https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Sparx 2026-05-04T01:27:02Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.30.0 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1349:_Shouldn%27t_Be_Hard&diff=63723 2014-04-01T03:46:46Z

<p>Sparx: </p> <hr /> <div>Carefully organized sand eh? I believe this is a callback to [http://xkcd.com/505/ this comic]( and the silicone of course but...). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.240|108.162.210.240]] 14:33, 31 March 2014 (UTC) <br /> : I Don't think this is a call back -- just a common reference to that computer chips are based on Silicon which have been arranged into electrical circuits [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]])<br /> : Not a callback, not even a little bit. That comic did not reference the manufacturing process of computer chips at all, but instead use rocks as a sort of physical computer. The &quot;carefully organized rocks&quot; in that comic could have easily been carefully organized coconuts and the meaning of the comic would not have changed a bit. Also silicone is not the same as silicon. Silicone is a synthetic polymer made out of silicon and would be entirely unsuitable for building computer chips. Silicone = caulk, implants. Silicon = quartz, sand, computer chips. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.65|108.162.221.65]] 16:04, 31 March 2014 (UTC)<br /> : That comic was also the first thing I thought of, but alas I do not think this comic is referencing that one, because in that comic he is organizing rocks, not sand. [[User:Sparx|Sparx]] ([[User talk:Sparx|talk]]) 03:46, 1 April 2014 (UTC)</div>

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