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)