User contributions
(newest | oldest) View (newer 500 | older 500) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
- 08:57, 18 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+137) . . Talk:2426: Animal Songs (Is it known whether Dr. Fauci owns a cat?--~~~~)
- 18:07, 29 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+6) . . 2418: Metacarcinization (→Explanation: {{w|Carcinization}})
- 19:04, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+151) . . 2412: 1/100,000th Scale World (→Table: However, at about 2-3 km thickness in real world, 1/100,000 scaled ice caps have a 2-3 cm thickness, which is a very convenient size to put in drinks.)
- 18:57, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+204) . . 2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (→Table: The {{w|Golden Gate Bridge}} is a suspension bridge in San Francisco, supported by two 93 cm wide cables. Scaled down, they would be 0.93 mm wide wires and it would be tempting to use them as a thigtrope.)
- 18:48, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (-10) . . 2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (→Table: not elemental hydrogen, but just plain current molecular hydrogen)
- 18:46, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+735) . . 2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (→Table: In the US, small parts are defined by [https://www.cpsc.gov/Business--Manufacturing/Business-Education/Business-Guidance/Small-Parts-for-Toys-and-Childrens-Products 16 C.F.R. Part 1501.2] as fitting in a cylindrical test fixture of 1.25 inches)
- 18:31, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+26) . . 2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (→Table: {{w|Hindenburg disaster|Hindenburg exploded}})
- 18:30, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+11) . . m Talk:2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (<pre>)
- 18:29, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+386) . . Talk:2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (Just for reference: the maths to scale down the Niagara Falls flow an convert from cubic feet to cubic centimeters: > 1e5*(.3048)^3*1000^2/(1e3)^3 [1] 2.831685 > 1e5*(.3048)^3*1000^2/(1e3)^3/2 [1] 1.415842 American editors may want to adapt the formulas)
- 18:27, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+115) . . 2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (→Explanation: Once scaled to 1/1000, that flow would be 2.83 or 1.41 cm3 per second, enough to fill a glass in about one minute.)
- 18:20, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+196) . . 2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (→Table: According to https://what-if.xkcd.com/147/, the Niagara Falls flow is regulated to 100.000 cubic feet per second on the tourist season and to 50.000 cubic feet per second off season and at night.)
- 18:17, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+144) . . 2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (→Table: | The {{w|Gateway Arch}} is a monument in Saint Louis, Misouri. Being a 192 m high arch, once scaled it would be 19.2 cm high, ideal for tripping.)
- 18:00, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+71) . . 2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (→Explanation: and 2412: 1/100,000th Scale World)
- 19:21, 15 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+268) . . Talk:2412: 1/100,000th Scale World
- 19:19, 15 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+351) . . 2412: 1/100,000th Scale World (→Explanation: The tittle text states that the floor should be slightly curved. In fact, given that the model in the comic is about 10 meters long, it represents about 1000 km of Earth, that spans about 9 degrees of a great circle. Therefore, if the mo)
- 09:31, 12 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+181) . . 2410: Apple Growers (→Explanation: {{w|Cosmic Crisp}}, mentioned in title text, is a variety of apples developed in the Washington State University that has been on sale since 2019, amid a large marketing campaign.)
- 16:04, 27 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . 2391: Life Before the Pandemic (→Grilling in the Library: Grilling is not safe in doors or indoors, but I think the strip means the later.)
- 16:03, 27 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+17) . . 2391: Life Before the Pandemic (→Arcade Claw Machines: {{w|Claw crane|Arcade claw machines}})
- 16:01, 27 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . Talk:2391: Life Before the Pandemic (organizing threads)
- 16:01, 27 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+434) . . Talk:2391: Life Before the Pandemic (Non native speaker, here. Should the mouse-over text be understood as riding a horse in a shopping mall? That would make sense as it is as absurd as the other activities mentioned in the strip. "Mall" can have also other meanings, but riding through the N)
- 15:49, 18 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+55) . . 2386: Ten Years (→Explanation: with Randall being depicted as Clueball and his wife as Megan.)
- 09:44, 17 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+116) . . 2386: Ten Years (→Explanation: which according to 881: Probability wasn't unlikely but couldn't either be taken for granted (77% probability).)
- 09:38, 10 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+84) . . 2383: Electoral Precedent 2020 (→Explanation: By 1996 that had changed and both the incumbent [http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/websites/cg96/ Bill Clinton campaign] and the challenger [http://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm Bob Dole campaing] had websites that look very simple by tod)
- 09:33, 10 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+237) . . 2383: Electoral Precedent 2020 (→Explanation: and Randall assumes the 1992 Clinton campaign not to have a website - in 1996 that had changed, although the [http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/websites/cg96/ 1996 Clinton - Gore campaign website] seems very simple by today's standards.)
- 13:12, 6 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+333) . . Talk:2381: The True Name of the Bear (I wonder if the fact that the brown bear (aka grizzly) has been disappearing from most of North-America as the Germanic languages expanded there, could be cited as (weak) evidence that the euphemism actually prevents bears from appearing.--~~~~)
- 22:02, 5 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+80) . . 2314: Carcinization ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gameplay_of_Pok%C3%A9mon#Pok%C3%A9mon_evolution of Pokémon])
- 21:59, 5 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+102) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (and it is also [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IKnowYourTrueName a common trope] elsewhere. Some say a true name contains clear meaning of who someone or something really is.)
- 13:10, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-18) . . m 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation)
- 13:09, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . m 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation)
- 13:08, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+19) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear ({{w|Sound change|sound shifting}})
- 13:06, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+310) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: Interestingly enough, the hypothesized word Arth is the same as the Welsh for the word bear. Welsh belongs to the Celtic language family, which is one of the Indoeuropean branches that still uses a word derived from *rkto-, as the Italic)
- 12:25, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: fairly wise)
- 12:23, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+105) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: but pronouncing it seems to actually summon an ours, showing that abandoning that word was a quite wise move for the forefathers of German language speakers.)
- 12:22, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+283) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: The Indoeuropean root for bears is *rkto-, which has been inferred from languages that use words derived for it. In the comic, Gretchen McCulloch applies sound shifting laws to it to guess how would have it evolved into English, but pron)
- 12:15, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+84) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: and it were replaced by an euphemisms in those branches. In the Germanic branch, the euphemism may have been like "the brown one" and words for bear derive from words for "brown".)
- 12:13, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+65) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: about [https://www.charlierussellbears.com/LinguisticArchaeology.html the theory])
- 12:12, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+24) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (The Canadian Internet linguist {{w|Gretchen McCulloch}})
- 12:10, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+124) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: - notably the Germanic one - and it were replaced by an euphemism like "the brown one" that lead to the English word "bear".)
- 12:08, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+208) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: The linguist Gretchen McCulloch [https://twitter.com/gretchenamcc/status/1113195661275611137?lang=ca tweeted] about the theory that the word for bear became taboo in some branches of Indoeuropean languages.)
- 09:48, 25 October 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+173) . . 2376: Curbside (→Explanation: This same kind of recursivity of tracking tracers has been previously explored to find finders and incinerate incinerators.)
- 23:44, 10 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+99) . . 2239: Data Error (→Explanation: On the other hand, algae and cyanobacteria still {{w|Harmful algal bloom|can be locally harmful}}.)
- 00:21, 10 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+402) . . 2239: Data Error (→Explanation: In fact, destroying the evidence, hiding the error and publishing the wrong results as if they were right is what a dishonest scientist would do. This is what a lot of readers would expect a dishonest character as Blackhat to suggest in)
- 18:56, 9 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+119) . . 2239: Data Error (→Explanation: That suggests that algae may be somehow dangerous - although {{w|Cyanobacteria}} are no longer considered {{w|algae}}.)
- 18:54, 9 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+222) . . 2239: Data Error (→Explanation: Mouse-over text is about the {{w|Great Oxidation Event}} when prokaryotic photosynthetic organisms built up oxygen in Earth atmosphere for the first time and most organisms, which weren't adapted to oxygen, went extinct.)
- 22:12, 2 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+549) . . 2236: Is it Christmas? (→Explanation: In fact, in most settings where a single outcome is a lot more common than any other one, predicting always that most common outcome would yield very high accuracy without any usefulness. It isn't hard to find examples even more accurate)
- 22:01, 2 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (line break to avoid a large white gap (as seen in Chrome))
- 21:55, 2 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+215) . . 2236: Is it Christmas? (→Explanation: A reasonably useful prediction, however, should be likely to say "No" when it is not Christmas - as Randall's one does - but it should also be likely to say "Yes" when it's Christmas - which Radall's one doesn't -.)
- 21:51, 2 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+514) . . 2236: Is it Christmas? (→Explanation: Although Randall's claim on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision#In_binary_classification accuracy] is true, accuracy alone doesn't make a predictive device useful. In this case, the page [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F)
- 21:44, 2 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+183) . . 2236: Is it Christmas? (→Explanation: Although Randall's claim on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision#In_binary_classification accuracy] is true, accuracy alone doesn't make a predictive device useful.)
- 07:40, 16 September 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+6) . . 2202: Earth-Like Exoplanet ({{w|Pit and the Pendulum}})
- 13:25, 28 August 2019 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . m 2194: How to Send a File (→Explanation: if you try)
- 15:15, 26 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+28) . . 2168: Reading in the Original (→Explanation: [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-pedia#English -pedia])
- 15:11, 26 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (-9) . . 2168: Reading in the Original (→Explanation: but that's not because of any purported merger but only a consequence of English being used on the Internet a lot more than Greek and thus allowing to gather a larger community of editors.)
- 15:10, 26 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+292) . . 2168: Reading in the Original (→Explanation: The articles in Greek Wikipedia tend to be shorter than in the English version, but that's not because of any purported merger but only a consequence of the English a lot more being more used than Greek in the Internet and thus allowing)
- 15:05, 26 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+233) . . 2168: Reading in the Original (→Explanation: However, he is not reading the "original" version of Wikipedia articles, but their equivalent in the [https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CF%8D%CE%BB%CE%B7:%CE%9A%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1 modern Greek language edition of Wikipedia].)
- 15:22, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (-9) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation: and which obviously are just the {{w|President of the United States}}.)
- 15:20, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+23) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation: Some fiction writers and filmmakers set some of all of their works in a common {{w|fictional universe|universe}}.)
- 15:18, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+182) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation: The pun here is that Clueball is trying to find the common features between Ken Burn's series to set them in a common universe, as a fiction fan would do, "discovering" similarities between series that are just obvious and well known fac)
- 15:16, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+262) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation: The pun here is that Clueball is trying to find the common features between Ken Burn's series to set them in a common universe, as a fiction fan would do, "discovering" similarities between series that are just obvious and well known fac)
- 15:14, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+180) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation: Therefore all their documentary series are set in a common universe - which is actually the real one, and usually a single part of it: the United States in the last two centuries.)
- 15:12, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+166) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation: When it's not obvious that several works from the same author are set in the same fictional universe, some fans may try to find a way to relate them to a common set.)
- 15:10, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+92) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation: Some fiction writers and filmmakers are set in a common {{w|fictional universe|universe}}.)
- 15:09, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation)
- 15:09, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+85) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation: {{w:Ken Burns}} is an American filmmaker renowned for his historical documentaries.)
- 13:50, 22 March 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+335) . . 2126: Google Trends Maps (→Explanation: The contrast is more striking since bungee jumping is a potentially dangerous activity and people practising it might be seen as likely to die young enough not to need a retirement planing. However, bungee jumping is actually a quite sa)
- 21:23, 20 March 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+6) . . 2126: Google Trends Maps (wikipedia link)
- 09:42, 25 January 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . 647: Scary (→Trivia: having to change verbal tense of that scary sentence makes it way more scary)
- 19:58, 11 January 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+180) . . Talk:2097: Thor Tools (:I agree. That interpretation should be in the explanation instead of the present one.--~~~~)
- 17:13, 24 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . User:Pere prlpz
- 17:11, 24 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+37) . . N User:Pere prlpz (More info in ca:User:Pere prlpz.)
- 16:52, 24 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+45) . . 2063: Carnot Cycle (→Explanation: Galadriel is one of the last elves to leave.)
- 16:51, 24 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+171) . . 2063: Carnot Cycle ({{w|Galadriel}} is a character in Lord of the Rings. Galadriel is one of the leading {{w|Elf (Middle-earth)|elves}}, which is a race that in the time of the book is said t)
- 19:47, 18 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+353) . . Talk:2060: Hygrometer (::The interest of the fact in relation to the comic may be debatable, but even now four out of the first ten Google results linked to pornhub, and yesterday when the comic appeared and it still didn't show on Google, pornhub results made the whole first p)
- 16:52, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+136) . . Talk:2060: Hygrometer (:Thank you. I added it to the description.--~~~~)
- 16:51, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . m 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation)
- 16:50, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+709) . . 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation: ===Trivia=== At the moment of the release of this comic, a [https://www.google.es/search?rlz=1C1NHXL_caES708ES708&ei=EEHHW-DWBJ2vgAbZyrSQAw&q=ometerometer&oq=ometerometer&gs_l=psy-ab.3...1876.4215.0.4448.12.10.0.0.0.0.376.1163.0j3j1j1.5)
- 15:48, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+267) . . Talk:2060: Hygrometer (Interestingly, Google search for ometerometer returns porn results. If there is an xkcd comic about rule 34 (if it exists, there is porn about it), it could be linked here.--~~~~)
- 15:44, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+425) . . 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation: The word {{w|hypsometer}} can mean [https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/hypsometer two unrelated instruments] to measure height. One measures heights of a building or a tree by triangulation. The other measures altitude)
- 15:37, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+211) . . 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation: An {{w|Stalagmometric method|stalagmometer}} is an instrument to measure {{w|surface tension}} of fluids by producing a drop and wheighing it - the bigger the drop is, the larger surface tension the fluid has.)
- 15:32, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+261) . . 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation: aleurometer. I'm afraid my explanation should be improved by anybody having actually seen an aleurometer.)
- 15:26, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+96) . . 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation: A {{w|viscometer}} or viscosimeter is an instrument to measure the {{w|viscosity}} of a fluid.)
- 15:24, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . m 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation: grammar)
- 15:23, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+266) . . 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation: An {{w|sclerometer}} is an instrument to measure {{w|scratch hardness}} of a solid by scratching it under some stardard conditions and measuring the scratch. Instruments used to measure the elastic properties of concret surfaces, like th)
- 15:19, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+159) . . 2060: Hygrometer (An {{w|sclerometer}} is an instrument to measure {{w|scratch hardness}} of a solid by scratching it under some stardard conditions and measuring the scratch.)
- 15:17, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+143) . . 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation: An {{w|hygrometer}} is an instrument to measure the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere or the amount of water in solids as soil or wood.)
- 15:15, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+118) . . 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation: A [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/declinometer declinometer] is an instrument to measure {{w|magnetic declination}}.)
- 15:43, 16 July 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+6) . . 2020: Negative Results (→Explanation: {{w|publication bias}})
- 16:49, 13 July 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+314) . . 2019: An Apple for a Dollar (→Explanation: although this problem involves the rather unrealistic assumption that the train speed is constant. Like the frictionless plane, this is a common simplification that allows the problem to be solved with quite simple techniques, just like)
- 19:36, 11 July 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+339) . . Talk:1992: SafetySat (This cubesat made its way to Space Exploration Stackexchange: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/28345/cubesat-design-requirements-and-safety-restrictions I leave the link here just in case we could add something from it to the explanation.--~~~~)
- 10:23, 29 June 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+180) . . Talk:2012: Thorough Analysis (:I think a that comparison with this website should be included in the comic explanation.--~~~~)
- 15:16, 20 June 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+142) . . 2009: Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (→Explanation: The {{w|Hertzsprung–Russell diagram}} is an scatterplot showing absolute luminosities of stars against its effective temperature or color.)
- 10:55, 11 April 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+67) . . 1979: History (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_James_A._Garfield)
- 11:46, 21 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+353) . . Talk:1944: The End of the Rainbow (The accuracy of Megan's statement is being discussed in https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/24590/how-much-gold-is-there-in-our-sun and their conclusions are contradicting the one published here. I haven't still checked but I think somebody)
- 23:58, 15 September 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+281) . . Talk:1890: What to Bring (The sentence "which often come with lids suited to making an airtight seal" is inaccurate. Lids don't form an airtight seal, and airtightness is not necessary to extinguish a pan fire.)
- 14:54, 23 June 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . m 493: Actuarial (→Explanation: fixing tvTropes link)
- 20:10, 14 April 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+7) . . m 1824: Identification Chart (→Explanation: {{w|Harrier (bird))
- 12:41, 6 March 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+3) . . 1807: Listening (Cueball and Ponytail (not Megan))
- 21:23, 16 February 2017 (diff | hist) . . (-3) . . m 1799: Bad Map Projection: Time Zones (→Table of countries and their timezones)
- 21:23, 16 February 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . m 1799: Bad Map Projection: Time Zones (→Table of countries and their timezones: {{w)
- 21:23, 16 February 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+231) . . 1799: Bad Map Projection: Time Zones (→Table of countries and their timezones: | {{w|Sudan}} and {{South Sudan}} || UTC+3 || Both countries are in fully in UTC+3 zone, but in the map a little part of them has been stretched to meet the borders with Chad the Central African Republic)
- 09:07, 15 February 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+145) . . Talk:1799: Bad Map Projection: Time Zones (Should we compile a table of oddities in the map?--~~~~)
- 09:06, 15 February 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+178) . . Talk:1799: Bad Map Projection: Time Zones (::The switch is just a mistake, maybe caused by a map not depicting Western Sahara.--~~~~)
- 09:45, 1 February 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+25) . . m 1793: Soda Sugar Comparisons (→Explanation: {{w|Skittles (confectionery)|Skittles}})
- 22:16, 9 February 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+593) . . explain xkcd:Community portal/Miscellaneous (→Sightless readers offended by the "It's 'cause you're dumb" tagline.: :I'm an "international user", too, and I suppose a lot of users of this site are international users who need to be explained some xkcd jokes that would be obvious to any nati)
- 11:54, 23 January 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+230) . . Talk:1633: Possible Undiscovered Planets (:::I agree that it means stars. Any body bigger than 1AU (or even a lot smaller) must be a star. The only alternative would be a nebula.--~~~~)
- 21:57, 22 January 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+369) . . Talk:1633: Possible Undiscovered Planets (::I added the stars statement before reading your comment. Feel free to edit it. ::And I agree that it's strange that Randall didn't mark the Sun. Furthermore, the Sun fits the Greek definition of planet. In fact, it fits any definition of planet bet)
- 21:53, 22 January 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+104) . . 1633: Possible Undiscovered Planets (→Explanation: "Planets ruled out because we would see them during the day" refers to objects big enough to be stars.)
- 10:06, 18 December 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+424) . . Talk:802: Online Communities 2 (The "Russia (DJ)" island just next to Sarah Palin's area is probably a reference to her very commented statement that you can see Russia from Alaska,[http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/sarah-palin-never-said-can-see-russia-house/] someho)
- 17:29, 17 December 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+544) . . Talk:162: Angular Momentum (::The total angular momentum is not changed, but while Megan is spinning the Earth is rotating slower. When she stops spinning, the Earth resumes it's previous spin rate, but not in the same position, and therefore dawn comes later. ::You can compare)
- 17:22, 17 December 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+507) . . Talk:162: Angular Momentum (:The effect is stronger in the North Pole, but in temperate latidudes it's still strong. In fact, it's proportional to sine of latitude. Therefore, if the comic is set in Boston (where I think Randall lives), it's just a 33% weaker than in the Pole ()
- 12:49, 15 December 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+359) . . Talk:316: Loud Sex (:"Aberration" should be understood here as a sound equivalent of wikipedia:Optical aberration. An spheric or parabolloidal reflector wouldn't focus in one point sound from a point source. Of course, there is also a double meaning with aberrant se)
(newest | oldest) View (newer 500 | older 500) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)