Talk:2800: Down - Revision history

172.68.146.77 at 11:17, 13 July 2023

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Leafan101 at 02:35, 13 July 2023

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172.70.85.111 at 10:49, 12 July 2023

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172.70.162.109 at 07:54, 11 July 2023

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Purah126 at 00:41, 11 July 2023

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172.71.154.156: Music

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Music

Barmar at 17:16, 10 July 2023

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DownGoer at 15:07, 10 July 2023

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172.70.131.6 at 15:03, 10 July 2023

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Barmar at 14:20, 10 July 2023

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	I am over 2 bottles of wine deep tonight. This comic looks like I feel.		I am over 2 bottles of wine deep tonight. This comic looks like I feel.
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		+	In the space opera board game ''Twilight Imperium'', one of the factions, the L1Z1X, has labelled their home planet "[0.0.0]" and their flagship "[0.0.1]". This would imply that their coordinate system, both orientation and distance, is dependant on the relative positions of these two objects. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.146.77\|172.68.146.77]] 11:17, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

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	When I first tried to access this comic, Explain XKCD's server didn't respond. For a second I thought it was some sort of joke page in the same vein as 404. --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.111\|172.70.85.111]] 10:49, 12 July 2023 (UTC)		When I first tried to access this comic, Explain XKCD's server didn't respond. For a second I thought it was some sort of joke page in the same vein as 404. --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.111\|172.70.85.111]] 10:49, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
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		+	I am over 2 bottles of wine deep tonight. This comic looks like I feel.

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	This may be a reference to the band named Down Left Forte. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.154.156\|172.71.154.156]] 23:37, 10 July 2023 (UTC)		This may be a reference to the band named Down Left Forte. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.154.156\|172.71.154.156]] 23:37, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
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		+	When I first tried to access this comic, Explain XKCD's server didn't respond. For a second I thought it was some sort of joke page in the same vein as 404. --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.111\|172.70.85.111]] 10:49, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

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 :That's not the directional sense of "down". When it's used as a direction, it's towards the center of whatever body currently exerts the most gravity -- if you're on Earth it's towards the Earth's center, if you're on the Moon it's towards the Moon's center, etc. "Down" has other senses, like "the computer is down" that just refers to whether it's functioning. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 17:16, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 ::[[241:_Battle_Room]] Relevant here? —[[User:Purah126|Purah #126]] ([[User talk:Purah126|talk]]) 00:41, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 This may be a reference to the band named Down Left Forte. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.154.156|172.71.154.156]] 23:37, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

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 I'm not so sure about the "relative to gravity in actuality" - there's no objective reason why "down" must follow gravity. (Take Ender's Game - "The enemy's gate is down") [[User:DownGoer|DownGoer]] ([[User talk:DownGoer|talk]]) 15:07, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 :That's not the directional sense of "down". When it's used as a direction, it's towards the center of whatever body currently exerts the most gravity -- if you're on Earth it's towards the Earth's center, if you're on the Moon it's towards the Moon's center, etc. "Down" has other senses, like "the computer is down" that just refers to whether it's functioning. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 17:16, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 This may be a reference to the band named Down Left Forte. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.154.156|172.71.154.156]] 23:37, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

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	I'm not so sure about the "relative to gravity in actuality" - there's no objective reason why "down" must follow gravity. (Take Ender's Game - "The enemy's gate is down") [[User:DownGoer\|DownGoer]] ([[User talk:DownGoer\|talk]]) 15:07, 10 July 2023 (UTC)		I'm not so sure about the "relative to gravity in actuality" - there's no objective reason why "down" must follow gravity. (Take Ender's Game - "The enemy's gate is down") [[User:DownGoer\|DownGoer]] ([[User talk:DownGoer\|talk]]) 15:07, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
	:That's not the directional sense of "down". When it's used as a direction, it's towards the center of whatever body currently exerts the most gravity -- if you're on Earth it's towards the Earth's center, if you're on the Moon it's towards the Moon's center, etc. "Down" has other senses, like "the computer is down" that just refers to whether it's functioning. [[User:Barmar\|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar\|talk]]) 17:16, 10 July 2023 (UTC)		:That's not the directional sense of "down". When it's used as a direction, it's towards the center of whatever body currently exerts the most gravity -- if you're on Earth it's towards the Earth's center, if you're on the Moon it's towards the Moon's center, etc. "Down" has other senses, like "the computer is down" that just refers to whether it's functioning. [[User:Barmar\|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar\|talk]]) 17:16, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
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		+	This may be a reference to the band named Down Left Forte. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.154.156\|172.71.154.156]] 23:37, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

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	I'm not so sure about the "relative to gravity in actuality" - there's no objective reason why "down" must follow gravity. (Take Ender's Game - "The enemy's gate is down") [[User:DownGoer\|DownGoer]] ([[User talk:DownGoer\|talk]]) 15:07, 10 July 2023 (UTC)		I'm not so sure about the "relative to gravity in actuality" - there's no objective reason why "down" must follow gravity. (Take Ender's Game - "The enemy's gate is down") [[User:DownGoer\|DownGoer]] ([[User talk:DownGoer\|talk]]) 15:07, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
		+	:That's not the directional sense of "down". When it's used as a direction, it's towards the center of whatever body currently exerts the most gravity -- if you're on Earth it's towards the Earth's center, if you're on the Moon it's towards the Moon's center, etc. "Down" has other senses, like "the computer is down" that just refers to whether it's functioning. [[User:Barmar\|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar\|talk]]) 17:16, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

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	I'm TenGolf and I started the explanation! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.131.6\|172.70.131.6]] 15:03, 10 July 2023 (UTC)		I'm TenGolf and I started the explanation! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.131.6\|172.70.131.6]] 15:03, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
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		+	I'm not so sure about the "relative to gravity in actuality" - there's no objective reason why "down" must follow gravity. (Take Ender's Game - "The enemy's gate is down") [[User:DownGoer\|DownGoer]] ([[User talk:DownGoer\|talk]]) 15:07, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

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	Why didn't Orson Scott Card get cowriting props for this one?		Why didn't Orson Scott Card get cowriting props for this one?
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		+	I'm TenGolf and I started the explanation! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.131.6\|172.70.131.6]] 15:03, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

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 Shouldn't it be geolocated, to be rotated accordingly? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.160.110|172.71.160.110]] 12:35, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 :You need to know where ''and when'' you are. Taking the 220 degrees (why not 140?) currently in the transcript as correct, that means Mars is at 50° azimuth, which a versatile but overly-fiddly astronomy app I have (why ''doesn't'' it remember I do manual orientation? ...it's flat out wrong when it tries to do it from device settings/current orientation!) suggests that Mars will reach 50° 'up', for me, at about 16:30 local time (could have checked when it fell back down to that again, but I didn't) at which point I could easily be sat facing whichever direction puts "Mars down" at a similar angle to the one seen in the comic. But it will change throughout the day, every day that it applies. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.244|172.70.162.244]] 13:05, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 Why didn't Orson Scott Card get cowriting props for this one?