Talk:1331: Frequency
I have began the transcript. Should a table be embedded with all the statements?108.162.250.11 07:33, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
- That would be apt. Dammit Randall, why couldn't you have made the comic one image so it'd be easy to put up here? Davidy²²[talk] 07:36, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
I have created a table but someone else has already updated the transcript in a different style; here is my attempt
<table> <tr> <th>Heartbeat</th> <th>One Birth</th> <th>One Death</th> <th>Someone Edits Wikipedia</th> <th>Someone Buys a Vibrator</th> </tr> <tr> <td>China Builds a Car</td> <td>Japan Builds a Car</td> <td>Germany Builds a Car</td> <td>The US Builds a Car</td> <td>Someone Else Builds a Car</td> </tr> <tr> <td>A European Union President Has Their First Kiss</td> <td>A US Fire Department Puts Out a Fire</td> <td>Someone Hits a Hole-In-One</td> <td>My Turn Signal Blinks</td> <td>The Turn Signal of the Car in Front of Me Blinks</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Earthquake (Magnitude 1)</td> <td>Earthquake (Magnitude 2)</td> <td>Earthquake (Magnitude 3)</td> <td>Earthquake (Magnitude 4)</td> <td>Member of the UK Parliament Flushes a Toilet</td> </tr> <tr> <td>An Airline Flight Takes Off</td> <td>Someone Buys <em>To Kill A Mockingbird</em></td> <td>Someone's Pet Cat Kills a Mockingbird</td> <td>Someone in Pheonix Buys New Shoes</td> <td>Someone in Pheonix Puts on a Condom</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Someone Locks Their Keys in Their Car</td> <td>A Sagittarius Named Amelia Drinks a Soda</td> <td>A Dog Bites Someone in the US</td> <td>Someone Steals a Bicycle</td> <td>A Bald Eagle Catches a Fish</td> </tr> <tr> <td>50,000 Plastic Bottles are Produced</td> <td>50,000 Plastic Bottles are Recycled</td> <td>A Bright Meteor is Visible Somewhere</td> <td>Old Faithful Erupts</td> <td>A fishing Boat Catches a Shark</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Someone in the US is Diagnosed With Cancer</td> <td>Someone in the US Dies from Cancer</td> <td>Someone Adopts a Dog from a Shelter</td> <td>Someone Adopts a Cat from a Shelter</td> <td>Someone gets Married</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Someone Registers a Domain</td> <td>Someone in the US Buys a House</td> <td>Someone in the US gets a Tattoo</td> <td>The Star <em>PSR J1748-2446AD Rotates 1,000 Times</em></td> <td>Someone Lies About their Age to Sign up for Facebook</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Someone Breaks an iPhone Screen</td> <td>A Little League Player Strikes Out</td> <td>Someone has Sex in North Dakota</td> <td>Justin Bieber Gains a Follower on Twitter</td> <td>Someone in Denver Orders a Pizza</td> </tr> </table>108.162.250.11 10:06, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
I would like to point out a few things: the title text refers to an experiment that shows a piece of tar, if I remember correctly, which looks like a solid material, dripping very very slowly. It takes a year or more for a drop to fall, and there should be a live stream of it somewhere, I think.
- A year? It took 12 years for the last drop to fall...
The second is the turning signal being out of sync with the other car. Randall made a comic about that one already. It's a recurring thing.Dulcis (talk) 07:57, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
- About turning signals, see XKCD #165--KoundelitchNico (talk) 09:32, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
I found a simple tool that calculates the duration of GIF files on github: https://raw.github.com/alimony/gifduration/master/gifduration.py
Slightly edited, this is the output:
amelia.gif: 7790 ms (7.79 seconds) bieber.gif: 4730 ms (4.73 seconds) bike.gif: 24930 ms (24.93 seconds) birth.gif: 240 ms (0.24 seconds) book_mockingbird.gif: 42050 ms (42.05 seconds) bottles.gif: 1270 ms (1.27 seconds) car_china.gif: 1890 ms (1.89 seconds) car_elsewhere.gif: 1030 ms (1.03 seconds) car_germany.gif: 5800 ms (5.80 seconds) car_japan.gif: 4010 ms (4.01 seconds) car_us.gif: 6950 ms (6.95 seconds) cat.gif: 21300 ms (21.30 seconds) cat_mockingbird.gif: 1820 ms (1.82 seconds) death.gif: 560 ms (0.56 seconds) denverpizza.gif: 1270 ms (1.27 seconds) dogbite.gif: 7010 ms (7.01 seconds) dog.gif: 15600 ms (15.60 seconds) domain.gif: 640 ms (0.64 seconds) eagle.gif: 2690 ms (2.69 seconds) earthquake1.gif: 2430 ms (2.43 seconds) earthquake2.gif: 24260 ms (24.26 seconds) earthquake3.gif: 242600 ms (242.60 seconds) earthquake4.gif: 2426000 ms (2426.00 seconds) facebook.gif: 4320 ms (4.32 seconds) fire_dept.gif: 23000 ms (23.00 seconds) flight.gif: 930 ms (0.93 seconds) heartbeat.gif: 860 ms (0.86 seconds) holeinone.gif: 180000 ms (180.00 seconds) house.gif: 6220 ms (6.22 seconds) iphone.gif: 930 ms (0.93 seconds) keys.gif: 2430 ms (2.43 seconds) kiss.gif: 5530 ms (5.53 seconds) littleleague.gif: 1230 ms (1.23 seconds) meteor.gif: 1150 ms (1.15 seconds) ndsex.gif: 1380 ms (1.38 seconds) oldfaithful.gif: 5640000 ms (5640.00 seconds) parliament_toilet.gif: 10060 ms (10.06 seconds) phoenix.gif: 2050 ms (2.05 seconds) phoenixshoes.gif: 1080 ms (1.08 seconds) pulsar.gif: 1400 ms (1.40 seconds) recycled.gif: 4640 ms (4.64 seconds) shark.gif: 830 ms (0.83 seconds) tattoo.gif: 2060 ms (2.06 seconds) turnsignal1.gif: 940 ms (0.94 seconds) turnsignal2.gif: 900 ms (0.90 seconds) us_cancer_death.gif: 54340 ms (54.34 seconds) us_cancer.gif: 18990 ms (18.99 seconds) vibrator.gif: 2990 ms (2.99 seconds) wedding.gif: 750 ms (0.75 seconds) wikipedia.gif: 670 ms (0.67 seconds)
This could be useful in creating some kind of table in the Explanation. 108.162.231.109 09:25, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks, I'm working on an explanation right now. --173.245.53.152 09:57, 17 February 2014 (UTC)