Talk:2198: Throw
I created this page as it seem DgbrtBOT fails because it is interactive. So far it still won't shown on the front page or with a button to it from the previous comic or the "newest" comic button. Maybe it just takes some time? It is now in the List_of_all_comics but still no luck getting it to work... --Kynde (talk) 07:58, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
- Maybe it is because it was published on a tuesday? --Lupo (talk) 08:16, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
- No it is not unusual that a comic does not come out on MWF. For instance the Sunday comic recently. Here is the list of Tuesday comics: Category:Tuesday_comics--Kynde (talk) 13:29, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
- Also it doesn't display my comment below the explanation. Something is very broken here...--Lupo (talk) 08:25, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
- It appears now. PkmnQ (talk) 08:53, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
How did he get an estimate for Carly Rae Jepson, anyway? 162.158.255.34 09:52, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgwAywJlo1M 172.68.142.221 09:55, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
By the transitive property of Worthiness, if Capt America can throw Thor's Hammer, surely George Washington is Worthy! 172.69.68.141 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
I got this data from the code:
id | name | canThrow | canBeThrown | length | diameter | mass | dragC | throwPower |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
microwave | A microwave oven | false | true | 0.406 | 0.406 | 10.591 | 0.8 | |
basketball | a basketball | false | true | 0.243 | 0.243 | 0.624 | 0.3 | |
blender | a blender | false | true | 0.203 | 0.203 | 5.216 | 0.8 | |
gold_bar | a gold bar | false | true | 0.0535 | 0.0535 | 12.4 | 0.8 | |
cake | a wedding cake | false | true | 0.51 | 0.51 | 13 | 0.8 | |
pingpong | a ping pong ball | false | true | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.003 | 0.5 | |
quarterback | an NFL quarterback | true | false | 1.905 | 0.584 | 102.058 | 0.6 | 20 |
acorn | an acorn | false | true | 0.0191 | 0.0191 | 0.0045 | 0.3 | |
hammer | thor's hammer | false | true | 0.5 | 0.15 | 2000 | 0.4 | |
javelin | a javelin | false | true | 1.8 | 0.0254 | 0.8 | 0.1 | |
george | George Washington | true | true | 1.829 | 0.562 | 90.718 | 0.6 | 15 |
pikachu | Pikachu | true | true | 0.4 | 0.3 | 5.9874 | 0.4 | 10 |
car | A car | false | true | 4.5 | 2.134 | 1179.34 | 0.25 | |
silver_spin | a silver dollar (spinning) | false | true | 0.04 | 0.011 | 0.027 | 0.5 | |
silver_tumble | a silver dollar (tumbling) | false | true | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.027 | 0.66 | |
carly | Carly Rae Jepsen | true | false | 1.575 | 0.46 | 49.895 | 0.6 | 10 |
thor | thor, god of thunder | true | false | 1.91 | 0.59 | 91 | 0.6 | 10000 |
chris hemsworth | chris hemsworth | true | false | 1.91 | 0.59 | 91 | 0.6 | 10 |
squirrel | A squirrel | true | true | 0.203 | 0.096 | 0.454 | 0.6 | 10 |
(Sorry if this table messes the talk page.)162.158.78.136 13:51, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
- Nah its great. Not sure how to use it in the explanation yet, but guess it will go in there somehow later.--Kynde (talk) 14:28, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
The comic looks different on my screen, not displaying multiple possible selections next to each other, but all below each other. Quite dynamic... --Lupo (talk) 14:26, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
- If I zoom out I can make it shown only one item each line, but if I zoom in two is maximum. But it should go in the explanation when we get there.--Kynde (talk) 14:28, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
The suggestion to litteraly throw a party in the air could be a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy in which there is a flying building with a party in it, and there's even Thor partying in it when the protagonists are coming there. --Roger 15:12, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
Any reason why George Washington has 50% more throw power than Christ Hemsworth? Some reference? ~TK
Interesting, there appears to be additional units of measurement in the source code that were not used in the comic: "wiffles" and "light-nanoseconds" 108.162.241.52 16:52, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
Does it seem... excessive to anyone else that the NFL quarterback can throw a silver dollar almost two football fields?172.68.142.161 17:08, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
The explanation for Manhattan block conversion appears to be wrong. They mention that their calculation for how large one block is was made with 4 numbers ignoring George Washington as an outlier. However there are 6 total examples of Manhattan block to use and George Washington's is not an outlier. I calculated the mean with all of the data to be 79.9142 meters.--Szeth (talk) 17:12, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
We need a table with a brief description of each thrower. DKMell (talk) 17:14, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
How do we know how old George Washington was when he throws a squirrel? Speaking of age, this format kind of reminds me of the Magnus comic: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1628:_Magnus 108.162.241.52 17:41, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
I think we need to add something about the myth that George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Potomac River 108.162.241.40 19:42, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
Pretty sure that the ping-pong ball distances are severely overestimated due to air resistance slowing them very rapidly. Someone with lab facilities might want to check... --Marcus Rowland (talk) 19:49, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
- Sorry, never mind, I think I saw a very early version of the actual page that had the distances much greater - seems reasonable now. --Marcus Rowland (talk) 19:53, 3 September 2019 (UTC)