https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Archonexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2026-04-16T20:11:50ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1412:_Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles&diff=742261412: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles2014-08-25T10:21:19Z<p>Archon: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has already been released; added reference to similar comic "Trochee Fixation"</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1412<br />
| date = August 25, 2014<br />
| title = Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<br />
| image = teenage_mutant_ninja_turtles.png<br />
| titletext = My upcoming alubm, 'Linked List', has covers of 'The Purple People Eater', the Ninja Turtles theme, 'Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini', and the Power Rangers theme, with every song played to the tune of the next.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Very early draft.}}<br />
In reference to the recently released ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' movie, Randall has compiled a list of Wikipedia article titles that, when stressed on the correct syllables, sound similar to the cartoon's theme song.<br />
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See also [[856: Trochee Fixation]], another comic dealing with a similar concept.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
Randall mistyped the word "album" as "alubm" in the title text<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript}}<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category: Comics with color]]<br />
[[Category: Wikipedia]]</div>Archonhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1389:_Surface_Area&diff=707171389: Surface Area2014-07-02T09:16:33Z<p>Archon: Explanation</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1389<br />
| date = July 2, 2014<br />
| title = Surface Area<br />
| image = surface_area.png<br />
| titletext = This isn't an informational illustration; this is a thing I think we should do. First, we'll need a gigantic spool of thread. Next, we'll need some kind of ... hmm, time to head to Seattle.<br />
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A larger version of this image can be found [http://xkcd.com/1389/large/ here].<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Very early draft.}}<br />
This image shows the total surface areas of all {{w|Terrestrial_planet|terrestrial planets}}, {{w|Natural_satellite|moons}}, {{w|Asteroid|asteroids}} {{w|Minor_Planet|etc.}} in the {{w|Solar_System|solar system}}, represented as regions of a single massive landmass (in a similar style to the various [[256: Online Communities|maps]] of the [[802: Online Communities 2|internet]] Randall has created in the past), with a [[977|Waterman Butterfly]] based map of Earth in the center for scale. Relatively small objects like asteroids, comets and so on are grouped into two regions at the northeast and southwest corners, while tiny objects like space dust are excluded altogether (probably because their total surface area is impossible to accurately estimate, and also because any estimate would likely be too large to easily fit into the map).<br />
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The {{w|Gas_giant|gas giants}} Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are not included, because they don't have a solid surface. If they were included, this part of the map would be a tiny speck compared to the surface area of the gas giants.<br />
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Similarly the {{w|Sun|sun}} also is not considered a solid but hot {{w|Plasma_(physics)|plasma}}, if it was included it would reduce both the original map and the gas giants to a tiny speck.<br />
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Between Earth and Titan is a tiny speck noted "''all human skin''", which obviously does not refer to a rocky surface and is probably a reference to the novel {{w|The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_(novel)|The Silence of the Lambs}}.<br />
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The title text implies that Randall is actually proposing that someone should take all of the matter in the Solar system and stitch it together, by means of a gigantic spool of thread and the {{w|Space Needle|Seattle Space Needle}}.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript}}<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>Archonhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1389:_Surface_Area&diff=706951389: Surface Area2014-07-02T05:17:53Z<p>Archon: Explanation</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1389<br />
| date = July 2, 2014<br />
| title = Surface Area<br />
| image = surface_area.png<br />
| titletext = This isn't an informational illustration; this is a thing I think we should do. First, we'll need a gigantic spool of thread. Next, we'll need some kind of ... hmm, time to head to Seattle.<br />
}}<br />
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A larger version of this image can be found [http://xkcd.com/1389/large/ here].<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Very early draft.}}<br />
This image shows the total surface areas of all terrestrial planets, moons, asteroids etc. in the solar system, represented as regions of a single massive landmass (in a similar style to the various [[256: Online Communities|maps]] of the [[802: Online Communities 2|internet]] Randall has created in the past), with Earth in the center for scale. Relatively small objects like asteroids, comets and so on are grouped into two regions at the northeast and southwest corners, while tiny objects like space dust are excluded altogether (probably because their total surface area is impossible to accurately estimate, and also because any estimate would likely be too large to easily fit into the map).<br />
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The title text implies that Randall is actually proposing that someone should take all of the matter in the Solar system and stitch it together, by means of a gigantic spool of thread and a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Needle very large needle].<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript}}<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>Archon