Editing Talk:2784: Drainage Basins

Jump to: navigation, search
Ambox notice.png Please sign your posts with ~~~~

Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.

The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
Latest revision Your text
Line 8: Line 8:
 
:I think turning into a puddle of liquid ''at will'' counts as a superpower. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.134.132|172.69.134.132]] 04:23, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 
:I think turning into a puddle of liquid ''at will'' counts as a superpower. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.134.132|172.69.134.132]] 04:23, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 
::Most things which a typical person does are typically done at will (other than breathing, sleeping, sneezing, and posting comments on the internet). ~ [[User:Xxj|Xxj]] ([[User talk:Xxj|talk]]) 04:52, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 
::Most things which a typical person does are typically done at will (other than breathing, sleeping, sneezing, and posting comments on the internet). ~ [[User:Xxj|Xxj]] ([[User talk:Xxj|talk]]) 04:52, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
:Found the editor who has never had to dispose of a body. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.134.138|172.69.134.138]] 08:48, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 
  
 
Man I thought this was about the kid who jumped off the cruise ship on a dare this week and got pulled under, and was really weirded out that he would joke about that, really happy to see I was dead wrong. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.168.144|172.68.168.144]]
 
Man I thought this was about the kid who jumped off the cruise ship on a dare this week and got pulled under, and was really weirded out that he would joke about that, really happy to see I was dead wrong. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.168.144|172.68.168.144]]
 
: he got a Darwin Award, not an XKCD comic [[Special:Contributions/172.68.210.33|172.68.210.33]] 18:47, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 
  
 
"approximately twice the volume of a typical human being"—that implies there was already a witch in the lake previously. After we add the wWotW, there are two dissolved witches. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.94.3|162.158.94.3]] 04:44, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 
"approximately twice the volume of a typical human being"—that implies there was already a witch in the lake previously. After we add the wWotW, there are two dissolved witches. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.94.3|162.158.94.3]] 04:44, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
:It's Utah. On the basis of that alone, I'm surprised that there was only one. [[User:Vikinghelmet99|Vikinghelmet99]] ([[User talk:Vikinghelmet99|talk]]) 05:39, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 
::The first witch was famously house-struck, not 'melted'. (Then sublimed, though ''perhaps'' condensed/redissolved off-screen the next time it rained.) [[Special:Contributions/172.69.79.187|172.69.79.187]] 09:33, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 
 
Oz is "famously not in Kansas" -- ha!  Nicely done.
 
 
I didn't know what Drainage Basin was. I first thought it meant which ocean will come and cover this part of land if global warming continues. [[User:Memo Spike Connector|2503: Memo Spike Connector]] ([[User talk:Memo Spike Connector|talk]]) 06:33, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 
:If it goes badly enough, that'd be the Neo-{{w|Panthalassic Ocean}}... ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.8|172.70.86.8]] 09:13, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 
:Funnily enough, that's also a valid interpretation of a map like this (if your definition of "global warming" is expansive enough to include events like the Europa-Dutch dumping all their world's volatiles on us).  Water runs off in exactly the same direction from which the sea would rise, so anywhere in the Mississippi Valley, for instance, would get flooded as an extension of the Gulf of Mexico.  The [[2325: Endorheic Basin|endorheic basins]] (on this map, "Great" or "Various") are exceptions: they're areas which would flood more catastrophically due to water running down into them, as in [[1190: Time|Time]]. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.58.225|172.69.58.225]] 01:17, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
 
::While true, watershed maps abstract away information about elevation, which is more important for predicting what sea level rise will do than drainage. It's complicated by river flow volume and speed, geographical features, etc., but never significant more than a few hundred km above an estuary. Basically, if and only if the river has measurable tides, it will be affected by sea level rise (that almost goes without saying that way.) So Florida will be a lot more screwed than 90% of people's local Mississippi. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.158.44|172.71.158.44]] 11:51, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
 
 
 
The explanation says: "Seven trillionths of its 18.93 cubic km volume is about 130 liters, which is approximately twice the volume of a typical human being"
 
There have been stories recently that the water level is way down. Does that volume take this into account?
 
 
As a resident of the US Midwest, I'm minorly annoyed by the missing drainage "leak" from Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico due to the reversal of their river (first time commentator sorry for any edit error!) [[User:E sandrs|E sandrs]] ([[User talk:E sandrs|talk]]) 13:49, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
 
 
re: the change of "swathe" to "swath", and the summary explanation of tte Grammarian reason (that one is a noun, the other a verb)... Well, I'll accept that I was incorrect, but not in that way. I'm British and I honestly didn't know that {{wiktionary|swathe#Etymology_3|(noun) "swathes"}} had an alternate Leftpondian spelling.
 
:(Or pronunciation. Not sure I'd pronounce "swath" as /sweɪð/, ever, and I'd never say /swɒθ/ even for the mowing "swath", but that might just be my specific regional vernacular on top of being generally Rightpondian.)
 
:I'm happy to be corrected(/Americanised, not necessarily the same thing), but I'd not like that kind editor to think I did it 'wrong' for the wrong reason. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.242|172.70.162.242]] 16:59, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
 
 
To add to the list of pedantic errors: there's a mountain called Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park (in NW Montana) where water from that mountain can go to the pacific, the gulf of Mexico, or Hudson bay. Technically the Hudson bay basin must extend into Montana at least a little bit. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.38.82|172.70.38.82]] 14:20, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
 

Please note that all contributions to explain xkcd may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see explain xkcd:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!

To protect the wiki against automated edit spam, we kindly ask you to solve the following CAPTCHA:

Cancel | Editing help (opens in new window)

Templates used on this page: