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Talk:2184: Unpopular Opinions

2019-08-03T07:36:19Z

141.101.99.77:

I wonder if it has to be below 50% with critic score, audience score, or both? [[User:Andyd273|Andyd273]] ([[User talk:Andyd273|talk]]) 17:36, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
:Genisys has an Audience Score of 53%, so I think it has to be critic score (Tomatometer). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.124|108.162.241.124]] 21:42, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
::Critics and audiences are really two distinct groups. So to be "apples to apples", I'd think it would have to be a movie with an Audience score below 50. Disagreeing with something critics hated isn't that rare among the general audience. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.106.18|162.158.106.18]] 04:46, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/dvd-streaming-all?minTomato=0&maxTomato=49&services=amazon;hbo_go;itunes;netflix_iw;vudu;amazon_prime;fandango_now&genres=1;2;4;5;6;8;9;10;11;13;18;14&sortBy=tomato Movies] on DVD or streaming, tomatometer 49% down to 0%.

Plenty of Twilight fans will raise their hands - it is rated 49% --[[User:Thomcat|Thomcat]] ([[User talk:Thomcat|talk]]) 18:09, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
:Well, I'm around the typical age of (original) Twilight fans, and none of the movies in the saga came in my adult life. (But they're all below 50%)[[Special:Contributions/162.158.103.147|162.158.103.147]] 18:27, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

I mean, Shaft got a 30% on the Tomatometer and a 94 on the audience score, and I loved it. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.22|108.162.241.22]] 18:57, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Do Waterworld, in spite of the fact that it only ticks two of the boxes, count? I really liked that one.

:If it didn't come out while you were an adult, then it doesn't count. [[User:N0lqu|-boB]] ([[User talk:N0lqu|talk]]) 20:16, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

I don't watch enough movies (or know Rotten Tomatoes well enough) to participate in this particular challenge, but it seems like every time I enjoy a video game, it turns out to have a sizeable and vocal hatedom. I seriously can't relate to the caption here. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.165|162.158.107.165]] 20:25, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Batman v. Superman is probably a good answer for a fair number of people-it has a reasonable number of fans (including myself) who liked it, despite its very poor rating (28%) [[User:SirEpp|SirEpp]] ([[User talk:SirEpp|talk]]) 21:05, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Not a movie, per se, but I thought season 8 of Game of Thrones was fantastic. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.88|162.158.214.88]] 22:23, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Critically panned films that I like include: Crimes of Grindelwald, Passengers, and Warcraft.
:Oooh, ''Passengers'' is a good one, I'm stealing that. [[User:Hawthorn|Hawthorn]] ([[User talk:Hawthorn|talk]]) 01:16, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Critically acclaimed films that I do not like: Avatar and Life of Pi. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.48.213|173.245.48.213]] 22:47, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Not under 50%, but I'm shocked that "The Secret Life of Walter Smitty" has only 51%... National Treasure has only 46%... I like this game, it is a test in optimism.
:"The Secret Life of Walter '''Mitty'''" deserves a low rating, particularly when compared to the original with Danny Kaye. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.73|162.158.107.73]] 05:31, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Frankly it would be easier to list the movies I like that aren't below 50% on rotten tomatoes. [[User:CJB42|CJB42]] ([[User talk:CJB42|talk]]) 00:23, 3 August 2019 (UTC)s

My experience with rotten tomatoes ratings in particular is that they have no clue and I find their ratings useless. The challenge from Randall in this comic is a case in point: the first movie I though to check, “Another Gay Movie” gets a 40% on the tomatometer yet is one of my favorites. Same thing with all the “Eating Out” movies: good comedies that I enjoy, yet Tomatometer scores of 16%, 44%, and 17% for the first three. (And why is “Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds” so much higher ranked than 1 or 3? It’s not that different...)
I think the criteria that Randal assumes (but doesn’t mention) is that the movie has to be a box office hit that appeals to mainstream audiences.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.73|162.158.107.73]] 03:55, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

I don't see why Suicide Squad got trashed. It was light, colourful, had an engaging story, and well made. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.253.209|172.68.253.209]] 04:04, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Sucker Punch. There, I said it. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.77|141.101.99.77]] 07:36, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

== Post-2000? ==

Anyone have an idea why "post-2000" is a criteria? [[User:Stevage|Stevage]] ([[User talk:Stevage|talk]]) 23:58, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
:Maybe because Rotten Tomatoes was launched close to the end of the 1990s, so post-2000 movies are the only ones that have been reviewed as they came out? Or perhaps it's to limit the scope of "movies that came out in your adult life", since adult life could go back a long way for some people. [[User:Hawthorn|Hawthorn]] ([[User talk:Hawthorn|talk]]) 01:16, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
:I don't know for certain, but I feel incredibly confident that it's the timing of Rotten Tomatoes, that older movies that came out before the site existed won't be thoroughly / properly covered. Like if you look closely you'll see the 40% rating on this movie comes from only 1 vote. I suspect Randall feels that as of 2000, there was enough activity on the site to provide sufficient coverage. [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 04:40, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

I KNOW that there are many, many movies I can apply to this challenge - I often find myself enjoying unpopular movies. Plus, critics suck, they seem to always forget that this is ENTERTAINMENT. A clever movie that is dull as dirt and makes you fall asleep should NOT receive high praise, it fails at the primary function - but I can't think of them in the moment. About a week ago on Facebook I had a memory, a list of facts about Eurotrip, where the article called it a flop, while I loved it, so probably that one. This comic triggered my first ever visit to Rotten Tomatoes, who lists Eurotrip as I think 46%, but much higher for Audience score, so I THINK it counts? What bumps me is that it seems like "Audience Score" would be popular opinion, making Eurotrip actually a Popular movie, which seems like then it wouldn't apply here. ???? [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 04:40, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Talk:2173: Trained a Neural Net

2019-07-09T14:41:27Z

141.101.99.77:

Of course it's cheating as human's neural nets came pre-trained. I mean, unless you trained infant to do it, and even then, some things in image recognition are hardwired. In any contest between modern software and infant in face recognition or "is that face happy" recognition, I'm betting on infant. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 21:03, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
:Face recognition might be innate, but higher level tasks are not. You're not born knowing how to ride a bicycle or do algebra (there may be some simple counting circuits in the brain), your neural network has to be trained so you can do these.[[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 22:04, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Ahh -- a short and sweet comic and explanation! I'd propose not bloating the explanation too much; the joke has been explained perfectly fine already. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.51.16|172.68.51.16]] 22:16, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Perhaps we should just all adhere to Randall's own advice in [[1475|1475:Technically]]:

:'My life improved when I realized I could just ignore any sentence that started with "technically."'

[[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.115|162.158.154.115]] 11:36, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
:But this one doesn't start that way. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.77|141.101.99.77]] 14:41, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Yay! We trained a neural net to explain XKCD [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 13:23, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Talk:1731: Wrong

2017-06-16T12:15:55Z

141.101.99.77:

I wrote up a first explanation of the comic. Someone else also added in a sentence, which nicely merged in to the explanation. Still needs revision and links to articles, as well as an explanation of the title text [[Special:Contributions/172.68.35.81|172.68.35.81]] 04:38, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Uh... what do you mean by "just a few sentences to kick this off"??? I don't know how to fix this because I don't understand what you mean. [[User:JayRulesXKCD|JayRulesXKCD]] ([[User talk:JayRulesXKCD|talk]]) 7:52, 9 September 2016 (EDT)
: Oh, sorry. While I was writing up an explanation, KangaroOS put in the sentence "Some people are just too prideful to admit that they are inherently fallible. White Hat is one of those people." and put in that tag. When I went to save it, it told me I had to merge our revisions, which worked fine, but I just forgot to merge the tags. [[User:Yosho27|Yosho27]] ([[User talk:Yosho27|talk]]) 13:01, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
: Also, if anyone's looking at the article history "172.68.35.81" and "Yosho27" are both me (I signed in halfway through) [[User:Yosho27|Yosho27]] ([[User talk:Yosho27|talk]]) 13:12, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

mansplaining much? --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.84|141.101.98.84]] 11:55, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
: I don't think so. [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 12:29, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
: I would dispute that Megan isn't sure what she's talking about. It seems to me that she only sounds uncertain because she is trying to be polite; this is a common strategy for women in particular. (As evidence, note that I started the previous sentence with "it seems to me" instead of an assertion of fact, and the one before that is in the subjunctive mood.) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.222|162.158.214.222]] 18:01, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
:Worth pointing out that other comics that could be interpreted as mansplaining have had this potential explanation purged. It is my understanding that alternative possible explanations/ of the jokes were encouraged, and many explanations include what seem to be relatively unlikely alternatives. Manplaining is apparently the only one that is verboten. I won't speculate as to why. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.39|162.158.75.39]] 22:59, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Any reference to "Somebody's WRONG on the Internet!"? [[386: Duty Calls]] [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] ([[User talk:KieferSkunk|talk]]) 18:51, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
: Went ahead and added it. :) [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] ([[User talk:KieferSkunk|talk]]) 19:15, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Hope someone can comment on the theory of the abstraction of particles White Hat gets into in the last panel. Seems like the only part missing so far. I like this comic! ;-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:34, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Not really a Quantum physicist, but I read that it's *theoretically* possible (and seen in some particle expierements at the LHC) for a very specific arrangement of quarks to make a (superheavy) "Proton" that contains Antimatter (Anti-quarks)... A Pentaquark. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentaquark [[Special:Contributions/108.162.242.133|108.162.242.133]] 23:56, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

While not really part of objects, there are plenty of {{w|positron}}s (antielectrons) around: they are produced by radioactive decay, can appear in thunderstorms, are used in nuclear medicine. There is enough radioactive isotope of potassium in average human body to produce thousands of positrons per second. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 22:26, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Is there a technical definition of "object" I am unaware of that excludes hypothetical and abstract objects? What is it that makes a flux capacitor not an object? Or public opinion? Or indeed a sphere made of antimatter? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.52|108.162.219.52]] 15:36, 12 September 2016 (UTC)larK

It doesn't sound like the title text is literally what White Hat is saying, but rather someone else summarizing their statements in a mocking way. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.212.92|108.162.212.92]] 23:28, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

I wonder if his thought (I'm wrong) ended up annihilated as if matter came into contact with antimatter...a bit of irony considering he WAS wrong about the antimatter assertion. Add if you think it makes sense. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.34.124|172.68.34.124]]

I just wanted to comment on the nature of particles being abstractions from quantum field theory. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_field_theory in the section marked "Implications". It contains references to "particle-like" and "field-like" objects. The mathematics demonstrate artifacts that appear to correspond to the particles. However, does that mean that particle is a result of the mathematics or the mathematics represent the particle. If a particle is something that can be observed, how can it be an abstraction? The particle is a real object whose behavior can be described more or less accurately by the mathematics. Now, if you had a virtual world inside a computer where Quantum Field Theory is used to determine the location of particles, then particles would be abstract data arising from Quantum Field Theory. I realize that this sounds confusing, and I am trying to think of how to word this more clearly. [[User:BradleyRoss|BradleyRoss]] ([[User talk:BradleyRoss|talk]]) 15:58, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

What if his thoughts were erased retroactively after him "observing" he was wrong? A la the result of that double-field experiment where observing the electrons changes the result (can't remember the name as of now)? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.77|141.101.99.77]] 12:15, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

1512: Horoscopes

2015-04-15T11:19:41Z

141.101.99.77: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 1512
| date = April 15, 2015
| title = Horoscopes
| image = horoscopes.png
| titletext = If you live in the Northern hemisphere, anyway. In the southern hemisphere, due to the coriolis effect, babies are born nine months BEFORE they're conceived.
}}
==Explanation==
{{w|Horoscopes}} are supposed to predict someones personality, or future, depending on the position of planets and stars at the time of their birth and now, especially based on their ({{w|zodiac signs}}). Today, horoscopes are admitted to be {{w|pseudoscience}} which is why the comic jokes about the fact that it's horoscopes at least ''may'' be true (at least for someone born in {{w|The United States}}, aftre a full term pregnancy). "Real" horoscopes are typically so vague that they could be true for anyone regardless of their sign.

Since the 12 category zodiac signs in horoscopes are based on birthday dates, [[Randall]] can do some informed guess about the context of someone's {{w|Fertilisation|conception}} (i.e., what was happening nine months before they were born), depending on the sign. For example, {{w|Virgo (astrology)|Virgo}} are born mostly in September, so they were conceived shortly before Christmas, leading to the guess "You may have been {{w|Fertilisation|conceived}} while a Christmas song played". So Randall's "predictions" are possible, if not useful. Contrary to popular horoscopes, here there is an actual reason why for instance the horoscope for Virgo is most likely true for Virgos and so on. See detailed description in the [[#Table of Astrological signs|table]] below.

The title text refers to the {{w|Coriolis effect}} which occurs to a body that is moving on an object that is spinning. Since the Earth is rotating this leads to the fact that something that is moving on Earth feels a force (the Coriolis force) which causes the moving object to be deflected to the right in the {{w|northern hemisphere}} and to the left in the {{w|southern hemisphere}}. This effect is the reason that {{w|Coriolis_effect#Meteorology|weather systems}} (most clearly seen for {{w|hurricanes}}) rotates in one direction in the northern hemisphere and in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere. There is also a common {{w|Coriolis_effect#Draining_in_bathtubs_and_toilets|misconception}} that water will spin down a plug hole in a different direction in the two hemispheres (see also [[843: Misconceptions]]). The Coriolis force can also be experienced on a much smaller scale, for instance if you try to walk on a spinning carousel.

Randall plays on misconceptions regarding this {{w|fictitious force}} to make a joke involving reversing the flow of time. So whereas babies are born nine months '''after''' conception in the northern hemisphere (clockwise) the Coriolis effect is the reason why babies are being born nine months '''before''' in the southern hemisphere (counterclockwise).

In reality, the relevant difference between the northern and southern hemispheres is that the meteorological seasons are a half-year out of phase between the two. This renders some of the "predictions" (such as a hot day in August or people trapped by snow in January-February) invalid for the southern hemisphere.

==Table of Astrological signs==
Here below is a table with data and explanation of the individual horoscopes:
{| class="wikitable"
! {{w|Astrological sign}}
! English name
! Date range
! 9 months before
! Horoscope prediction
! Explanation
|-
|{{w|Aries (astrology)|Aries}}
|The Ram
|March 21 - April 21
|June 21 - July 21
|You may have been conceived after a 4th of July fireworks show
|In the US the {{w|Independence Day (United States)|Independence Day}} is celebrated on the 4th of July, and this is customarily celebrated with huge fireworks.
|-
|{{w|Taurus (astrology)|Taurus}}
|The Bull
|April 20 - May 20
|July 20 - August 20
|You may have been conceived on a hot August day
|In most of the northern hemisphere there are many hot days in {{w|August}}.
|-
|{{w|Gemini (astrology)|Gemini}}
|The Twins
|May 21 - June 21
|August 21 - September 21
|You may have been conceived as the leaves began to change
|In the northern part of the northern hemisphere the {{w|autumn}} starts at the end of this time period, so the leaves will begin to change color.
|-
|{{w|Cancer (astrology)|Cancer}}
|The Crab
|June 21 - July 21
|September 21 - October 21
|You may have been conceived by people trying on costumes
|This period ends 10 days before {{w|Halloween}}, so it is not unlikely that the people who conceived you (mom and dad) tried on their new costumes when they made you.
|-
|{{w|Leo (astrology)|Leo}}
|The Lion
|July 22 - August 23
|October 22 and November 23
|You may have been conceived during thanksgiving
|{{w|Thanksgiving}} is celebrated in the US on fourth Thursday of November, which for only two out of seven years will lie before the 23rd of November. However many people are born before 9 months so it is not unlikely for someone born as a Leo to be conceived on this day.
|-
|{{w|Virgo (astrology)|Virgo}}
|The Maiden
|August 23 - September 22
|November 23 - December 22
|You may have been conceived while a Christmas song played
|It is very common for {{w|Christmas}} songs to be played in the month before Christmas
|-
|{{w|Libra (astrology)|Libra}}
|The Scales
|September 22 - October 23
|December 22 - January 23
|You may have been conceived after a new year's eve party
|Since {{w|New Year's Eve}} always falls on December 31, and since the party goes on into the new year this fits with Libra. As it is very likely that people are together in a way that may lead to conception at this type of parties, there may even be rather more than a 30th part of the people that are Libra that are conceived at such a party.
|-
|{{w|Scorpio (astrology)|Scorpio}}
|The Scorpion
|October 23 and November 22
|January 23 - February 22
|You may have been conceived by people stuck inside after a long winter
|This period is during the coolest part and towards the end of the {{w|winter}}. People may even be forced to stay at home due to snow. When people have nothing else to do [https://www.google.dk/search?q=babies+9+month+after+snowstorm&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=qzkuVcjAE4qsswGevoC4CQ many babies are born 9 months later].
|-
|{{w|Sagittarius (astrology)|Sagittarius}}
|The Archer
|November 22 - December 21
|February 22 - March 21
|You may have been conceived during March madness
|Although originally the early part of the mating season for the {{w|European Hare}}, in which females fight off male suitors, in a US context this is an American college Basketball tournament [http://www.ncaa.com/march-madness].
|-
|{{w|Capricorn (astrology)|Capricorn}}
|The Goat
|December 22 - January 19
|March 22 - April 19
|You may have been conceived during a sexy Easter Egg hunt
|{{w|Easter}} falls between {{w|List_of_dates_for_Easter#Earliest_Easter|March 22}} and {{w|List_of_dates_for_Easter#Latest_Easter|April 25}} so most {{w|Egg hunt|Easter Egg hunt}}, sexy or nor, will fall in the relevant period to conceive Capricorn children. The goal of an Easter egg hunt can be to find as many eggs in a given time, or find a sequence of eggs, each containing a clue to the next. It is not difficult to think of adult variations on these themes. Most Egg hunts do not involve people who should make them sexy!
|-
|{{w|Aquarius (astrology)|Aquarius}}
|The Water Carrier
|January 20 - February 18
|April 20 - May 18
|You may have been conceived on Mother's day
|{{w|Mother's Day}} in the USA,and some other countries, is on the second Sunday in May, between the 8th and 14th of May.
|-
|{{w|Pisces (astrology)|Pisces}}
|The Fishes
|February 19 - March 20
|May 21 - June 21
|You may have been conceived at someone's wedding
|It is not uncommon that people meet and even go so far as to risk conceiving a child at someones {{w|wedding}}. The tradition of a June Bride may be an old one and hence explains the reference for Pisces which lies mainly in June. [https://open.abc.net.au/explore/22074 ABC claim] that in the 15th and 16th century, May would have been the month for an "annual bath", and moreover {{w|June}} is named for {{w|Juno (mythology)|Juno}}, goddess of the home and hearth.
|}

==Transcript==
:[Above the frame:]
:'''Horoscopes'''
:With an actual basis in fact
:[A table with the name of each astrological sign in the first column and a horoscope for each sign in the second column.]
{| class="wikitable"
! Aries
| You may have been conceived after a 4th of July fireworks show
|-
! Taurus
| You may have been conceived on a hot August day
|-
! Gemini
| You may have been conceived as the leaves began to change
|-
! Cancer
| You may have been conceived by people trying on costumes
|-
! Leo
| You may have been conceived during thanksgiving
|-
! Virgo
| You may have been conceived while a Christmas song played
|-
! Libra
| You may have been conceived after a new year's eve party
|-
! Scorpio
| You may have been conceived by people stuck inside after a long winter
|-
! Sagittarius
| You may have been conceived during March madness
|-
! Capricorn
| You may have been conceived during a sexy Easter Egg hunt
|-
! Aquarius
| You may have been conceived on Mother's day
|-
! Pisces
| You may have been conceived at someone's wedding
|}

{{comic discussion}}

1512: Horoscopes

2015-04-15T11:00:18Z

141.101.99.77: /* Table of Astrological signs */

{{comic
| number = 1512
| date = April 15, 2015
| title = Horoscopes
| image = horoscopes.png
| titletext = If you live in the Northern hemisphere, anyway. In the southern hemisphere, due to the coriolis effect, babies are born nine months BEFORE they're conceived.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Missing some explanations in the table}}

{{w|Horoscopes}} are supposed to predict someone personality, or future, depending on the position of planets and stars at the time of their birth and now. Today, horoscopes are admitted to be pseudoscience which is why the comic jokes about the fact that these horoscopes at least may be true.

Since the 12 category ({{w|zodiac signs}}) in horoscopes are based on birthday dates, [[Randall]] can do some informed guess about the context of someone's {{w|Fertilisation|conception}} (i.e., what was happening nine months before they were born), depending on the sign. For example, {{w|Virgo (astrology)|Virgo}} are born mostly in September, so they were conceived shortly after Christmas, leading to the guess "You may have been {{w|Fertilisation|conceived}} while a Christmas song played". So Randall's "predictions" are possible, if not useful. Contrary to popular horoscopes, here there is an actual reason why for instance the horoscope for Virgo is true only for Virgo and so on. See detailed description in the [[#Table of Astrological signs|table]] below.

The title text refers to the {{w|Coriolis effect}} which occurs to a body that is moving on an object that is spinning. Since the Earth is rotating this leads to the fact that something that is moving on Earth feels a force (the Coriolis force) which causes the moving object to be deflected to the right in the {{w|northern hemisphere}} and to the left in the {{w|southern hemisphere}}. This effect is the reason that {{w|Coriolis_effect#Meteorology|weather systems}} (most clearly seen for {{w|hurricanes}}) rotates in one direction in the northern hemisphere and in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere. There is also a common {{w|Coriolis_effect#Draining_in_bathtubs_and_toilets|misconception}} that water will spin down a plug hole in a different direction in the two hemispheres (see also [[843: Misconceptions]]). The Coriolis force can also be experienced on a much smaller scale, for instance if you try to walk on a spinning carousel.

Randall plays on misconceptions regarding this {{w|fictitious force}} to make a joke involving reversing the flow of time. So whereas babies are born nine months '''after''' conception in the northern hemisphere (clockwise) the Coriolis effect is the reason why babies are being born nine months '''before''' in the southern hemisphere (counterclockwise).

In reality, the relevant difference between the northern and southern hemispheres is that the meteorological seasons are a half-year out of phase between the two. This renders some of the "predictions" (such as a hot day in August or people trapped by snow in January-February) invalid for the southern hemisphere.

==Table of Astrological signs==
Here below is a table with data and explanation of the individual horoscopes:
{| class="wikitable"
! {{w|Astrological sign}}
! English name
! Date range
! 9 months before
! Horoscope prediction
! Explanation
|-
|{{w|Aries (astrology)|Aries}}
|The Ram
|March 21 - April 21
|June 21 - July 21
|You may have been conceived after a 4th of July fireworks show
|In the US the {{w|Independence Day (United States)|Independence Day}} is celebrated on the 4th of July, and this is customarily celebrated with huge fireworks.
|-
|{{w|Taurus (astrology)|Taurus}}
|The Bull
|April 20 - May 20
|July 20 - August 20
|You may have been conceived on a hot August day
|In most of the northern hemisphere there are many hot days in {{w|August}}.
|-
|{{w|Gemini (astrology)|Gemini}}
|The Twins
|May 21 - June 21
|August 21 - September 21
|You may have been conceived as the leaves began to change
|In the northern part of the northern hemisphere the {{w|autumn}} starts at the end of this time period, so the leaves will begin to change color.
|-
|{{w|Cancer (astrology)|Cancer}}
|The Crab
|June 21 - July 21
|September 21 - October 21
|You may have been conceived by people trying on costumes
|This period ends 10 days before {{w|Halloween}}, so it is not unlikely that the people who conceived you (mom and dad) tried on their new costumes when they made you.
|-
|{{w|Leo (astrology)|Leo}}
|The Lion
|July 22 - August 23
|October 22 and November 23
|You may have been conceived during thanksgiving
|{{w|Thanksgiving}} is celebrated in the US on fourth Thursday of November, which for only two out of seven years will lie before the 23rd of November. However many people are born before 9 months so it is not unlikely for someone born as a Leo to be conceived on this day.
|-
|{{w|Virgo (astrology)|Virgo}}
|The Maiden
|August 23 - September 22
|November 23 - December 22
|You may have been conceived while a Christmas song played
|It is very common for {{w|Christmas}} songs to be played in the month before Christmas
|-
|{{w|Libra (astrology)|Libra}}
|The Scales
|September 22 - October 23
|December 22 - January 23
|You may have been conceived after a new year's eve party
|Since {{w|New Year's Eve}} always falls on December 31, and since the party goes on into the new year this fits with Libra. As it is very likely that people are together in a way that may lead to conception at this type of parties, there may even be rather more than a 30th part of the people that are Libra that are conceived at such a party.
|-
|{{w|Scorpio (astrology)|Scorpio}}
|The Scorpion
|October 23 and November 22
|January 23 - February 22
|You may have been conceived by people stuck inside after a long winter
|This period is during the coolest part and towards the end of the {{w|winter}}. People may even be forced to stay at home due to snow. When people have nothing else to do [https://www.google.dk/search?q=babies+9+month+after+snowstorm&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=qzkuVcjAE4qsswGevoC4CQ many babies are born 9 months later].
|-
|{{w|Sagittarius (astrology)|Sagittarius}}
|The Archer
|November 22 - December 21
|February 22 - March 21
|You may have been conceived during March madness
|Although originally the early part of the mating season for the {{w|European Hare}}, in which females fight off male suitors, in a US context this is an American college Basketball tournament [http://www.ncaa.com/march-madness].
|-
|{{w|Capricorn (astrology)|Capricorn}}
|The Goat
|December 22 - January 19
|March 22 - April 19
|You may have been conceived during a sexy Easter Egg hunt
|The goal of an Easter egg hunt can be to find as many eggs in a given time, or find a sequence of eggs, each containing a clue to the next. It is not difficult to think of adult variations on these themes.
|-
|{{w|Aquarius (astrology)|Aquarius}}
|The Water Carrier
|January 20 - February 18
|April 20 - May 18
|You may have been conceived on Mother's day
|{{w|Mother's Day}} in the USA,and some other countries, is on the second Sunday in May, between the 8th and 14th of May.
|-
|{{w|Pisces (astrology)|Pisces}}
|The Fishes
|February 19 - March 20
|May 21 - June 21
|You may have been conceived at someone's wedding
|The tradition of a June Bride may be an old one. ABC claim[https://open.abc.net.au/explore/22074] that in the 15th and 16th century, May would have been the month for an "annual bath", and moreover June is named for Juno, goddess of the home and hearth.
|}

==Transcript==
:[Above the frame:]
:'''Horoscopes'''
:With an actual basis in fact
:[A type of table with the name of each astrological sign written in light gray as are the bullet after the name. The text after the bullet is written in normal font and in two lines above and below the bullet.]
:Aries • You may have been conceived after a 4th of July fireworks show
:Taurus • You may have been conceived on a hot August day
:Gemini • You may have been conceived as the leaves began to change
:Cancer • You may have been conceived by people trying on costumes
:Leo • You may have been conceived during thanksgiving
:Virgo • You may have been conceived while a Christmas song played
:Libra • You may have been conceived after a new year's eve party
:Scorpio • You may have been conceived by people stuck inside after a long winter
:Sagittarius • You may have been conceived during March madness
:Capricorn • You may have been conceived during a sexy Easter Egg hunt
:Aquarius • You may have been conceived on Mother's day
:Pisces • You may have been conceived at someone's wedding

{{comic discussion}}

1512: Horoscopes

2015-04-15T10:58:44Z

141.101.99.77: /* Table of Astrological signs */

{{comic
| number = 1512
| date = April 15, 2015
| title = Horoscopes
| image = horoscopes.png
| titletext = If you live in the Northern hemisphere, anyway. In the southern hemisphere, due to the coriolis effect, babies are born nine months BEFORE they're conceived.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Missing some explanations in the table}}

{{w|Horoscopes}} are supposed to predict someone personality, or future, depending on the position of planets and stars at the time of their birth and now. Today, horoscopes are admitted to be pseudoscience which is why the comic jokes about the fact that these horoscopes at least may be true.

Since the 12 category ({{w|zodiac signs}}) in horoscopes are based on birthday dates, [[Randall]] can do some informed guess about the context of someone's {{w|Fertilisation|conception}} (i.e., what was happening nine months before they were born), depending on the sign. For example, {{w|Virgo (astrology)|Virgo}} are born mostly in September, so they were conceived shortly after Christmas, leading to the guess "You may have been {{w|Fertilisation|conceived}} while a Christmas song played". So Randall's "predictions" are possible, if not useful. Contrary to popular horoscopes, here there is an actual reason why for instance the horoscope for Virgo is true only for Virgo and so on. See detailed description in the [[#Table of Astrological signs|table]] below.

The title text refers to the {{w|Coriolis effect}} which occurs to a body that is moving on an object that is spinning. Since the Earth is rotating this leads to the fact that something that is moving on Earth feels a force (the Coriolis force) which causes the moving object to be deflected to the right in the {{w|northern hemisphere}} and to the left in the {{w|southern hemisphere}}. This effect is the reason that {{w|Coriolis_effect#Meteorology|weather systems}} (most clearly seen for {{w|hurricanes}}) rotates in one direction in the northern hemisphere and in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere. There is also a common {{w|Coriolis_effect#Draining_in_bathtubs_and_toilets|misconception}} that water will spin down a plug hole in a different direction in the two hemispheres (see also [[843: Misconceptions]]). The Coriolis force can also be experienced on a much smaller scale, for instance if you try to walk on a spinning carousel.

Randall plays on misconceptions regarding this {{w|fictitious force}} to make a joke involving reversing the flow of time. So whereas babies are born nine months '''after''' conception in the northern hemisphere (clockwise) the Coriolis effect is the reason why babies are being born nine months '''before''' in the southern hemisphere (counterclockwise).

In reality, the relevant difference between the northern and southern hemispheres is that the meteorological seasons are a half-year out of phase between the two. This renders some of the "predictions" (such as a hot day in August or people trapped by snow in January-February) invalid for the southern hemisphere.

==Table of Astrological signs==
Here below is a table with data and explanation of the individual horoscopes:
{| class="wikitable"
! {{w|Astrological sign}}
! English name
! Date range
! 9 months before
! Horoscope prediction
! Explanation
|-
|{{w|Aries (astrology)|Aries}}
|The Ram
|March 21 - April 21
|June 21 - July 21
|You may have been conceived after a 4th of July fireworks show
|In the US the {{w|Independence Day (United States)|Independence Day}} is celebrated on the 4th of July, and this is customarily celebrated with huge fireworks.
|-
|{{w|Taurus (astrology)|Taurus}}
|The Bull
|April 20 - May 20
|July 20 - August 20
|You may have been conceived on a hot August day
|In most of the northern hemisphere there are many hot days in {{w|August}}.
|-
|{{w|Gemini (astrology)|Gemini}}
|The Twins
|May 21 - June 21
|August 21 - September 21
|You may have been conceived as the leaves began to change
|In the northern part of the northern hemisphere the {{w|autumn}} starts at the end of this time period, so the leaves will begin to change color.
|-
|{{w|Cancer (astrology)|Cancer}}
|The Crab
|June 21 - July 21
|September 21 - October 21
|You may have been conceived by people trying on costumes
|This period ends 10 days before {{w|Halloween}}, so it is not unlikely that the people who conceived you (mom and dad) tried on their new costumes when they made you.
|-
|{{w|Leo (astrology)|Leo}}
|The Lion
|July 22 - August 23
|October 22 and November 23
|You may have been conceived during thanksgiving
|{{w|Thanksgiving}} is celebrated in the US on fourth Thursday of November, which for only two out of seven years will lie before the 23rd of November. However many people are born before 9 months so it is not unlikely for someone born as a Leo to be conceived on this day.
|-
|{{w|Virgo (astrology)|Virgo}}
|The Maiden
|August 23 - September 22
|November 23 - December 22
|You may have been conceived while a Christmas song played
|It is very common for {{w|Christmas}} songs to be played in the month before Christmas
|-
|{{w|Libra (astrology)|Libra}}
|The Scales
|September 22 - October 23
|December 22 - January 23
|You may have been conceived after a new year's eve party
|Since {{w|New Year's Eve}} always falls on December 31, and since the party goes on into the new year this fits with Libra. As it is very likely that people are together in a way that may lead to conception at this type of parties, there may even be rather more than a 30th part of the people that are Libra that are conceived at such a party.
|-
|{{w|Scorpio (astrology)|Scorpio}}
|The Scorpion
|October 23 and November 22
|January 23 - February 22
|You may have been conceived by people stuck inside after a long winter
|This period is during the coolest part and towards the end of the {{w|winter}}. People may even be forced to stay at home due to snow. When people have nothing else to do [https://www.google.dk/search?q=babies+9+month+after+snowstorm&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=qzkuVcjAE4qsswGevoC4CQ many babies are born 9 months later].
|-
|{{w|Sagittarius (astrology)|Sagittarius}}
|The Archer
|November 22 - December 21
|February 22 - March 21
|You may have been conceived during March madness
|Although originally the early part of the mating season for the {{w|European Hare}, in which females fight off male suitors, in a US context this is an American college Basketball tournament [http://www.ncaa.com/march-madness].
|-
|{{w|Capricorn (astrology)|Capricorn}}
|The Goat
|December 22 - January 19
|March 22 - April 19
|You may have been conceived during a sexy Easter Egg hunt
|The goal of an Easter egg hunt can be to find as many eggs in a given time, or find a sequence of eggs, each containing a clue to the next. It is not difficult to think of adult variations on these themes.
|-
|{{w|Aquarius (astrology)|Aquarius}}
|The Water Carrier
|January 20 - February 18
|April 20 - May 18
|You may have been conceived on Mother's day
|{{w:Mother's Day}} in the USA,and some other countries, is on the second Sunday in May, between the 8th and 14th of May.
|-
|{{w|Pisces (astrology)|Pisces}}
|The Fishes
|February 19 - March 20
|May 21 - June 21
|You may have been conceived at someone's wedding
|The tradition of a June Bride may be an old one. ABC claim[https://open.abc.net.au/explore/22074] that in the 15th and 16th century, May would have been the month for an "annual bath", and moreover June is named for Juno, goddess of the home and hearth.
|}

==Transcript==
:[Above the frame:]
:'''Horoscopes'''
:With an actual basis in fact
:[A type of table with the name of each astrological sign written in light gray as are the bullet after the name. The text after the bullet is written in normal font and in two lines above and below the bullet.]
:Aries • You may have been conceived after a 4th of July fireworks show
:Taurus • You may have been conceived on a hot August day
:Gemini • You may have been conceived as the leaves began to change
:Cancer • You may have been conceived by people trying on costumes
:Leo • You may have been conceived during thanksgiving
:Virgo • You may have been conceived while a Christmas song played
:Libra • You may have been conceived after a new year's eve party
:Scorpio • You may have been conceived by people stuck inside after a long winter
:Sagittarius • You may have been conceived during March madness
:Capricorn • You may have been conceived during a sexy Easter Egg hunt
:Aquarius • You may have been conceived on Mother's day
:Pisces • You may have been conceived at someone's wedding

{{comic discussion}}

1512: Horoscopes

2015-04-15T10:46:42Z

141.101.99.77: /* Table of Astrological signs */

{{comic
| number = 1512
| date = April 15, 2015
| title = Horoscopes
| image = horoscopes.png
| titletext = If you live in the Northern hemisphere, anyway. In the southern hemisphere, due to the coriolis effect, babies are born nine months BEFORE they're conceived.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Missing some explanations in the table}}

{{w|Horoscopes}} are supposed to predict someone personality, or future, depending on the position of planets and stars at the time of their birth and now. Today, horoscopes are admitted to be pseudoscience which is why the comic jokes about the fact that these horoscopes at least may be true.

Since the 12 category ({{w|zodiac signs}}) in horoscopes are based on birthday dates, [[Randall]] can do some informed guess about the context of someone's {{w|Fertilisation|conception}} (i.e., what was happening nine months before they were born), depending on the sign. For example, {{w|Virgo (astrology)|Virgo}} are born mostly in September, so they were conceived shortly after Christmas, leading to the guess "You may have been {{w|Fertilisation|conceived}} while a Christmas song played". So Randall's "predictions" are possible, if not useful. Contrary to popular horoscopes, here there is an actual reason why for instance the horoscope for Virgo is true only for Virgo and so on. See detailed description in the [[#Table of Astrological signs|table]] below.

The title text refers to the {{w|Coriolis effect}} which occurs to a body that is moving on an object that is spinning. Since the Earth is rotating this leads to the fact that something that is moving on Earth feels a force (the Coriolis force) which causes the moving object to be deflected to the right in the {{w|northern hemisphere}} and to the left in the {{w|southern hemisphere}}. This effect is the reason that {{w|Coriolis_effect#Meteorology|weather systems}} (most clearly seen for {{w|hurricanes}}) rotates in one direction in the northern hemisphere and in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere. There is also a common {{w|Coriolis_effect#Draining_in_bathtubs_and_toilets|misconception}} that water will spin down a plug hole in a different direction in the two hemispheres (see also [[843: Misconceptions]]). The Coriolis force can also be experienced on a much smaller scale, for instance if you try to walk on a spinning carousel.

Randall plays on misconceptions regarding this {{w|fictitious force}} to make a joke involving reversing the flow of time. So whereas babies are born nine months '''after''' conception in the northern hemisphere (clockwise) the Coriolis effect is the reason why babies are being born nine months '''before''' in the southern hemisphere (counterclockwise).

In reality, the relevant difference between the northern and southern hemispheres is that the meteorological seasons are a half-year out of phase between the two. This renders some of the "predictions" (such as a hot day in August or people trapped by snow in January-February) invalid for the southern hemisphere.

==Table of Astrological signs==
Here below is a table with data and explanation of the individual horoscopes:
{| class="wikitable"
! {{w|Astrological sign}}
! English name
! Date range
! 9 months before
! Horoscope prediction
! Explanation
|-
|{{w|Aries (astrology)|Aries}}
|The Ram
|March 21 - April 21
|June 21 - July 21
|You may have been conceived after a 4th of July fireworks show
|In the US the {{w|Independence Day (United States)|Independence Day}} is celebrated on the 4th of July, and this is customarily celebrated with huge fireworks.
|-
|{{w|Taurus (astrology)|Taurus}}
|The Bull
|April 20 - May 20
|July 20 - August 20
|You may have been conceived on a hot August day
|In most of the US there are many hot days in {{w|August}}.
|-
|{{w|Gemini (astrology)|Gemini}}
|The Twins
|May 21 - June 21
|August 21 - September 21
|You may have been conceived as the leaves began to change
|In the northern part of the US the {{w|autumn}} starts at the end of this time period, so the leaves will begin to change color.
|-
|{{w|Cancer (astrology)|Cancer}}
|The Crab
|June 21 - July 21
|September 21 - October 21
|You may have been conceived by people trying on costumes
|This period ends 10 days before {{w|Halloween}}, so it is not unlikely that the people who conceived you (mom and dad) tried on their new costumes when they made you.
|-
|{{w|Leo (astrology)|Leo}}
|The Lion
|July 22 - August 23
|October 22 and November 23
|You may have been conceived during thanksgiving
|{{w|Thanksgiving}} is celebrated in the US on fourth Thursday of November, which for only two out of seven years will lie before the 23rd of November. However many people are born before 9 months so it is not unlikely for someone born as a Leo to be conceived on this day.
|-
|{{w|Virgo (astrology)|Virgo}}
|The Maiden
|August 23 - September 22
|November 23 - December 22
|You may have been conceived while a Christmas song played
|It is very common for {{w|Christmas}} songs to be played in the month before Christmas
|-
|{{w|Libra (astrology)|Libra}}
|The Scales
|September 22 - October 23
|December 22 - January 23
|You may have been conceived after a new year's eve party
|Since {{w|New Year's Eve}} always falls on December 31, and since the party goes on into the new year this fits with Libra. As it is very likely that people are together in a way that may lead to conception at this type of parties, there may even be rather more than a 30th part of the people that are Libra that are conceived at such a party.
|-
|{{w|Scorpio (astrology)|Scorpio}}
|The Scorpion
|October 23 and November 22
|January 23 - February 22
|You may have been conceived by people stuck inside after a long winter
|This period is during the coolest part and towards the end of the {{w|winter}}. People may even be forced to stay at home due to snow. When people have nothing else to do [https://www.google.dk/search?q=babies+9+month+after+snowstorm&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=qzkuVcjAE4qsswGevoC4CQ many babies are born 9 months later].
|-
|{{w|Sagittarius (astrology)|Sagittarius}}
|The Archer
|November 22 - December 21
|February 22 - March 21
|You may have been conceived during March madness
|Although originally the early part of the mating season for the Hare, in which females fight off male suitors, in a US context this is an American college Basketball tournament.
|-
|{{w|Capricorn (astrology)|Capricorn}}
|The Goat
|December 22 - January 19
|March 22 - April 19
|You may have been conceived during a sexy Easter Egg hunt
|The goal of an Easter egg hunt can be to find as many eggs in a given time, or find a sequence of eggs, each containing a clue to the next. It is not difficult to think of adult variations on these themes.
|-
|{{w|Aquarius (astrology)|Aquarius}}
|The Water Carrier
|January 20 - February 18
|April 20 - May 18
|You may have been conceived on Mother's day
|
|-
|{{w|Pisces (astrology)|Pisces}}
|The Fishes
|February 19 - March 20
|May 21 - June 21
|You may have been conceived at someone's wedding
|
|}

==Transcript==
:[Above the frame:]
:'''Horoscopes'''
:With an actual basis in fact
:[A type of table with the name of each astrological sign written in light gray as are the bullet after the name. The text after the bullet is written in normal font and in two lines above and below the bullet.]
:Aries • You may have been conceived after a 4th of July fireworks show
:Taurus • You may have been conceived on a hot August day
:Gemini • You may have been conceived as the leaves began to change
:Cancer • You may have been conceived by people trying on costumes
:Leo • You may have been conceived during thanksgiving
:Virgo • You may have been conceived while a Christmas song played
:Libra • You may have been conceived after a new year's eve party
:Scorpio • You may have been conceived by people stuck inside after a long winter
:Sagittarius • You may have been conceived during March madness
:Capricorn • You may have been conceived during a sexy Easter Egg hunt
:Aquarius • You may have been conceived on Mother's day
:Pisces • You may have been conceived at someone's wedding

{{comic discussion}}

1512: Horoscopes

2015-04-15T09:56:55Z

141.101.99.77: /* Explanation */

1512: Horoscopes

2015-04-15T09:45:47Z

141.101.99.77: english names

888: Heaven

2015-03-20T22:45:58Z

141.101.99.77: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 888
| date = April 20, 2011
| title = Heaven
| image = heaven.png
| titletext = If you've never had sex, this is what it feels like. Complete with the brief feeling of satisfaction, followed by ennui, followed by getting bored and trying to make it happen again.
}}

==Explanation==
This comic shows the popular video game {{w|Tetris}}, in which you use different shaped pieces to fill in lines to score points. The more lines you fill at a time it results in more points. Normally all pieces are made up of four small squares. This has also been the case for all the pieces at the bottom of the game, however, some parts of some blocks have been erased when a line has been deleted because it was full.

Heaven, in Tetris, is when you get the perfect piece that fills out all the empty space you have on the board. The next piece here is really odd, but it fits exactly the 18 empty spaces to make it possible to remove 6 lines in a row - compared to the four that is normally possible using the long brown piece of length 4. On top of the heavenly feeling of getting a piece that fits - the top score will also be smashed, as the player was at the moment only one point from reaching it!

The ''next'' piece, shown to the right, which will come after the special one, is much longer than the normally possible straight brown piece - a normal one can be seen at the bottom right of the game. This next piece seems to be six long as it has he same height as the strange piece - it also seems to be thinner than normal. Such a piece is of course easy to place - but it could also be a part of the joke in the title text.

An alternative view is that the next piece is actually the size of one full line (on a slightly smaller scale), so by rotating 90 degrees, the player can immediately complete another line.

The title text compares this experience with sex, complete with an {{w|orgasm}} and the feelings you get right after sex. After "the brief feeling of satisfaction" from the orgasm you are bored, {{w|ennui}} means a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from {{w|satiety}} or lack of interest, but at the end you want more. The ''next'' piece in the game could resemble a cigarette. In the past people always had a smoke after sex.

A fan have made a modified version of the classic Tetris game, where at a certain frequency, a 'heaven' perfectly fitting block comes along. The game can be found on. [http://www.gudmagazine.com/games/heaven/ http://www.gudmagazine.com/games/heaven/].

Also see comic [[724: Hell]], which presents an opposing situation in which the game is impossible to play.

Choosing to post a comic called Heaven as number {{w|888_(number)#Symbology_and_numerology|888}} is not a coincidence - as in Christian numerology, the number 888 represents Jesus and in Chinese numerology it represents triple fortune.

==Transcript==
:[The panel shows the display of a Tetris game. A large oddly shaped piece is falling towards the board. The piece fits into the gaps exactly to complete six rows at once. The next piece is simply a very long brick. All the pieces at the bottom are made from possible tetris pieces.]
:Next
:Top
:0002187
:Score
:0002186
:Level
:5
:[Below the panel:]
:'''Heaven'''

{{comic discussion}}
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Talk:1492: Dress Color

2015-02-27T13:11:09Z

141.101.99.77: Added linkl to what appears to be the manufacturer's page for the dress in question, including list and images of the 4 colour variants available, all of which have black lace

To me, they both look blue/gold [[User:Mikemk|Mikemk]] ([[User talk:Mikemk|talk]]) 06:29, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

What is the illusion supposed to be? The colors of the dress look a bit darker with the light background, but not very much. Is that the illusion? --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.80.82|141.101.80.82]] 07:07, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
: Agree. To me, it looks like it's definitely light blue (maybe "cornflower"?) with pale olive stripes. "Gold" would really be a stretch. It looks like that in all lighting conditions and in both backgrounds of the strip. Did I pass some kind of color-blindness test? Or fail? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.133|108.162.254.133]] 07:43, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
: This has nothing to do with color-blindness, but probably with certain arbitrary constants related to white-balance adjustment that differ brain-to-brain. Many people I know insist that even though the picture looks blue, it's a dress illuminated by a blue light, and based on this assumption their brain may essentially redden the whole picture to adjust for this light. The actual picture was taken in white light, not blue light. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.28|173.245.55.28]] 07:46, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

::It may also be related to white-balance of the MONITOR. I see original dress like black and blue and the one on left here as gold and light blue. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 10:00, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Apparently for some people the left-hand-side's general blueishness is adjusted against by the visual system enough to make the dress look white and gold instead of blue and brown. I am not one of those people. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.28|173.245.55.28]] 07:43, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Description says left for both [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.219|141.101.98.219]] 08:37, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:Now changed. (Saw it myself before I saw your comment, and just lept straight in there. Hopefully I changed the right left so that it's right and not left the wrong left whilst producing the wrong right. Alright?) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.192|141.101.98.192]] 09:30, 27 February 2015 (UTC) (Also, "hello near-IP neighbour!"... The same digits, even. Creepy.)

Are they really the same colour? 'Cause to me on the blue side it looks blue and black- while on the white side it looks white and gold. Is this normal? {{unsigned|FlyingPiggy}}

The figure on the right definitely has a beard. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.182|108.162.249.182]] 09:38, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

I checked with ColorZilla and the RGB values are identical. From my perspective, in the one on the left the dress appears pale blue with darker brown/gold stripes, and the one on the right appears a darker blue with lighter brown/gold stripes. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.63|141.101.98.63]] 10:10, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

This is just a polychromatic version of that checker shadow illusion, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion [[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.38|108.162.231.38]] 10:12, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:That's what I thought too. But it looks the same (doesn't it?) and is the same (that, thankfully is non-subjective and verifiable with as little as MSPaint), so I'm at loss as to why this deserves a comic. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.136|141.101.104.136]] 10:47, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
: This is a common optical illusion (at least I've seen this many times) - most peoples eyes perform a white balance adjustment automatically which affects the perceived colours. If your eyes don't do this then you will do well in the paint colour matching business. http://www.moillusions.com/hue-optical-illusion/ I apologise for the jarring colours in the link.

The comic is a reference to the debate around the coloration of [http://amd.c.yimg.jp/amd/20150227-00000070-zdn_n-000-2-view.jpg this dress]. The band in the middle of the image shows some of the material of the dress. To some people, including me, the dress is obviously, unquestionably black and blue. But to others, including my wife, it's obviously, unquestionably, black and gold.
:And to others it's apparently a number of other combinations - I've seen claims of white/gold and blue/orange. However, surprisingly few people seem to have seen [http://www.romanoriginals.co.uk/invt/70931?colour=Royal-Blue this link] to the manufacturer's page for what appears to be the same dress; available in 4 colour combinations which according to the manufacturers' descriptions are ivory/black, scarlet/black, pink/black and royal-blue/black, with pictures available of all versions. As such I'm happy to accept the pictures doing the rounds are probably the blue/black variant (although most of the over-exposed versions I've seen appear light-blue/goldish-brown to me)

Talk:19: George Clinton

2015-01-06T11:57:18Z

141.101.99.77:

[[User:Rikthoff|Rikthoff]] ([[User talk:Rikthoff|talk]]) Does anybody know what the correct date of issue of this comic is? Also, does anybody know why Randall loves George Clinton?
:Have you listened to George Clinton? It's seems reasonable to me that [[Randall]] should love him. [[User:Blaisepascal|Blaisepascal]] ([[User talk:Blaisepascal|talk]]) 03:54, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

While reading that I got curious: How is it possible to gain a B.A. in mathematics? I couldn't find any information about the U.S. bachelor system, but in Germany a bachelor's degree in any STEM field is considered a B.Sc. [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 12:08, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Interestingly, a few years after this comic was made, George Clinton did record the track "Mathematics Of Love" (http://www.metrolyrics.com/mathematics-of-love-lyrics-george-clinton.html). [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.77|141.101.99.77]] 11:57, 6 January 2015 (UTC) Kingofderby