <font color="red">2017 →|← July →|← August → </font><br />
:Blue x-axis labels: <font color="blue">2016 - September →|← October →|← </font><br />
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:[Behind the top panel is a second larger panel slightly lower end more to the right. The visible part at the bottom of this panel is showing the same line graphs with the one from the election going past the election day. The x-axis labels ranges over a later time. The blue graph has a huge peak at the election day, visible in the part of the panel to the right of the top panel) and this date is written in a blue dot on the label. Similar the date of the Eclipse is written in a red dot. The red graph above the blue still ends in dots before the expected peak, as it is in the future.]<br />
:Red line: <font color="red">Eclipse</font><br />
:Blue line: <font color="blue">Election</font><br />
:Red x-axis labels: <font color="red">2017 - July →|← August 21 → </font><br />
:Blue x-axis labels: <font color="blue">2016 - October →|← November 8 → </font><br />
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:[Megan with her hands on the laptop and Cueball are both looking at the laptop. Beat panel.]<br />
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:[Cueball stands again and Megan has taken her hands down from the laptop.]<br />
:Cueball: This is gonna be bad, isn't it?<br />
:Megan: If you're planning to be on the road next Monday, bring water.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
*This is the second reference to the Eclipse within a month, the first was in [[1868: Eclipse Flights]]. The 2017 eclipse was mentioned as early as 2013 in the title text of [[1302: Year in Review]]. And this years ''New Year'' comic [[1779: 2017]] also mentions it. Both comics joking in the title text that it may be canceled or not happening.<br />
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*It was the first time in about three months [[Randall]] made a reference about the presidential election from 2016.<br />
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[[Category:Astronomy]]</div>141.101.107.150https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1879:_Eclipse_Birds&diff=144346Talk:1879: Eclipse Birds2017-08-21T11:17:02Z<p>141.101.107.150: question regarding the sounds</p>
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Looks more like Megan is the one being sacrificed to me, instead of a generic bird - "Put her down!" would be Cueballs line then. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.90.204|162.158.90.204]] 06:35, 21 August 2017 (UTC)<br />
:Clearly that is the joke. Have corrected this --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:07, 21 August 2017 (UTC)<br />
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It's strange the shadow is coming from the top and not from one side, isn't ? I would be frightened too... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.88.52|141.101.88.52]] 07:56, 21 August 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Would "Kachunk" and "clank clank clank" be onomatopoeia to describe the moving of the blood cauldron, rather than the bird sound? Or, given that the sounds are shown in the same manner as the rest of the bird noises, could this be the birds deliberately mimicking the sound that moving a cauldron could make? Or am I just reading in far too much into this, there is no hidden meaning, and I really need to get out more? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.107.150|141.101.107.150]] 11:17, 21 August 2017 (UTC)</div>141.101.107.150https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1865:_Wifi_vs_Cellular&diff=1429121865: Wifi vs Cellular2017-07-19T07:57:03Z<p>141.101.107.150: correct apostrophe placing</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1865<br />
| date = July 19, 2017<br />
| title = Wifi vs Cellular<br />
| image = wifi_vs_cellular.png<br />
| titletext = According to the cable company reps who keep calling me, it's because I haven't upgraded to the XTREME GIGABAND PANAMAX FLAVOR-BLASTED PRO PACKAGE WITH HBO, which is only $5 more per month for the first 6 months and five billion dollars per month after that.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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In this comic Randall remarks on how recent changes in Wifi and Cellular data reliability have impacted his behavior. Wifi technology has had several advantages over cellular data transmission due to WiFi antennas' more ubiquitous distribution and ability to focus on high data transmission rates instead of broad signal coverage. However, as WiFi has become more popular it is increasingly common to encounter WiFi networks using outdated hardware, poorly organized or overburdened networks, and competition for bandwidth with other WiFi devices. Meanwhile due to continued commercial investment in upgrading and expanding cellular networks and the more frequent consumer replacement of cellular handsets, the reliability of cellular data has continued to increase. Randal notes that prior to 2015 he found that he could improve his internet connection by supplementally connecting to a Wifi network instead of using purely cellular data. After 2015 however, he finds that in many cases he is able to get a stronger cellular connection by disengaging his wifi connection and getting all of his data over a cellular connection. <br />
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Anything larger than a few kilobytes would previously require someone to switch off network data and connect to a wireless network. However, for a couple of years, cellular networks' data transmission rates have often more reliable (albeit usually costlier for larger amount of data usage) while home wifi has remained fairly constant, meaning the cellular network is often the best choice to download a file.<br />
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The title text is a reference to the often misleading promotional rates offered by cable internet providers. Such providers often attempt to up-sell consumer on internet packages with additional features. Here Randal juxtaposes several descriptors that might feature in a cable ad with several that refer to other things entirely. X-treme Gigaband is a plausible internet package name, but might also be a reference to Comcast's often derided "X-Finity" promotions. While Panamax sounds like it may be a film term, it is actually a ship classification that denotes the maximum size ship that can safely pass through the Panama canal. Flavor-Blasted is a food term often used in hyperbolic television food ad, but also could be a reference to Comcast Cable's "Blast!" internet packages.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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To get something to load on my phone, sometimes I have to...<br />
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Home wifi reliability<br />
...Connect to wifi<br />
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Cellular data reliability<br />
...Turn off wifi<br />
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2000 2005 2010 2015 2020<br />
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It seems weird from a networking point of view, but sometime in the last few years this flipped for me.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>141.101.107.150https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=353:_Python&diff=142265353: Python2017-07-04T08:23:21Z<p>141.101.107.150: /* Explanation */ I don't think you can have plural "whitespaces"</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 353<br />
| date = December 5, 2007<br />
| title = Python<br />
| image = python.png<br />
| titletext = I wrote 20 short programs in Python yesterday. It was wonderful. Perl, I'm leaving you.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{w|Python (programming language)|Python}} is a programming language designed specifically to make it easy to write clear, readable programs. Flying is often used as a metaphor for freedom and ease, and here Randall shows Cueball literally flying in response to using Python.<br />
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A {{w|"Hello, World!" program}} is a very simple program that prints the phrase "Hello, World!", used in textbooks to illustrate a given programming language. While this sounds simple, it can be nontrivial in some programming languages where you need to explicitly import a library that contains the <code>print</code> function (for instance, in C you need to begin with <code>#include <{{w|stdio.h}}></code>) or do complicated things with classes and variables (see [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Computer_Programming/Hello_world#Java the Java "Hello, World!"] for one example). Python doesn't need any of that: <code>print "Hello, world!"</code> (or in Python 3.0, <code>print("Hello, world!")</code>) really is all you need to do.<br />
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{{w|Dynamic typing}} and {{w|significant whitespace}} are two controversial features of Python, which make some people—like Cueball's friend—hesitant to use the language.<br />
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Dynamic typing means that variables do not have types (like "list of short integers" or "a bunch of letters"); any value of any type can be placed in any variable. Dynamic typing allows for more flexible languages, but it means that certain kinds of errors (like trying to subtract a letter from a number) can't be caught until a program is run, and some people think this is too dangerous for the tradeoff to be acceptable.<br />
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Whitespace is a string of invisible text characters, like spaces or tabs. In programming, blocks of code controlled by a statement are usually indented under that statement. Most languages require you to use braces (<code>{…}</code>) or special keywords (<code>BEGIN…END</code>) to delimit these blocks; in Python, the indentation itself is the delimiter. Many Python programmers find that this makes code more readable, but many other programmers find it too "magical" and don't trust it.<br />
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Classes, functions and constants in Python are packed into modules. To use a module, you write "<code>import ''module''</code>" at the top of your source file. Python comes with a very powerful standard library of modules to do everything from parsing XML to comparing two sets of files for differences, and new modules can be easily installed from the PyPI repository, which has more than 79,000 more to choose from (as of April 2016). [[Cueball]] can fly because he imported the <code>antigravity</code> module. Python still works for Cueball in [[482: Height]].<br />
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In the final panel, Cueball admits that his ability to fly may actually be because he has "sampled everything in the medicine cabinet", though he's sure it is the Python anyway. An implication of this is that ingesting everything in the medicine cabinet has given him the feeling of freedom and ease that "flying" represents - or that he is hallucinating himself flying and having a conversation with the other character about it. Here, the metaphor of "feeling like you're flying" while using Python is transformed back from being literal (Cueball is actually flying) to being metaphorical (Randall feels like he is flying because Python is so easy to use... or because he had too many strange drugs).<br />
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{{w|Perl}}, mentioned in the title text, is another programming language with the same target audience as Python, as both are {{w|High-level programming language|high-level}}, {{w|General-purpose programming language|general-purpose}}, {{w|Interpreter (computing)|interpreted}}, {{w|dynamic programming language}}s.<br />
However they strongly oppose each other in their language design:<br />
* Perl’s philosophy for its syntax is "{{w|There's more than one way to do it}}", so each coder can choose his own coding style to do exactly the same thing,<br />
* Python’s {{w|Zen of Python|philosophy}} for its syntax is "There should be one— and preferably only one —obvious way to do it", so the written code is more consistent.<br />
Since he has discovered Python [[Randall]] doesn't like Perl anymore, probably because its syntax is less consistent.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[A Friend is talking to Cueball, who is floating in the sky.]<br />
:Friend: You're flying! How?<br />
:Cueball: Python!<br />
:Cueball: I learned it last night! Everything is so simple!<br />
:Cueball: Hello world is just 'print "Hello, World!"'<br />
:Friend: I dunno... Dynamic typing? ''Whitespace?''<br />
:Cueball: Come join us! Programming is fun again! It's a whole new world up here!<br />
:Friend: But how are you flying?<br />
:Cueball: I just typed 'import antigravity'<br />
:Friend: That's it?<br />
:Cueball: ...I also sampled everything in the medicine cabinet for comparison.<br />
:Cueball: But I think this is the python.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
*In response to this comic, the Python developers implemented the module <code>antigravity</code> in version 2.7+. When you <code>import</code> it, the default web browser will open this comic. Also, in version 3+, the module contains a [[426: Geohashing|geohashing]] function.<br />
*As Perl could also be the name of a girl the title text of leaving Perl has double meaning. Also, ''being'' with the other program was wonderful. He has not only been unfaithful he is actually leaving!<br />
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[[Category:Programming]]</div>141.101.107.150https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1847:_Dubious_Study&diff=140971Talk:1847: Dubious Study2017-06-08T11:08:54Z<p>141.101.107.150: query reference size</p>
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The name of the organisation is suggestive of legitimacy but rather vague. That would be a red flag for me. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.166|108.162.245.166]] 06:01, 7 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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"downloaded bi-annually" is misleadingly close to "released bi-annually" --[[User:JakubNarebski|JakubNarebski]] ([[User talk:JakubNarebski|talk]]) 07:03, 7 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
--- but I would understand it as if the Journal was only downloaded twice within a year, i.e. only two people have downloaded (and maybe read) the Journal so far. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.92.118|162.158.92.118]] 08:24, 7 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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The National Academy of Proceedings sounds more like a legal document collection than a scientific journal to me. [[User:Gjgfuj|TheSandromatic]] ([[User talk:Gjgfuj|talk]]) 07:21, 7 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Although biannual conventionally means twice a year, its conflation with biennial (once every two years) is quite common. It would not be unthinkable that this confusion was intentional. ~~108.162.246.71, 15:56, 7 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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What size should the references be? 6 pixels is far too small. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.107.150|141.101.107.150]] 11:08, 8 June 2017 (UTC)</div>141.101.107.150https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1830:_ISS_Solar_Transit_2&diff=1393491830: ISS Solar Transit 22017-04-28T08:40:04Z<p>141.101.107.150: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1830<br />
| date = April 28, 2017<br />
| title = ISS Solar Transit 2<br />
| image = iss_solar_transit_2.png<br />
| titletext = Most people don't realize it, but they actually launch a new space station every few weeks because this keeps happening.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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This comic is a continuation to [[1828: ISS Solar Transit]], where [[Cueball]] is trying to capture the transit of International Space Station across the Sun. However, instead of transiting across the face of the sun, the ISS crashes into the Sun.<br />
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In reality, of course, this can never happen, because the ISS orbits Earth at an altitude of between 330 and 435 km, while the Earth orbits the Sun at an altitude of about 149.60 million kilometers or 1 {{w|astronomical unit}}. This means the minimum distance between the ISS and the Sun is only slightly less than 1 AU.<br />
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The title text plays on this saying that a new space station is being launched every week as the old one gets destroyed by crashing into the Sun. This is clearly implausible, as the costs (of lives and money) would be astronomical{{Citation_needed}}.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:[Every panel is split into two half height panels above each other.]<br />
:[The top panel shows an image of an orange sun on a black background with a dot marked ISS in a cross-hair and a trail.]<br />
:[In the bottom panel Cueball is kneeling in front of a small platform while operating a camera with a very long objective while holding a smartphone. The camera is angled sharply upward toward the sky as it is attached to a tripod standing on the platform.]<br />
:Cueball: Perfect! Transit in three... two...<br />
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:[The dot marked as ISS moves closer to the sun]<br />
:Cueball: ...one...<br />
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:[The dot plunges into the sun]<br />
:FWOOSH<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
The ISS travels across the face of the sun in 0.47 seconds ([https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/5Page61.pdf calculation]). If we assume that Cueball is counting seconds, then the depicted speed of the ISS between panels 1 and 2 is too slow. <br />
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[[Category:Space]]</div>141.101.107.150https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1830:_ISS_Solar_Transit_2&diff=1393481830: ISS Solar Transit 22017-04-28T08:39:34Z<p>141.101.107.150: /* Explanation */</p>
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| number = 1830<br />
| date = April 28, 2017<br />
| title = ISS Solar Transit 2<br />
| image = iss_solar_transit_2.png<br />
| titletext = Most people don't realize it, but they actually launch a new space station every few weeks because this keeps happening.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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This comic is a continuation to [[1828: ISS Solar Transit]], where [[Cueball]] is trying to capture the transit of International Space Station across the Sun. However, instead of transiting across the face of the sun, the ISS crashes into the Sun.<br />
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In reality, of course, this can never happen, because the ISS orbits Earth at an altitude of between 330 and 435 km, while the Earth orbits the Sun at an altitude of about 149.60 million kilometers or 1 {{w|astronomical unit}}. This means the minimum distance between the ISS and the Sun is only slightly less than 1 AU.<br />
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The title text plays on this saying that a new space station is being launched every week as the old one gets destroyed by crashing into the Sun. This is clearly implausible, as the costs (of lives and money) would be astronomical {{Citation_needed}}.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:[Every panel is split into two half height panels above each other.]<br />
:[The top panel shows an image of an orange sun on a black background with a dot marked ISS in a cross-hair and a trail.]<br />
:[In the bottom panel Cueball is kneeling in front of a small platform while operating a camera with a very long objective while holding a smartphone. The camera is angled sharply upward toward the sky as it is attached to a tripod standing on the platform.]<br />
:Cueball: Perfect! Transit in three... two...<br />
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:[The dot marked as ISS moves closer to the sun]<br />
:Cueball: ...one...<br />
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:[The dot plunges into the sun]<br />
:FWOOSH<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
The ISS travels across the face of the sun in 0.47 seconds ([https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/5Page61.pdf calculation]). If we assume that Cueball is counting seconds, then the depicted speed of the ISS between panels 1 and 2 is too slow. <br />
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[[Category:Space]]</div>141.101.107.150https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1830:_ISS_Solar_Transit_2&diff=1393471830: ISS Solar Transit 22017-04-28T08:39:00Z<p>141.101.107.150: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
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| date = April 28, 2017<br />
| title = ISS Solar Transit 2<br />
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| titletext = Most people don't realize it, but they actually launch a new space station every few weeks because this keeps happening.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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This comic is a continuation to [[1828: ISS Solar Transit]], where [[Cueball]] is trying to capture the transit of International Space Station across the Sun. However, instead of transiting across the face of the sun, the ISS crashes into the Sun.<br />
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In reality, of course, this can never happen, because the ISS orbits Earth at an altitude of between 330 and 435 km, while the Earth orbits the Sun at an altitude of about 149.60 million kilometers or 1 {{w|astronomical unit}}. This means the minimum distance between the ISS and the Sun is only slightly less than 1 AU.<br />
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The title text plays on this saying that a new space station is being launched every week as the old one gets destroyed by crashing into the Sun. This is clearly implausible, as the costs (of lives and money) would be _astronomical_ {{Citation_needed}}<br />
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:[Every panel is split into two half height panels above each other.]<br />
:[The top panel shows an image of an orange sun on a black background with a dot marked ISS in a cross-hair and a trail.]<br />
:[In the bottom panel Cueball is kneeling in front of a small platform while operating a camera with a very long objective while holding a smartphone. The camera is angled sharply upward toward the sky as it is attached to a tripod standing on the platform.]<br />
:Cueball: Perfect! Transit in three... two...<br />
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:[The dot marked as ISS moves closer to the sun]<br />
:Cueball: ...one...<br />
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:[The dot plunges into the sun]<br />
:FWOOSH<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
The ISS travels across the face of the sun in 0.47 seconds ([https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/5Page61.pdf calculation]). If we assume that Cueball is counting seconds, then the depicted speed of the ISS between panels 1 and 2 is too slow. <br />
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[[Category:Space]]</div>141.101.107.150https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1821:_Incinerator&diff=1384771821: Incinerator2017-04-07T20:27:40Z<p>141.101.107.150: its</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
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| date = April 7, 2017<br />
| title = Incinerator<br />
| image = incinerator.png<br />
| titletext = My trash can broke recently and I had to get rid of it. When I picked it up, I suffered a brief but harrowing existential crisis.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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Cueball and Ponytail have just finished installing an incinerator for some unspecified purpose at some establishment. Ponytail brings up the problem of having to get rid of the old incinerator, and Cueball begins to suggest using the new incinerator to incinerate the old one before he is shut down by Ponytail off-panel. This makes him noticeably disappointed.<br />
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There are several reasons why incinerating the old incinerator might not be an option. Regulations or safety concerns could easily shut that plan down. The reason that the title text seems to suggest however is that there is something wrong with forcing anything to destroy something of its own kind, at least for Randall. Since machines that have no human emotion, this would not cause any trauma for the machine, but the humans in charge might feel as if something is wrong, and Randall mentions having an existential crisis in the title text. This is because humans tend to project human qualities onto the machines they are working with (anthropomorphization), thus possibly framing the situation in the context of something like cannibalism or homicide.<br />
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That doesn't even matter though, because disposing of the incinerator in this way would be physically impossible. Incinerators are effective at disposing of organic waste: paper, wood etc. But not good for disposing of an incinerator that is mostly non-flammable. Parts of the old incinerator could be recycled, the remainder would have to go to landfill.<br />
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Cueball is probably disappointed because the idea of using an incinerator to destroy an incinerator is novel, and not getting to see something as cool as that happen is a let down if you are in a position where you might expect to get to see that happen. Cueball may also be projecting human qualities onto the incinerators, imagining the scenario with the same excitement as one might have watching a criminal be executed. After all, incinerators are easy to see as a type of executioner when personified, since their whole purpose is to destroy what they are given.<br />
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''Cueball and ponytail are standing next to an incinerator, with a combustion chamber and flue that rises up to the top of the frame.''<br />
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Ponytail: Great, the new incinerator is installed. Now we just need to dispose of the old one.<br />
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''Ponytail walks out of frame''<br />
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''Cueball is left, thinking..."<br />
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Cueball Hey could ---<br />
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Ponytail: ''from out of frame'' No!<br />
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Cueball ''quietly'' Aww maaan.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>141.101.107.150https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1815:_Flag&diff=1378401815: Flag2017-03-24T15:49:50Z<p>141.101.107.150: It's "its"</p>
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| number = 1815<br />
| date = March 24, 2017<br />
| title = Flag<br />
| image = flag.png<br />
| titletext = There's a compromise bill to keep the notification bar but at least charge the battery.<br />
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Randall was hired to propose a new flag for an unspecified new country. The process of him editing the flag into its final draft was done on a laptop or mobile device, and involved taking a screenshot of the product (possibly a shortcut to avoid actually exporting it) which produced the notification bar at the top of the flag. He did not catch his error, and sent it to the committee with the notification bar intact. The design committee could have fired Randall either for making the specific mistake, or because the mistake shed some light into the unprofessional way Randall is doing his job in general. The elements of the flag's intended design, the colors red white and blue, the stripes, and the stars, are present in several existing flags for real countries (America, the UK, North Korea, etc.) Flags are often minimalist and involve geometric shapes and solid colors. A notification bar at the top of the flag would clash with these design elements as well as looking unprofessional.<br />
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The title text mentions a compromise bill that will change the flag, not removing the notification bar at the top to create the originally intended flag, but instead keeping the notification bar and changing the amount of battery displayed (39%) to 100%. Randall has mentioned before that he cannot take screenshots seriously if the battery of the device is low in [[1373: Screenshot]].<br />
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[A picture is shown of a flag for a currently nonexistent country. The left and rightmost parts of the flag are dark blue, and the center is red. These parts of the flag are separated by white vertical stripes. In the center of each colored section of the flag is a large, white star. At the top of the flag, there is a conspicuous off-white notification bar like one you would find at the top of a laptop or phone. On the left it is displaying the strength of a 3G connection (3/5 dots), in the center it is displaying the time (5:43 PM) and on the right, it is displaying battery charge (39%)]<br />
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The design committee fired me once they realized that my editing process involved a screenshot, but it was too late.<br />
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Until they change it, our new country has the only national flag to include a phone notification bar.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>141.101.107.150https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1814:_Color_Pattern&diff=137752Talk:1814: Color Pattern2017-03-23T12:10:15Z<p>141.101.107.150: Here's another</p>
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This link, note 1, may help whomever is going to be editing the comic explanation, I don't have time this morning. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern] [[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 13:40, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Did a quick google and copy/pasted from the Wikipedia page on Moiré patterns. [[User:Xseo|Xseo]] ([[User talk:Xseo|talk]]) 13:51, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
:This is a copyright infringement. The contents of Wikipedia are not in the {{w|public domain}}. When using text from Wikipedia anywhere, you must indicate the license (CC-BY-SA 3.0).--[[Special:Contributions/162.158.150.82|162.158.150.82]] 13:58, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
::This is fine. Wikipedia text is licensed for re-use by anybody, provided the original is referenced; Xseo referenced the source material in his comment above, and an explicit link is given in the article; furthermore, this entire website is CC-BY-SA 3.0, as indicated in the footer on every page. [[User:Cosmogoblin|Cosmogoblin]] ([[User talk:Cosmogoblin|talk]]) 15:16, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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I can't be the only one for whom the note emoji are not showing up.<br />
:I don't see them either. I'm running Chrome 48 Portable. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.225|162.158.62.225]] 14:18, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
::Running Chrome 57, Chromium 53, and Firefox 52; the note emoji doesn't work on any of these (Linux Mint 17.3 64-bit). I wonder why? [[User:Cosmogoblin|Cosmogoblin]] ([[User talk:Cosmogoblin|talk]]) 15:19, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
::: Works for me, Firefox 52. Bring up the menu bar (Alt or F10), "View > Text Encoding > Unicode". If you still don't see the notes, it may be an issue with the font settings. You could try to fiddle with "Tools > Options > Content > Default Font". Instead of using the menu, you can bring up "Options" by entering "about:preferences" in the address bar. If that doesn't work, you need professional help. ;) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.106|162.158.114.106]] 06:23, 23 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
::Chrome 56 for Android, they display for me. [[User:Mikemk|Mikemk]] ([[User talk:Mikemk|talk]]) 10:24, 23 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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AFAIK moiree patterns would not show up on an image that have been *properly* sampled, such moiree patterns are IIRC a byproduct of poorly sampled digital images. See WP for "aliasing" and "digital sampling" for reference. My two cents... [[User:Todor|Todor]] ([[User talk:Todor|talk]]) 14:31, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
:Good Lord. 24 hours! If any of you guys are actual engineers you should be ashamed of yourselves! I am not an engineer, but I do know a a tiny bit about signal theory, hence the tip. But then again this just shows how cheap shit chinese gizmos proliferate. Quality just cost too much, haha! Just need the looks, not the brainz! Only the zombies loves them BRAINZZZZZ! hurr hurr. [[User:Todor|Todor]] ([[User talk:Todor|talk]]) 19:17, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
::What are you trying to say with 24 hours. At this moment the comic has been up for 6 hours... If you think the explanation could be improved this is luckily a wiki, so you could just improve instead of rant ;-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 19:55, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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The Dean Martin version, which likely is the only version anyone younger than I has heard goes like this- When the moon hits your eye - <br />
like a bigga pizza pie - <br />
That's amore - - <br />
When the world seems to shine - <br />
like you've had too much wine - <br />
That's amore [[User:ExternalMonolog|ExternalMonolog]] ([[User talk:ExternalMonolog|talk]]) 04:25, 23 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
: At first I thought Russell was alluding to [[wikipedia:Tom Lehrer|Tom Lehrer's]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7VQFfusQJk "That's Mathematics"]. :D [[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.106|162.158.114.106]] 06:23, 23 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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"Amore" is pronounces as /aˈmɔːrɛ/ in Italian. The initial vowel is a clean open "a" and there's no final "ei" but rather a clean open "e". Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Italian (Not counting I am Italian myself!)<br />
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Sorry, I can't help myself, but... If it's swimming in the sea and it's long and slippery, that's a moray [[Special:Contributions/141.101.107.150|141.101.107.150]] 07:54, 23 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
: "When you try write a song, but the rhythm is wrong, that's a pity... (but still witty)" ^_^ [[Special:Contributions/141.101.107.180|141.101.107.180]] 10:28, 23 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
: When it's sometimes quite slow but on average it goes, that's amor...tized<br />
: If your alphabet soup is tied up like a sloop, that's a mored A<br />
: (This nonsense definitely not by [[User:Quantum7|Quantum7]] ([[User talk:Quantum7|talk]]) 10:23, 23 March 2017 (UTC))<br />
: If a diet is a your wish, but you can't avoid the dish, that is moreish [[Special:Contributions/141.101.107.150|141.101.107.150]] 12:10, 23 March 2017 (UTC)</div>141.101.107.150https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1814:_Color_Pattern&diff=137745Talk:1814: Color Pattern2017-03-23T07:54:14Z<p>141.101.107.150: Bad pun; I know there are more...</p>
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This link, note 1, may help whomever is going to be editing the comic explanation, I don't have time this morning. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern] [[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 13:40, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Did a quick google and copy/pasted from the Wikipedia page on Moiré patterns. [[User:Xseo|Xseo]] ([[User talk:Xseo|talk]]) 13:51, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
:This is a copyright infringement. The contents of Wikipedia are not in the {{w|public domain}}. When using text from Wikipedia anywhere, you must indicate the license (CC-BY-SA 3.0).--[[Special:Contributions/162.158.150.82|162.158.150.82]] 13:58, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
::This is fine. Wikipedia text is licensed for re-use by anybody, provided the original is referenced; Xseo referenced the source material in his comment above, and an explicit link is given in the article; furthermore, this entire website is CC-BY-SA 3.0, as indicated in the footer on every page. [[User:Cosmogoblin|Cosmogoblin]] ([[User talk:Cosmogoblin|talk]]) 15:16, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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I can't be the only one for whom the note emoji are not showing up.<br />
:I don't see them either. I'm running Chrome 48 Portable. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.225|162.158.62.225]] 14:18, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
::Running Chrome 57, Chromium 53, and Firefox 52; the note emoji doesn't work on any of these (Linux Mint 17.3 64-bit). I wonder why? [[User:Cosmogoblin|Cosmogoblin]] ([[User talk:Cosmogoblin|talk]]) 15:19, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
::: Works for me, Firefox 52. Bring up the menu bar (Alt or F10), "View > Text Encoding > Unicode". If you still don't see the notes, it may be an issue with the font settings. You could try to fiddle with "Tools > Options > Content > Default Font". Instead of using the menu, you can bring up "Options" by entering "about:preferences" in the address bar. If that doesn't work, you need professional help. ;) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.106|162.158.114.106]] 06:23, 23 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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AFAIK moiree patterns would not show up on an image that have been *properly* sampled, such moiree patterns are IIRC a byproduct of poorly sampled digital images. See WP for "aliasing" and "digital sampling" for reference. My two cents... [[User:Todor|Todor]] ([[User talk:Todor|talk]]) 14:31, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
:Good Lord. 24 hours! If any of you guys are actual engineers you should be ashamed of yourselves! I am not an engineer, but I do know a a tiny bit about signal theory, hence the tip. But then again this just shows how cheap shit chinese gizmos proliferate. Quality just cost too much, haha! Just need the looks, not the brainz! Only the zombies loves them BRAINZZZZZ! hurr hurr. [[User:Todor|Todor]] ([[User talk:Todor|talk]]) 19:17, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
::What are you trying to say with 24 hours. At this moment the comic has been up for 6 hours... If you think the explanation could be improved this is luckily a wiki, so you could just improve instead of rant ;-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 19:55, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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The Dean Martin version, which likely is the only version anyone younger than I has heard goes like this- When the moon hits your eye - <br />
like a bigga pizza pie - <br />
That's amore - - <br />
When the world seems to shine - <br />
like you've had too much wine - <br />
That's amore [[User:ExternalMonolog|ExternalMonolog]] ([[User talk:ExternalMonolog|talk]]) 04:25, 23 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
: At first I thought Russell was alluding to [[wikipedia:Tom Lehrer|Tom Lehrer's]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7VQFfusQJk "That's Mathematics"]. :D [[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.106|162.158.114.106]] 06:23, 23 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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"Amore" is pronounces as /aˈmɔːrɛ/ in Italian. The initial vowel is a clean open "a" and there's no final "ei" but rather a clean open "e". Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Italian (Not counting I am Italian myself!)<br />
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Sorry, I can't help myself, but... If it's swimming in the sea and it's long and slippery, that's a moray [[Special:Contributions/141.101.107.150|141.101.107.150]] 07:54, 23 March 2017 (UTC)</div>141.101.107.150https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1782:_Team_Chat&diff=133476Talk:1782: Team Chat2017-01-08T21:14:11Z<p>141.101.107.150: What about the Galactic Singularity?</p>
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This is an xkcd about why the majority is wrong. ;) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.238|108.162.229.238]] 16:32, 6 January 2017 (UTC) seirl<br />
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F1rst. Jokes aside, wrote you guys something to work with. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.107.198|141.101.107.198]] 16:34, 6 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:See [[1258: First]] and [[269: TCMP]]. Well funny enough you were neither the first to edit the page nor the talk page :-) Thanks for the start, but try to not delete the incomplete tag, but just write first draft or add what you can see is missing. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 16:40, 6 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
::Good points for future edits! Appreciated. ♪ [[Special:Contributions/141.101.107.198|141.101.107.198]] 16:45, 6 January 2017 (UTC) -Sixi<br />
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I find it funny how I'm editing the article, fixing the incomplete parts, then all of a sudden (as soon as I click "enter", I must add), someone's already fixed the incomplete parts, and there was a "conflict with the edit". :P --[[User:JayRulesXKCD|'''JayRules''XKCD''' ]]<sup>[[User talk:JayRulesXKCD|what's up?]]</sup> 18:47, 6 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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My first addition here, tried to explain skype vs slack and the title text. Feel free to roast me constructively :D Hope I didn't go too deep in Slack, thought most people don't know it and my little experience may help :) Also hope my unix tools explanation won't offend too many people; I'm a happy screen user myself, but it does have quite a bit of a learning curve. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.96.88|141.101.96.88]] 19:20, 6 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Well, at least not [http://tools.suckless.org/ii/ ii] [[Special:Contributions/172.68.11.47|172.68.11.47]] 02:13, 7 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Well, I think Randal is slightly off, it more goes like this:<br />
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2006: The company officially use Messenger - Except all of development ignores it and use IRC<br />
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2009: The company officially use Skype - Except all of development ignores it and use IRC<br />
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2012: The company officially use Lync - Except all of development ignores it and use IRC<br />
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2014: The company officially use Slack - Except all of development ignores it and use IRC<br />
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2016: The company officially use Teams - Except all of development ignores it and use IRC<br />
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[[Special:Contributions/162.158.88.200|162.158.88.200]] 10:45, 7 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
:You forgot to add the part where it says that in 2018 they finally migrate... but to {{w|Discord (software)|Discord}}. --[[User:JayRulesXKCD|'''JayRules''XKCD''' ]]<sup>[[User talk:JayRulesXKCD|what's up?]]</sup> 12:54, 7 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
:: randall didnt mention discord? smh [[Special:Contributions/162.158.58.159|162.158.58.159]] 21:18, 7 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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I find it strange no-one has mentioned that IRC let's you run your own servers, with no 3rd party involved; whereas Skype & Slack both depend upon centralized corporate-owned servers, which are forced to silently comply with surveillance requests without so much as a warrant. That's just unacceptable for many dev groups. (Hence the popularity of apps like Discord.)<br />
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I had a lot of trouble viewing this page in Lynx through the Worldgroup gateway on a local dial-up Bulletin Board System. I think it's a problem with my QModem configuration. If anyone can help, please contact me on IRC. I'm usually available in the #Kaypro users room. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.46|108.162.221.46]] 21:59, 7 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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So this past fall I remember seeing a bunch of web (and TV?) ads for Slack. You think Munroe got any kickback from Slack for this comic? It's worth noting that:<br />
:- Microsoft launched Skype for Business in April 2015 (as a replacement to Lync). I would imagine that Skype is one of their biggest competitors, especially because Skype is included with Office, and just last month Slack introduced video calling.<br />
:- Last week Slack announced they "invested in nearly a dozen new bot startups to bolster its Slack App Directory" (from VentureBeat). Techy folks who look up Slack after seeing Friday's comic are likely to see this news.<br />
Maybe this is part of an "undergroundy" ad campaign by Slack? After reading the comic I certainly was subliminally thinking that Skype is sooo 2010; 2017 is the year of Slack! Great comic regardless. </conspiracytheories> [[Special:Contributions/162.158.63.4|162.158.63.4]] 00:11, 8 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Dammit, Dave, just become one with the singularity! We have IRC here too! --[[User:GranadalandDreamer|GranadalandDreamer]] ([[User talk:GranadalandDreamer|talk]]) 01:39, 8 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Is there a need to explain "All consciousnesses have merged with the Galactic Singularity", or is it clear enough for XKCD readers? I mean - I've read "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov, where this happens (including the one guy who isn't ready to go), but I'm old. I'm ''fifty''.<br />
Also "Ch*ldh**d's End" - kind of a spoiler. And "The Heechee Saga".<br />
rja.carnegie@excite.com <br />
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