Talk:2622: Angular Diameter Turnaround

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172.70.114.247 00:07, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

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Slightly creepy, NGL172.69.34.10

Warning, horrible content: The universe was created by the severed bloody hands of google employees convincing phone manufacturers to ditch the previous phone backends and explode the google play store throughout reality in a mess of intergalactic gore. Our planet developed from an angrybirds download, nourished by the decaying corpse of the owner who played it all their life. 172.70.110.209 20:37, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

So apparently this is a real thing, which I never knew wikipedia:Angular_diameter_distance#Turnover_Point 108.162.221.81 20:46, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Could be related to comic 1422, what with both containing expanding phones analogous to some cosmic structure. 172.70.130.105 21:46, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

1422 has been crapped. 172.70.126.221 21:50, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

So confusing…I thought that 13 billion years ago they had flip phones. JohnHawkinson (talk) 22:32, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Before this explanation is marked “complete” it had better mention that “sinking into dilute blood” is a terrible (one could even say ignorant or stupid) description of red shift, completely missing the fundamental cause and completely distorting the effect. 108.162.216.159 23:23, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Pretty sure that was just a description of its appearance? --172.70.210.125 10:18, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

I assumed the reference was that very old cell phones (1990s etc.) were enormous - think carphones; technology allowed them to shrink (giving, say, the Nokia 8850 I owned in 1999 and the original smallish iPhone), and then recent phones have (on average) grown again as the benefits of a larger screen area have been seen to outweigh the convenience of a smaller device. Also older phones tended to have batteries that lasted longer, mostly because neither the screen nor the processor were pulling much power. It's not just that the original iPhone was smaller than current ones (nor, for some of us, does the original iPhone count as an "early cellphone"). Am I alone in this interpretation? The description (at time of writing) didn't seem to cover that.162.158.159.121 10:15, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Hooray!

Something good is happening!!!!!! 172.70.126.215 21:22, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

No. It just means you can't get a date tonight ^{[citation needed]}. ^{[citation needed]}. (I presume you're the "crap"per, right? Eager to fill your own worthless ^{[citation needed]} life by making everybody else actually feel useful... How ironic.) 172.70.91.36 00:08, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

I thought it was just a visitor I worried I had badly depressed with my story of severed google hands, wanting to add positivity. 162.158.79.112 00:21, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

the "crap"er is a bot called "Explain xkcd server admin". -> https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/User:Explain_xkcd_server_admin/common.js Firestar233 (talk) 00:11, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Yes, same (style) as the umpteen previous times. No imagination ^{[citation needed]} and rather boring ^{[citation needed]}.

Now I'm limited in what I can do (still, been reverting pages left right and centre, to hold my bit up) but the "Hooray!" commenter (as, I suspect, the one who 'wished the crap would happen again' the other day, or words to that effect) seems to be very much like someone's idea of taunting us, thus proving that he (if you'll excuse that assumption) can't get laid and for some reason they haven't discovered the more solo method of getting their rocks off ^{[citation needed]}, so he's rubbing up against us and trying to generate the satisfying feeling of friction in his groin ^{[citation needed]}.

(You know when your dog has a favourite stuffed toy? Like that.)

Pretty boring, really, for us. But small things amuse small minds. And maybe that's the reason why ^{[citation needed]}. Also having small... 'feet' ^{[citation needed]}. Too shy to show his 'feet' to girls ^{[citation needed]}. Can't earn enough to get 'feet' enlargement surgery ^{[citation needed]}. No personality either ^{[citation needed]}. Pity. 172.70.85.211 02:43, 21 May 2022 (UTC)