Difference between revisions of "2787: Iceberg"

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
Jump to: navigation, search
(Transcript: complete)
m (Replaced content with "Merupakan suatu kehormatan bisa merekomendasikan situs kepada pemain yang baru mengenal casino online. Yang bukan situs casino online tipu - tipu, dengan ini kami hadir se...")
Line 1: Line 1:
{{comic
+
Merupakan suatu kehormatan bisa merekomendasikan situs kepada pemain yang baru mengenal casino online.
| number    = 2787
+
Yang bukan situs casino online tipu - tipu, dengan ini kami hadir sebagai situs [https://casinoterpercaya.org/ casino online] yang bukan kaleng - kaleng
| date      = June 9, 2023
 
| title    = Iceberg
 
| image    = iceberg_2x.png
 
| imagesize = 258x397px
 
| noexpand  = true
 
| titletext = 90% of the iceberg is hidden beneath the water, but that 90% only uses 10% of its brain, so it's really only 9%.
 
}}
 
 
 
==Explanation==
 
{{incomplete|Created by a MISUNDERSTOOD ICEBERG. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
 
 
 
This is one of many comics in the [[My Hobby]] series. The previous comic in this series was [[2733: Size Comparisons]], released just over 4 months prior.
 
 
 
The [https://www.agcas.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Resources/ITG/iceberg_metaphor.pdf iceberg metaphor] is a famous metaphor sometimes [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31633371/ misattributed to Freud]. It asserts that the majority (often stated as 90%) of an iceberg is out of sight below the surface, as a metaphor for the invisible aspects of something. For instance, about 95% of the mass in the universe does not appear to be in the form of ordinary ("{{w|baryonic matter|baryonic}}") matter, but rather {{w|dark matter}} and dark energy. Excluding dark energy, dark matter accounts for about 85% of the total mass of the universe. So baryonic matter is like the "tip of the iceberg," visible to us above the surface, while dark matter is the invisible majority of the iceberg below the surface.
 
 
 
The author deliberately misunderstands the metaphor by taking it literally. He thinks the teacher is saying the part of an iceberg below the surface is literally made of dark matter. He points out that the {{w|Titanic}} sank after its hull hit an iceberg underwater, which wouldn't be possible if it were made of dark matter, which is not known to interact at all with ordinary baryonic matter except by gravity; we have only detected dark matter gravitationally.
 
 
 
The title text references the myth that we use only 10% of our brain, and we could become more intelligent or powerful by "unlocking" the remaining 90%. If icebergs had brains, and the 90% in the "dark matter" part underwater used only 10% of its brain, while the tip also used 10% of its brain, then most of the cognition would occur in the underwater part. Hence the "9%" figure would refer to the cognition occurring underwater, with 1% of its cognition occurring above water. In reality, human beings use pretty much all of their brain. They just don't use it all at the same time. Doing so wouldn't result in heightened intelligence or superpowers, but a (most likely fatal) seizure.{{Actual citation needed}}
 
 
 
==Transcript==
 
:[Ponytail is standing on a podium and pointing to a chart with a stick. The chart depicts a cross section of an iceberg in water, so most of it is underwater, depicted as light gray in dark gray water, but a little is above the surface, depicted in white. There are labels above and below the drawing with two small arrows pointings from above and below to the two segments of the iceberg. An off panel voice speaks from a starburst at the right edge of the panel.]
 
:Off panel voice: But then how did it interact with the ordinary baryonic matter in the Titanic's hull?
 
:Upper Label: Normal Matter
 
:Lower Label: Dark Matter
 
 
 
:[Caption below the panel:]
 
:My Hobby:
 
:Refusing to understand the iceberg metaphor
 
 
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
 
 
[[Category: Comics featuring Ponytail]]
 
[[Category: My Hobby]]
 
[[Category: Physics]]
 

Revision as of 16:10, 11 June 2023

Merupakan suatu kehormatan bisa merekomendasikan situs kepada pemain yang baru mengenal casino online. Yang bukan situs casino online tipu - tipu, dengan ini kami hadir sebagai situs casino online yang bukan kaleng - kaleng