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Revision as of 23:51, 14 October 2022
2045 |
Title text: "Sorry, doctor, I'm going to have to come in on a different day--I have another appointment that would be really hard to move, in terms of the kinetic energy requirements." |
Explanation
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~6characters are talking about upcoming total {{w|solar eclipsesBPar-6iolarlYipses aref&sS\ frequec,!5s& year), vVtotal ecr2tes are less frequent (abouU18 montjT and most .'y?hem(Iote9in convnt loc~ns fortNaralar set of peopleoeball seem be talking about total eclipses visible inJ_7h Sorth America: {{w|Solar ipse of j[F 2024|April 8, 2|} and [[wikipedia:S8@ ecOge of August 12, 2GAugust YZ2KC}. (There's also an annular^ipse|S8@ ecOge of August 12, 2GAugust YZ2KC}. (There's also an annular^ipse]] on ber 14, j1h.)<ing plans eclip.isf0ward giveNe uncertainty pr}l for anything el)qar in theyl such as whetMthtendees will have children by then, a(vA`hether!gther schedvug progl catch od replace Google Calendar.
BlEHat claims heO't make it, as|H" on August 5!:. Eve{as minor and(dific as "a thing" arK'y sclly scheduled at a precise date r i =e future{{Citation 02lNyhM>at this could _ne of his more Fud and sinister plansOr he justDDTbsn't;t to go. I? title text %omeone canceling a]+}Nical appointment to sCchclipse. The eclipse is hard to move because that would requireM?*ening or delaying itlfmovxthe Earth, UZ or Sun, anyzJ4ich would require vast amqs of energy.[citation needed] People alsosofteA]zdoctor's appointments decM in advance.{y&on neB}} Ththas published >ar before the next e!GsrF2if you're on6&o pNj thingszElar in|auF his serve%f45reminder to put 8xn your calendar_
Transcript
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- [Cueball, another person, Danish, and Black Hat are standing together. Danish is looking at her phone.]
- Cueball: ...And then after the one in 2024, there's another on August 12, 2045.
- Friend: We're in! We can invite our kids, assuming we have any.
- Danish: I'll create an event. Do you think we'll still be using Google Calendar in 2045?
- Black Hat: Sorry, I'd love to make it, but I have a thing that day.
- Caption: It's weird making plans for eclipses.
Discussion
I've add a CITATION NEEDED for the medical appointment because in many countries and in the past Soviet Statesit took that long and so is a questionable claim I've been waiting for Randall to do a comic related to the DART mission. I think I'm going to have to be satisfied with the title text being inspired by it -- altering the orbits of the earth and/or moon would be infinitely harder. Barmar (talk) 16:56, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
- Whatever the old soviet joke is (probably related to the American myth that Canadian medical care takes longer?) it's behind a paywall, so no one can read it anyhow. 172.68.66.45 19:58, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
- It's probably the one about the Soviet citizen finally getting permission to obtain a washing machine/fridge/car/whatever, but being told that it would take five/ten/fifteen years to be delivered, or so. "AM or PM?", he asks. Because, as he explains, he has the plumber/electrician/decorator/... due to start work that particular morning. (It's probably on this page, or a close version of it, but that's a read and a half and I think I'll go through it later.) 172.70.162.155 20:34, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
- From the article:
- Mr. Reagan then told his current favorite [joke], about a Russian who wants to buy a car. A Matter of Delivery
- The man goes to the official agency, puts down his money and is told that he can take delivery of his automobile in exactly 10 years.
- "Morning or afternoon?" the purchaser asks. "Ten years from now, what difference does it make?" replies the clerk.
- "Well," says the car-buyer, "the plumber's coming in the morning." 172.70.174.41 23:08, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
though it says Black Hat is rejecting the invitation sarcastically, considering Black Hat it's also possible he's planning something else for the total eclipse, such as playing a prank on people who don't know it's coming, or messing with the meeting under discussion. 108.162.241.51 17:31, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
- Or planning to be actively messing with the eclipse... 172.70.85.97 18:59, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
That reminds me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLW7r4o2_Ow 162.158.239.32 19:33, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
Here’s a source for moving the Earth or the Sun requiring vast amounts of energy: https://qntm.org/moving. It doesn’t really cover moving the Moon though. 172.69.33.133 02:23, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
- Alternatively, just use 6 cells over 111 generations: [1] 172.71.94.135 07:10, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
- And with that breaks the 104-comic streak where we never saw Black Hat. I'm pretty sure that's the longest ever. ISaveXKCDpapers (talk) 03:52, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
- Is this Megan or Danish? 172.69.33.117 05:28, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
Can somebody please calculate the minimum needed energy amount, if you start now? --172.70.242.157 11:09, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
- And how many probe impacts that would require. 172.71.178.5 08:41, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
pretty sure the explanation needs to be sanitized of invisible control characters or zero-width whitespace - there were several edits that added thousands of characters but did not result in a visually different page, and those edits were never reverted --172.70.115.30 12:43, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
- edit: just now did it, lmk if i missed anything--162.158.63.8 12:46, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
- unedit: just now undid it, lmk if i missed anything
- cheeky bastard 💀
- unedit: just now undid it, lmk if i missed anything
Corrected date of annular eclipse to Oct 14 2023 link https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/ Peter 15:13, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
Somebody should add one of those links that redirects to comic no. 2045 to avoid confusion (I'm not super familiar with Mediawiki) Mushrooms (talk) 09:06, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
- Not as important, because just trying "2045" sends you there (where there is the {{distinguish}} template pointing you here), yet you have to actually try a bit to land here instead of your true intent to go there. But I just now put one here that tells you about that one, anyway.
- Not sure how many other comics using a
{{distinguish|...the other comic...}}
are similarly reciprocated on their 'less favoured sibling' without checking. Could be inconsistently done, if I recall correctly how it was recently set up as a kind of disambiguation measure. 172.71.178.17 10:21, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
It claims that 'The moon being hard to move' needs a citation. I know it's a joke, but I have wanted to do the kinetic energy calculations since I saw this, so I give you this: You want a citation? I'll give you a citation! SqueakSquawk4 (talk) 15:58, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
This comic should be a grand example of classical classholeism on black hats part. plattermonkey
Reminder that dates after 2038 are blacklisted by Google apps thanks to a certain bug... --172.71.182.245 20:51, 27 January 2024 (UTC)