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Talk:1366: Train

2014-05-09T07:02:25Z

Cheeselord99: Created page with "I just did an explanation from scratch for the first time, please could you tell me how I could improve it? Thanks :) ~~~~"

I just did an explanation from scratch for the first time, please could you tell me how I could improve it? Thanks :) [[User:Cheeselord99|Cheeselord99]] ([[User talk:Cheeselord99|talk]]) 07:02, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

1366: Train

2014-05-09T07:01:10Z

Cheeselord99: First edit :D

{{comic
| number = 1366
| date = May 9, 2014
| title = Train
| image = train.png
| titletext = Trains rotate the Earth around various axes while elevators shift its position in space.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|First explain - please check or correct anything I may have done wrong.}}

This comic plays on the way everything in the universe can be viewed from a relativistic perspective. Rather than viewing it as the train moving itself relative to Earth, Randall explains it as trains moving the Earth relative to itself.

The title text takes this further by saying that elevators do the same thing by pulling the Earth up and down, rather than moving up and down by themselves.

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript}}

{{comic discussion}}

Talk:1362: Morse Code

2014-04-30T06:58:03Z

Cheeselord99: Created page with "Does the way the panels of the comic go 0101 mean anything, being more code and all? ~~~~"

Does the way the panels of the comic go 0101 mean anything, being more code and all? [[User:Cheeselord99|Cheeselord99]] ([[User talk:Cheeselord99|talk]]) 06:58, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Talk:1357: Free Speech

2014-04-18T07:19:09Z

Cheeselord99:

I've clarified the sentence about the Constitution being a legal document. Legal documents are not necessarily limited to government activity (for example, an apartment lease is a legal document but says nothing about what the government can or cannot do). I added the phrase "that defines the structure and powers of the government" to the end of the sentence. [[User:Elsbree|Elsbree]] ([[User talk:Elsbree|talk]]) 04:55, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Another recent event (within the past couple of weeks) was a campaign against Stephen Colbert for an out-of-context quote taken from a bit on his show. It was hash-tagged under "CancelColbert". Interestingly, people from Fox News that had supported the Duck Dynasty guy were completely against Colbert. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.218|108.162.237.218]] 05:09, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

That door in the last frame is a backdoor to fascism. --[[User:Mus|Mus]] ([[User talk:Mus|talk]]) 06:27, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Can someone add something saying that other countries also have similar laws on free speech? I would do it myself, but I'm new to editing the wiki and I wouldn't know how to word it. [[User:Cheeselord99|Cheeselord99]] ([[User talk:Cheeselord99|talk]]) 07:19, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Talk:1355: Airplane Message

2014-04-14T17:32:03Z

Cheeselord99:

How can Iry-Hor, who's name comes from a ''written record'', be considered "prehistoric"? History begins with the written record. By definition, Iry-Hor would be the earliest historical name we know. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.38|108.162.216.38]] 13:51, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

:I agree. In fact, the Hebrew Bible goes even farther back, making the beginning of recorded history a much earlier date. I've always thought that the term "prehistoric" was farcical.
:The Hebrew Bible contains the names of many individuals alive before Iry-Hor was born. The man Adam would then qualify as the oldest named individual in history. Even if Adam isn't accepted (and I can't see why not; the Hebrew Scriptures being as much a historical document as any Egyptian papyrii) then take your pick of the many others named well before the Eqyptians came on the scene. [[User:Fiddlinmacx|Fiddlinmacx]] ([[User talk:Fiddlinmacx|talk]]) 14:18, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

::The text (glyphs, really) about Iry-Hor were written during his lifetime. The Hebrew Scriptures were not written until around 2,500 years later, literally eons after the Egyptians had been 'on the scene.' Claiming that characters in Genesis are historical figures from 4000 BC is approximately as scientific as claiming that Tumok (from the 1940 film 'One Million B.C.') is actually the oldest human whose name we know. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.73|108.162.221.73]] 14:47, 14 April 2014 (UTC)Oz

::: +1 -- Religious scripts are not reliable as historical records. [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]]) 16:23, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

The explanation seems complete. Can the incomplete tag be removed? [[User:Cheeselord99|Cheeselord99]] ([[User talk:Cheeselord99|talk]]) 17:32, 14 April 2014 (UTC)