Editing Talk:1071: Exoplanets

Hmm... this comic and 786 have the same title. Is that a mistake? [[User:Castriff|Jimmy C]] ([[User talk:Castriff|talk]]) 01:07, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
:It may very well have been on {{xkcd}} itself; there was a bit of a snafu when Randall posted the image.  That's part of the reason why we decided on number+name here, to ensure that that sort of naming collision couldn't be repeated. -- [[User:IronyChef|IronyChef]] ([[User talk:IronyChef|talk]]) 04:39, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
:It's also worth mentioning that 786 is both the number of the other strip, and the number of planets in this one. [[Special:Contributions/93.144.215.90|93.144.215.90]] 22:38, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

The image isn't appearing for me. I think it's a problem with the thumbnail system. [[User:Bugefun|Bugefun]] ([[User talk:Bugefun|talk]]) 18:15, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
:Same here. Using Chrome. -- [[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 19:20, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
Same on ipad. [[User:DruidDriver|DruidDriver]] ([[User talk:DruidDriver|talk]]) 07:12, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

And on Firefox. --[[Special:Contributions/68.200.188.141|68.200.188.141]] 01:01, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Not showing up in Chrome. [[User:Alpha|Alpha]] ([[User talk:Alpha|talk]]) 23:14, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

As a side note, the pace at which we're discovering exoplanets is accelerating.  The first confirmed planet-sized mass outside our solar system was discovered in 1992, and it was ten years until we could celebrate the discovery of the 100th exoplanet.  In the fifteen months since this comic was posted, another 156 exoplanets have been discovered (source: Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, which lists 942 exoplanets as of 2 Sep 2013). [[User:Frijole|Frijole]] ([[User talk:Frijole|talk]]) 22:41, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

There are 786 exoplanets listed in the comic, And the previous comic about exoplanets is comic 786..... Coincidence? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.222.44|108.162.222.44]] 08:58, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
:I think it's possible that he was waiting for the count to increase to that number to create some sort of meta-pun.  With Randall, you never know, but the odds of that happening independently seems unfathomable to me. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.117|108.162.238.117]] 16:12, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
:Additional comment: I believe the original filename for 768 was just "exoplanets.png" before being changed to "exoplanets_2010.png" when this comic was released.  Any website that hotlinked the first comic would have their image replaced with the newest one. {{unsigned ip|108.162.238.117}}

Does anybody else see this and think colorblindness test? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.86|173.245.55.86]] 22:43, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Three levels deep.. Remind anyone of Inception?[[User:A2658742|A2658742]] ([[User talk:A2658742|talk]]) 08:36, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

This comic is referenced on exoplanet.eu, a professional site for exoplanet scientists, as the first link on a page titled "General professional Web sites relevant to extrasolar planets".  The actual link goes to an interactive version of the page, but the link is at http://exoplanet.eu/sites/ labeled "Exoplanets: an interactive version of XKCD 1071".
The actual interactive page is http://codementum.org/exoplanets/ .
N. Kalanaga  13:58 (UTC-4) 10 April 2016

Was it actually 786 exoplanets known back then, or 786 planets including both the exoplanets and our own solar system? I would read the caption the latter way. This would make the number of exoplanets 778, like they also count it [https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jun/21/space-exoplanets-graphic-visualisation here] and [https://futurism.com/xkcd-planet-graphic-and-the-number-of-exoplanets/ here], while this explanation here mentions 786 exoplanets several times. --[[User:YMS|YMS]] ([[User talk:YMS|talk]]) 09:25, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
:I could count them, but... I don't really feel like spending ~4 minutes straight on counting dots. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.54.123|172.69.54.123]] 10:26, 29 March 2018 (UTC)