Talk:3158: Shielding Chart

Brb, going out to buy some lead. Fephisto (talk) 01:49, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

If you buy some oven mitts, too, you can get rid of the only two remaining penetrating substances (sound and heat) Logalex8369 (talk) 21:16, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

My new expansion to Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock is coming along nicely. KelOfTheStars! (talk) 02:25, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Ah yes, you can make sound in a vacuum! King Pando (talk) 02:41, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Well, there's air in her helmet, presumably... 160.39.41.199 05:05, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

We're not gonna have a good time filling out this table, are we? 47.141.47.226 05:14, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

i bet randall is laughing at those silly explainxkcd editors who now have to elaborate on every single square. if i were conspiratorial i'd say he wrote this just to spite us. raeb 08:46, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Nah, I'm good at filling out tables :) --DollarStoreBa'al^converse 13:07, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Is your name perhaps Bobby Tables? user:Seshan S. 10:25, 23 October 2025

Bobby Tables is good at deleting tables, not filling them out :) -Ash Crow (talk) 10:47, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

A bit surprised there's nothing about keeping Mr. Faraday away. --130.233.188.214 06:50, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

He was a doctor, so apples would do the job for that. 82.13.184.33 13:21, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

This came out a couple of weeks after the 50th anniversary of Jaws, so it's disappointing that "a bigger boat" isn't one of the protections. Barmar (talk) 14:24, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

"Air," "Lead," "Water," and "Glass," and a near-perfect "Vacuum" actually vary by thickness. I guess Oven mitts, armor, bio-hazard suits, faraday cages, and shark cages do too but those usually come in human-scale sizes. A meter of air won't give you significant protection against gamma rays, but if you are anywhere near sea level, the air above your head does. A near-perfect vacuum too wide for a shark to get to you before it dies will protect you, one only a few nanometers thick probably won't. 64.201.132.210 18:20, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

The best shield of all is distance. You just need enough of it. KelOfTheStars! (talk) 00:33, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

No - the best shield of all is the Hylian Shield. 82.13.184.33 08:31, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Me & my brother read this whole thing and cracked up about it for several minutes. RadiantRainwing (talk) 03:03, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

This is definitely one of my favorite xkcd comics. I love the confusion matrix ones. RadiantRainwing (talk) 03:05, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Wait, why no “raptors” row? I really want to see that. RadiantRainwing (talk) 03:09, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm noticing that the transcript isn't looking too good right now, but I don't exactly have the time to fix it right now. Can someone look at 2998: Ravioli-Shaped Objects#Transcript and copy that format? Thanks, 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 03:44, 24 October 2025 (UTC)