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Revision as of 05:35, 4 March 2013
Welcome to the explain xkcd wiki!
We have collaboratively explained 6 xkcd comics, and only 2925 (48750%) remain. Add yours while there's a chance!
Latest comic
| Chasing |
 Title text: Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley. |
Explanation
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This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Created by an exciting BOT on the run - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon. |
This comic is a scatter plot comparing how exciting it is to see various places or things with how possible it is to chase those things in a convoy of coordinated vehicles.
The least chasable are stationary places like the Grand Canyon or International Date Line. It makes no sense to chase them because they don't move around, you just go to where they are. At the other end of he chasability spectrum are animals that move around rapidly, and fleeting astronomical and atmospherical phenomena like clouds, meteors, and aurora.
| Entity | Explanation |
|---|---|
| The Grand Canyon | |
| Niagara Falls | |
| Tourist attractions | |
| Tourist traps | |
| Sand traps | |
| The International Date Line | |
| Meteors | |
| Rainbows | |
| Comets | |
| Sunsets | |
| The Moon | |
| Unusual clouds | |
| Regular clouds | |
| Fog | |
| Rain | |
| Gnats | |
| Aurora | |
| Your favorite band's shows | |
| Rare birds | |
| Regular birds | |
| Regular balloons | |
| Tumbleweeds | |
| Speed traps | |
| Tornadoes | |
| Whales | |
| Icebergs | |
| Hot air balloons | |
| Radiosondes | |
| Neighborhood possums | |
| Ice cream trucks | |
| Other chasers |
Transcript
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This transcript is incomplete. Please help editing it! Thanks. |
- [An X Y axis graph]
- [Y axis label:]
- Exciting to see in person
- [X axis label:]
- Possible to chase in a convoy of vehicles coordinating over radio and using instruments and data to find optimal viewing locations?
- [X and Y axis values (from bottom left):]
- No
- Yes
- [Top left quarter:]
- The Grand Canyon
- Meteors
- Rainbow
- Comets
- Niagara Falls
- Sunsets
- The Moon
- Tourist attractions
- Unusual clouds
- [Top right quarter:]
- Aurora
- Tornadoes
- Whales
- Your favorite band's shows
- Icebergs
- Rare birds
- Hot air balloons
- [Bottom left quarter:]
- Tourist traps
- Regular clouds
- Sand traps
- Fog
- Rain
- The International Date Line
- Gnats
- [Bottom right quarter:]
- Regular birds
- Radiosondes
- Neighborhood possums
- Regular balloons
- Ice cream trucks
- Tumbleweeds
- Speed traps
- Other chasers
Is this out of date? .
New here?
You can read a brief introduction about this wiki at explain xkcd. Feel free to sign up for an account and contribute to the wiki! We need explanations for comics, characters, themes, memes and everything in between. If it is referenced in an xkcd web comic, it should be here.
- If you're new to wikis like this, take a look at these help pages describing how to navigate the wiki, and how to edit pages.
- Discussion about various parts of the wiki is going on at Explain XKCD:Community portal. Share your 2¢!
- List of all comics contains a complete table of all xkcd comics so far and the corresponding explanations. The red links (like this) are missing explanations. Feel free to help out by creating them! Here's how.
Rules
Don't be a jerk. There are a lot of comics that don't have set in stone explanations; feel free to put multiple interpretations in the wiki page for each comic.
If you want to talk about a specific comic, use its discussion page.
Please only submit material directly related to —and helping everyone better understand— xkcd... and of course only submit material that can legally be posted (and freely edited.) Off-topic or other inappropriate content is subject to removal or modification at admin discretion, and users who repeatedly post such content will be blocked.
If you need assistance from an admin, feel free to leave a message on their personal discussion page. The list of admins is here.
