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"Cueball A" tells "Cueball B" that he found a piece of a meteor. "Cueball B" to corrects "Cueball A" by telling him it is not a meteor he found. "Cueball B" continues saying that a piece of a meteor would be correct if the object was in the air, once it hits the ground it is instead {{w|magma}}. In truth meteorite is the expression for a piece of a meteor that has landed just as {{w|lava}} is the expression for magma that has reached the surface. | "Cueball A" tells "Cueball B" that he found a piece of a meteor. "Cueball B" to corrects "Cueball A" by telling him it is not a meteor he found. "Cueball B" continues saying that a piece of a meteor would be correct if the object was in the air, once it hits the ground it is instead {{w|magma}}. In truth meteorite is the expression for a piece of a meteor that has landed just as {{w|lava}} is the expression for magma that has reached the surface. | ||
− | This is one of Randall's comics on the topic of "my hobbies". The author makes these semantically incorrect, statements to frustrate nerds who know the correct word, and confuse people who don't know the precise word | + | This is one of Randall's comics on the topic of "my hobbies". The author makes these semantically incorrect, statements to frustrate nerds who know the correct word, and confuse people who don't know the precise word so they can go on to frustrate more nerds. |
The word {{w|pedant|pedantic}} means gratuitously exacting in one's speech. It is usually a pejorative term used to refer to someone who is overly fussy. For example, if one were to say "The sky is blue" and someone were to correct you telling you it is actually every color but blue because of {{w|Diffuse sky radiation|light scattering}} and its apparent blueness is a mere illusion, while true, that would be pedantic. However, in science, pedantry is important so things may be classified and we have a unified definition of when things are very similar. | The word {{w|pedant|pedantic}} means gratuitously exacting in one's speech. It is usually a pejorative term used to refer to someone who is overly fussy. For example, if one were to say "The sky is blue" and someone were to correct you telling you it is actually every color but blue because of {{w|Diffuse sky radiation|light scattering}} and its apparent blueness is a mere illusion, while true, that would be pedantic. However, in science, pedantry is important so things may be classified and we have a unified definition of when things are very similar. |
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Title text: No, only LAVA is called 'magma' while underground. Any other object underground is called 'lava'. |
Explanation
This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Due to its earliness, it probably has a lot of errors. If you can address this issue, please edit the page! Thanks. |
"Cueball A" tells "Cueball B" that he found a piece of a meteor. "Cueball B" to corrects "Cueball A" by telling him it is not a meteor he found. "Cueball B" continues saying that a piece of a meteor would be correct if the object was in the air, once it hits the ground it is instead magma. In truth meteorite is the expression for a piece of a meteor that has landed just as lava is the expression for magma that has reached the surface.
This is one of Randall's comics on the topic of "my hobbies". The author makes these semantically incorrect, statements to frustrate nerds who know the correct word, and confuse people who don't know the precise word so they can go on to frustrate more nerds.
The word pedantic means gratuitously exacting in one's speech. It is usually a pejorative term used to refer to someone who is overly fussy. For example, if one were to say "The sky is blue" and someone were to correct you telling you it is actually every color but blue because of light scattering and its apparent blueness is a mere illusion, while true, that would be pedantic. However, in science, pedantry is important so things may be classified and we have a unified definition of when things are very similar.
The title text again a deliberately muddled statement. Lava is called magma while it is underground, but it's ridiculous to suggest all other things are called lava when underground.
Transcript
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First Cueball: Check it out -- I got a piece of a meteor!
Second Cueball: Actually, it's only called that while falling. Once it lands, it's called Magma
My hobby: Mixing Pedantic Terms
Discussion
If meteors fall, then what is a meteoric rise? Rfvtg (talk) 04:54, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
- Fast. 103.22.201.120 08:12, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
The legend of this comic might refer to pedology, the study of soil. 173.245.53.87 06:56, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
But the sky is blue. It is a desaturated blue with a center wavelength of 474 to 476 nm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse_sky_radiation The statement that the sky is "anything but blue" is wrong.ExternalMonolog (talk) 08:34, 8 August 2014 (UTC)ExternalMonolog
does anyone else find the capitalization variation of LAVA vs lava funny? In all seriousness that would make them two different programming variables... However it is hard to notice and isn't clear on what the difference in meaning should be. This is one of the reason for using Object mObject instead of Object object in java. Mr.Smiley (talk) 10:28, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
- I think it might just be for emphasis. The pedantic Cueball is becoming exasperated with the person who's getting it 'wrong'. 173.245.54.205 11:30, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
And to everybody who is't a pedantic nerd, it's a rock.Seebert (talk) 13:37, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Is my transcription incomplete? I feel like it is because I published it really early and I have not done many transcriptions here. InAndOutLand (talk) 15:02, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
- JOKE
- What has more nutritional value, a small rock in space or a small rock falling from space onto the Earth?
- A small rock falling from space onto the Earth because it is a little meatier(meteor) 108.162.246.220 06:24, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
A meteor (follow the link!) is not an intermediate stage in the lifespan of a chunk of rock between a meteoroid and a meteorite; it is the streak of light produced by a meteoroid during its descent through the atmosphere. It spoils the joke if we're not pedantic about the pedantry! —TobyBartels (talk) 08:35, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Nice. A lot of meteorites on the earths surface today come from broken apart, differentiated asteroidal parent bodies so they were magma once. The rocky planets have grown through accretion of meteorites so all of the earths magma used to be elsewhere in the solarsystem at the very start. Plus, with temps so high under the crust, anything found down there would be molten and dissolved in the magma anyway and called such. Mark.Squirreltape (talk) 15:49, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Mnemonic: In the void, meteoroid. On the site, meteorite. Neither/Nor: meteor. -- CoderLass (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- Great. I didn't know this maybe because I'm German. But this is worth for the explain section so I will add this. --Dgbrt (talk) 22:04, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
There is a community portal discussion of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the new Category:Multiple Cueballs. Since Randall is the one with the hobby and also the one that Cueball represents I have changed the reference to Cueball in this explanation and transcript to represent this fact. I have also made a note of this fact and the fact that the friend looks like Cueball.--Kynde (talk) 14:55, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
It's not rocket surgery. 172.69.62.82 17:34, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
Is the main cueball 'Rob' or 'Randall'?