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{{comic | {{comic | ||
| number = 52 | | number = 52 | ||
− | | date = January | + | | date = January 23, 2006 |
| title = Secret Worlds | | title = Secret Worlds | ||
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| image = secret_worlds.jpg | | image = secret_worlds.jpg | ||
| titletext = No two adjacent circles are the same color. | | titletext = No two adjacent circles are the same color. | ||
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | The quote written in the large white circles comes from {{w|The Sandman (Vertigo)|The Sandman}}, a comic book series about dreams. {{w|Neil Gaiman}} is a science fiction and fantasy author who came to fame for writing Sandman. | |
− | The | + | The meaning of the interconnected circles is ambiguous. They could represent the numerous dream worlds inside a person, or perhaps the worlds of different people. Or they could represent the cells inside our body or maybe even the neurons in our brain. Of course they could also simply be abstract decoration. |
− | {{ | + | The title text is most likely simple [[Nerd Sniping]]. How many of us, have not used some time to see if we could find a flaw. It could, however, also be a reference to the {{w|Four color theorem}}, which states that a {{w|graph theory|graph}} drawn on a flat plane (like this one) requires at most four colors so that each region differs from all of its neighbors. The comic uses four colors (red, yellow, green, blue) but it does not take the white circles with text into account, as they are all adjacent to at least one other white circle. They would need to be colored if they were to be included. But the titel text clearly only refers to the circles without text. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[A multitude of circles connected with several lines. Most of them are rather small and colored red, yellow, green and blue. Nine of them are white, six of these are larger than all the other circles, but one is the same size as the largest colored (green) circle, and the two smallest are smaller than a few of the colored circles. Pieces of text | + | :[A multitude of circles connected with several lines. Most of them are rather small and colored red, yellow, green and blue. Nine of them are white, six of these are larger than all the other circles, but one is the same size as the largest colored (green) circle, and the two smallest are smaller than a few of the colored circles. Pieces of text is written in all the white circles. Although it can be confusing at first the reading order is still the normal one from left to right top to bottom. Readin the circles in that order gives the following text:] |
:"Everybody has a secret world inside of them. | :"Everybody has a secret world inside of them. | ||
:All of the people in the whole world | :All of the people in the whole world | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
− | * | + | *This was the 50th comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. |
− | * This | + | **The previous was [[51: Malaria]]. |
+ | **The next was [[53: Hobby]]. | ||
+ | *This comic kept it's original title: "Secret Worlds" | ||
+ | **It is part of the last six comics on LiveJournal which all had a title without the word "Drawing" in it. | ||
+ | **Five of these had exactly the same title on both sites. | ||
+ | **Only 11 comics have the same title on both sites. | ||
+ | **Apart from the [[:Category:First day on LiveJournal|thirteen first comics]] posted to LiveJournal, there were only three other comics without the word "Drawing" in the title before these last six. | ||
+ | *There were no original [[Randall]] quote for this comic. | ||
+ | *This comic was one of the last 11 comics posted on LiveJournal. | ||
+ | **These 11 comics were [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd|posted both on LiveJournal and xkcd]] after the [[xkcd]] site opened on the 1st of January 2006. | ||
+ | **The first six comics were posted on both sites on the same day. But not this one. | ||
+ | *For some reason [[54: Science]] was posted before this one on LiveJournal on the 18th of January 2006, but first a week later on xkcd on the 25th of January 2006. | ||
+ | **This comic were then released on xkcd the same day as [[51: Malaria]] came out on LiveJournal on Saturday the 21st of January 2006 . | ||
+ | **It then came out on LiveJournal two days later on Monday the 23rd of January 2006. | ||
+ | **The release date here on explain xkcd uses the first release date, so that is the one on xkcd. | ||
+ | *After the mishap with [[54: Science]] the next three comics came out on LiveJournal a release day later. | ||
+ | **First with the last comic released on LiveJournal, [[55: Useless]], did the two sites release the same comic on the same day again. | ||
+ | *During the start-up of xkcd several of the comics were released on days that deviated from the normal Monday, Wednesday, Friday scheme. | ||
+ | **This one was thus released a '''Saturday'''. | ||
+ | **Since it was first posted on xkcd there is no time given for the post. But [[51: Malaria]] was posted so early on Saturday, 1:43 am, that it could almost have been a Friday comic. | ||
+ | **And it is likely that these two were posted close to each other. | ||
+ | **The previous "Friday" comic [[49: Want]] was also released on a Saturday. | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
− | [[Category: | + | [[Category:Comics posted on livejournal| 50]] |
− | [[Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd | + | [[Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd]] |
[[Category:Comics with color]] | [[Category:Comics with color]] | ||
[[Category:Philosophy]] | [[Category:Philosophy]] | ||
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