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		<title>Talk:3000: Experimental Astrophysics</title>
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== Moaning about this being the 3000th comic ==&lt;br /&gt;
I really thought he would do something special for the 3000th comic :( i was so hyped [[Special:Contributions/172.68.64.207|172.68.64.207]] 03:48, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Saaame:(  but maybe he will do something at 3072[[User:SomeRandomNerd|SomeRandomNerd]] ([[User talk:SomeRandomNerd|talk]]) 03:57, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:It's about blowing up the Sun and likely destroying the Solar System. That's not special enough for you? [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 04:01, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::It doesn't reference its three-thousandness, unlike comics [[1000]] and [[2000]]; it could've been released any other day. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.90.25|162.158.90.25]] 04:22, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Maybe we got the pattern wrong: 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000, ... [[User:Ruffy314|Ruffy314]] ([[User talk:Ruffy314|talk]]) 19:44, 21 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:I was expecting xkcd 3000 for long but very busy today. I found this comic seemingly not too long after its publication, but not rather upset now [[User:物灵|物灵]] ([[User talk:物灵|talk]]) 06:40, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:SAME! :( [[User:B_for_brain|B for brain]] ([[User_talk:B_for_brain|talk]]) ([https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4bo-hj-mDyOOUp_Yp0pug youtube channel] [https://bforbrain.weebly.com/ wobsite (supposed to be a blag)]) 09:22, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:ugh me too! why didn't he do it it's so special! {{unsigned ip|172.71.151.4|01:51, 20 October 2024}}&lt;br /&gt;
:I was so hyped but couldn't check because I went camping-now I'm just disappointed. [[User:42.book.addict|42.book.addict]] ([[User talk:42.book.addict|talk]]) 22:06, 20 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
Randall really did fall off 😭 [[User:CalibansCreations|'''&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;color:#ff0000;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Caliban&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;''']] ([[User talk:CalibansCreations|talk]]) 10:23, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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xkcd 4000 is coming out on 10 march 2031 unless randall uploads inconsistently during those 1000 comics (very likely)&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;unrelatedly i pronounce TŻO as /tiː ʐɛd oʊ/. is that normal? [[User:MinersHavenM43|MinersHavenM43]] ([[User talk:MinersHavenM43|talk]]) 04:10, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:You (as I) seem to be rightpondian (or have a smattering of ¿polish? culture still within your leftpondian upbringing). I suspect it would be more /ʐi/ for Randall and most of his countrypeople (or straight /zi/, if not a different attempt at the dot-diacritic). It might more correctly be pronounced as /ˈʐɛt/, however, if I have the correct origin. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.2|172.70.162.2]] 06:12, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::actually i am brazillian, my english is a mix of primarily american and british english. my understanding of polish came from when i was really into linguistics a few years ago. [[User:MinersHavenM43|MinersHavenM43]] ([[User talk:MinersHavenM43|talk]]) 12:34, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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That’s it? That’s 3000? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.245|162.158.154.245]] 04:20, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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3000th comic! Yay?  [[User:Beanie|&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;text-shadow:0 0 5px black;font-size:11pt;color:#dddddd&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Beanie]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; [[User talk:Beanie|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;text-shadow:0 0 3px black;font-size:8pt;color:#dddddd&amp;quot;&amp;gt;talk]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; 10:29, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
sad[[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.32|172.68.54.32]] 11:01, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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4096 is the next big release by standard XKCD counting? {{unsigned ip|172.69.71.190|13:54, 19 October 2024}}&lt;br /&gt;
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wow, that's it? c'mon Randall, you made all those neat April fools comics, and you cant make something special for this [[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.130|172.69.71.130]] 16:18, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Even worse. He did something special for comic #[[1000]] &amp;amp; #[[2000]]. I was '''''&amp;lt;u&amp;gt;SO&amp;lt;/u&amp;gt;''''' hyped! [[User:B_for_brain|B for brain]] ([[User_talk:B_for_brain|talk]]) ([https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4bo-hj-mDyOOUp_Yp0pug youtube channel] [https://bforbrain.weebly.com/ wobsite (supposed to be a blag)]) 18:37, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Damn. Ever since February of this year I've been waiting with bated breath for today to see what awesome and neat thing Randall will have cooked up for 3000. Talk about a disappointment. Hopefully this is just a mistake or a misdirection, and he'll either replace this comic with the real 3000 comic or maybe release the cool comic tomorrow for 3001. [[User:Pie Guy|Pie Guy]] ([[User talk:Pie Guy|talk]]) 17:25, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:{{w|3001: The Final Odyssey|3001}} is a much more geeky number than 3000, anyway... (or maybe 3072). I ''shall'' definitely be anticipating something good for 4096, though. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.205.178|172.68.205.178]] 19:13, 19 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::There wasn't anything particularly special for 1024 or 2048.  I'm not sure why you expect 4096 to be special.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.93|172.70.110.93]] 19:36, 21 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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And the disappointment of the year award goes to… [[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.93|172.70.110.93]] 02:35, 20 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Perhaps Comic 3141 could have some reference to being the first 4 decimal digits of pi? Disappointed nonetheless. {{unsigned ip|172.70.127.139|17:36, 20 October 2024}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Perhaps we're not looking hard enough. Is there a numbering system where TZO means 3000? Or maybe the &amp;quot;Ż&amp;quot; symbol? The little dot is U+0307, which is just off by 7...&lt;br /&gt;
Or perhaps the &amp;quot;little circle pointing into a mirrored C shape&amp;quot; means 3000 in some kind of diagram...&lt;br /&gt;
--[[User:FrankHightower|FrankHightower]] ([[User talk:FrankHightower|talk]]) 17:09, 21 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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It kinda sucks that there wasn't a big &amp;quot;WOW!!! 3000!!!&amp;quot; celebration, but he also could've just forgotten and he's cooked up something amazing for us! There's always a chance. [[User:Psychoticpotato|P?sych??otic?pot??at???o ]] ([[User talk:Psychoticpotato|talk]]) 17:27, 21 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Actual comments about this comic==&lt;br /&gt;
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Randall's &amp;quot;Comic 3000&amp;quot; joke is... that he's actually ''found'' the funding, as we're soon to discover. (Any guesses where the neutron star came from?) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.58.30|172.70.58.30]] 10:03, 20 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Luckily for us, the nearest neutron star is at least 200 light years away. Getting there to capture it and bring it back is going to be at least another 400 years (maybe more like a few thousand) in the making. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.22|172.70.134.22]] 15:25, 21 October 2024 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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This is probably gonna get deleted in a minute but, it’s my birthday and my 10th year on dice, also today is comic 3000, I just want to express how much I enjoyed the comics, there isn’t one comic that I haven’t read. Thank you XKCD and thank you Randall for making this the best birthday ever. Also congratulations on 3,000 comics! {{unsigned ip|162.158.91.92|09:36, 21 October 2024 (UTC)}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:2861: X Value</title>
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transcript and short explanation added &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;  18:47, 29 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Is there an easter egg here? Is 4.1083 a significant constant in some field?&lt;br /&gt;
[[Special:Contributions/172.71.154.91|172.71.154.91]] 19:00, 29 November 2023 (UTC) &lt;br /&gt;
:Dunno...but when I Googled it, it came up with a picture of a motorcycle I used to own - same vintage, same colour, same non-original aftermarket panniers - which was a little strange. Anybody else return any results centred around long-since-departed vehicles? &lt;br /&gt;
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:Or not? [[User:Yorkshire Pudding|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding|talk]]) 19:31, 29 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Googling for it showed me... a picture of this very xkcd. It's recursive? [[User:Ralfoide|Ralfoide]] ([[User talk:Ralfoide|talk]]) 20:46, 29 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Nothing interesting on Wolfram Alpha either https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=4.1083 [[User:Ruffy314|Ruffy314]] ([[User talk:Ruffy314|talk]]) 16:26, 30 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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https://www.der-postillon.com/2012/08/mathemuffel-erleichtert-wert-von-x-ein.html [[Special:Contributions/172.68.110.148|172.68.110.148]] 20:42, 29 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: This is in german, could you maybe give a translation at least? &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;  20:45, 29 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:: Basically the same joke, x being set to 5 in this case. The website is a satirical online newspaper. --[[User:Coconut Galaxy|Coconut Galaxy]] ([[User talk:Coconut Galaxy|talk]]) 06:12, 30 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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The &amp;quot;narrowing down&amp;quot; of n might be a reference to a combinatorics problem Ron Graham was solving, managing to narrow down the dimensions of the hypercube with a certain property to be more than 6 and less than... Well, Graham's Number.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Special:Contributions/172.71.122.209|172.71.122.209]] 22:12, 29 November 2023 (UTC)jamieth&lt;br /&gt;
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:Even that is accomplishment. Really, narrowing number down from infinite set to finite one is the biggest narrowing you can do. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:29, 29 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;In string theory the number of flux vacua is commonly thought to be roughly '''10^500''',[4] but could be 10^272,000[5] or higher.&amp;quot; --  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory_landscape#Compactified_Calabi%E2%80%93Yau_manifolds String theory landscape#Compactified Calabi–Yau manifolds] [[User:Abclop99|Abclop99]] ([[User talk:Abclop99|talk]]) 22:23, 29 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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As of today, the value of Twitter (which some may call X for unknown reasons) is of 41.09 Billion USD. This might be the joke?&lt;br /&gt;
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.129.16|162.158.129.16]] 22:50, 29 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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The variable 'n' is often used in computer programs to be a counter for some activity that is repeated 'n' times. 'n' may be user input or it might be a calculated value like the number of items in a list. So the code would be something like, for the integer 'i' starting at 1 and iterating up to 'n' number of times in whatever computer language is being used. In this case, 'n' would be limited to the maximum value of the specific integer type in that computer language on that machine. [[User:Rtanenbaum|Rtanenbaum]] ([[User talk:Rtanenbaum|talk]]) 03:34, 30 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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A result that the math community has been waiting for for a long long time! [[Special:Contributions/172.71.103.135|172.71.103.135]] 08:16, 30 November 2023 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>1644: Stargazing</title>
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| number    = 1644&lt;br /&gt;
| date      = February 17, 2016&lt;br /&gt;
| title     = Stargazing&lt;br /&gt;
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| titletext = Some of you may be thinking, 'But wait, isn't the brightest star in our sky the Sun?' I think that's a great question and you should totally ask it. On the infinite tree of possible conversations spread out before us, I think that's definitely the most promising branch.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Explanation==&lt;br /&gt;
This is the first comic in the [[:Category:Stargazing|Stargazing]] series. It was followed by [[2017: Stargazing 2]] two and a half years later and [[2274: Stargazing 3]] four years later.&lt;br /&gt;
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This comic opens on [[Megan]] as the host for a {{w|stargazing}} TV show, or  simply a stargazing tour. She claims to be a doctor in {{w|astronomy}} though her remarks, however enthusiastic, may call this into question. (Originally the host was suspected to be a spoof on {{w|Brian Cox (physicist)|Brian Cox}}, see [[#Relevant TV-shows|below]], but at some later point [[Randall]] changed his official transcript thus making the host female rather than male as in the original version, see the [[#Trivia|trivia]] section below. Thus now the host is clearly Megan, which it could not have been originally when the host was described as a man by Randall).&lt;br /&gt;
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Throughout the comic the host's tone and choice of words becomes increasingly unprofessional, referring to most of the stars as &amp;quot;shitty,&amp;quot; personifying them based on different astronomical observations, and providing little useful information on the study of stars or how they work.&lt;br /&gt;
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It seems that this is not an isolated issue as the television host mentions that people keep asking her whether or not she is a real astronomer.&lt;br /&gt;
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The host also continuously glosses over the arguably less exciting portions of a typical presentation on astronomy sharing only what she sees as &amp;quot;the good stuff.&amp;quot; This penchant for only caring about something if it is interesting extends past astronomy as well as the host is too bored when reading the dictionary to look up the meaning of astronomer.&lt;br /&gt;
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The comic derives much of its humor from the absurdity of the host's comments on various astronomical bodies. Although not technically incorrect, the way she presents the information is far from informative. (See details below on [[#The host's observations|the host's observations]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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One of her observations regards the fact that {{w|Sirius}} is a {{w|binary star}}, a system where two stars orbit each other. So even though it is the brightest star as seen from Earth we only really see one of them, as the other is, to quote the host, &amp;quot;not even trying&amp;quot;. Sirius A is &amp;quot;large&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;bright&amp;quot; {{w|main sequence}} white star, while Sirius B is a {{w|white dwarf}} with a little under half the mass, 0.49% the radius and only 0.22% the luminosity of Sirius A.&lt;br /&gt;
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{{w|Andromeda Galaxy|Andromeda}} is the largest galaxy in our {{w|Local Group}}. It is 220,000 light years across and contains a trillion stars. Humans have difficulty conceptualizing distances of this scale. Suffice to say that it is very large.{{Citation needed}}&lt;br /&gt;
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{{w|Betelgeuse}} is the 9th brightest star visible from earth. One of its prominent features is its visible redness. Within the next million years (or maybe only 100,000 years) it is expected to explode as a {{w|supernova}}, which will certainly be a spectacular sight. It could happen anytime now, and the host hopes it will be in her lifetime.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the title text it is mentioned that the {{w|Sun}} is also a star and of course is much brighter than Sirius seen from Earth, and thus Sirius is technically not the brightest star in our sky (although it is in the night sky). The title text sarcastically encourages the audience to raise that obvious but irrelevant point (a standard joke when people mention bright stars) instead of asking a more interesting, informative, or fruitful question, when there are so many to ask regarding astronomy.&lt;br /&gt;
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See also [[1371: Brightness]] and [[1342: Ancient Stars]]. Saying cool things about space to make people like you is mentioned in [[1746: Making Friends]].&lt;br /&gt;
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===The host's observations===&lt;br /&gt;
Here is a list of the host's observations:&lt;br /&gt;
*Most {{w|Bright Star Catalogue|visible stars}} are still very faint, and just become background to the bright {{w|stars}} that form the named {{w|constellations}}.&lt;br /&gt;
**The host correctly states that they are just dots. (This is also true for the bright stars, but at least they are clearly distinguishable).&lt;br /&gt;
*{{w|Sirius}} is the {{w|Apparent magnitude|brightest}} star in our {{w|List of brightest stars|night sky}}. But it is not the brightest object in the night sky, as several of the planets, especially {{w|Venus}} and {{w|Jupiter}}, and of course the {{w|Moon}} are much brighter. It is also far from being one of the most {{w|Absolute magnitude|luminous stars}} in the {{w|Milky Way}}, but its proximity to Earth makes it the brightest in the night sky. There are {{w|List_of_most_luminous_stars#Data|twenty visible stars}} that are more luminous than Sirius, {{w|List of most luminous stars|none of which}} come even close to being in the top 100 of the most luminous stars observed today.&lt;br /&gt;
**The host thus names Sirius as the star in charge since it outshines all the others as seen from the {{w|Earth}}.&lt;br /&gt;
*Sirius is actually a star system consisting of two stars as it is a {{w|binary star}} system. But where Sirius A is twice the size of the {{w|Sun}} and much brighter, then Sirius B is now just a dim {{w|white dwarf}}, the remains from a much larger star that became a {{w|red giant}} before shedding its outer layers and collapsing into its current state around 120 million years ago. So now Sirius A completely outshines Sirius B, which actually is now a dead star with no further fusion going on inside its core.&lt;br /&gt;
**This is construed by the host as it is barely even trying, as it is now only radiating away the rest of the heat from the now exposed core.&lt;br /&gt;
*{{w|Andromeda Galaxy|Andromeda}} is a {{w|spiral galaxy}}, like the Milky Way, and it is the largest galaxy in the {{w|Local Group}} where our own galaxy the Milky Way is the second largest. It is one of a few visible objects that are located outside the Milky Way. It is &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; 2.5 million light-years from the Sun and it is heading our way (or vice versa), and will {{w|Andromeda–Milky Way collision|collide with the Milky way}} in about 4 billion years (before the Sun goes into {{w|Sun#After_core_hydrogen_exhaustion|its red giant phase}}). Being 220,000 light years across and consisting of a trillion stars, it is somewhere between 1.2-2.2 times wider than the Milky Way and has 2.5-10 times as many stars. (The local group was also mentioned two comics ago, in [[1642: Gravitational Waves]], together with the much less well known third largest galaxy in the group the {{w|Triangulum Galaxy}}).&lt;br /&gt;
**It is therefore true when the host says that it is too big to try to understand, and thinking about it will make your head spin, so she suggests we do not think about it.&lt;br /&gt;
*{{w|Betelgeuse}} is a clearly visible (9th brightest) {{w|Red_supergiant|red supergiant}} {{w|Semiregular_variable_star|variable star}} located in the {{w|Orion (constellation)|constellation of Orion}}. It is one of the largest and most luminous observable stars (12th) and one of the few where it is clear that the light is not white. Most people can see that it is slightly red, whereas most other stars are so faint that they look white despite having different colors (when seeing Orion's two brightest stars, to remember which is which between Rigel and Betelgeuse, its diagonal opposite, just remember: Rigel is &amp;quot;R&amp;quot; like blue, and Betelgeuse is &amp;quot;B&amp;quot; like red). It is expected that Betelgeuse, being at a late stage of its {{w|Stellar_evolution|evolution}}, {{w|Betelgeuse#Approaching_supernova|will go supernova}} within the next million years as a {{w|type II supernova}}. The exact time when it will become a {{w|Supernova}} is so uncertain that it could [http://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/betelgeuse-will-explode-someday#explode just as likely happen tomorrow] as in a million years. When it happens it will not be dangerous to anyone on Earth, but it will likely be visible even during the day, as it may even become as bright as the full Moon.&lt;br /&gt;
**When it does go nova, it will be a fantastic spectacle for everyone, but especially for anyone who likes the ''good stuff'' in space like the host, who cannot wait for the star to explode. Clearly she hopes it will be in her lifetime, and, although this is unlikely, there is a small chance that it might just happen.&lt;br /&gt;
*A {{w|meteor}} (also known as {{w|shooting star}}), is debris from space that rains down on Earth, and burns up in the atmosphere. This happens all the time, but you need to be either lucky, patient, or know the right time for one of the {{w|meteor showers}} to see one. Often they are visible for so short a time period, that it is difficult to share the experience with anyone, as it will be gone by the time they turn their head to look where you are pointing.&lt;br /&gt;
**The host becomes very excited when she spots such a meteor, especially because it is likely that her audience got to share the experience with her, as they were already looking in the same direction as her. But still she asks if they saw it, because it is so short lived.&lt;br /&gt;
*{{w|Outer space}} is the void that exists between {{w|Astronomical object|celestial bodies}}, including the Earth. There is by definition nothing there but {{w|vacuum}}, and the interesting part of space is thus not the space but the astronomical objects found out there.&lt;br /&gt;
**The host says that ''space is cool'', which is a very un-astronomical comment, as explained above. Also her excitement for a simple shooting star is cause for the suspicion that is raised after her space comment.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Relevant TV-shows===&lt;br /&gt;
The comic could be a reference to BBC's ''{{w|Stargazing Live}}'', which {{w|Brian Cox (physicist)|Brian Cox}} has appeared in since 2011. If drawn in xkcd style he would likely look like Megan. He has a PhD in high-energy {{w|particle physics}}, but not astronomy. The newest season of the show aired during January 2016 just a month before this comic's release. Brian Cox has also been the presenter of several other science programs, especially such as the ''{{w|Wonders of the Solar System}}'', ''{{w|Wonders of the Universe}}'' and ''{{w|Wonders of Life (TV series)|Wonders of Life}}''. Originally the host was described as male in the official transcript (see [[#Trivia|trivia]] below, making this seem more likely. for some reason Randall changed the host to female in the transcript later. Very strange, but for sure when he was male, it was obviously a Brian Cox spoof.&lt;br /&gt;
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It could also be a reference to {{w|Jack Horkheimer}}'s PBS shows ''Star Hustler'' and ''{{w|Star Gazers}}''. Horkheimer, however, does not at all look like Megan, and he died 6 years ago. But he was not a doctor in astronomy, only getting into it when he started volunteering at the Miami Museum of Science's planetarium. He ended up writing shows for the planetarium and the PBS series developed from there. He rarely covered facts about the night sky that couldn't be found in any basic reference (possibly because the show was aimed at children and non-astronomy buffs), although he did get more in-depth about current astronomical events such as {{W|Comet Hale–Bopp}}.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Transcript==&lt;br /&gt;
:[A thin panel with Megan as a TV-host is holding her hands up. She is drawn in white on a black background. Behind her is an audience drawn in faint gray lines consisting of Hairy (to the left) and two Cueball-like guys and Ponytail (seen in a rare full face position) to the right of the host. One of the Cueball-like guys is partly hidden behind the host.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Host: Welcome to stargazing, with your host, me.&lt;br /&gt;
:Host: I'm a doctor or whatever.&lt;br /&gt;
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:[Same scene as before but in a broader panel, and the host is now holding only one hand up with a finger pointing up. The audience is the same four people, but now Hairy has moved further to the left in the panel to make room for a Megan-like woman also to the left of the host.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Host: I'm not gonna waste your time on the shitty stars.&lt;br /&gt;
:Host: Just the good stuff.&lt;br /&gt;
:Host: Honestly half of 'em just look like dots.&lt;br /&gt;
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:[A frame-less drawing with a zoom out showing the group of six people in black silhouette on a white background. Part of the ground beneath them is shown as a black pool. The host is pointing up with one hand. The people have been rearranged, so left of the host is now a Cueball-like guy and a Megan-like woman, and to the right is the other Cueball-like guy, then Ponytail (seen from the side as usual) and Hairy. All are looking up following the host's directions.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Host: This is Sirius. It's the brightest star in our sky so it's in charge.&lt;br /&gt;
:Host: It's really two stars but one of them is barely even trying.&lt;br /&gt;
:Host: This is Andromeda, it's too big to think about, so let's not.&lt;br /&gt;
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:[Zoom in of the host's upper body, again drawn in white on a black background. She is looking right gesturing with one arm raised, and the other still pointing up with a finger stretched out. Her audience is no longer shown.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Host: That red stars is Betelgeuse. It's gonna explode someday.&lt;br /&gt;
:Host: Can't happen soon enough, as far as I'm concerned. I-&lt;br /&gt;
:Host: ''Holy shit did you see that meteor!?!''&lt;br /&gt;
:Host: Space is ''awesome!''&lt;br /&gt;
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:[Same scene as the previous panel, but the host has turned towards left looking at someone in the audience (not shown) who speaks off-screen. She has taken both her hands down for the first time.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Off-screen voice: Are you ''sure'' you're an astronomer?&lt;br /&gt;
:Host: People keep asking that, so I finally tried to look that word up in a dictionary, and ''wow'' is that book ever boring. No thank you.&lt;br /&gt;
:Off-screen voice: But-&lt;br /&gt;
:Host: ''Space!''&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
*Randall changed the [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/archive/4/48/20160221022727!stargazing.png original] posted version of the comic.&lt;br /&gt;
**The only thing that changed was in the third panel where '''''That's''' Andromeda'' was changed to the current version: '''''This is''' Andromeda''&lt;br /&gt;
*The official transcript [https://web.archive.org/web/20160913162302/http://xkcd.com/1646/info.0.json originally] used male pronouns for the TV host. It now (as of 2019) uses female pronouns for the host.&lt;br /&gt;
**The official transcripts seems to have been messed up on xkcd at the time being.&lt;br /&gt;
***The [http://xkcd.com/1644/info.0.json transcript for 1644] is thus at the moment a mix of that comics main info (top and bottom) which results in the correct title and title text, but the entire description in this transcript is describing the comic from two releases before no. [[1642]].&lt;br /&gt;
***This seems to be a general problem for comics released around that time... &lt;br /&gt;
***Thus the description of this comic, was first released when comic no. [[1646]] came out.&lt;br /&gt;
***This has not been corrected (4 years later at the time of writing)! &lt;br /&gt;
****So the official transcript for 1644 can be found [http://xkcd.com/1646/info.0.json here], together with the data for comic 1646.&lt;br /&gt;
**The current transcript is included here below:&lt;br /&gt;
::(Inverse color panel - white on black)&lt;br /&gt;
::[A television host in the foreground, speaking toward the reader. A group of other people are in the background behind them.]&lt;br /&gt;
::Host: Welcome to Stargazing, with your host, me. I'm a doctor or whatever.&lt;br /&gt;
::[She continues to talk.]&lt;br /&gt;
::Host: I'm not gonna waste your time on the shitty stars. Just the good tuff. Honestly half of 'em just look like dots.&lt;br /&gt;
::(Normal color panel - black on white)&lt;br /&gt;
::[A shot from far away of the host standing in the center of the group of people watching her, she points to the sky.]&lt;br /&gt;
::Host: This is Sirius. It's the brightest star in our sky so it's in charge. It's really two stars, but one of them is barely even trying. This is Andromeda. It's too big to think about, so let's not.&lt;br /&gt;
::(Inverse color panel)&lt;br /&gt;
::[Close-up on the host gesturing toward the sky behind her.]&lt;br /&gt;
::Host: That red star is Betelgeuse. It's gonna explode someday. Can't happen soon enough, as far as I'm concerned. I-- &lt;br /&gt;
::HOLY SHIT DID YOU SEE THAT METEOR?!?!&lt;br /&gt;
::Space is awesome!&lt;br /&gt;
::[The host speaks to someone out of panel.]&lt;br /&gt;
::Other: Are you sure you're an astronomer?&lt;br /&gt;
::Host: People keep asking that, so I finally tried to look that word up in a dictionary, and wow is that book ever boring. No thank you.&lt;br /&gt;
::Other: But--&lt;br /&gt;
::Host: SPACE!&lt;br /&gt;
:*The original official transcript with male host is included here below (correcting a typo with a missing &amp;quot;s&amp;quot; in &amp;quot;stuff&amp;quot; and formatting to look like our normal transcripts):&lt;br /&gt;
::[A television host in the foreground, speaking toward the reader. A group of other people are in the background behind them.]&lt;br /&gt;
::Host: Welcome to Stargazing, with your host, me. I'm a doctor or whatever.&lt;br /&gt;
::[He continues to talk.]&lt;br /&gt;
::Host: I'm not gonna waste your time on the shitty stars. Just the good stuff. Honestly half of 'em just look like dots.&lt;br /&gt;
::[Normal color panel - black on white. A shot from far away of the host standing in the center of the group of people watching him, he points to the sky.]&lt;br /&gt;
::Host: This is Sirius. It's the brightest star in our sky so it's in charge. It's really two stars, but one of them is barely even trying. This is Andromeda. It's too big to think about, so let's not.&lt;br /&gt;
::[Inverse color panel. Close-up on the host gesturing toward the sky behind him.]&lt;br /&gt;
::Host: That red star is Betelgeuse. It's gonna explode someday. Can't happen soon enough, as far as I'm concerned. I-- ''HOLY SHIT DID YOU SEE THAT METEOR?!?!'' Space is ''awesome''!&lt;br /&gt;
::[The host speaks to someone out of panel.]&lt;br /&gt;
::Other: Are you ''sure'' you're an astronomer?&lt;br /&gt;
::Host: People keep asking that, so I finally tried to look that word up in a dictionary, and ''wow'' is that book ever boring. No ''thank'' you.&lt;br /&gt;
::Other: But--&lt;br /&gt;
::Host: ''SPACE!''&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>1283: Headlines</title>
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| number    = 1283&lt;br /&gt;
| date      = October 28, 2013&lt;br /&gt;
| title     = Headlines&lt;br /&gt;
| image     = headlines.png&lt;br /&gt;
| titletext = 1916: 'PHYSICIST DAD' TURNS HIS ATTENTION TO GRAVITY, AND YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HE FINDS. [PICS] [NSFW]&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Explanation==&lt;br /&gt;
This comic satirizes the sensationalist language used in Internet headlines. Many websites generate ad revenue for getting visitors (&amp;quot;getting more clicks&amp;quot;), so some unscrupulous editors seek to manipulate their readers using tantalizing yet formulaic and crass headlines, designed to attract readers rather than summarize the article's contents. You might recognize this technique from those ridiculous text advertisements — &amp;quot;local mom discovers 1 weird tip to reduce belly fat.&amp;quot; The practice is nothing new: {{w|tabloid journalism}} has been doing this for many years (e.g. ''{{w|National Enquirer}}''). The numbers shown at the headline are also often wrong and not covered by the article.&lt;br /&gt;
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Signs of a dishonest headline include giving undue weight to trivial topics, or appealing to readers' emotions or needs (fear, outrage, pity, lust, laziness) instead of offering serious information. In severe cases, it may be a {{w|bait-and-switch}}, claiming to offer something it isn't. By failing to give a useful summary of the story, whilst attempting to force the reader to click on every story on the off-chance that it's interesting, they amount to an intentionally deceptive form of spam.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Randall]] parodies the formula in this comic with such trivializing headlines for important historical events:&lt;br /&gt;
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*1905 - How a shocking new theory, discovered by a dad, proves scientists are wrong about ''everything!''&lt;br /&gt;
:{{w|Albert Einstein}} published his {{w|Annus Mirabilis papers}}, which changed views on space, time, mass, and energy, and laid the groundwork for much of modern physics. They included his papers on {{w|special relativity}} and on {{w|mass–energy equivalence}} (&amp;quot;E = mc&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;&amp;quot;). He had an infant son in 1905 (born May 1904).&lt;br /&gt;
:The use of the term &amp;quot;dad&amp;quot; helps readers tune in emotionally. &amp;quot;Proving scientists wrong about everything&amp;quot; is obviously an inflation of Einstein's achievements, though not completely incorrect as Einstein's discoveries did undermine current theories about fundamentals of the universe such as space, time and motion. Einstein was awarded the {{w|Nobel Prize}} in 1921 for his work on the {{w|photoelectric effect}}; his work on relativity was still not accepted by many physicists at that time.&lt;br /&gt;
*1912 - 6 ''Titanic'' survivors who should have died&lt;br /&gt;
:{{w|Sinking of the RMS Titanic}}. &amp;quot;should have died&amp;quot; seems to be referring to six passengers whose survival was downright miraculous, though the wording is (deliberately) ambiguous to imply the six passengers ''deserved'' to have died. Possibly referred to here is the survival of {{w|J. Bruce Ismay}}, chairman and managing director of the White Star Line (the company responsible for the Titanic), who was condemned as a coward for leaving the sinking liner.&lt;br /&gt;
*1920 - 17 things that will be outlawed now that women can vote&lt;br /&gt;
:The {{w|Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution}} was passed, guaranteeing voting rights for women in all US states. The prediction of new prohibitions is a reference to alcohol prohibition under the authority granted to the federal government by the {{w|Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution}}. While the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified before women's suffrage was guaranteed by the Nineteeth, alcohol prohibition was widely seen as an issue driven by women's opinions (hence the suggestion that more things would be prohibited now that women had the vote).&lt;br /&gt;
*1928 - This one weird mold kills all germs&lt;br /&gt;
:{{w|Penicillin}} was discovered by Alexander Fleming.&lt;br /&gt;
*1929 - Most embarrassing reactions to the stock market crash [GIFS]&lt;br /&gt;
:This is a reference to the {{w|Wall Street Crash of 1929}}, the most devastating stock market crash in history and the beginning of the Great Depression. The &amp;quot;embarassing reactions&amp;quot; may be a reference to the suicides of people suddenly impoverished by the depression.&lt;br /&gt;
:[GIFS] indicates that the post will contain animated GIF images, which are a crude form of short video. Presumably, these GIFs will feature the aforementioned suicides, which would be considered tasteless at best. The {{w|GIF#Animated_GIF|GIF89a specification}} which supports animation was released in 1990, so animated GIFs (or computers for that matter) didn't exist in 1929. &lt;br /&gt;
*1945 - These 9 Nazi atrocities will make you lose faith in humanity&lt;br /&gt;
:1945 is the year that World War II ended. It's also the year that many war crimes committed by Nazi Germany were discovered or declassified. These events would be cause enough for anyone to re-evaluate their belief in the inherent goodness of the human race. However, the specific phrase &amp;quot;lose faith in humanity&amp;quot; is one often employed on the web by rather over-dramatic people in response to something someone did to exasperate them; and because that particular wording is closely associated with exaggerative tendencies, its usage in relation to Nazi war crimes only ''downplays'' their seriousness.&lt;br /&gt;
*1948 - 5 insane plans for feeding West Berlin you won't believe are real&lt;br /&gt;
:1948 is when the Soviet Union established the {{w|Berlin Blockade}}, preventing food and other critical supplies from reaching occupied Berlin. In response, Western forces organized the {{w|Berlin Airlift}} (previously referenced in [[1037: Umwelt]], where it became Berlin Chairlift instead).&lt;br /&gt;
*1955 - Avoid polio with this one weird trick&lt;br /&gt;
:The {{w|polio vaccine}} was developed.&lt;br /&gt;
:&amp;quot;One weird trick&amp;quot; is a common phrase used in Internet ads: see [http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/07/how_one_weird_trick_conquered_the_internet_what_happens_when_you_click_on.html this article] for more information. It may also refer to the fact that polio viruses were used as the first vaccines.&lt;br /&gt;
*1957 - 12 nip slips potentially visible to Sputnik&lt;br /&gt;
:The Soviet Union launched {{w|Sputnik 1}}, the world's first artificial satellite. A ''nip slip'' is when a woman unintentionally exposes all or part of one or both of her nipples; in the context of the internet, it generally refers to a photograph capturing such a moment.&lt;br /&gt;
:Saying that 12 were visible from space implies that they were really big 'nip slips', or at least that only those 12 were big enough to be visible to telescopes.&lt;br /&gt;
*1968 - This year's assassinations ranked from most to least tragic&lt;br /&gt;
:{{w|Martin Luther King Jr.}} and {{w|Robert F. Kennedy}} ({{w|John F. Kennedy's}} younger brother) were both assassinated in 1968 (five years after JFK).&lt;br /&gt;
:Assassinations are rare and considered to be always tragic, so &amp;quot;ranking&amp;quot; them trivializes the political and emotional depth of the events.&lt;br /&gt;
*1969 - This is the most important photo of an astronaut you'll see all day&lt;br /&gt;
:{{w|Apollo 11}} performed the first manned lunar landing. During this historic trip newspapers printed as many pictures of astronauts as they could.&lt;br /&gt;
*1986 - This video of a terminally ill child watching the ''Challenger'' launch will break your heart&lt;br /&gt;
:Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight. See {{w|Space Shuttle Challenger disaster}} for details. This was the first shuttle mission that included a teacher on board as part of the crew ({{w|Christa McAuliffe}}, ''{{w|Teacher in Space Project}}''), so there were many children -- a New York Times poll put the number at 48% of 9-13 year olds in the US -- watching this particular launch live as teachers around the country had TV sets in their classrooms showing the ill-fated launch in real time. The launch was not shown on most mainstream TV stations; only {{w|CNN}} broadcast it live.&lt;br /&gt;
:Since this many children did see it, there would also have been several terminal ill children watching, and likely also some press out at one such place. So they could get this picture. And again toy with our emotions.&lt;br /&gt;
*1989 - You won't ''believe'' what these people did to the Berlin wall! [video]&lt;br /&gt;
:{{w|Fall of the Berlin Wall}}.&lt;br /&gt;
:[video] indicates a link to a video.&lt;br /&gt;
*Jan 1, 1990 - 500 signs you're a 90s kid&lt;br /&gt;
:A 90s kid is someone born in the late 80s or early 90s (and spent most their childhood in the 1990s). Headlines like [http://www.buzzfeed.com/melismashable/25-ways-to-tell-youre-a-kid-of-the-9 this one from BuzzFeed] toy with their readers' sense of nostalgia. The parody headline is funny because it starts precisely on the first day of the 1990s, meaning that the only &amp;quot;90s kids&amp;quot; that it would apply to would be newborns. This is a reference to a common joke about the 90s not having a concrete identity in some ways like the 70s or 80s did in terms of popular culture, and yet those born in that decade always seem to have long lists of things that make you a &amp;quot;90s kid&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
*The title text: 1916: 'Physicist dad' turns his attention to gravity, and you won't believe what he finds. [PICS] [NSFW]&lt;br /&gt;
:Einstein published his theory of {{w|General relativity}}, which is a vast generalization of the theory of {{w|Special relativity}} from 1905 and provides a model for gravity. In 1916 Einstein had two sons who lived in Zurich while he lived in Berlin.&lt;br /&gt;
:[NSFW] is &amp;quot;Not Safe for Work&amp;quot; - a tag to identify explicit images. Here it is used to trick readers hoping to find pornography.&lt;br /&gt;
:[PICS] tells the potential viewer that there are images embedded.&lt;br /&gt;
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This topic is re-used in [[1307: Buzzfeed Christmas]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==Transcript==&lt;br /&gt;
:[Caption above the frame:]&lt;br /&gt;
:'''20th Century Headlines'''&lt;br /&gt;
:Rewritten to get more clicks&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:[The years are always written at the center. The text has a line pointing to the relevant year. The first text is written to the left of the year. Then the texts below is alternately written to the right and to the left, finishing at the right in 1990.]&lt;br /&gt;
:1905 - How a shocking new theory, discovered by a dad, proves scientists are wrong about ''everything!''&lt;br /&gt;
:1912 - 6 ''Titanic'' survivors who should have died&lt;br /&gt;
:1920 - 17 things that will be outlawed now that women can vote&lt;br /&gt;
:1928 - This one weird mold kills all germs&lt;br /&gt;
:1929 - Most embarrassing reactions to the stock market crash [GIFs]&lt;br /&gt;
:1945 - These 9 Nazi atrocities will make you lose faith in humanity&lt;br /&gt;
:1948 - 5 insane plans for feeding West Berlin you won't believe are real&lt;br /&gt;
:1955 - Avoid Polio with this one weird trick&lt;br /&gt;
:1957 - 12 nip slips potentially visible to Sputnik&lt;br /&gt;
:1968 - This year's assassinations ranked from most to least tragic&lt;br /&gt;
:1969 - This is the most important photo of an astronaut you'll see all day&lt;br /&gt;
:1986 - This video of a terminally ill child watching the ''Challenger'' launch will break your heart&lt;br /&gt;
:1989 - You won't ''believe'' what these people did to the Berlin wall! [Video]&lt;br /&gt;
:Jan 1, 1990 - 500 signs you're a 90s kid&lt;br /&gt;
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{{comic discussion}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Clickbait]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Stock Market]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:2597: Salary Negotiation</title>
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The second panel is me every time I haggle for something, and I have to make sure I don't end up haggling the wrong way. Or starting above my desired price when I mean to start below so that I can meet in the middle at my desired price.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.36|172.70.91.36]] 23:06, 23 March 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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They should offer him $61,333.33 plus a penny extra once every three years.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.198|162.158.107.198]] 23:31, 23 March 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:The way a friend solved it was to cut a penny into six pieces (like a pizza), and then give me two of them. [[User:Ruffy314|Ruffy314]] ([[User talk:Ruffy314|talk]]) 09:42, 24 March 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Any idea how Cueball arrived at the figure of $61 1/3 thousand?--[[User:Troy0|Troy0]] ([[User talk:Troy0|talk]]) 03:33, 24 March 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Interesting.  In the UK, I was taught to call them recurring decimals.  Never heard of repeating decimals. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.20|141.101.99.20]] 08:46, 24 March 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I don't think the 15% is meaning a 15% cut in the (offered) salary, as the current explanation has it. I think this is referencing agent-type negotiations, where the agent might take 15% of the salary negotiated for the person they're representing.[[Special:Contributions/172.69.79.209|172.69.79.209]] 09:15, 24 March 2022 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:2591: Qua</title>
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If Megan's not careful, this pattern can quickly spiral to infinity: &amp;quot;Nice use of qua qua qua ''qua'' qua qua qua.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Nice use of qua qua qua qua qua qua qua ''qua'' qua qua qua qua qua qua qua.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Nice use of...&amp;quot; --mezimm [[Special:Contributions/172.70.178.93|172.70.178.93]] 16:37, 9 March 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Or perhaps &amp;quot;Nice use of 'Nice use of ... '&amp;quot; although new forms of quote mark would need to be invented. --[[User:192·168·0·1|192·168·0·1]] ([[User talk:192·168·0·1|talk]]) 19:11, 9 March 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Hey, [[244|no recursing]]. [[User:Ruffy314|Ruffy314]] ([[User talk:Ruffy314|talk]]) 21:46, 9 March 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
;qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua qua[[User:New editor|New editor]] ([[User talk:New editor|talk]]) 20:37, 9 March 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I feel like there should be a duck somewhere. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 21:05, 9 March 2022 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
Buffalo everywhere are concerned.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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Possible alternative explanation: It's a quick one-time two-factor authentication code that is generated with an app like google auth, or sent by sms, and is only valid for a minute or too. A password would still be needed,and therefore it would be almost completely useless.&lt;br /&gt;
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:That's how I interpreted it, too. Password recovery links are usually very long strings, not just 6 digits. The joke is that the email or SMS with the 2FA code usually warns not to disclose the code, even though it can't be reused. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 02:43, 18 November 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Some Services offer a form of 2FA where they give you a list of 10 one time passwords / back-up codes that are valid indefinitely and are supposed to be printed out, in case access to the phone is lost. The generally romantic atmosphere of the comic makes me feel the number is more like that, especially since she also offers him her password in the alt-text. [[User:Ruffy314|Ruffy314]] ([[User talk:Ruffy314|talk]]) 10:39, 18 November 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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263827 is prime, is that worthy of a mention? {{unsigned}}&lt;br /&gt;
:If you think it is a factor! (...of a semiprime, maybe.) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.141|172.70.90.141]] 03:48, 18 November 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Could &amp;quot;I never told anyone *this* before&amp;quot; be a wordplay on the fact that it is a one-time code, which means if she told anyone else before it would have been a different one?&lt;br /&gt;
[[Special:Contributions/172.68.110.133|172.68.110.133]] 03:55, 18 November 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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The number here is 263827.  In the original Star Wars movie, the trash compactor that the main characters get stuck in is numbered 3263827.  Any chance that this is an incredibly obscure Star Wars reference?  (I figure since one-time codes are usually six digits, using that full seven-digit number would be a bit of a distraction.) [[User:Ghostelephant|Ghostelephant]] ([[User talk:Ghostelephant|talk]]) 05:01, 18 November 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
No way that's a coincidence! That is simply too unlikely to be an accident.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.178.123|172.70.178.123]] 08:14, 18 November 2021 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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It's 7:12p and I'm on android at m.xkcd.com .  There is no alt text, and the &amp;quot;see also&amp;quot; link directs back to the same page.  The comic is fun though, people will be thinking about time travel as technology takes off.  [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.179|162.158.62.179]] 23:14, 25 June 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:There is no title-text on firefox on PC either. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.79.59|162.158.79.59]] 23:16, 25 June 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::The title text is botched. Instead the comic is wrapped in an &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;a&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; (hyperlink) element: &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;&amp;quot;Oh, and our computers all have cameras now, which is nice during the pandemic lockdowns.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The WHAT.&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.152|141.101.98.152]] 23:24, 25 June 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I reckon the backend interface for posting a comic must have a field for the title text and a field for the &amp;quot;see also&amp;quot; link, and someone put the text in the wrong field. Easy mistake to make, hopefully fixed soon. -- [[User:Peregrine|Peregrine]] ([[User talk:Peregrine|talk]]) 02:33, 26 June 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Wasn't the federal no lasers pointed at airplanes law was in acted to prevent laser guided missile attacks against airlines? Not laser attacks in general? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.129.136|172.68.129.136]] 01:24, 26 June 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Sure, someone may have suggested that, but the truth is that anyone who has access to guided missiles (IE state-level actors and military forces) isn't going to be bound by federal law anyway [[User:Defaultdotxbe|Defaultdotxbe]] ([[User talk:Defaultdotxbe|talk]]) 02:37, 26 June 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::My thoughts too. At first I took it as White Hat thinking that there were military attacks with lasers capable of shooting down planes… but a federal law against that would, as you say, not be heeded by those doing such things. On reflection I decided that White Hat is envisioning that ordinary citizens have laser guns and have taken to shooting them at planes, the way road signs get shot at by ordinary guns in reality. -- [[User:Peregrine|Peregrine]] ([[User talk:Peregrine|talk]]) 02:46, 26 June 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:In short, '''no'''. 18 USC §39A, the federal law criminalizing the pointing of laser pointers at airplanes, was not enacted to prevent missile attacks against airlines. It was enacted to help combat kids (and others) causing real injury to airline personnel in what they thought were harmless pranks (they're not harmless). [[User:JohnHawkinson|JohnHawkinson]] ([[User talk:JohnHawkinson|talk]]) 03:46, 26 June 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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It's interesting that Mr. 2021 summarizes the entire Internet/World Wide Web with &amp;quot;it's really easy to send news stories to your friends&amp;quot;.  The Internet certainly existed in 1991, but the advancement in that area over 30 years is pretty significant.  I'm not sure how I would sum that up to someone from 30 years ago in a single comic panel, but I think it would come out differently than what we see here. [[User:Orion205|Orion205]] ([[User talk:Orion205|talk]]) 03:57, 26 June 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:I saw the ratio of advertisements with www.foo.com in it rise only at the end of the 90s which was when the Internet started to get mainstream adoption. Before Google, it was not so easy to find relevant content with Altavista and friends. [[User:Bmwiedemann|Bmwiedemann]] ([[User talk:Bmwiedemann|talk]]) 20:31, 26 June 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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It's not so much the range of cordless phones that is of significant change, but the computing power inside the phone that made the most advancement since 1991. Phones at that time could only make phone calls! Texting didn't become available until 1992 and games and everything else we do on them was later. To me &amp;quot;range&amp;quot; means the connection range which improved a lot, but is still not as signficant as &amp;quot;range of use&amp;quot; [[User:Rtanenbaum|Rtanenbaum]] ([[User talk:Rtanenbaum|talk]]) 12:17, 26 June 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Does &amp;quot;cordless phones&amp;quot; refer to cellphones? That's the &amp;quot;wireless&amp;quot; industry. Cordless phones are landline phone handsets that don't have a cord connecting them to the wall, and he's talking about the distance they can be from the base station.  Mentioning these is a joke because so many people have cut the cord entirely, abandoning their landlines in favor of just using cellphones. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 12:59, 26 June 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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This is the second time Cueball travels from within the Covid-19 pandemic to visit White Hat [[2280]]. Is there any comic where White Hat interacts with pangolins, bats, or China? Even though Cueball is vaccinated by now, he might be a carrier [[User:Ruffy314|Ruffy314]] ([[User talk:Ruffy314|talk]]) 22:46, 26 June 2021 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:2099: Missal of Silos</title>
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We need a citation to prove that residents of Cheyenne, Wyoming would rather not be targeted with nuclear weapons?&lt;br /&gt;
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:As no residents have already requested otherwise, let's go ahead and nuke them now. [[User:SDSpivey|SDSpivey]] ([[User talk:SDSpivey|talk]]) 19:49, 16 January 2019 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Seriously, though, a sufficiently patriotic American living in Cheyenne, WY may potentially prefer that the relatively unimportant city of his or her residence be nuked instead of the more militarily important{{Citation needed}} Cheyenne Mountain Complex. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.220|162.158.78.220]] 20:37, 16 January 2019 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Is the citation needed for the military importance or for the crazy patriotic guy? [[User:Linker|Linker]] ([[User talk:Linker|talk]]) 20:40, 16 January 2019 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::I'm wondering, why would anyone want to target a site that is expressly built to withstand a nuklear strike? That's like fighting a  barbarian princess and try to hit her on the bikini armor instead of the midriff [[User:Ruffy314|Ruffy314]] ([[User talk:Ruffy314|talk]]) 00:12, 18 January 2019 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I did not laugh at the comic today. However, I startled people around me laughing at the placement of this [citation needed] in the description. Kudo's to whomever placed it. [[User:DanB|DanB]] ([[User talk:DanB|talk]]) 21:32, 16 January 2019 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Wouldn't it make more sense to create a seperate page to collect all the &amp;quot;xkcd-Wikipedia effect&amp;quot; cases? I'm kinda surprised there isn't one already. Model Rail isn't even the only time that happened. One other example being https://xkcd.com/1485/. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.58.177|162.158.58.177]] 11:23, 17 January 2019 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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The format of this comic is highly similar to the recent comic [[2042: Rolle's Theorem]], with a title and ''From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'' header, and the first few paragraphs in the article.&lt;br /&gt;
The fact that the reference of this comic to fuzzy string matching matches [[1031: s/keyboard/leopard/]]'s reference to regex (comic 1031 also has a Wikipedia page format)&lt;br /&gt;
Can we have kind of a 'Meme format' explanation and Randall's fascination with this format? {{unsigned ip|172.69.186.22}}&lt;br /&gt;
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There have been several comics referencing nuclear weapons in one way of another. Have added link to [[1655: Doomsday Clock]] in the description because there is already a collection of comics about this there. But do we need a category, so that kind of explanation could go there? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:15, 17 January 2019 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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I mean, the dress is b&amp;amp;w if you have one of the forms of colorblindness. Although, what colors ''is'' it? [[User:SilverMagpie|SilverMagpie]] ([[User talk:SilverMagpie|talk]]) 16:33, 4 May 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: The gold/black part is 61522F hex and the white/blue part is 8190B2 hex. [[User:Grabadora304|Grabadora304]] ([[User talk:Grabadora304|talk]]) 16:55, 4 May 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Did top row. Feel free to format it differently. [[User:SilverMagpie|SilverMagpie]] ([[User talk:SilverMagpie|talk]]) 16:42, 4 May 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::''Screams in edit conflicts.'' [[User:Chbs|Chbs]] ([[User talk:Chbs|talk]]) 16:53, 4 May 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Okay, I've normalized the formatting to what seems to be the standard: uniform indent with &amp;quot;:&amp;quot;.[[User:Chbs|Chbs]] ([[User talk:Chbs|talk]]) 16:57, 4 May 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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AFAIK In normal (British) usage the phrase is &amp;quot;In my humble opinion&amp;quot; and I have heard it said, when someone prefaces their contribution with IMHO it is rarely humble but is definitely an opinion. [[User:RIIW - Ponder it|RIIW - Ponder it]] ([[User talk:RIIW - Ponder it|talk]]) 16:47, 4 May 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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No lie, I had a manager who used to refer to the database language as Squeal. As in a high-pitched animal sound. We had an in-house database tool called PiggySQL. [[User:Thaledison|Thaledison]] ([[User talk:Thaledison|talk]]) 17:26, 4 May 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Dammit.  Now my brain will always translate &amp;quot;OMG&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;oh, my genitals&amp;quot;.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.58.167|172.68.58.167]] 17:45, 4 May 2018 (UTC)Pat&lt;br /&gt;
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The single space convention became the standard [[wiki:History_of_sentence_spacing#Movement_to_single_sentence_spacing|waaay before HTML]]. [[User:Cgrimes85|Cgrimes85]] ([[User talk:Cgrimes85|talk]]) 18:13, 4 May 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Tabs vs Spaces might also be a reference to the programmer's war on how to indent code correctly. [[User:Ruffy314|Ruffy314]] ([[User talk:Ruffy314|talk]]) 19:25, 4 May 2018 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&amp;lt;includeonly&amp;gt;Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3, 4&amp;lt;/includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Test-Template for the [[Sandbox]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;{{Test}}&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Why? because [[609]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Templates]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Ruffy314</name></author>	</entry>

	<entry>
		<id>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153455</id>
		<title>Template:Test</title>
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				<updated>2018-03-02T23:11:16Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Ruffy314: &lt;/p&gt;
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&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt; &amp;lt;style&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
.tooltip {position: relative; display: inline-block;}&lt;br /&gt;
.tooltip .tooltiptext { visibility: hidden; width: 120px; background-color: #555; color: #fff; text-align: center; border-radius: 6px; padding: 5px 0; position: absolute; z-index: 1; bottom: 125%; left: 50%; margin-left: -60px; opacity: 0; transition: opacity 0.3s;}&lt;br /&gt;
.tooltip .tooltiptext::after { content: &amp;quot;&amp;quot;; position: absolute; top: 100%; left: 50%; margin-left: -5px; border-width: 5px; border-style: solid; border-color: #555 transparent transparent transparent;}&lt;br /&gt;
.tooltip:hover .tooltiptext { visibility: visible; opacity: 1;}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/style&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/head&amp;gt;[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/{{#if:{{#pos:{{{1|}}}|/}}||Main/}}{{{1|Xkcd}}} &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;background: #eef;&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Warning: TV Tropes. See comic 609.&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Template for tvtropes&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;{{Test|linkpage|display}}&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Why? because [[609]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Templates]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Ruffy314</name></author>	</entry>

	<entry>
		<id>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153453</id>
		<title>Template:Test</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153453"/>
				<updated>2018-03-02T23:09:58Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Ruffy314: &lt;/p&gt;
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&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;head style=&amp;quot;visibility:hidden;&amp;quot;&amp;gt; ??? &amp;lt;/head&amp;gt;[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/{{#if:{{#pos:{{{1|}}}|/}}||Main/}}{{{1|Xkcd}}} &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;background: #eef;&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Warning: TV Tropes. See comic 609.&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Template for tvtropes&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;{{Test|linkpage|display}}&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Why? because [[609]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Templates]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Ruffy314</name></author>	</entry>

	<entry>
		<id>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153452</id>
		<title>Template:Test</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153452"/>
				<updated>2018-03-02T23:08:11Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Ruffy314: &lt;/p&gt;
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&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;visibility:hidden;&amp;quot;&amp;gt; ??? &amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/{{#if:{{#pos:{{{1|}}}|/}}||Main/}}{{{1|Xkcd}}} &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;background: #eef;&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Warning: TV Tropes. See comic 609.&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Template for tvtropes&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;{{Test|linkpage|display}}&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Why? because [[609]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Templates]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Ruffy314</name></author>	</entry>

	<entry>
		<id>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153451</id>
		<title>Template:Test</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153451"/>
				<updated>2018-03-02T23:06:59Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Ruffy314: &lt;/p&gt;
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&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; ??? &amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/{{#if:{{#pos:{{{1|}}}|/}}||Main/}}{{{1|Xkcd}}} &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;background: #eef;&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Warning: TV Tropes. See comic 609.&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Template for tvtropes&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;{{Test|linkpage|display}}&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Why? because [[609]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Templates]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Ruffy314</name></author>	</entry>

	<entry>
		<id>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153448</id>
		<title>Template:Test</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153448"/>
				<updated>2018-03-02T23:03:18Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Ruffy314: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
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&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;{position: relative; display: inline-block;}&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/{{#if:{{#pos:{{{1|}}}|/}}||Main/}}{{{1|Xkcd}}} &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;{ visibility: hidden; width: 120px; background-color: #555; color: #fff; text-align: center; border-radius: 6px; padding: 5px 0; position: absolute; z-index: 1; bottom: 125%; left: 50%; margin-left: -60px; opacity: 0; transition: opacity 0.3s;} :hover { visibility: visible; opacity: 1;}&amp;quot; &amp;gt;Warning: TV Tropes. See comic 609.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Test-Template for tvtropes&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;{{Test|linkpage|display}}&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Why? because [[609]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Templates]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Ruffy314</name></author>	</entry>

	<entry>
		<id>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153447</id>
		<title>Template:Test</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153447"/>
				<updated>2018-03-02T23:02:26Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Ruffy314: &lt;/p&gt;
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&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;{position: relative; display: inline-block;}&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/{{#if:{{#pos:{{{1|}}}|/}}||Main/}}{{{1|Xkcd}}} &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;{ visibility: hidden; width: 120px; background-color: #555; color: #fff; text-align: center; border-radius: 6px; padding: 5px 0; position: absolute; z-index: 1; bottom: 125%; left: 50%; margin-left: -60px; opacity: 0; transition: opacity 0.3s;} :hover { visibility: visible; opacity: 1;}&amp;quot; &amp;gt;Warning: TV Tropes. See comic 609.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Test-Template for tvtropes&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;{{Test|linkpage|display}}&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Why? because [[609]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Templates]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Ruffy314</name></author>	</entry>

	<entry>
		<id>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153445</id>
		<title>Template:Test</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153445"/>
				<updated>2018-03-02T23:00:13Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Ruffy314: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
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---------------------&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;includeonly&amp;gt;[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/{{#if:{{#pos:{{{1|}}}|/}}||Main/}}{{{1|Xkcd}}} &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;{ visibility: hidden; width: 120px; background-color: #555; color: #fff; text-align: center; border-radius: 6px; padding: 5px 0; position: absolute; z-index: 1; bottom: 125%; left: 50%; margin-left: -60px; opacity: 0; transition: opacity 0.3s;} :hover { visibility: visible; opacity: 1;}&amp;quot; &amp;gt;Warning: TV Tropes. See comic 609.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Test-Template for tvtropes&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;{{Test|linkpage|display}}&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Why? because [[609]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Templates]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Ruffy314</name></author>	</entry>

	<entry>
		<id>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153437</id>
		<title>Template:Test</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153437"/>
				<updated>2018-03-02T22:43:06Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Ruffy314: &lt;/p&gt;
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&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;includeonly&amp;gt;[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/{{#if:{{#pos:{{{1|}}}|/}}||Main/}}{{{1|Xkcd}}} &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;background: #eef;&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Warning: TV Tropes. See comic 609.&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Test-Template for tvtropes&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;{{Test|linkpage|display}}&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Why? because [[609]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Templates]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Ruffy314</name></author>	</entry>

	<entry>
		<id>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153436</id>
		<title>Template:Test</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153436"/>
				<updated>2018-03-02T22:42:10Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Ruffy314: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
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---------------------&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;includeonly&amp;gt;[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/{{#if:{{#pos:{{{1|}}}|/}}||Main/}}{{{1|Xkcd}}} &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;background: #eef;&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Warning: TV Tropes. See comic 609.&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Test-Template for tvtropes&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;{{Test|linkpage|display}}&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Why? because [[609]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Templates]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Ruffy314</name></author>	</entry>

	<entry>
		<id>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153435</id>
		<title>Template:Test</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153435"/>
				<updated>2018-03-02T22:39:15Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Ruffy314: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;__NOINDEX__&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;includeonly&amp;gt;[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/{{#if:{{#pos:{{{1|}}}|/}}||Main/}}{{{1|Xkcd}}} &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;background: #eef;&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Warning: TV Tropes. See comic 609.&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Test-Template for tvtropes&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;{{Test|linkpage|display}}&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Why? because [[609]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Templates]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Ruffy314</name></author>	</entry>

	<entry>
		<id>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153434</id>
		<title>Template:Test</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153434"/>
				<updated>2018-03-02T22:36:55Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Ruffy314: Undo revision 153433 by Ruffy314 (talk)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Template for tvtropes&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;{{Test|linkpage|display}}&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Why? because [[609]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Templates]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Ruffy314</name></author>	</entry>

	<entry>
		<id>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153433</id>
		<title>Template:Test</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153433"/>
				<updated>2018-03-02T22:36:19Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Ruffy314: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;includeonly&amp;gt;[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/{{#if:{{#pos:{{{1|}}}|/}}||Main/}}{{{1|Xkcd}}} &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;background: #eef;&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Warning: TV Tropes. See comic 609.&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;style&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
.tooltip {position: relative; display: inline-block; border-bottom: 1px dotted black;}&lt;br /&gt;
.tooltip .tooltiptext { visibility: hidden; width: 120px; background-color: #555; color: #fff; text-align: center; border-radius: 6px; padding: 5px 0; position: absolute; z-index: 1; bottom: 125%; left: 50%; margin-left: -60px; opacity: 0; transition: opacity 0.3s;}&lt;br /&gt;
.tooltip .tooltiptext::after { content: &amp;quot;&amp;quot;; position: absolute; top: 100%; left: 50%; margin-left: -5px; border-width: 5px; border-style: solid; border-color: #555 transparent transparent transparent;}&lt;br /&gt;
.tooltip:hover .tooltiptext { visibility: visible; opacity: 1;}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/style&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/includeonly&amp;gt;&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Template for tvtropes&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;{{Test|linkpage|display}}&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Why? because [[609]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Templates]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Ruffy314</name></author>	</entry>

	<entry>
		<id>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153431</id>
		<title>Template:Test</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Test&amp;diff=153431"/>
				<updated>2018-03-02T22:34:37Z</updated>
		
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Bread product ≠ rabbit -  Subject says it all. {{unsigned ip|141.101.107.168}}&lt;br /&gt;
:Yes, as to the trivia, I find it ridiculous that they might *not* be rabbits, per the diagram and reference to a small one, etc. I would correct this insanity had I more time.&lt;br /&gt;
:: Jacky720 forgot to sign this comment. :) [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 19:00, 17 October 2017 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Other Bun comics include [[1682]] and [[1871]] - maybe we should start a category? --[[User:AnotherAnonymous|AnotherAnonymous]] ([[User talk:AnotherAnonymous|talk]]) 14:58, 16 October 2017 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:We can just link to the other &amp;quot;bun&amp;quot; comics for now—we can create a category when more pop up. [[User:RamenChef|RamenChef]] ([[User talk:RamenChef|talk]]) 18:21, 16 October 2017 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Sure sure, everyone thinks they're harmless, until one picks up a switchblade and an attitude. [[User:DevAudio|DevAudio]] ([[User talk:DevAudio|talk]]) 15:32, 16 October 2017 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: Only Monty Python understood their potential danger. [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 18:55, 17 October 2017 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Is it true that Bun trends are increasing? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.69.223|162.158.69.223]]&lt;br /&gt;
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The long-awaited game Overgrowth was officially released on Steam today. It has been most succinctly described as a &amp;quot;Bunny Brawler&amp;quot;. Coincidence? I think not!&lt;br /&gt;
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Is the {beep} a reference to the bun alert (which beret guy has installed)? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.63.226|162.158.63.226]] 23:35, 16 October 2017 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I guess that {beep} is definitely a reference to the bun alert, and that the &amp;quot;recent acceleration in numbers&amp;quot; is only an observed trend due to more users reporting buns over the app, not an actual increase in numbers. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.34|108.162.216.34]] 00:05, 17 October 2017 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Good morning, Governor. Our tracking systems show a rapid increase in the number of buns featured on xkcd. &lt;br /&gt;
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There's been a long-term upward trend, but it has accelerated recently. &lt;br /&gt;
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So if you want to see comics about buns, there are lots of them there! &lt;br /&gt;
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Ooh! &lt;br /&gt;
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There's a new one right now! &lt;br /&gt;
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It's been an honor to comment.&lt;br /&gt;
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:''Our tracking systems show a &amp;lt;s&amp;gt;rapid&amp;lt;/s&amp;gt; rabbit increase in the number of buns featured on xkcd.''&lt;br /&gt;
:FTFY [[User:Ruffy314|Ruffy314]] ([[User talk:Ruffy314|talk]]) 19:45, 17 October 2017 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Current incomplete explanation is &amp;quot;Created by Randall Munroe&amp;quot;. Seriously? Is this accurate or is somebody goofing around? If true I'd say that makes the explanation automatically complete, LOL! Except I wouldn't want to be the one to remove this special occurance. From the looks of the comments, looks like in previous versions of the explanation someone AGAIN confused this terminology with a bread roll. If only there were previous comics which referred to rabbits as &amp;quot;buns&amp;quot;... :) Or if there was a rabbit IN the comic. Or if someone, like this governor for example, made the connection between rabbits and the term &amp;quot;buns&amp;quot;. LOL! [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 03:35, 17 October 2017 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Maybe Randall finally found out about the site and somehow contributed... who knows? --[[User:JayRulesXKCD|'''JayRules''XKCD'''  ]]&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;[[User talk:JayRulesXKCD|what's up?]]&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; 12:34, 17 October 2017 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:: As far as I gather, Randall has been aware of this site for ages, but doesn't actually say anything or declare himself anyway. He might enjoy watching people discussing and arguing about what he might mean. :) I've seen people declare with certainty that they know he knows, I give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they've seen evidence of this and aren't merely assuming themselves. Of course, now the explanation says it's by a Velociraptor. I equally believe this means A) Someone IS goofing around, and &amp;quot;Randall Monroe&amp;quot; is one of the goofs, or B) It's actually Randall, and HE'S goofing around (we all know his like for random velociraptors, and I could totally see him amusing himself this way), perhaps he changed it because I called attention to it. :) [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 18:47, 17 October 2017 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Speaking as an Aussie, an increase in rabbits can cause a major environmental disaster. Be careful of a bun-megadon! Remember that they're not a good thing in environments they didn't evolve in. I think over here in Oz, we actually do get rabbit increase reports. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.53|108.162.250.53]] 12:35, 17 October 2017 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:1869: Positive and Negative Reviews</title>
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This page is now available for discussions. Sorry for the delay. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 14:42, 28 July 2017 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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About the Trivia item &amp;quot;The use of the phrase 'physics tells us...' may be alluding to the way people use 'physics' or 'science' to justify nonsense.&amp;quot;, I seriously doubt it. If there were no connection to real physics, this comic would be pretty devoid of content. And lacking much of a joke! I've been figuring that this is referencing SOME aspect of physics and applying it to real life in a silly way. I've been wanting to read about it. There must be something, maybe theorizing about time travel, maybe saying something is measured backwards? I'm reminded of the British sitcom, Red Dwarf, the episode Backwards, where they visit a future Earth where time has turned backwards, so everybody speaks backwards and everything is done backwards (where I learned that &amp;quot;Bitter&amp;quot; backwards sounds like &amp;quot;Erskib&amp;quot;). [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 05:05, 30 July 2017 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Am I the only one that would likely agree with the &amp;quot;backwards&amp;quot; reviewers? Those sorts of sports drinks like Gatorade, etc taste terrible to me, and would likely result in me drinking much more water to rinse out the flavor! The same is true of soda for me. I feel like this comic might also be referencing that aspect, and an absurd attempt to justify considering even the negative reviews positive. 18:54, 30 July 2017 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Fridge genius: First I thought if they live backwards, how come they have no numbers attached to their username? It should be something like Merlin99999999999999, just try to register your first name at any popular website even today. Then of course I realized that they would simply create their account as soon as the site goes up (shortly before it goes down, from their perspective), remembering that it was a popular site and having posted there.[[User:Ruffy314|Ruffy314]] ([[User talk:Ruffy314|talk]]) 19:06, 30 July 2017 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:150: Grownups</title>
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&lt;div&gt;Date of issue is definitely incorrect. Could someone fix that? [[User:Rikthoff|Rikthoff]] ([[User talk:Rikthoff|talk]]) 16:35, 3 August 2012 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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I have a (partial?) solution to the urine problem.  Don't let any toddlers and children into your apartment, let alone hundreds of them.  HTH, HAND. [[Special:Contributions/178.98.31.27|178.98.31.27]] 18:23, 22 June 2013 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I'd say this comic resonated much more around the Internet than the rest of them. The trivia section should mention this and cite evidence. --[[User:Quicksilver|Quicksilver]] ([[User talk:Quicksilver|talk]]) 06:17, 24 August 2013 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I think the heart means that they're having sex. The title text would support this.{{unsigned ip|120.148.234.14}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Since noone mentioned it yet, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t0EtKlQxyo this guy] tried it at home. Something for the Trivia?  -  [[User:Ruffy314|Ruffy314]] ([[User talk:Ruffy314|talk]]) 15:14, 11 December 2015 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;;Unique deciphering requires unique pricetags&lt;br /&gt;
Shame this only works in restaurants that price all their appetizers differently. [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]] ([[User talk:Davidy22|talk]]) 03:18, 13 October 2012 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Not necessarily because the NP-problem allows for any equivocally competing sum certifying how the total can be reached.  Shared  pricetags as well as a nonpositive would add degrees of freedom and make it impossible to rule out surprise deliveries even through exponential pretesting.  Unless the waiter is running into the exponential worst case, the six waiting tables can be attended to immediately upon finding the first feasible combination: [[User:Roman Czyborra|Roman Czyborra]] ([[User talk:Roman Czyborra|talk]]) 15:44, 15 May 2014 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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;Trivial solution first found&lt;br /&gt;
I have a hunch that the seven fruit cups are pretty intentional as the first item on the menu and the simplest solution possible. &lt;br /&gt;
I was about to write a script to solve the problem through random selections and was going to optimize for speed by limiting the maximum times an item could be order to floor(15.05/price). Thus, one could order up to 2 sample plates, 3 moz sticks, 5 of the hot wings/side salad/french fries or 7 fruit cups without going over budget. (side note: you can always with these prices squeeze in a fruit cup with the exception of the 7 fruit cups). I found the &amp;quot;trivial&amp;quot; solution on the first step of the &amp;quot;preliminary&amp;quot; work for that script and then took a catnap.&lt;br /&gt;
Of course, since the nontrivial solution involves the same item as the trivial solution, one could just pick a number, multiply by that number, subtract one unit, and pick two other items, whose prices were not set yet, and adjust their prices to add up accordingly just to ensure both trivial and nontrivial solutions lest anyone actually write a program to solve the problem through brute force as oppose to through wit.  Why seed?  Because to not have a nontrivial solution would be so much like Blackhat. &lt;br /&gt;
Note to self: try this sometime in the real world using a real menu.  [[User:Katya|Katya]] ([[User talk:Katya|talk]]) 02:17, 23 November 2012 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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;Traveling Salesman Problem&lt;br /&gt;
Note: Traveling Salesman Problem ''might'' be mentioned ''also'' because both this problem and the Knapsack problem to be solved belong to set of '''[[wikipedia:NP-complete|NP-complete]] problems'''; a Knapsack problem can be transformed in polynomial time to Traveling Salesman Problem, and solution of Traveling Salesman Problem can be transformed in polynomial time to Knapsack problem solution. --[[User:JakubNarebski|JakubNarebski]] ([[User talk:JakubNarebski|talk]]) 16:00, 11 December 2012 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Yes, indeed! I think both meanings are intended to fully get the joke.  The &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;TSP:={(n,d,M)∈ℕ×({0…n}²→ℕ)×ℕ|∃c∈{1…n}ⁿ:{1…n}=⋃{cₙ|n∈{1…n}}∧∑{d(cₙ,c₍ₙ₊₁₎)|n∈{0…n}}&amp;lt;M}&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; can both help to timely attend to the six waiting tables and to reduce the &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;ORDERSUM:={(a,b)∈ℕ*×ℕ|∃c∈ℕ*:∑{cₙaₙ|n∈ℕ}=b}&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; problem to.  Plus, the &amp;quot;as fast as possible&amp;quot; pun seems to allude to the again six ridiculous inputs any trained human will rearrange to a near-exact solution quicker than they are entered into a computer who can quickly exhaust this tiny search space for an exact solution: [[User:Roman Czyborra|Roman Czyborra]] ([[User talk:Roman Czyborra|talk]]) 15:44, 15 May 2014 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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;Trivial solution was not intended&lt;br /&gt;
In [http://www.maa.org/mathhorizons/MH-Sep2012_XKCD.html an interview] with the Mathematical Association of America Randall said that the trivial answer to this problem was a mistake. [[User:Xrays Knock Charms Down|Xrays Knock Charms Down]] ([[User talk:Xrays Knock Charms Down|talk]]) 03:00, 6 May 2013 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:I added this very interesting info to the explanation - at first as a trivia, but then I realized that it would not be seen by everyone - as you often do not read below the transcript. Why would you, you do not need to see what was in the comic again... So I moved it up to the solution part, because to me it is a very important fact about this comic. An error by Randall... But Dgbrt keeps moving this info away from the solution. I have understood now that the trivia should be below the transcript - although I cannot see why this should be so - as I have just described. But who says that this info should be a trivia item? It was I who put it there (by mistake?) at first. I will try not to start an editing fight here, but still think there should at least be a mention in the explanation that it was a mistake - in case you do not realize there is a trivia section below. I have used this page a lot lately, and had not found out before, that it was always below. There is not that many pages with trivia sections [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 11:02, 10 March 2014 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Cool reference, thanks! [[User:Roman Czyborra|Roman Czyborra]] ([[User talk:Roman Czyborra|talk]]) 15:44, 15 May 2014 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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;Complex solution found in a second&lt;br /&gt;
I was bored and tried to find a solution for fun. I found the more complex one quite fast by chance. It was actually the second combination I tried. I did not realize you could just add seven fruit cups because I was so set on starting with the sampler plate. Now I am not sure if I should be glad, because I was so lucky, or annoyed that my fight-the-boredom-idea did not work out, or even more annoyed that I never have that kind of luck in the lab where I could really use it for finding the one thing out of a thousand possible causes for &amp;quot;why-does-my-experiment-not-work&amp;quot; which actually will give me some usable data.&lt;br /&gt;
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;Not the knapsack problem&lt;br /&gt;
This explanation is thorough, and I like being thorough, but it seems to be  a bit of overkill. I copy-edited it a bit, but I have a couple qualms. This is not really the knapsack problem, as it does not attach values to the items (as mentioned). It is more of a {{w|subset sum}} problem, which admittedly could be considered a variant of the knapsack problem. Secondly, I don't see why we need to go into detail about the movie Office Space. --[[User:Quicksilver|Quicksilver]] ([[User talk:Quicksilver|talk]]) 18:34, 22 August 2013 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:I did some clean-ups, but the the &amp;quot;In computational complexity theory&amp;quot; still needs a review.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:19, 22 August 2013 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::The Wikipedia article on {{w|Karp's 21 NP-complete problems}} hints that Karp originally defined &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;KNAPSACK:={(a,b)∈ℤ*×ℤ|∃c∈𝔹*:∑{cₙaₙ|n∈ℕ}=b}&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; closer to today's shape of &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;SUBSETSUM:={Z⊂ℤ|∃s⊆Z:∑s=0∧s≠∅}&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; than that of the Unbounded Knapsack Problem &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;UKP:={(v,w,V,W)∈ℤ*×ℤ*×ℤ×ℤ|∃c∈ℕ*:{∑{cₙvₙ|n∈ℕ},∑{cₙwₙ|n∈ℕ}}⊆{V…W}}&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; with the former via &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;Z:={b,-a₁…-aₙ,-2a₁…-2aₙ,…}&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; and the latter via &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;(v,w,V,W):=(a,a,b,b)&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; coming close enough to what we really need here, namely &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;ORDERSUM:={(a,b)∈ℕ*×ℕ|∃c∈ℕ*:∑{cₙaₙ|n∈ℕ}=b}&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;.  So Randall did hit it bull's eye after all! [[User:Roman Czyborra|Roman Czyborra]] ([[User talk:Roman Czyborra|talk]]) 15:44, 15 May 2014 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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;NP Food&lt;br /&gt;
Inspired by this comic, somebody has actually created an ordering site which tries to give you an order from a restaurant in your area (US only I think) totalling a specific amount [http://www.np-food.com NP Food].  Worth including above? -- [[User:Copito|Copito]] ([[User talk:Copito|talk]]) 20:43, 8 November 2013 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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That site doesn't work for me.  —[[User:TobyBartels|TobyBartels]] ([[User talk:TobyBartels|talk]]) 10:07, 19 November 2013 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I do get more than nothing: a redirect to the HTTPS port whose certificate is signed only to .np-food.com without WWW and whose HTML and PNG and JS suggest that either solutions for San Francisco, Austin, Saint Louis, Miami, and New York menues have been memoized and that you may order by entering your credit card credentials or that only fools wait for a computer to calculate an NP-hard problem on too large a search space. [[User:Roman Czyborra|Roman Czyborra]] ([[User talk:Roman Czyborra|talk]]) 15:44, 15 May 2014 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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;Exhaustive Solution&lt;br /&gt;
[[:user|Roman Czyborra]] did post this at the explain:&lt;br /&gt;
;The Solution&lt;br /&gt;
… can be calculated as&lt;br /&gt;
 let totaling total menu = if total == 0 then [[]]&lt;br /&gt;
  else if total &amp;lt; 0 || null menu then []&lt;br /&gt;
  else totaling total (tail menu) ++ map (&lt;br /&gt;
  head menu :) (totaling (total - head menu) menu)&lt;br /&gt;
 in totaling 1505 [215,275,335,355,420,580]&lt;br /&gt;
 == [[215,355,355,580],[215,215,215,215,215,215,215]]&lt;br /&gt;
I don't think this is a helpful explain. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 19:11, 14 May 2014 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Yes, I did.&lt;br /&gt;
Because I did think it was helpful.&lt;br /&gt;
Not just because an (effective if not efficient) general solution earns you a 50% on $15.05 tip.&lt;br /&gt;
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Moreover to demonstrate that and how a complete search finds those two solutions.&lt;br /&gt;
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And that the search tree can branch exponentially with each additional menu item.&lt;br /&gt;
Or with additional dollar bills to be spent.&lt;br /&gt;
Notwithstanding that any constructive proof of NP=P would let us replace this&lt;br /&gt;
straightforward bad NP-implementation with an equivalent better P-implementation.&lt;br /&gt;
Before Donald Knuth coined the name NP-Complete, the class was suggested to be named&lt;br /&gt;
'''PET''' for the (Probably(while NP?P)|(Proven(if NP&amp;gt;P)|Previously(if NP=P))) Exponential Time pet problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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What is so confusing about the calculation?&lt;br /&gt;
The whole cent amounts instead of dollar floats?&lt;br /&gt;
My naming of variables?&lt;br /&gt;
Should &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;totaling&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; be renamed to &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;solutions&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; or &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;orders&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;?&lt;br /&gt;
Or &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;menu&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; to &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;menu_items&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; or &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;appetizers&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; or &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;pricetags&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;code lang=haskell&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 type Cents = Int&lt;br /&gt;
 orders :: [Cents] -&amp;gt; Cents -&amp;gt; [ [Cents] ]&lt;br /&gt;
 orders menu total =&lt;br /&gt;
  total == 0 | [ [] ]&lt;br /&gt;
  menu == [] | []&lt;br /&gt;
  total &amp;lt; 0  | []&lt;br /&gt;
  total &amp;gt; 0  | orders (tail menu) total ++ map (&lt;br /&gt;
  head menu :) orders menu (total - head menu)&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
 orders [215,275,335,355,420,580] 1505&lt;br /&gt;
 == [[215,355,355,580],[215,215,215,215,215,215,215]]&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
 calls menu total = if null menu || total &amp;lt; 1&lt;br /&gt;
  then 1 else 1 + calls (tail menu) total + &lt;br /&gt;
                  calls       menu (total - head menu)&lt;br /&gt;
 calls [] 1505&lt;br /&gt;
 == 1&lt;br /&gt;
 calls [580] 1505&lt;br /&gt;
 == 7&lt;br /&gt;
 calls [420,580] 1505&lt;br /&gt;
 == 25&lt;br /&gt;
 calls [355,420,580] 1505&lt;br /&gt;
 == 73&lt;br /&gt;
 calls [335,355,420,580] 1505&lt;br /&gt;
 == 181&lt;br /&gt;
 calls [275,335,355,420,580] 1505&lt;br /&gt;
 == 437&lt;br /&gt;
 calls [215,275,335,355,420,580] 1505&lt;br /&gt;
 == 1153&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Or is it the committee language Haskell that is causing problems?&lt;br /&gt;
What other well-defined language would you formulate a general solution in?&lt;br /&gt;
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Discussing all of this is helpful.&lt;br /&gt;
Leaving a &amp;quot;Thus&amp;quot; result without its afferent reasoning (and its deleted heading) is not, is it?&lt;br /&gt;
Cheers: [[User:Roman Czyborra|Roman Czyborra]] ([[User talk:Roman Czyborra|talk]]) 15:44, 15 May 2014 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Please let's keep this code at the discussion page. No common reader would understand; the explain is not only for programmers. I'm a programmer, knowing many languages like BASIC, Pascal, C, C++, Java, Bash, Perl... also HTML, JavaScript... RPG, Databases and SQL... and much more. And if you like to buy an IBM Power 8 I can tell you the proper configuration for your needs.&lt;br /&gt;
:But these details are not helpful to explain the comic. There is math that has to be explained. Findings on program codes do even not belong to a trivia section. Nevertheless it seems I have to take a closer look on Haskell, which is not used by many people. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:22, 15 May 2014 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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A 50% tip on a $ 15.05 order is not possible, is it? --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.186|108.162.231.186]] 21:08, 1 November 2014 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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If I were the waiter my response would, at best, be &amp;quot;I'll come back when you're ready to order&amp;quot;. At worse it would probably involve burns. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.162|108.162.250.162]] 04:27, 7 October 2015 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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---Easiest response: &amp;quot;Excellent, Sir. I'll raise the price of the french fries to $15.05 - [[User:Ruffy314|Ruffy314]] ([[User talk:Ruffy314|talk]]) 18:19, 21 November 2015 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:357: Flies</title>
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&lt;div&gt;Actually, the saying was originally “A watched pot never boils ''over''.” This means that you should watch a pot to make sure the water doesn't spill out.[[Special:Contributions/68.195.76.173|68.195.76.173]] 17:57, 8 March 2013 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Pretty sure that '''A watched pot never boils''' is an expression unto its own. If you sat and watched a pot long enough it would still boil over, on the macro scale there is no effect on observing something. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.117|108.162.246.117]] 09:10, 1 November 2013 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I thought that this expression meant that the water boiling process have a Murphy law like property in it: that the pot tends to boil over when you turn away from it. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.212.196|108.162.212.196]] 21:59, 30 November 2013 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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CLEARLY the idea is that you are waiting for the pot to boil so that you can add something to it.  You are not waiting for it to boil over; you are waiting for it to boil.  The point is that many things that you want in life take longer to eventuate than you think, and sitting there fixating on them doesn't actually help and is a waste of time.  Do something else useful in the meantime; the pot will boil when it's ready.  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.58|108.162.219.58]] 19:48, 5 February 2014 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Honey has a much higher sugar content than Balsamic vinegar. My hypothesis for this is that the real draw fro the flies is related to fragrance [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.52|108.162.219.52]] 19:18, 3 April 2014 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: I agree on this and updated the explanation. [[User:Mumiemonstret|Mumiemonstret]] ([[User talk:Mumiemonstret|talk]]) 14:10, 5 June 2014 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Could this be a metaphor for trolling?&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:Richmond tudor|Richmond tudor]] ([[User talk:Richmond tudor|talk]]) 00:24, 18 February 2015 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I was actually waiting for the day I'd be able to use the knowledge this strip has bestowed onto me. Unfortunately I'm such a slob that there are just WAY too many. But it *certainly* seems to be working so far! I also did some research and found out the flies I'm having are called vinegar flies. What's funny is that when I searched for Florida [insert insect name here], it turns out my college (UF) has pretty much the entire field of Florida entomology covered, and I doubt it's because I'm using the school network. &lt;br /&gt;
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But I've been living in a dumpster-quality environment for weeks and haven't gotten remotely sick. My immune system is *crazy* good, haha! But there comes a point where it's just plain disgusting and the flies get annoying, so I am in the process of cleaning up, not so much because of the health hazard as much as it is just the smell and how I'm tired of getting hundreds of flies in my face. Also a few of them bite, and they're starting to spread throughout the rest of the dorms so... yeah. If UF's Lakeside building 3 dorm ends up getting fumigated... it's my fault entirely. &lt;br /&gt;
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STILL I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW CRAZY MY IMMUNE SYSTEM IS.&lt;br /&gt;
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Also I don't want to wake up to find my bed crawling with maggots. IDK where they laid eggs and the RA is forbidding me to use Raid. IDK why they'd sell it in the PODs (UF's convenience store) if we're not allowed to use them. [[User:International Space Station|International Space Station]] ([[User talk:International Space Station|talk]]) 07:04, 28 October 2015 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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--- Is an ''unwatched'' pot in a superposition of boiling and not boiling? --- [[User:Ruffy314|Ruffy314]] ([[User talk:Ruffy314|talk]]) 01:56, 20 November 2015 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:701: Science Valentine</title>
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&lt;div&gt;If he really did figure out, by sitting down and thinking his life and their relation through, that he doesn't really love her, then he did the right thing. Of course he may not have been scientific enough, if the reasons his feelings and happiness decreases is caused by some outside agency... --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 11:56, 29 April 2015 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I think the r0, r1, r2 are correlation coefficients.  They are all between -1 and 1, and all called r, which is a common name for a correlation coefficient.  Also, this would mean r2 shows a strong negative correlation between two things. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.39|108.162.215.39]] 06:57, 11 May 2015 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I agree with the above comment, great explanation for this statistical variable which shows that his love becomes negatively correlated with time, complementing the first panel's graph. [[User:Barrtender|Barrtender]] ([[User talk:Barrtender|talk]]) 14:26, 16 September 2015 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Maybe [[833: Convincing]] would be worth mentioning in the explanation, where Megan draws a relationship themed graph (and Cueball complains about missing axis lables) -- [[User:Ruffy314|Ruffy314]] ([[User talk:Ruffy314|talk]]) 02:35, 3 November 2015 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:833: Convincing</title>
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&lt;div&gt;My IP address got logged when I was editing this page, since I got accidentally loged out in the proccess. May someone fix this? I feel nervous. [[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 18:04, 12 December 2012 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Preumably you wanted to sign your work and think you were prevented by the record.&lt;br /&gt;
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Just hit the back button and finish what you started then sign out.&lt;br /&gt;
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I leave two paragraph spaces before I sign out to put the awkward sig on its own line.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[User:Weatherlawyer| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer|talk]]) 21:03, 24 January 2015 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:There is no way, short of going to a MySQL prompt and manually editing values, to change the logs that MediaWiki records. However, your IP address is not private information, nor does it personally identify you. It is merely a number in a block of IPs that your ISP pays money to use. An IP address is a temporarily assigned name that your computer uses to communicate with the Internet. Even if you were using a secure connection to a website, your IP address is still transmitted in the clear, otherwise the server could not reply to you. I know there's a lot of scare campaigns that make it sound like you need to protect your IP address like your Social Security Number (or other similar &amp;quot;unique&amp;quot; identifier your government uses to make sure you pay your taxes). If you really are scared that your IP is now &amp;quot;out in public&amp;quot; (which it always has been) unplug your modem long enough for the capacitors to drain (milliseconds probably) then plug it back in. It'll send out a DHCP request to your ISP and they'll give you a new number from their pool. But keep in mind, if you were really scared about someone finding your IP address you'd be using {{w|The Onion Router|Tor}} in the first place and you'd simply change your exit node. &lt;br /&gt;
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:Links for your edification:&lt;br /&gt;
:*https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/why-ip-addresses-alone-dont-identify-criminals&lt;br /&gt;
:*https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https&lt;br /&gt;
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:--[[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]&amp;lt;span title=&amp;quot;I'm an admin. I can help.&amp;quot;&amp;gt;_a&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]])  18:26, 12 December 2012 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:However, now that you have voluntarily associated your user name with the IP address in the edit history... - [[User:Frankie|Frankie]] ([[User talk:Frankie|talk]]) 16:25, 4 January 2013 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I'm pretty sure that the x axis is &amp;quot;Local Armadillo Population Density.&amp;quot;  Any ideas what the y axis is?[[Special:Contributions/173.245.48.97|173.245.48.97]] 09:31, 18 May 2015 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Maybe [[701: Science Valentine]] would be worth mentioning, where Cueball draws a relationship themed graph (ironically without properly labeled axes / any axes at all) [[User:Ruffy314|Ruffy314]] ([[User talk:Ruffy314|talk]]) 02:26, 3 November 2015 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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