Talk:3278: Vera Rubin Observatory
somehow I feel that you would never get bingo. 29 July 15:54 2026
- Maybe you would if it was over the next decade or century 2600:1700:3B93:1020:81C9:9080:A87:F649 21:13, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
"Many very small dots" might be related to "Little red dots" that were discovered by JWST. Barmar (talk) 20:09, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
I think the downward diagonal would be the easiest 115.70.50.124 21:01, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
- Or maybe the left column Logalex8369 (talk) 21:07, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
I believe that the one mentioning signals coming from a kitchen may also be in reference to the recent 3275: Calibration Nobel. (Edit: fixed typo) 2600:1700:3B93:1020:81C9:9080:A87:F649 21:13, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
I feel like the entire concept for this comic was centered around the free space pun. 136.56.54.87 21:21, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
Check out the official RUBINgo game. -- Trailifox43 (talk) 21:24, 29 July 2026 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- Have added that to the explanation, since it seems quite likely it may have prompted the comic. 82.13.184.33 08:51, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
Grrr.... I'm mildly disappointed that this xkcd didn't mention Neptune trojans, irregular moons, active asteroids, and TNOs on weird orbits. >:ฦ 2603:8002:BE00:8292:CD63:C4A9:21F:2BBB 04:06, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
- There's only 25 boxes on a bingo card, he couldn't include everything. Barmar (talk) 14:44, 30 July 2026 (UTC)```
- It's not as if there is only a single card in a game of bingo. JohnHawkinson (talk) 01:57, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Could "planet 9" be a pun on "plan 9 from outer space"? Nosrednayduj (talk) 16:55, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
- I don't think so, since it's a pretty common goal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine 206.193.5.5 19:11, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
Black Hat doesn't need an obvious reason to create spurious signals from the kitchen: the act itself is reason enough. "There is no obvious reason why anyone would want to create such artefacts, beyond filling in this bingo card." Martin (talk) 22:15, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
- That's kind of what that sentence is saying - it would be (scientifically and otherwise) an entirely pointless, and in some ways destructive, act, outside of the goal of completing the bingo card. There's no evidence that Black Hat is involved here though. 82.13.184.33 08:17, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
How many small galaxies would be surprising? A million? A billion? Just two? Martin (talk) 22:16, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
- Depends what they're doing. 82.13.184.33 15:50, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
I used 1547: Solar System Questions as a basis for the "Checked-off" column. I'm excited to see this bingo chart filled in. Do note that we can include a lightyellow "maybe" options for those items uncertain. Maplestrip (talk) 12:22, 31 July 2026 (UTC)