Another XKCD classic
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I thought I scrolled around a lot of the pic this morning, but wasn't even close. Wow... just wow.
And the Rhode Island thing was funny. Sounded better than the discussion of Revolution in the other thread.
And the Rhode Island thing was funny. Sounded better than the discussion of Revolution in the other thread.
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Long-time readers of xkcd will get this most out of this one...very nicely done...
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Feynman recounted another good one upperclassmen would use on freshmen physics students: When you look at words in a mirror, how come they're reversed left to right but not top to bottom? What's special about the horizontal axis?
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From the same guy we got What If and now a twitter feed -What-If Numbers - numbers he found while looking up answers to the What if questions. For example -
2,210: Distance to the Alpha Centauri system, measured in units of Voyager 2's current distance from us
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Has anyone been following the "Time" strip? It was posted last week Monday, and has been updated regularly (every few hours, maybe?) ever since. It started with two people sitting on a beach, and by now they've constructed a massive sand castle.
Here's a video that shows all of the strips in sequence.
Here's a video that shows all of the strips in sequence.
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This is still being updated.AWS260 wrote:Has anyone been following the "Time" strip? It was posted last week Monday, and has been updated regularly (every few hours, maybe?) ever since. It started with two people sitting on a beach, and by now they've constructed a massive sand castle.
Here's a video that shows all of the strips in sequence.
The water is starting to rise.
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Just as a reminder (since I always forget), you can use the space bar to pause the action and the arrow keys to advance frames one at a time in either direction. (Yes, the instructions are on the page, but I always forget to look there too.)
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Still going on - current frame is 1747 and Day 68.AWS260 wrote:This is still being updated.AWS260 wrote:Has anyone been following the "Time" strip? It was posted last week Monday, and has been updated regularly (every few hours, maybe?) ever since. It started with two people sitting on a beach, and by now they've constructed a massive sand castle.
Here's a video that shows all of the strips in sequence.
The water is starting to rise.
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2179 - Day 86.stessier wrote:Still going on - current frame is 1747 and Day 68.AWS260 wrote:This is still being updated.AWS260 wrote:Has anyone been following the "Time" strip? It was posted last week Monday, and has been updated regularly (every few hours, maybe?) ever since. It started with two people sitting on a beach, and by now they've constructed a massive sand castle.
Here's a video that shows all of the strips in sequence.
The water is starting to rise.
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This is like that virus given to the borg in that one TNG episode.... What is so special about the horizontal axis ?? Is there an answer to this I could possibly hope to understand?disarm wrote:
Feynman recounted another good one upperclassmen would use on freshmen physics students: When you look at words in a mirror, how come they're reversed left to right but not top to bottom? What's special about the horizontal axis?
Ahh, here we go
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The mirror isn't actually reversing anything. What's on the left, stays on the left; what's on top, stays on top, etc.
Imagine writing something on a piece of paper and holding it so you can look at it without a mirror. Now what do you have to do in order to see the piece of paper so you can see it in the mirror? You have to turn it around -- flip it along the horizontal.
If you do that, it is flipped BOTH in the mirror and in actuality, too.
In fact whenever you look at a paper and can see through it to writing on the other side, the writing appears backwards.
You could flip the paper vertically, and then look at it in the mirror. Then it would be correct left-to-right but everything would appear upside down.
Imagine writing something on a piece of paper and holding it so you can look at it without a mirror. Now what do you have to do in order to see the piece of paper so you can see it in the mirror? You have to turn it around -- flip it along the horizontal.
If you do that, it is flipped BOTH in the mirror and in actuality, too.
In fact whenever you look at a paper and can see through it to writing on the other side, the writing appears backwards.
You could flip the paper vertically, and then look at it in the mirror. Then it would be correct left-to-right but everything would appear upside down.
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Post this on your FB wall.
And it doesn't pop up a box every time asking you to use your real name. In fact, there's no way to set your name at all. You just have to keep reminding people who you are.
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So, just as an aside, is that story true? About the old windows utility and etc etc etc
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maybe?Drazzil wrote:So, just as an aside, is that story true? About the old windows utility and etc etc etc
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I just read that one, and thought, Man, I wish I had somewhere like that on the internet. You know, like a chat room or a forum or something long since forgotten by the rest of the net. Maybe I'd stop by once in a while and all the same people would still be there, just chatting away.Moliere wrote:Undocumented Feature
Too bad there's not such a place.
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Welcome back, Mr. Stealth...tiny ogre wrote:I just read that one, and thought, Man, I wish I had somewhere like that on the internet. You know, like a chat room or a forum or something long since forgotten by the rest of the net. Maybe I'd stop by once in a while and all the same people would still be there, just chatting away.Moliere wrote:Undocumented Feature
Too bad there's not such a place.
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Heh. Well done, sir.tiny ogre wrote:I just read that one, and thought, Man, I wish I had somewhere like that on the internet. You know, like a chat room or a forum or something long since forgotten by the rest of the net. Maybe I'd stop by once in a while and all the same people would still be there, just chatting away.Moliere wrote:Undocumented Feature
Too bad there's not such a place.
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Nailed Free Speech.
I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.
I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.
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It's almost as if people are the problem.
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XKCD predicted this.
05/29/14: The ISEE-3 Reboot Project is pleased to announce that our team has established two-way communication with the ISEE-3 spacecraft and has begun commanding it to perform specific functions.
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"The world is suffering more today from the good people who want to mind other men's business than it is from the bad people who are willing to let everybody look after their own individual affairs." - Clarence Darrow
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Super Bowl. I don't know if I would call it a "classic, but it captures what I love about xkcd -- the intersection of dedicated nerdiness with genuine warmth and compassion.
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Not sure I agree that "not caring" about something gives you power over it. Maybe agree that it prevents that thing from having power over you.
Over thinking again.
Over thinking again.
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It took me until somewhere in my 30s to learn this.
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Oh man, are you guy's still talking about this? I guess I used to worry about discussions like these but once I got more mature mentally I moved beyond them. I guess you can keep talking about it if you feel the need but I don't care about it and I'm going to move onto more important things.Carpet_pissr wrote:Not sure I agree that "not caring" about something gives you power over it. Maybe agree that it prevents that thing from having power over you.
Over thinking again.
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I see what you did there.wonderpug wrote:Oh man, are you guy's still talking about this? I guess I used to worry about discussions like these but once I got more mature mentally I moved beyond them. I guess you can keep talking about it if you feel the need but I don't care about it and I'm going to move onto more important things.Carpet_pissr wrote:Not sure I agree that "not caring" about something gives you power over it. Maybe agree that it prevents that thing from having power over you.
Over thinking again.
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I will say he got me to at least check the time stamp on the post vs. my answer before I realized...GreenGoo wrote:I see what you did there.wonderpug wrote:Oh man, are you guy's still talking about this? I guess I used to worry about discussions like these but once I got more mature mentally I moved beyond them. I guess you can keep talking about it if you feel the need but I don't care about it and I'm going to move onto more important things.Carpet_pissr wrote:Not sure I agree that "not caring" about something gives you power over it. Maybe agree that it prevents that thing from having power over you.
Over thinking again.
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This got a chuckle out of me.
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Nobody wants England.
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Actually, I think the problem is too many people want England.Moliere wrote:Nobody wants England.
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