https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2354:_Stellar_Evolution&feed=atom&action=historyTalk:2354: Stellar Evolution - Revision history2024-03-28T20:40:11ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2354:_Stellar_Evolution&diff=230681&oldid=prev172.70.130.5 at 20:36, 18 April 20222022-04-18T20:36:28Z<p></p>
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</table>172.69.135.170https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2354:_Stellar_Evolution&diff=196771&oldid=prevTsumikiminiwa: added comment2020-09-03T23:38:48Z<p>added comment</p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:No reply. [[User:Tsumikiminiwa|Tsumikiminiwa]] ([[User talk:Tsumikiminiwa|talk]]) 23:38, 3 September 2020 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Are we sure the title text references cooking a lobster? I was fairly certain it was an allusion to partisan politics in Maine using the traditional blue/red framework. A quick scan of the Wikipedia page on Maine politics seems to support that. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.222|108.162.215.222]] 03:19, 3 September 2020 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Are we sure the title text references cooking a lobster? I was fairly certain it was an allusion to partisan politics in Maine using the traditional blue/red framework. A quick scan of the Wikipedia page on Maine politics seems to support that. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.222|108.162.215.222]] 03:19, 3 September 2020 (UTC)</div></td></tr>
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