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A splash zone is an area of a waterpark with water being sprayed around, allowing people to get wet without the need to get into the pool. In this comic, the splash zone is actually geysers, fed by the bubbles of water from the subduction. While this particular scenario as shown in the comic is obviously far-fetched, subduction zones do create similar effects: water moving up from subducting plates is the origin of many {{W|volcanic arc|volcanic arcs}}. These volcanic systems sometimes include features such as the geysers depicted in the comic's splash zone.
 
A splash zone is an area of a waterpark with water being sprayed around, allowing people to get wet without the need to get into the pool. In this comic, the splash zone is actually geysers, fed by the bubbles of water from the subduction. While this particular scenario as shown in the comic is obviously far-fetched, subduction zones do create similar effects: water moving up from subducting plates is the origin of many {{W|volcanic arc|volcanic arcs}}. These volcanic systems sometimes include features such as the geysers depicted in the comic's splash zone.
  
The title text refers to {{W|back-arc basin|back-arc basins}}, zones of depression that sometimes occur slightly beyond volcanic arcs due to a rift in the tectonic plate. The ban on running in this area likely has more to do with its proximity to the pool area than any danger intrinsic to back-arc basins.
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The title text refers to {{W|back-arc basin|back-arc basins}}, zones of depression that sometimes occur slightly beyond volcanic arcs due to a rift in the tectonic plate. The ban on running in this area likely has more to do with its proximity to the pool area than any danger intrinsic to back-arc basins.  A typical safety rule around swimming pools is to prevent running on the pool deck to prevent injuries due to slipping and falling on the hard deck.
  
 
Other comics that mention unusual tectonic plate motion include [[1388: Subduction License]] and [[1874: Geologic Faults]].
 
Other comics that mention unusual tectonic plate motion include [[1388: Subduction License]] and [[1874: Geologic Faults]].

Revision as of 13:55, 7 May 2022

Deep End
Hey! No running in the back-arc basin!
Title text: Hey! No running in the back-arc basin!

Explanation

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Pools, like oceans, contain water. This comic produces a schematic for the former, derived from science about the latter. On Earth, the surface consists of tectonic plates which move around. In this comic, Randall equates Swimming pools with plate tectonics, to explain how deep ends form in said pools. Unfortunately,[clarification needed] swimming pools aren't really formed by plate tectonics.[citation needed]

A swimming pool is a pool of water, typically used for swimming. Most of these have a deep end and a shallow end. This is intentional, usually to accommodate for new swimmers to have somewhere to stand while accommodating for more confident swimmers for whom the floor would get in the way.

Subduction, a geological process in which one plate slips beneath another and is forced down into the mantle, is shown here as the reason swimming pools have deep ends. This usually takes place between continental plates and oceanic plates, although it could happen with two oceanic plates. The comic depicts the former; an oceanic plate subducting under a continental one.

A splash zone is an area of a waterpark with water being sprayed around, allowing people to get wet without the need to get into the pool. In this comic, the splash zone is actually geysers, fed by the bubbles of water from the subduction. While this particular scenario as shown in the comic is obviously far-fetched, subduction zones do create similar effects: water moving up from subducting plates is the origin of many volcanic arcs. These volcanic systems sometimes include features such as the geysers depicted in the comic's splash zone.

The title text refers to back-arc basins, zones of depression that sometimes occur slightly beyond volcanic arcs due to a rift in the tectonic plate. The ban on running in this area likely has more to do with its proximity to the pool area than any danger intrinsic to back-arc basins. A typical safety rule around swimming pools is to prevent running on the pool deck to prevent injuries due to slipping and falling on the hard deck.

Other comics that mention unusual tectonic plate motion include 1388: Subduction License and 1874: Geologic Faults.

Transcript

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On the left of the image is the shallowest water in the pool, about the height of Megan, excluding her head. Going to the right from there, the pool floor (Representing the oceanic plate) begins to curve downwards towards the subduction zone. As the floor goes down, the water gets deeper. In the deepest area, it is labeled "Deep End".

At the bottom of the deep end, there is a curve and a deposit on the plate/pool floor. This is likely sediment buildup from waterborne debris that has settled there. Within the sediment, there are some small interstitial pools of trapped water within. An arrow upon the subducting material indicates that the oceanic plate is moving left-to-right across the image. Some of the water is dragged along by the oceanic plate, while others float up through the continental plate until they reach the "Splash zone". Several children (small versions of Ponytail, Hairy, and an unidentifiable character.

To the left of the splash zone is an area labelled the "Pool deck", above which a Cueball figure is jumping off the diving board.


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Discussion

Help me with this please? SqueakSquawk4 (talk) 00:19, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

I'll get round to it. Though I suspect others are already well on their way to explain exactly the same obvious things as I'd explain, but better and with nuances I haven't considered yet. I think the usual (recent replacement) Bot might have been hit by the anti-vandal measures, so we'll have to do as we did between the prior one and this one's deployment.
First things first, though, I think you/whoever uploaded the _large-sized image. Arguments about it aside (basically, it's too big for screens such as mine - whether you consider that just my problem or not), the practice is to upload the non-2x version. Can I encourage you/someone to do that and adjust accordingly? 172.69.79.153 23:18, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
Firstly, That was me. I uploaded that. I don't know how to get one that isn't 2x. (Edit: Found it!) Sorry. Secondly, I mostly meant help with the it-not-appearing-on-the-next/previous-bar. Thank you though. SqueakSquawk4 (talk) 00:17, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
(Yeah, on checking, the proper image to take is 555x321 while this one is (natively) 1110x642.) 172.69.79.153 23:22, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
I've downloaded the correct size image from xkcd.com and uploaded it in place of the 2x version. If you don't see it immediately, it might be cached on an intermediate server, so give it some time. Ianrbibtitlht (talk) 00:30, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for doing that! ε> I didn't even know there were 2x and normal versions until today! -- SqueakSquawk4 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
It's largely invisible to the end user, viewing source xkcd site it is good at giving you what fits. But I don't think there's an easy way to make explainXKCD do the same, so generally it's better to go with the 'normal' (or smaller) one, even if the larger (or best resolution) one works for you. There are exceptions, and Randall has made design choices or errors that mixed this up somewhat, at times.
On the whole, I think you did quite well to initiate this new comic, in the absence of an automatic upload. Obvious errors were obvious, and correctable. ;) Do always remember to sign with ~~~~, here in the Talk pages, though! :-P. 172.70.90.63 08:11, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for explaining. As I said above, I didn't even know there were different versions until this. I'll remeber to to the non-2x one in the future, if I ever do this again.
Also, you said that the errors I made were correctable. The biggest problem I saw was the bar at the top (The previous/next one) ignoring this page. May I ask how that was corrected? Thanks! SqueakSquawk4 (talk) 12:58, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
It's one of the other steps in the list given in User:DgbrtBOT... Don't hold me to it, but the LATESTCOMIC info might do it. If it doesn't, it's surely useful to do for some other reason, though, and one of the other steps does it instead. ;)
(I haven't bothered to analyse any of the interdependent wikicode/templates, but I presume it's a finely developed process, with or without Bot-populating.) 141.101.98.221 13:58, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

At the time of this comment, the Explanation info-box was missing the usual "Created by …" comment. These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For (talk) 07:07, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

I don't know who needs to hear this but when writing a transcript do not: Explain the image/refer to things with interpretations/comment on the image/intersperse the text of the comic in the description. Just a note for next time!Mushrooms (talk) 15:57, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

To be clear, I was aware that this was not the standard transcript format—I moved some descriptive analysis into the transcript section largely to have a basis for the content. I'm fairly new here and have never actually modified the transcript, so I figured I'd better let someone who did know how to do it properly finalize it rather than try for myself to produce anything other than a rough, obviously incomplete draft. Ncpenguin 18:35, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Kind of surprised there's no mention of oceanic trenches, which are typically created this way and are the ultimate deep end. 108.162.238.86 21:14, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

What does "VOS COMO" mean? 172.70.126.221 05:36, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

You would slow,y drift to the deep end if you stood in the shallow end long enough Reerolmses (talk) 01:05, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
(This comment moved here from being originally put in the main article, obviously not intended to be a 'serious' explanatory comment. Also, it's [actual citation needed], using {{Actual citation needed}}, but I don't think that applied well enough anyway.) 172.70.90.145 01:45, 10 May 2022 (UTC) Wouldn't the splash zone's water com out in wave (pun intended) Reerolmses (talk) 01:29, 14 May 2022 (UTC) when even the muppets were on [xkcd.com/now]