1416: Pixels/Transcript
- Below each image is mentioned by the title used by Randall and they are listed alphabetically
- The headlines are links to the actual picture as can be found here on explain xkcd
- Below the explanation of a given picture can be seen which pictures can be found in the
- White and black pixels of the picture.*Please add descriptions in each section.
- The comic starts with turtles
assembly-1
- [Randall's What If? book is standing next to Cueball who is taking something out of a box. On the side of the box it says:]
- Rocket parts
- [There are also text on the open lid of the box, which thus is written upside down. It says:]
- KSP
- White: assembly-2
- Black: assembly-planet-3
assembly-2
- [Cueball is beginning to assemble a rocket containing Randall's What If? book.]
- White: assembly-3
- Black: assembly-planet-3
assembly-3
- [Cueball is assembling a rocket putting Randall's What If? book at the top.]
- White: assembly-4
- Black: assembly-planet-1, assembly-planet-3
assembly-4
- [Cueball has assembled a rocket with Randall's What If? book at the top. Megan walks in:]
- Megan: Needs more Struts
- White: assembly-5
- Black: assembly-planet
assembly-5
- [Cueball and Megan has left the assembled rocket with Randall's What If? book at the top.]
- White: assembly-6
- Black: assembly-planet
assembly-6
- [Cueball has added lots of struts to the a rocket he has assembled with Randall's What If? book at the top.]
- White: assembly-7
- Black: assembly-planet-1
assembly-7
- [Cueball admires the final version of the rocket he has assembled with Randall's What If? book at the top and lots of struts.]
- White: assembly-7, upgoer
- Black: moon, saturn, sun
assembly-planet
- White: assembly-6
- Black: assembly-planet
assembly-planet-1
- White: assembly-6, assembly-7
- Black: assembly-planet
assembly-planet-3
- White: assembly-3, assembly-4
- Black: assembly-planet-3, chess-b
atom
blank-figure
book-launch
- [Cueball is holding his (i.e. Randall's) What If? book in front of him]
- Cueball: So eExcited about my book launch!
- White: assembly-1, book-launch, particles, turtles, whatif-trade
- Black: atom, launch-planet, moon, saturn
cantor
chess-b
chess-w
clouds-1
- White: clouds-1, clouds-2, clouds-3, clouds-4, clouds-5, du, evolution, mario-entry, mario-sitting-1, mario-sitting-2, mario-sitting-3, particles, server-1, time-turner
- Black: sky, sky-4
clouds-2
- White: clouds-1, clouds-2, clouds-3, clouds-4, clouds-5, du, evolution, fire-hydrant, mario-entry, mario-sitting-1, mario-sitting-2, mario-sitting-3, particles, server-1
- Black: sky-3, sky-4
clouds-3
- White: clouds-1, clouds-2, clouds-3, clouds-4, clouds-5, du, evolution, fire-hydrant, mario-entry, mario-sitting-1, mario-sitting-2, mario-sitting-3, particles, server-1, time-turner
- Black: sky-4
clouds-4
- White: clouds-1, clouds-2, clouds-3, clouds-4, clouds-5, evolution, mario-entry, mario-sitting-1, mario-sitting-2, mario-sitting-3, particles, server-1
- Black: sky, sky-4
clouds-5
- White: clouds-1, clouds-2, clouds-3, clouds-4, clouds-5, evolution, fire-hydrant, mario-entry, mario-sitting-1, mario-sitting-2, mario-sitting-3, particles, quiet-turtle
- Black: sky-3
du
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- White: blank-figure, chess-w, clouds-1, clouds-2, clouds-3, clouds-4, clouds-5, du, e1, evolution, server-1, time-turner, what-if-trade
- Black: sky-4
e1
e2
e3
e4
e5
e6
eb
evolution
- White: blank-figure, chess-w, clouds-1, clouds-2, clouds-3, clouds-4, clouds-5, du, e1, evolution, server-1, time-turner, what-if-trade
- Black: sky-4
fire-hydrant
Black hat: "To be fair, what else would you expect to come out of a fire hydrant?"
- White: blank-figure
- Black: moon, saturn, sun
holism
holism-b
- White: reductionism
- Black: reductionism-b
i-am-a-turtle
- White: clouds-1, clouds-2, clouds-3, clouds-4, particles, quiet-turtle
- Black: atom, moon, stars-1, stars-2
launch-planet
- White: assembly-1
- Black: launch-planet, stars-1, stars-2
mario-entry
- White: mario-sitting-1, mario-sitting-2, mario-sitting-3
- Black: sky-4
mario-n1
mario-n2
mario-n3
mario-sitting-1
- White: mario-sitting-1, mario-sitting-2, mario-sitting-3
- Black: mario-n1, mario-sitting-b
mario-sitting-2
- White: mario-sitting-1, mario-sitting-2, mario-sitting-3
- Black: mario-n1, mario-sitting-b
mario-sitting-3
- White: mario-sitting-1, mario-sitting-2, mario-sitting-3
- Black: mario-n1, mario-sitting-b
mario-sitting-b
- White: mario-sitting-1, mario-sitting-2, mario-sitting-3
- Black: mario-n1
moon
- White: holism, reductionism
- Black: launch-planet, moon, mu-b, saturn, stars-1, stars-2, sun
mu
mu-b
particles
quiet-turtle
- White: i-am-a-turtle, quiet-turtle
- Black: atom, saturn, stars-1, stars-2
reductionism
reductionism-b
rope
saturn
- White: holism, reductionism
- Black: launch-planet, moon, saturn, stars-1, stars-2, sun
server-1
- White: blank-figure, chess-w, clouds-1, clouds-2, clouds-3, clouds-4, clouds-5, du, e1, evolution, server-1, time-turner, what-if-trade
- Black: sky-4
sky
- White: clouds-1, mario-entry
- Black: sky, sky-2, sky-3
sky-2
- White: clouds-1, mario-entry
- Black: sky, sky-2, sky-3
sky-3
- White: clouds-4, mario-entry, quiet-turtle
- Black: sky, sky-2, sky-3
sky-4
stars-1
- White: clouds-1, clouds-2, clouds-3, clouds-4, clouds-5, quiet-turtle
- Black: atom, launch-planet, moon, saturn, stars-1, stars-2
stars-2
- White: clouds-1, clouds-2, clouds-3, clouds-4, clouds-5, quiet-turtle
- Black: atom, launch-planet, saturn, stars-1, stars-2, sun
stockholm
string
sun
- White: holism, mario-entry, reductionism
- Black: launch-planet, moon, saturn, stars-1, stars-2, sun
time-turner
- [Megan and Cueball are walking together.]
- Megan: But if time-turners worked after book 3, Rowling would have used one to go back and remove the time turner from book 3.
- White: blank-figure, chess-w, clouds-1, clouds-2, clouds-3, clouds-4, clouds-5, du, e1, evolution, server-1, time-turner, what-if-trade, whatif-king
- Black: sky-4
turtles
- [Cueball is stacking turtles, and is about to put the fourth turtle on his pile. At the bottom right there is a small panel. Inside this is written:]
- Scroll to zoom
- White: book-launch, whatif-trade
- Black: launch-planet, stars-1, stars-2
upgoer
- White: upgoer-2
- Black: upgoer-planet
upgoer-2
- White: upgoer-3, upgoer-4
- Black: upgoer-planet
upgoer-3
- White: upgoer-4, upgoer-5
- Black: upgoer-planet
upgoer-4
- White: upgoer-4, upgoer-5
- Black: upgoer-planet, upgoer-planet-2
upgoer-5
- White: upgoer-5, upgoer-6
- Black: upgoer-planet-4
upgoer-6
upgoer-planet
upgoer-planet-2
- White: upgoer-5
- Black: upgoer-planet-3
upgoer-planet-3
- White: upgoer-5
- Black: upgoer-planet-4
upgoer-planet-4
- White: upgoer-6
- Black: upgoer-space
upgoer-space
walking
walking-b
whatif-king
- [A drawing of Randall's What If? book with all the text on the front page visible as well as the T-rex that is being lowered, using a rope, into the Sarlacc, from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, while Cueball is waving from the side of the hole in the ground, to guide the descend. However someone has added words and crossed out other words.]
- Serious Scientific Answers
- to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
- [Added in next the the T-rex:]
- Spooky
- what if?
- [Added in top of the crossed out word below:]
- Stephen King
Randall Munroe- creator of
xkcd - [Added below the crossed out word above:]
- being afraid
- [The g in being is drawn so it resembles an s.]
- [Below the book is written:]
- Book
- White: book-launch, clouds-1, clouds-2, clouds-3, clouds-4, clouds-5, holism, reductionism
- Black: chess-b, launch-planet
whatif-trade
- [A drawing of Randall's What If? book with all the text on the front page visible as well as the T-rex that is being lowered, using a rope, into the Sarlacc, from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, while Cueball is waving from the side of the hole in the ground, to guide the descend.]
- Serious Scientific Answers
- to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
- what if?
- Randall Munroe
- creator of xkcd
- [Below the book is written:]
- Book
- White: book-launch, clouds-1, clouds-2, clouds-3, clouds-4, clouds-5, turtles, whatif-king, whatif-trade
- Black: chess-b, launch-planet