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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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Displayed is a {{w|timeline}} chart showing the percentage of people in the {{w|United States}} who have a {{w|camera}} at every moment. [[Randall]] refers to the fact that today most people carry embedded camera devices using their {{w|cell phones}} or the even more modern {{w|Smartphone|smartphones}}.
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In this comic, there is a timeline {{w|chart}} describing the percentage of people in the United States that have a {{w|camera}} at every moment.
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[[Randall Munroe|Randall]] refers to the fact that today most people carry around cameras or camera-available devices such as {{w|Digital_camera|digital cameras}} or {{w|Smartphone|smartphones}}.
  
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The chart shows that after the 1980s the percentage increases rapidly, almost reaching 100% by 2013. The text below the image states that "We have conclusively settled the questions of {{w|Flying_saucer|flying saucers}}, lake monsters [such as the {{w|Loch Ness Monster}}], {{w|ghost}}s, and {{w|Bigfoot}}", implying that because almost everyone carries a camera the evidence should have arisen by now to settle any question about such phenomena. Of course, such evidence has ''not'' arisen — but that doesn't stop many people from continuing to believe the myths. But at least now it is hard to claim that you saw something, but didn't have a camera to capture it with. If something moved by so fast that you did not have time to take a picture, then it could also be questioned if you have time to see that it was a ghost etc.
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The chart shows that after the 80's the percentage increases every year, almost reaching 100% by 2013. The text below the image states that "''We have conclusively settled the questions of {{w|Flying_saucer|flying saucers}}, lake monsters [(such as {{w|Loch_Ness_Monster|the Loch Ness Monster}})], {{w|Ghost|ghosts}} and {{w|Bigfoot}}''", implying that because almost everyone carries a camera and conclusive evidence of the existence of these entities has not surfaced, the entities must not exist.
  
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The title text declares that, in the case of ghosts, only the questions regarding phenomena that can be captured with a camera have been settled - leaving, in other words, ghosts that can't be seen, heard, or felt are essentially indistinguishable from an absence of ghosts. The title text also makes a joke about the ghosts of ''{{w|Ghostbusters}}'', a popular film that featured highly visible and noisy ghosts which left a slime. If such ghosts existed, recording them would be very easy.
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The title text declares that in the case of ghosts, only the questions regarding phenomena that can be captured with a camera have been settled. The title text also makes a joke about the ghosts of ''{{w|Ghostbusters}}'', a popular film that featured highly visible and noisy ghosts often made of a slime substance. If such ghosts existed, recording them would be very easy.
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:[A graph with percentage from 0 to 100 on the Y-axis with three ticks with labels, top, middle and bottom. The X-axis is a timeline with years with labeled ticks at every five years interval from 1980 but also including a final tick at the year of release, 2013, which is written in a smaller font. The graph shown a red line that starts before 1980 at just above 0% and stays there through the 80s, rises a little past 1990 and reached 1-2% at around 2000, but then it rises rapidly to 10% at 2005, 75% at 2010, and around 90% at 2013, where the rise begins to flatten out asymptotically towards 100 %. There is a caption for what the Y-axis represents over the flat part of the curve:]
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:[A timeline chart shows years in the x-axis starting from before 1980 until 2013 and 0% to 100% at the y-axis.]
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:Percentage of the US population carrying cameras everywhere they go, every waking moment of their lives:
 
:Percentage of the US population carrying cameras everywhere they go, every waking moment of their lives:
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:Y-axis labels:
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:[The chart shows a line describing the increase in percentage of US people carrying cameras at the last few years.]
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:X-axis labels: 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 <small>2013</small>
 
  
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:[Caption below the panel:]
 
 
:In the last few years, with very little fanfare, we've conclusively settled the questions of flying saucers, lake monsters, ghosts, and Bigfoot.
 
:In the last few years, with very little fanfare, we've conclusively settled the questions of flying saucers, lake monsters, ghosts, and Bigfoot.
  
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Comics with color]]
 
[[Category:Comics with color]]
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[[Category:Timelines]]
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[[Category:Charts]]
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[[Category:Line graphs]]
 
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[[Category:Paranormal]]
 
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[[Category:Ghostbusters]]
 

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