https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=108.162.216.79&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-19T14:01:13ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2445:_Checkbox&diff=2093702445: Checkbox2021-04-01T23:33:12Z<p>108.162.216.79: /* Special Responses */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2445<br />
| date = April 1, 2021<br />
| title = Checkbox<br />
| image = checkbox.gif<br />
| titletext = Check check check ... chhecck chhecck chhecck ... check check check<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a CHECKBOX. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} <br />
This is an April Fools comic that looks similar to a loading screen. The actual comic (this “loading screen”) consists of a gif of a checkbox (hence the name). <br />
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The frame is replaced with an interactive panel. In the centre is a check box, which clears itself immediately when checked. In the bottom right is a mute button, which begins muted.<br />
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Under the checkbox is a scrolling visual representation of the timing and duration of clicks in the check box, which also produce matching beeping sounds when unmuted.<br />
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By varying between brief and long presses, and brief and long intervals between presses, it is possible to enter characters in Morse Code.<br />
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The title text hints at the use of Morse Code in the comic; interpreting the "check" as a Morse Code dot and the "chhecck" as a Morse Code dash gives ...---..., which is the Morse Code for "SOS", the international distress signal. Incidentally, inputting the SOS signal gives "YOU TOO?".<br />
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The check box then begins operating by itself, producing sounds which can be decoded as Morse Code.<br />
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For the majority of inputs, the check box responds with 'WHAT'. Some keywords have special responses.<br />
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===Special Responses===<br />
[.s are short presses, -s are long presses, and /s are spaces (just for readability)]<br />
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xkcd -> FILE NOT FOUND<br />
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[-..- -.- -.-. -..]<br />
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SOS -> YOU TOO?<br />
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[...---...]<br />
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HI -> HELLO! ANYBODY OUT THERE?<br />
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[.... ..]<br />
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HELLO -> HELLO TO YOU TOO!<br />
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[.... . .-.. .-.. ---]<br />
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WHAT -> ECHO<br />
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[.-- .... .- -]<br />
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ECHO -> ECHO<br />
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[. -.-. .... ---]<br />
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E (''repeat n times'') -> E (''repeat n times'')<br />
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[.]<br />
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T (''repeat n times'') -> T (''repeat n times'')<br />
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[-]<br />
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WHO ARE YOU -> SOJOURNER<br />
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[.-- .... --- / .- .-. . / -.-- --- ..-]<br />
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CQ -> CQD DE SOJ<br />
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[-.-. --.-]<br />
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SOJOURNER -> CFM (short for Confirm)<br />
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[... --- .--- --- ..- .-. -. . .-.]<br />
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QUIET -> (turns the volume off)<br />
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[--.- ..- .. . -]<br />
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MUTE -> (turns the volume off)<br />
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[-- ..- - .]<br />
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BEEP -> (turns the volume on)<br />
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[-... . . .--.]<br />
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QRS -> (reduces playback speed)<br />
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[--.- .-. ...]<br />
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QRQ -> (increases playback speed)<br />
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[--.- .-. --.-]<br />
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QRA -> QRA SOJOURNER<br />
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[--.- .-. .-]<br />
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QRB -> QRB 264 MILLION KM<br />
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[--.- .-. -...]<br />
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QRG -> QRG PATHFINDER<br />
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[--.- .-. --.]<br />
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QRZ -> QRZ SOJOURNER<br />
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[--.- .-. --..]<br />
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QTH -> QTH ARES VALLIS<br />
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[--.- - ....]<br />
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QSL -> QSL<br />
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[--.- ... .-..]<br />
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ET -> PHONE HOME<br />
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[. -]<br />
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LS -> DID YOU MEAN DIR<br />
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DIR -> ENTER IMAGE NUMBER<br />
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(any number <=2445) -> (loads xkcd comic in new tab)<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>108.162.216.79https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1496:_Art_Project&diff=858571496: Art Project2015-03-09T07:25:14Z<p>108.162.216.79: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1496<br />
| date = March 9, 2015<br />
| title = Art Project<br />
| image = art project.png<br />
| titletext = It's my most ambitious project yet, judging by the amount of guacamole.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
This comic appears to be satirizing art in two different ways. From one perspective, the author Randall is describing various art forms in unusual ways (e.g. a portrait for the first character, a video for the second, and perhaps live action in the third). From another perspective, Randall might be making fun of modern art. A common colloquial definition of modern art is "something you could have created but did not create." In each case the art described would be useless. A picture of oneself "every hundred years" will only happen once; a "picture every 1/24th of a second" is the standard framerate for most small cameras for video, and "watching my face age in real time" is simply conducting a discussion, interview, or observation with, and of, someone.<br />
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The final character, Megan, pokes fun at all of them by simply watching their attempts at "art" while she eats a burrito. Randall may also be referencing the many perspectives on art by leaving this comic open to several interpretations.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:Cueball:I'm doing an art project where I take a picture of myself every hundred years.<br />
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:Cutie:I'm doing an art project where I take a picture of myself every 1/24th of a second.<br />
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:Ponytail:I'm doing an art project where you can come to my house and watch my actual face age in real time.<br />
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:Megan:I'm doing an art project where you all do those things while I eat a burrito.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]</div>108.162.216.79https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1491:_Stories_of_the_Past_and_Future&diff=85255Talk:1491: Stories of the Past and Future2015-02-26T22:40:45Z<p>108.162.216.79: </p>
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<div>http://xkcd.com/1491/large/ will take you to the large version, which the comic currently doesn't have a link to. I expect that will be fixed shortly. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.177|108.162.210.177]] 05:30, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:I just realized he has a text link for it in the top banner. I'd delete my comment, but that's rude on a wiki. Whatever. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.177|108.162.210.177]] 05:35, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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The bottom diagonal seems to be mislabelled? Shouldn't it be "Stories written X years and set X years ago" instead of "set 2X years ago"?<br />
--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.175|108.162.250.175]] 05:38, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:It is correct, if you see both relative from now. The middle line is written X years ago and set X years ago and thus contemporary. Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.68|108.162.231.68]] 06:46, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
::Correct, but could be clearer. I thought it was a bug at first. 'Stories written X years ago and set X years before publication' [[User:Jbalcorn|Jbalcorn]] ([[User talk:Jbalcorn|talk]]) 16:21, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
I'm not sure where to open bug tickets, but Lest Darkness Fall actually takes place ~1500 years ago, not ~500. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.80.121|141.101.80.121]] 06:35, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
: I'll second that -- [[User:Brettpeirce|Brettpeirce]] ([[User talk:Brettpeirce|talk]]) 12:36, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Kind of reminds of a Minkowski diagram. Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.68|108.162.231.68]] 06:50, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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More and more science fiction works wander into the category obsolete science fiction, and more and more historical works are not recognisable as such by the average viewer as the movies have been filmed such a long time ago anyway. Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.68|108.162.231.68]] 06:55, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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There seems to be a mistake with the large diagonal line. It says "Stories written X years ago and set 2X years ago." It should say, "... and set X years ago." Am I missing something here? [[User:Effy|Effy]] ([[User talk:Effy|talk]]) 09:35, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:Nevermind, I see now that the y-axis is date relative to publication, not absolute dates relative to today. My bad. [[User:Effy|Effy]] ([[User talk:Effy|talk]]) 09:37, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I may have missed it, but can't see {{w|Paris in the Twentieth Century}}, written in 1863, about 1960, but only published in 1994. Which would have been an interesting addition. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.192|141.101.98.192]] 10:13, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:In fact, I'm thinking it could have been represented as a (dotted?) ''diagonal'' arrowed line between "1960 in 1863"/future-trending and "1960 in 1994"/past-trending points. But never mind. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.192|141.101.98.192]] 10:38, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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... this is why experienced sci-fi writers don't date their stories. On the other hand, many sci-fi became obviously obsolete even without the date. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 11:00, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:I have experience with this. Back in 1995 I advised a prospective author-friend (prospective author; already and still a friend, surprisingly) on the latest computing matters to help a plot device in a "five minutes into the future" story. Even two years later, it sounded so dated and... naff. ('Luckily', it didn't sell too well anyway (bad choice of publishers), so my failure-as-futurologist - uncredited as it also fortunately was - wasn't so wildly known.) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.192|141.101.98.192]] 13:04, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I've been trying and trying to figure out what the heck his point might be, as IMO there usually seems to be some point he's trying to make or way he's trying to be clever, beyond the interesting nature of the observation - and I think I might have seen one (though there is probably something else) - anyone notice that the area under the "Stories set in 2015" line is awfully bare? at least compared to the areas on either side of the 'x / 2x' line. that could simply be his particular selection of works(?) anyone have some ideas of things that might deserve to go in there that were not included? -- [[User:Brettpeirce|Brettpeirce]] ([[User talk:Brettpeirce|talk]]) 12:45, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:I think the point here is that there are a lot of books one hasn't read yet. I, for one, sought out ''Memoirs of the Twentieth Century'' and ''The Pillow Book'' after reading this strip. --[[User:Koveras|Koveras]] ([[User talk:Koveras|talk]]) 13:30, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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::He has done stuff like that before, right? Putting the age of some books and movies into perspective, to make the reader feel old. --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.151|173.245.53.151]] 15:16, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:maybe he just wants to see what the people who transcripe it will come up with.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.173|108.162.250.173]] 12:31, 26 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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As for writing a transcript or explanation, concerning order, I would think it would make some sense to flatten it on one axis (probably the y-axis, starting from Star Wars?) or if it is practical enough, the best might be some sort of "radial"(?) axis (is that a thing?), where the axis would be anchored at "this chart", and swing like a radar beam around from the bottom (Downton Abbey, Mad Men, and Star Wars, up through the 'x / 2x' line, through the 'contemporary' line and then the 'set in 2015' line, to finish with '3001', possibly making a small attempt to keep related works (like Star Wars) together in the listing. Any comments? -- [[User:Brettpeirce|Brettpeirce]] ([[User talk:Brettpeirce|talk]]) 12:55, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:Whatever the fixation, I started work on something, but other people will get there before me. So here's my ideas. Five columns: "Story (and format description/author?)", "First Published/Premiered", "Date offset(s)", "Featured date(s)" and "Notes", with sorting on each potentially numerical one (although ranges/freetext/vagueness may play havoc with such sorting, by past experience).<br />
:I already have a complete list of listed titles (in case anyone needs it), though maybe not error-free and not yet been ordered other than by "input order".<br />
...excised by original author...<br />
:(Do cut that out of this Talk Page when no longer necessary!)<br />
:What I've so far put together (but not yet checked my link formats or WikiTabled) is...<br />
...excised by original author...<br />
:...but I'm probably duplicating someone else's efforts so by the time I get back to it you'll have a complete and better version online. FYI if you're determined to build on this while I'm absent, however. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.192|141.101.98.192]] 14:22, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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This appears to be a log-log graph, but with abrupt changes in scale along one axis yielding cusps in the "still possible / obsolete" line. Is there a name for that? -- [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.169|108.162.210.169]] 14:29, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:Hello, me again. I'd also played with a 'transcript description' part. Use (or don't, or ''correct'' and then use) what I was writing, if you want. I'm taking the liberty of deleting my prior inserts while I'm here, to avoid the clutter.<br />
X-axis represents "date of publication" of a work and is irregularly split into 1000s (3000BCE to 1000CE) and then decreasing periods of time until 1955, at which point it becomes every five years up to the present day (2015) and one devision of possibly five years into the future (the upcoming "third Star Wars Trilogy" is indicated by an arrow as lying on-or-beyond 'now', with Episode 7 itself due out not long after the comic date).<br />
Y-axis represents "years ahead/behind publication date in which a story is set" with the 'zero axis' being "set at the time of publication. "Years in the future" spreads above, by decades until "30 years" then in a metalogarithmic manner through various orders of ten to top-out at 1 billion years. The "Years in the past" scale, below this, extends by five years down to 60 years and then similarly quickly speeds through to 1 billion years in the past, and the time of the Big Bang as lowest limit.<br />
Above the 'here and now', a region is shaded within a line to represent the border between future settings that should have happened by this date, and below we find a similar shading/line that represents set twice as long ago as was written. Both lines continue into "2015+" territory in a manner similar to a "light cone".<br />
:...ok? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.192|141.101.98.192]] 15:43, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I created a basic table using 141.101.98.192's data - bits corrected. [[User:Jarod997|Jarod997]] ([[User talk:Jarod997|talk]]) 14:46, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I'm in the process of writing a transcript myself. Mine is not formatted as a table; I am under the impression that this is the preferred approach to transcripts on this site. However, the existing table would be ''perfect'' in another section, where we can give more detail than a true transcript can/should provide (e.g. "this is a book written by X, here's the wikilink", "this is an error, it should be X", etc.) -- [[User:Peregrine|Peregrine]] ([[User talk:Peregrine|talk]]) 14:55, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:Meh, I created the table as a starting point. If people want to use it and add to it, great. If something better is created, that's fine too. :) [[User:Jarod997|Jarod997]] ([[User talk:Jarod997|talk]]) 15:12, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
::I've moved the table to its own section and put in my more minimalistic, list-style transcript (based on what I found in other "large drawing" articles. I have only included dates in the transcript as an indication of the coordinates at which each item is located (and I found several that seem misplaced vertically, perhaps to accommodate other labels, e.g. ''Next Generation''). Also, it isn't finished; everything's listed, in (more or less) the right order, but the last bunch don't have their dates/coordinates. I got as far as ''Les Mis'' before stopping. -- [[User:Peregrine|Peregrine]] ([[User talk:Peregrine|talk]]) 15:45, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:::Looks good Peregrine! I like it. =8o) [[User:Jarod997|Jarod997]] ([[User talk:Jarod997|talk]]) 17:02, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Not sure of the protocol here, but the trivia section currently states that "Rip Van Winkel" is a misspelling of "Rip Van Winkle." The use of Winkel in the comic can be correct. (http://i.imgur.com/Z0adeEJ.jpg) The transcription also lists "Rip Can Winkel [sic]" but the comic actually uses "Rip Van Winkel." {{unsigned ip|108.162.238.181}}<br />
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This Comic seems to follow the tradition of [[647: Scary]], [[891: Movie Ages]], [[973: MTV Generation]], [[1393: Timeghost]], and [[1477: Star Wars]]. Making people feel old. --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.151|173.245.53.151]] 16:14, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Seems like it might have been useful to include some kind of indication of related subject matter from the upper left to the lower right in the "Stories set in the past" section. Mostly looking at the WW II related works. (Bridge/Kwai, Catch-22, Patton, Schindler, Ryan, Pearl Harbor) all seem to make a pretty straight line. Similarly, seeing that relationship between Apocalypse Now and Platoon. Finally, calling the earlier WW II era works 'former period pieces' seems odd. I think I'd still understand which parts were supposed to sound old in those (or maybe it's just that I am old). [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.215|199.27.128.215]] 18:50, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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did nobody see 2001 or was the title text forgotten about? i didnt see 2001 so i cant explain the joke. im pretty sure its just a joke about how it sounds similar, but i dont want to add that explanation if its wrong.[[User:TheJonyMyster|TheJonyMyster]] ([[User talk:TheJonyMyster|talk]]) 22:55, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Does Randall exclude the 1984 film The Terminator because the main portion occurs in 1984, or do you suppose it's because the film is not technically obsolete, given the wandering date of the predicted Judgement Day (as well as actual existence of killbots, advanced tactical simulation systems & a large broadband computer network named SkyNet)? It has often occurred to me that the only thing fictional about The Terminator is the existence of a device enabling time travel. ("The Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that time travel is impossible." T'Pol, Enterprise ;) He seems to have left out many notable predictive works which in fact came true, rather than becoming "obsolete". {{unsigned ip|173.245.55.29}}<br />
: even correct predictions are obsolete. Because they change into facts. Let's say on Thursday I predict it will be sunny on Friday. It is sunny on Friday. Now it's Saturday. Is my prediction from Thursday obsolete, or current? --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.166|108.162.249.166]] 05:46, 26 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
: This comic's theme is stories who don't take place on their publication's date. Also, some of the listed stories have a (more or less) historically accurate setting.--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.165|108.162.229.165]] 12:25, 26 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Whoever wrote the date explanation for "The Time Machine" seems to have used a ridiculous number of significant figures justified by neither the book nor comic (or, for that matter, films). Even more important, the dates aren't even the right order of magnitude. I'm going to fix it, but I just thought I'd leave a comment in case the numbers actually came from somewhere. If they did, please enlighten me. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.79|108.162.216.79]] 22:23, 26 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:At least according to the main Wikipedia, the year in which the traveler first meets the Eloi is known precisely. I'm going to leave it rounded, though, so as not to cause confusion, as the the time of the furthest he gets in the future is definitely not known to more than one sigfig.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.79|108.162.216.79]] 22:40, 26 February 2015 (UTC)</div>108.162.216.79https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1491:_Stories_of_the_Past_and_Future&diff=852541491: Stories of the Past and Future2015-02-26T22:36:55Z<p>108.162.216.79: /* Works listed */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1491<br />
| date = February 25, 2015<br />
| title = Stories of the Past and Future<br />
| image = stories_of_the_past_and_future.png<br />
| titletext = Little-known fact: The 'Dawn of Man' opening sequence in 2001 cuts away seconds before the Flinstones theme becomes recognizable.<br />
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A [http://xkcd.com/1491/large/ larger version] of this image can be found by clicking the image at xkcd.com which can as always be accessed by clicking on the comic number above.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|A complete explanation of the comic is needed.}}<br />
How to read the graph:<br />
* X-axis: Date of publication.<br />
* Y-axis, "Years in the future": Number of years the story's events take place, after the story's publication.<br />
* Y-axis, "Years in the past": Number of years the story's events take place, before the story's publication.<br />
: For example, "Water Margin" was published in the 14th century (x ~= 1300) and relates events from the 12th century, about 200 years before its publication (y ~= 200 in the past).<br />
: Another example: The film ''{{w|The Bridge on the River Kwai}}'' was released in 1957 and it was set around 14 years before (~1942-43).<br />
* Grey area in the "Years in the future" part: Stories set in the future (relative to their publication date), for which the date of the events in the story is already in the past (relative to now). The white and gray areas in this part of the graph are defined as "still possible" and "obsolete", respectively. The gray area (obsolete) will expand over time, assuming more works aren't added in the future: predictions from science fiction or futuristic work that are not confirmed by reality are doomed to be obsolete.<br />
* Grey area in the "Years in the past" part: Stories set in the past (relative to their publication date) but published closer to their setting than to today. The warning "Modern audiences may not recognize which part were supposed to sound old" is a recurrent theme in the author's work, being already formulated in [[771: Period Speech|Period Speech]] comic. The white area seems to be the region where modern readers will be able to distinguish the past setting of a work from the age of the work itself. This gray area will grow over time (again assuming new works set in the past are not added) with more and more works being indistinguishable as works set in the past.<br />
Randall's intent with this comic might be to point out that modern readers' universe is collapsing, with non-obsolete future predictions and recognizable depictions of the past both shrinking.<br />
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Taking the "years in the past" on the y-axis to be read as negatives like in most graphs one can write<br />
* Dates on the lower line satisfy the equation y = x-2015. Corresponding works were published in the year x = 2015+y and are set in the year x+y = 2015+2y.<br />
* Dates on the upper line satisfy the equation y = 2015-x. Corresponding works were published in the year x = 2015-y and are set in the year x+y = 2015.<br />
Thus it's clear that the definitions of the lines are consistent with each other as they follow similar but inverted functions.<br />
The graph uses variable {{w|logarithmic scale}}s, adjusting the scale in various regions to the temporal density of works being plotted. If the scale were linear, the graph would in fact represent a (bidimensional) {{w|Minkowski diagram}}, which depicts the moving cones of past and future in spacetime as one's present advances in time.<br />
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===Works listed===<br />
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Differences listed in <span style="color:#FF0000;">bright red</span> are "former period pieces." Differences listed in <span style="color:#8B0000;">dark red</span> are other works set in the past. Differences listed in <span style="color:#00FF00;">bright green</span> are "obsolete" works set in the future. Differences listed in <span style="color:#006400;">dark green</span> are other works set in the future.<br />
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Asterisks (*) after a year of publication denote that it applies to the first installment in a series that spanned more than one year.<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Publication'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Description'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Year written'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Year difference'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Year set in'''<br />
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Notes'''<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Epic of Gilgamesh}}''|| anicent Mesopotamian epic poem ||~2100 BCE||style="color:#FF0000;" | ~500||~2600 BCE|| {{w|Enmebaragesi}}, a historically attested ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' character, is thought to have lived around 2600 BCE<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Iliad|The Iliad}}''||epic written by Greek poet Homer ||700s BCE ||style="color:#FF0000;" | ~500 || 1260–1240 BCE ||<br />
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| ''{{w|Book of Genesis}}''||first book of the Bible, describing the creation of the world || 500s–400s BCE ||style="color:#8B0000;" | ~4200 || 3761 BCE || The ''{{w|Anno Mundi}}'' epoch, the product of scriptural calculations by {{w|Maimonides}}, places the Genesis date of the creation of the world at October 7, 3761 BCE in the {{w|proleptic Julian calendar}}<br />
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| ''{{w|History of the Peloponnesian War}}''||history written by Thucydides||~400 BCE||style="color:#FF0000;" | ~10||431–411 BCE||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Gospels}}''|| collection of literary works detailing the life of Jesus of Nazareth || ~65–110 CE ||style="color:#FF0000;" | 25–75 || 7–2 BCE – 30–33 CE || Setting dates are those of Jesus' estimated lifetime. Writing dates are as follows: Mark 65–73 CE; Matthew 70–100 CE; Luke 80–100 CE; John 90–110 CE. Randall's difference calculation seems to be based on the date of Jesus' death, as the majority of the Gospels' events takes place during the three years prior to Jesus's death.<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Ashokavadana}}''||narrative of the life of Ashoka the Great||100s CE||style="color:#FF0000;" | ~400||304–232 BCE||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|The Pillow Book}}''||book written by Sei Shōnagon||1002||style="color:#FF0000;" | 6||996||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Water Margin}}''||novel by Shi Nai'an||late 1300s||style="color:#FF0000;" | ~150||early 1100s<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Richard III (play)|Richard III}}''||play by William Shakespeare||1597||style="color:#FF0000;" | 112–119||1478–1485||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Henry IV (play)|Henry IV}}''||plays by William Shakespeare||1598*||style="color:#FF0000;" | 185–196||1402–1413||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|King Lear}}''||play by William Shakespeare||1608||style="color:#8B0000;" | 2400|| 700s BCE||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|King John (play)|King John}}''||play by William Shakespeare||1623||style="color:#8B0000;" | ~400||~1200–1216||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Henry VIII (play)|Henry VIII}}''||play by William Shakespeare||1623||style="color:#FF0000;" | 90–102||1521–1533||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar}}''||play by William Shakespeare||1623||style="color:#8B0000;" | 1667–1670||45–42 BCE||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Memoirs of the Twentieth Century}}''|| book written by Samuel Madden||1733||style="color:#00FF00;" | 264||1997||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Rip Van Winkle|Rip Van Winkel}}'' [sic]||short story by Washington Irving||1819||style="color:#FF0000;" | 32–52||1767–1787||It's not clear why Randall has chosen 1787 as the year that Rip Van Winkle awakes.<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|The Last of the Mohicans}}''||novel by James Cooper||1826||style="color:#FF0000;" | 69||1757||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Moby-Dick}}''||novel by Herman Melville||1851||style="color:#FF0000;" | 5+||before 1846 || Inspired by events occurring in 1820, the late 1830s, and the early 1840s<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|A Tale of Two Cities}}''|| book by Charles Dickens ||1859||style="color:#FF0000;" | 84||1775<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Les Misérables|Les Miserábles}}'' [sic]||novel by Victor Hugo||1862||style="color:#FF0000;" | 47||1815–1832||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Treasure Island}}''||novel by Robert Louis Stevenson||1883||style="color:#FF0000;" | ~120||~1760||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Looking Backward}}''|| novel written by Edward Bellamy||1888||style="color:#00FF00;" | 112||2000||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court}}''||novel by Mark Twain||1889||style="color:#8B0000;" | 1361||528||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Golf in the Year 2000}}''|| novel written by J. McCullough||1892||style="color:#00FF00;" | 108||2000||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|The Time Machine}}''|| novel written by H.G. Wells||1895||style="color:#006400;" | 800 000–<br/>1 000 000 000||800 000–<br/>1 000 000 000|| Note that Randall has included only part of the book; which includes scenes all the way from the time of writing to the death of the last life on Earth. The part of the story marked is so far in the future that the hundred plus years between publication of the book and the comic have no noticeable effect on the timing of the setting.<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Enoch Soames}}''|| short story by Max Beerbohm||1897||style="color:#00FF00;" | 100||1997||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Gone With The Wind}}''|| novel by Margaret Mitchel ||1936||style="color:#FF0000;" | 75||1861<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Lest Darkness Fall}}''||alternate history SF novel by L. Sprague de Camp||1939||style="color:#8B0000;" | 1404||535||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Casablanca (film)|Casablanca}}''||film directed by Michael Curtiz||1942||style="color:#FF0000;" | <1||1941||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Oklahoma!}}''||Broadway musical||1943||style="color:#FF0000;" | 37||1906||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984}}''||novel written by George Orwell||1949||style="color:#00FF00;" | 35||1984||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|The Bridge on the River Kwai}}''||film by David Lean||1952||style="color:#FF0000;" | ~10||1942–1943||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Gunsmoke}}''||American radio and television series||1952*||style="color:#8B0000;" | ~75||1870s||1952 is when the radio series started. The TV series didn't start until 1955.<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments}}''||film by Cecil B. DeMille||1956||style="color:#8B0000;" | ~3000||{{w|The Exodus#Date|~1446 BCE}}||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|The Music Man}}''||Broadway musical||1957||style="color:#FF0000;" | 45||1912||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd|A Week in the Wales of the Future}}''||novel written by Islwyn Ffowc Elis||1957||style="color:#006400;" | 76||2033||<br />
|-<br />
|''{{w|Asterix}}''||French comic by Goscinny and Uderzo||1959*||style="color:#8B0000;" | 2009||50 BCE||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|The Flintstones}}''||TV series produced by Hanna-Barbera||1960*||style="color:#8B0000;" | ~2.5 million||{{w|Stone Age|Stone Age}}||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Catch-22}}'' (Book)||novel by Joseph Heller||1961||style="color:#FF0000;" | ~17||1942–44||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|The Jetsons}}''||TV series produced by Hanna-Barbera||1962*||style="color:#006400;" | 100||~2062||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Lawrence of Arabia}}''||film by David Lean||1962||style="color:#FF0000;" | ~44||1916–1918||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|The Great Escape (film)|The Great Escape}}''||film by John Sturges||1963||style="color:#FF0000;" | 20||1943–1944||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek}}'' (TOS)||TV series created by Gene Roddenberry||1966*||style="color:#006400;" | 298||2264||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Bonnie and Clyde (film)|Bonnie and Clyde}}''||film by Arthur Penn||1967||style="color:#FF0000;" | ~33||1932–1934||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey}}''||novel written by Arthur C. Clarke||1968||style="color:#00FF00;" | 33||2001||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|2001: A Space Odyssey|2001: A Space Odyssey}}'' (prologue)||prologue to novel written by Arthur C. Clarke||1968||style="color:#8B0000;" | 3 million||3 million BCE||4 million years BCE in the movie<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Catch-22 (film)|Catch-22}}'' (Movie)||film by Mike Nichols||1970||style="color:#FF0000;" | ~26||1942–1944||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|MASH (film)|M*A*S*H}}''||film by Robert Altman||1970||style="color:#FF0000;" | 19||1951||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Patton (film)|Patton}}''||film by Franklin J. Schaffner||1970||style="color:#FF0000;" | ~25||1943–1945||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|American Graffiti}}''||film by George Lucas||1973||style="color:#FF0000;" | 11||1962||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Blazing Saddles}}''||film by Mel Brooks||1974||style="color:#8B0000;" | 100||1874||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Chinatown (1974 film)|Chinatown}}''||film by Roman Polanski||1974||style="color:#FF0000;" | 37||1937||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Happy Days}}''||TV series||1974*||style="color:#FF0000;" | 19–29||1955–1965||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Space: 1999}}''||TV series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson||1975*||style="color:#00FF00;" | 24||1999||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Annie (musical)|Annie}}'' (play)||Broadway musical||1977||style="color:#8B0000;" | 44||1933||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Roots (miniseries)|Roots}}''||TV series, adapted from eponymous novel||1977||style="color:#8B0000;" | 90–227||1750–1882||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Star Wars#Original trilogy|Star Wars}}'' (IV – VI)||original film trilogy ||1977*|| style="color:#8B0000;" | 1 billion ||"A long time ago"|| It's not clear why Randall has chosen 1 billion years here. Wookieepedia puts the age of the ''Star Wars'' galaxy at [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/13,000,000,000_BBY ~13 billion years], and our Universe is only 13.8 billion years old, and the oldest known galaxy took 380 million years to form... So it would seem ''Star Wars'' should be no farther than 400 million years in the past, give or take.<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Grease (film)|Grease}}''||film by Randall Kleiser||1978||style="color:#FF0000;" | 20||1958||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Apocalypse Now}}''||film by Francis Ford Coppola||1979||style="color:#FF0000;" | 10||1969||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Chariots of Fire}}''||film by Hugh Hudson||1981||style="color:#8B0000;" | 57||1924||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|2010: Odyssey Two}}''||novel written by Arthur C. Clarke||1982||style="color:#00FF00;" | 28||2010||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Annie (1982 film)|Annie}}'' (movie)||film adaptation of the above by John Huston||1982||style="color:#8B0000;" | 49||1933||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Gandhi (film)|Gandhi}}''||film by Richard Attenborough||1982||style="color:#8B0000;" | ~34||1893–1948||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|The Right Stuff (film)|The Right Stuff}}''||film by Philip Kaufman||1983||style="color:#FF0000;" | ~20||1947–63||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|The Transformers (TV series)|Transformers}}'' (TV Series)||TV series||1984*||style="color:#00FF00;" | ~20||~2004||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Back to the Future}}''||film by Robert Zemeckis||1985||style="color:#FF0000;" | 30||1955||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Platoon (film)|Platoon}}''||film by Oliver Stone||1986||style="color:#FF0000;" | 21||1967||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Dirty Dancing}}''||film by Emile Ardolino||1987||style="color:#FF0000;" | 24||1963||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek: The Next Generation}}''||TV series created by Gene Roddenberry||1987*||style="color:#006400;" | 377||2364||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|2061: Odyssey Three}}''||novel written by Arthur C. Clarke||1987||style="color:#006400;" | 74||2061||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|The Wonder Years}}''||TV series||1988*||style="color:#FF0000;" | 20–25||1968–1973||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Back to the Future Part II|Back to the Future Part II}}''||film directed by Robert Zemeckis||1989||style="color:#00FF00;" | 26||2015||Only the first part of the movie is set in 2015; later the setting moves to an alternate 1985 and a revisit of 1955.<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Zero Wing}}''||arcade/computer game||1989||style="color:#006400;" | 112||2101||Previously referenced in [[887: Future Timeline]]<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Back to the Future Part III}}''||film by Robert Zemeckis||1990||style="color:#8B0000;" | 105||1885||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|JFK (film)|JFK}}''||film by Oliver Stone||1991||style="color:#8B0000;" | ~22||1963–1969||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Terminator 2: Judgment Day|Terminator 2}}'' (1995 Portion)||film directed by James Cameron||1991||style="color:#00FF00;" | 4||1995||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|The Sandlot}}''||film by David Mickey Evans||1993||style="color:#8B0000;" | 31||1962||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Schindler's List}}''||film by Steven Spielberg||1993||style="color:#8B0000;" | ~50||1939–1945||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Apollo 13 (film)|Apollo 13}}''||film by Ron Howard||1995||style="color:#8B0000;" | 25||1970||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Raptor Red}}''||novel by Robert Bakker||1995||style="color:#8B0000;" | ~65 million||{{w|Cretaceous Period}}||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Evita (1996 film)|Evita}}''||film by Alan Parker||1996||style="color:#8B0000;" | 44||1952||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|3001: The Final Odyssey}}''||novel written by Arthur C. Clarke||1997||style="color:#006400;" | 1004||3001||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|The Big Lebowski}}''||film by the Coen Brothers||1998||style="color:#FF0000;" | 7||1991||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|The Prince of Egypt}}''||animated film by DreamWorks||1998||style="color:#8B0000;" | 3400||{{w|The Exodus#Date|~1446 BCE}}||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Saving Private Ryan}}''||film by Steven Spielberg||1998||style="color:#8B0000;" | 54||1944||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|That '70s Show}}''||TV series||1998*||style="color:#8B0000;" | ~22|||1976–1979||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Freaks and Geeks}}''||TV series||1999*||style="color:#8B0000;" | 19||1980–1981||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Star Wars#Prequel trilogy|Star Wars}}'' (I – III)||prequel film trilogy||1999*||style="color:#8B0000;" | 1 billion ||"A long time ago"|| See note at episodes IV–VI<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Pearl Harbor (film)|Pearl Harbor}}''||film by Michael Bay||2001||style="color:#8B0000;" | 60||1941||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise}}''||TV series||2001*||style="color:#006400;" | 150||2151||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|I Love the '80s (U.S. TV series)|I Love the '80s}}''||TV miniseries by VH1||2002||style="color:#8B0000;" | 13–22||1980–1989||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Ice Age (film series)|Ice Age}}''||animated films by Blue Sky Studios||2002*||style="color:#8B0000;" | ~12,000||{{w|Last glacial period|Paleolithic-Mesolithic}}||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Hotel Rwanda}}''|| film directed by Terry George||2004||style="color:#FF0000;" | 10||1994||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|I Love the '90s (U.S. TV series)|I Love the '90s}}''|| TV miniseries on VH1||2004||style="color:#FF0000;" | 5–14||1990–1999||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|United 93 (film)|United 93}}''|| film directed by Paul Greengrass||2006||style="color:#FF0000;" | 5||2001||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|300 (film)|300}}''||film by Zack Snyder||2007||style="color:#8B0000;" | 2487||''{{w|Battle of Thermopylae|480 BCE}}||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Mad Men}}''||TV series||2007*||style="color:#8B0000;" | ~47||1960–1970||<br />
|-<br />
|''{{w|10,000 BC (film)|10,000 BC}}''||film by Roland Emmerich||2008||style="color:#8B0000;" | 11,992||10,000 BCE||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Year One (film)|Year One}}''||film by Harold Ramis||2009||style="color:#8B0000;" | 2008||1 CE||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Downton Abbey}}''||TV series||2010*||style="color:#8B0000;" | ~90||1912–1923||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|The Wolf of Wall Street}}''||film by Martin Scorsese||2013||style="color:#8B0000;" | ~18||1987–1995||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|I Love the 2000s|I Love the 2000s}}''|| TV miniseries on VH1||2014||style="color:#8B0000;" | 14||2000||<br />
|-<br />
| ''{{w|Star Wars sequel trilogy|Star Wars}}'' (VII – IX)||sequel film trilogy||2015*||style="color:#8B0000;" | 1 billion ||"A long time ago"|| See note at episodes IV–VI<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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==Errors==<br />
<br />
===Dates===<br />
* ''{{w|Star Trek: The Next Generation}}'' is vertically positioned at about 500 years in the future, slightly too high for its actual date. This may be to allow room for other nearby labels.<br />
* The {{w|Gospels}} are horizontally positioned at about the year 250 CE, when they should be positioned slightly further to the left, near the 100 CE line. (While there is debate on their date of authorship, the range of "years in the past" indicated on the graph would require authorship between roughly 50 and 100 CE.)<br />
* ''{{w|Lest Darkness Fall}}'' takes place about 1400 years in the past, in the year 535. Its placement on the graph indicates it takes place about ''535'' years in the past, in the year ''1400''.<br />
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===Spelling===<br />
* Author Washington Irving titled his work ''{{w|Rip Van Winkle}}'', not ''Rip van Winkel'' as [[Randall]] spells it. That said, ''van {{w|nl:Winkel|Winkel}}'' may be a more historically authentic spelling.<br />
* ''{{w|Les Misérables}}'' has been misspelled ''Les Miserábles'' (note that French doesn't use the character "á").<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript}}<br />
:'''Date of publication'''<br />
:[A logarithmic scale running horizontally, from 3000 BCE to past 2015 CE]<br />
:'''Years in the future'''<br />
:[A logarithmic scale running vertically, from 1 billion down to 0]<br />
:'''Stories set in the future''' (science fiction, prediction)<br />
::Stories set in 2015<br />
::[A line divides this region into two. The upper side is labelled "still possible"; the lower side is labelled "obsolete".]<br />
:[from left to right...]<br />
::Memoirs of the Twentieth Century [1700, 265 years in the future]<br />
::Looking Backward [1888, 112 years in the future]<br />
::Golf in the Year 2000 [1892, 108 years in the future]<br />
::The Time Machine [1895, 800 thousand to 30 million years in the future]<br />
::Enoch Soames [1916, ''circa'' 60 years in the future]<br />
::1984 [1949, 35 years in the future]<br />
::A Week in the Wales of the Future [1957, 76 years in the future]<br />
::The Jetsons [1962-63, 100 years in the future]<br />
::Star Trek [1966-69, 300 years in the future]<br />
::2001: A Space Odyssey [1968, 33 years in the future]<br />
::Space: 1999 [1975-77, 24 years in the future]<br />
::2010: Odyssey Two [1982, 28 years in the future]<br />
::Transformers (TV series) [1984-87, 20 years in the future]<br />
::2061: Odyssey Three [1987, 74 years in the future]<br />
::Star Trek: The Next Generation [1987-94, ''circa'' 500 years in the future]<br />
::Back to the Future Part II [1989, 26 years in the future]<br />
::Zero Wing [1989, 112 years in the future]<br />
::Terminator 2 (1995 portion) [1991, 4 years in the future]<br />
::3001: The Final Odyssey [1997, 1004 years in the future]<br />
::Enterprise [2001-2005, 150 years in the future]<br />
::This chart [2015, 0 years in the future]<br />
:'''Years in the past'''<br />
:[A logarithmic scale running vertically, from 0 down past 1 billion to "Big Bang"]<br />
:'''Stories set in the past''' (History, Period Fiction)<br />
::Stories written X years ago and set 2X years ago<br />
::[A line divides this region into two. The upper side is labelled as follows.]<br />
::'''Former period pieces'''<br />
::Stories set in the past, but<br/>created long enough ago that<br/>they were published closer<br/>to their setting than to today.<br />
::Modern audiences may not<br/>recognize which parts were<br/>''supposed'' to sound old.<br />
:[from left to right...]<br />
::The Epic of Gilgamesh [''circa'' 2100 BCE, 600 years in the past]<br />
::The Iliad [''circa'' 800 BCE, 450 years in the past]<br />
::History of the Peloponnesian War [''circa'' 390 BCE, 10 years in the past]<br />
::Book of Genesis [''circa'' 500 BCE, 4000 years in the past]<br />
::Ashokavadana [''circa'' 100 BCE, 300 years in the past]<br />
::Gospels (various estimates) [''circa'' 250 CE, 24 to 75 years in the past]<br />
::The Pillow Book [1000 CE, 5 years in the past]<br />
::Water Margin [''circa'' 1300, 195 years in the past]<br />
::Richard III [''circa'' 1590, 115 years in the past]<br />
::Julius Caesar [1599, 1650 years in the past]<br />
::King John [''circa'' 1600, 500 years in the past]<br />
::Henry IV [''circa'' 1600, 190 years in the past]<br />
::King Lear [''circa'' 1606, 3000 years in the past]<br />
::Henry VIII [''circa'' 1612, 105 years in the past]<br />
::The Last of the Mohicans [1826, 69 years in the past]<br />
::Rip Van Winkel [1819, 31-51 years in the past]<br />
::A Tale of Two Cities [1859, 60 years in the past]<br />
::Moby-Dick [1851, anywhere from 4 to 14 years ago]<br />
:::"Some years ago--never mind how long precisely..."<br />
::Les Miserábles [1862, 30 years in the past]<br />
::Treasure Island [1883, 130 years in the past]<br />
::A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court [1889, 2000 years in the past]<br />
::Gone with the Wind [1936, 70 years in the past]<br />
::Lest Darkness Fall [1939, 550 years in the past]<br />
::Casablanca [1942, 1 year in the past]<br />
::Oklahoma! [1943, 37 years in the past]<br />
::The Ten Commandments [1956, 1400 years in the past]<br />
::The Bridge on the River Kwai [1957, 13 years in the past]<br />
::Gunsmoke [1952-61, 80 years in the past]<br />
::The Flintstones [1960-66, 100,000 years in the past]<br />
::Catch-22 (book) [1961, 18 years in the past]<br />
::The Great Escape [1963, 20 years in the past]<br />
::Asterix<br />
::Lawrence of Arabia<br />
::The Music Man<br />
::Bonnie and Clyde<br />
::2001: A Space Odyssey (prologue)<br />
::American Graffiti<br />
::Patton<br />
::Catch-22 (movie) [1970, 27 years in the past]<br />
::Chinatown<br />
::Blazing Saddles<br />
::Apocalypse Now<br />
::Happy Days<br />
::Grease<br />
::M*A*S*H<br />
::Annie (play)<br />
::Roots<br />
::Chariots of Fire<br />
::Star Wars (IV-VI)<br />
::Annie (movie)<br />
::The Right Stuff<br />
::Back to the Future<br />
::Gandhi<br />
::Platoon<br />
::Dirty Dancing<br />
::Back to the Future Part III<br />
::The Wonder Years<br />
::JFK<br />
::The Sandlot<br />
::Schindler's List<br />
::Raptor Red<br />
::Apollo 13<br />
::Star Wars (I-III)<br />
::The Big Lebowski<br />
::Evita<br />
::Saving Private Ryan<br />
::The Prince of Egypt<br />
::Freaks and Geeks<br />
::Hotel Rwanda<br />
::I Love the '80s<br />
::That '70s Show<br />
::Pearl Harbor<br />
::Ice Age<br />
::I Love the '90s<br />
::United 93<br />
::300<br />
::10,000 BC<br />
::Year One<br />
::The Wolf of Wall Street<br />
::I Love the 2000s<br />
::Mad Men<br />
::Downton Abbey<br />
::Star Wars (VII-IX)<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Charts]]</div>108.162.216.79https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1491:_Stories_of_the_Past_and_Future&diff=85253Talk:1491: Stories of the Past and Future2015-02-26T22:23:50Z<p>108.162.216.79: </p>
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<div>http://xkcd.com/1491/large/ will take you to the large version, which the comic currently doesn't have a link to. I expect that will be fixed shortly. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.177|108.162.210.177]] 05:30, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:I just realized he has a text link for it in the top banner. I'd delete my comment, but that's rude on a wiki. Whatever. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.177|108.162.210.177]] 05:35, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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The bottom diagonal seems to be mislabelled? Shouldn't it be "Stories written X years and set X years ago" instead of "set 2X years ago"?<br />
--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.175|108.162.250.175]] 05:38, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:It is correct, if you see both relative from now. The middle line is written X years ago and set X years ago and thus contemporary. Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.68|108.162.231.68]] 06:46, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
::Correct, but could be clearer. I thought it was a bug at first. 'Stories written X years ago and set X years before publication' [[User:Jbalcorn|Jbalcorn]] ([[User talk:Jbalcorn|talk]]) 16:21, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
I'm not sure where to open bug tickets, but Lest Darkness Fall actually takes place ~1500 years ago, not ~500. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.80.121|141.101.80.121]] 06:35, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
: I'll second that -- [[User:Brettpeirce|Brettpeirce]] ([[User talk:Brettpeirce|talk]]) 12:36, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Kind of reminds of a Minkowski diagram. Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.68|108.162.231.68]] 06:50, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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More and more science fiction works wander into the category obsolete science fiction, and more and more historical works are not recognisable as such by the average viewer as the movies have been filmed such a long time ago anyway. Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.68|108.162.231.68]] 06:55, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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There seems to be a mistake with the large diagonal line. It says "Stories written X years ago and set 2X years ago." It should say, "... and set X years ago." Am I missing something here? [[User:Effy|Effy]] ([[User talk:Effy|talk]]) 09:35, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:Nevermind, I see now that the y-axis is date relative to publication, not absolute dates relative to today. My bad. [[User:Effy|Effy]] ([[User talk:Effy|talk]]) 09:37, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I may have missed it, but can't see {{w|Paris in the Twentieth Century}}, written in 1863, about 1960, but only published in 1994. Which would have been an interesting addition. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.192|141.101.98.192]] 10:13, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:In fact, I'm thinking it could have been represented as a (dotted?) ''diagonal'' arrowed line between "1960 in 1863"/future-trending and "1960 in 1994"/past-trending points. But never mind. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.192|141.101.98.192]] 10:38, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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... this is why experienced sci-fi writers don't date their stories. On the other hand, many sci-fi became obviously obsolete even without the date. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 11:00, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:I have experience with this. Back in 1995 I advised a prospective author-friend (prospective author; already and still a friend, surprisingly) on the latest computing matters to help a plot device in a "five minutes into the future" story. Even two years later, it sounded so dated and... naff. ('Luckily', it didn't sell too well anyway (bad choice of publishers), so my failure-as-futurologist - uncredited as it also fortunately was - wasn't so wildly known.) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.192|141.101.98.192]] 13:04, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I've been trying and trying to figure out what the heck his point might be, as IMO there usually seems to be some point he's trying to make or way he's trying to be clever, beyond the interesting nature of the observation - and I think I might have seen one (though there is probably something else) - anyone notice that the area under the "Stories set in 2015" line is awfully bare? at least compared to the areas on either side of the 'x / 2x' line. that could simply be his particular selection of works(?) anyone have some ideas of things that might deserve to go in there that were not included? -- [[User:Brettpeirce|Brettpeirce]] ([[User talk:Brettpeirce|talk]]) 12:45, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:I think the point here is that there are a lot of books one hasn't read yet. I, for one, sought out ''Memoirs of the Twentieth Century'' and ''The Pillow Book'' after reading this strip. --[[User:Koveras|Koveras]] ([[User talk:Koveras|talk]]) 13:30, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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::He has done stuff like that before, right? Putting the age of some books and movies into perspective, to make the reader feel old. --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.151|173.245.53.151]] 15:16, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:maybe he just wants to see what the people who transcripe it will come up with.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.173|108.162.250.173]] 12:31, 26 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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As for writing a transcript or explanation, concerning order, I would think it would make some sense to flatten it on one axis (probably the y-axis, starting from Star Wars?) or if it is practical enough, the best might be some sort of "radial"(?) axis (is that a thing?), where the axis would be anchored at "this chart", and swing like a radar beam around from the bottom (Downton Abbey, Mad Men, and Star Wars, up through the 'x / 2x' line, through the 'contemporary' line and then the 'set in 2015' line, to finish with '3001', possibly making a small attempt to keep related works (like Star Wars) together in the listing. Any comments? -- [[User:Brettpeirce|Brettpeirce]] ([[User talk:Brettpeirce|talk]]) 12:55, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:Whatever the fixation, I started work on something, but other people will get there before me. So here's my ideas. Five columns: "Story (and format description/author?)", "First Published/Premiered", "Date offset(s)", "Featured date(s)" and "Notes", with sorting on each potentially numerical one (although ranges/freetext/vagueness may play havoc with such sorting, by past experience).<br />
:I already have a complete list of listed titles (in case anyone needs it), though maybe not error-free and not yet been ordered other than by "input order".<br />
...excised by original author...<br />
:(Do cut that out of this Talk Page when no longer necessary!)<br />
:What I've so far put together (but not yet checked my link formats or WikiTabled) is...<br />
...excised by original author...<br />
:...but I'm probably duplicating someone else's efforts so by the time I get back to it you'll have a complete and better version online. FYI if you're determined to build on this while I'm absent, however. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.192|141.101.98.192]] 14:22, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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This appears to be a log-log graph, but with abrupt changes in scale along one axis yielding cusps in the "still possible / obsolete" line. Is there a name for that? -- [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.169|108.162.210.169]] 14:29, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:Hello, me again. I'd also played with a 'transcript description' part. Use (or don't, or ''correct'' and then use) what I was writing, if you want. I'm taking the liberty of deleting my prior inserts while I'm here, to avoid the clutter.<br />
X-axis represents "date of publication" of a work and is irregularly split into 1000s (3000BCE to 1000CE) and then decreasing periods of time until 1955, at which point it becomes every five years up to the present day (2015) and one devision of possibly five years into the future (the upcoming "third Star Wars Trilogy" is indicated by an arrow as lying on-or-beyond 'now', with Episode 7 itself due out not long after the comic date).<br />
Y-axis represents "years ahead/behind publication date in which a story is set" with the 'zero axis' being "set at the time of publication. "Years in the future" spreads above, by decades until "30 years" then in a metalogarithmic manner through various orders of ten to top-out at 1 billion years. The "Years in the past" scale, below this, extends by five years down to 60 years and then similarly quickly speeds through to 1 billion years in the past, and the time of the Big Bang as lowest limit.<br />
Above the 'here and now', a region is shaded within a line to represent the border between future settings that should have happened by this date, and below we find a similar shading/line that represents set twice as long ago as was written. Both lines continue into "2015+" territory in a manner similar to a "light cone".<br />
:...ok? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.192|141.101.98.192]] 15:43, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I created a basic table using 141.101.98.192's data - bits corrected. [[User:Jarod997|Jarod997]] ([[User talk:Jarod997|talk]]) 14:46, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I'm in the process of writing a transcript myself. Mine is not formatted as a table; I am under the impression that this is the preferred approach to transcripts on this site. However, the existing table would be ''perfect'' in another section, where we can give more detail than a true transcript can/should provide (e.g. "this is a book written by X, here's the wikilink", "this is an error, it should be X", etc.) -- [[User:Peregrine|Peregrine]] ([[User talk:Peregrine|talk]]) 14:55, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:Meh, I created the table as a starting point. If people want to use it and add to it, great. If something better is created, that's fine too. :) [[User:Jarod997|Jarod997]] ([[User talk:Jarod997|talk]]) 15:12, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
::I've moved the table to its own section and put in my more minimalistic, list-style transcript (based on what I found in other "large drawing" articles. I have only included dates in the transcript as an indication of the coordinates at which each item is located (and I found several that seem misplaced vertically, perhaps to accommodate other labels, e.g. ''Next Generation''). Also, it isn't finished; everything's listed, in (more or less) the right order, but the last bunch don't have their dates/coordinates. I got as far as ''Les Mis'' before stopping. -- [[User:Peregrine|Peregrine]] ([[User talk:Peregrine|talk]]) 15:45, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:::Looks good Peregrine! I like it. =8o) [[User:Jarod997|Jarod997]] ([[User talk:Jarod997|talk]]) 17:02, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Not sure of the protocol here, but the trivia section currently states that "Rip Van Winkel" is a misspelling of "Rip Van Winkle." The use of Winkel in the comic can be correct. (http://i.imgur.com/Z0adeEJ.jpg) The transcription also lists "Rip Can Winkel [sic]" but the comic actually uses "Rip Van Winkel." {{unsigned ip|108.162.238.181}}<br />
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This Comic seems to follow the tradition of [[647: Scary]], [[891: Movie Ages]], [[973: MTV Generation]], [[1393: Timeghost]], and [[1477: Star Wars]]. Making people feel old. --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.151|173.245.53.151]] 16:14, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Seems like it might have been useful to include some kind of indication of related subject matter from the upper left to the lower right in the "Stories set in the past" section. Mostly looking at the WW II related works. (Bridge/Kwai, Catch-22, Patton, Schindler, Ryan, Pearl Harbor) all seem to make a pretty straight line. Similarly, seeing that relationship between Apocalypse Now and Platoon. Finally, calling the earlier WW II era works 'former period pieces' seems odd. I think I'd still understand which parts were supposed to sound old in those (or maybe it's just that I am old). [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.215|199.27.128.215]] 18:50, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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did nobody see 2001 or was the title text forgotten about? i didnt see 2001 so i cant explain the joke. im pretty sure its just a joke about how it sounds similar, but i dont want to add that explanation if its wrong.[[User:TheJonyMyster|TheJonyMyster]] ([[User talk:TheJonyMyster|talk]]) 22:55, 25 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Does Randall exclude the 1984 film The Terminator because the main portion occurs in 1984, or do you suppose it's because the film is not technically obsolete, given the wandering date of the predicted Judgement Day (as well as actual existence of killbots, advanced tactical simulation systems & a large broadband computer network named SkyNet)? It has often occurred to me that the only thing fictional about The Terminator is the existence of a device enabling time travel. ("The Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that time travel is impossible." T'Pol, Enterprise ;) He seems to have left out many notable predictive works which in fact came true, rather than becoming "obsolete". {{unsigned ip|173.245.55.29}}<br />
: even correct predictions are obsolete. Because they change into facts. Let's say on Thursday I predict it will be sunny on Friday. It is sunny on Friday. Now it's Saturday. Is my prediction from Thursday obsolete, or current? --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.166|108.162.249.166]] 05:46, 26 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
: This comic's theme is stories who don't take place on their publication's date. Also, some of the listed stories have a (more or less) historically accurate setting.--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.165|108.162.229.165]] 12:25, 26 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Whoever wrote the date explanation for "The Time Machine" seems to have used a ridiculous number of significant figures justified by neither the book nor comic (or, for that matter, films). Even more important, the dates aren't even the right order of magnitude. I'm going to fix it, but I just thought I'd leave a comment in case the numbers actually came from somewhere. If they did, please enlighten me. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.79|108.162.216.79]] 22:23, 26 February 2015 (UTC)</div>108.162.216.79https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1099:_Tuesdays&diff=779421099: Tuesdays2014-10-27T20:56:15Z<p>108.162.216.79: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1099<br />
| date = August 24, 2012<br />
| title = Tuesdays<br />
| image = tuesdays.png<br />
| titletext = Try our bottomless drinks and fall forever!<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
[[Beret Guy]] and at least one other person (which looks like it might be [[Megan]]) are sitting at a restaurant. The waitress, [[Ponytail]], tells Beret Guy there is a special on Tuesdays for "endless wings". Restaurants often have different daily discounts to encourage people to come in. In a normal restaurant, "endless wings" would presumably refer to "all-you-can-eat" chicken wings, meaning the customer can pay a flat price and continue ordering additional wings without paying any more money.<br />
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However, in this comic, Beret Guy tells the waitress that he already has "endless wings", which he means literally (a similar issue of wishes being taken literally is referenced in [[1086: Eyelash Wish Log]]) and Beret Guy begins growing wings which ultimately appear "endless" as they grow to a span of at least the circumference of the earth by the last panel (and presumably continue growing). The other characters scream in horror for obvious{{Citation needed}} reasons.<br />
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The title text plays on another common restaurant offer of "bottomless drinks", meaning unlimited free refills of drinks. However, taken literally, falling into something bottomless (i.e. without a bottom) would result in falling forever. However, even this is unlikely unless the diameter of the cups that the drinks are served in are large enough to fit a whole person into.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Ponytail begins to serve some customers at a table.]<br />
:Ponytail: ...and on Tuesdays we offer endless wings.<br />
:Beret Guy: Haha, cool. i have those.<br />
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:Ponytail: You what?<br />
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:[Beret Guy sprouts a pair of wings.]<br />
:Ponytail: AAAAA!!<br />
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:[Beret Guy's wings start getting longer.]<br />
:Everyone: AAAAAAA<br />
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:[Wings start to extend into space out from the earth.]<br />
:''Really'' everyone: AAAAAAAA<br />
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*This is one of the few comics since the ''xkcd'' lettering became inked and standardized as all-caps that lowercase lettering has been used (including the word "i" which would normally be capitalized). In this case, the usage may be to denote a whisper or soft voice.<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]</div>108.162.216.79https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1405:_Meteor&diff=731881405: Meteor2014-08-08T06:20:49Z<p>108.162.216.79: </p>
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| date = August 8, 2014<br />
| title = Meteor<br />
| image = meteor.png<br />
| titletext = No, only LAVA is called 'magma' while underground. Any other object underground is called 'lava'.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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The word pedantic means gratuitously exacting in ones speech. It is usually a pejorative term used to refer to someone who is overly fussy. For example, if one were to say "The sky is blue" and someone were to correct you telling you it is actually every color but blue because of light refraction and its apparent blueness is a mere illusion, while true, that would be pedantic. However, in science, pedantry is important so things may be classified and we have a unified definition of when things are very similar.<br />
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In cosmology, there are different classifications of bodies: asteroids, comets, meteors, meteorites, meteoroids, and so forth. Each of these has a very specific definition to distinguish between them. For the purpose of this comic we will only explore two: meteor and meteorite. A meteor is a body that enters earths orbit. Many which enter the earths atmosphere do not survive entry. Thus it is only a meteorite if it is found intact on the ground. <br />
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Cueball attempts to correct (another Cueball?) by telling him it is not a meteor he found. We expect him to say it is a meteorite, but the joke comes when he calls it magma, which is completely different. Lava is liquid rock which has been ejected from a volcano. Magma on the other hand is still under earths crust and has yet to be ejected. Cueball not only misappropriates the cosmological terms, but assigns the wrong word to the geological correction he attempts to give. <br />
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The title text gives patently incorrect information and it is the opposite of what is being said.<br />
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Another aspect of the joke is that the first Cueball is actually correct - what he has (meteorite) IS a part of a meteor.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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First Cueball: Check it out -- I got a piece of a meteor!<br />
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Second Cueball: ''Actually'', it's only called that while falling. Once it lands, it's called ''Magma''<br />
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My hobby: Mixing Pedantic Terms<br />
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| date = August 22, 2008<br />
| title = Moving<br />
| image = moving.png<br />
| titletext = We need a special holiday to honor the countless kind souls with unsecured networks named 'linksys'.<br />
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A {{w|cantenna}} is an self-made antenna made from a can, in this case a {{w|pringles}} can. Cueball is pointing his cantenna to the neighbors across the road, which, as he says, will allow him to connect to the {{w|wifi}} network there.<br />
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Megan points out that the neighbors themselves don't have Internet access, to which Cueball answers that he thinks that the neighbors will get hooked up to the Internet first.<br />
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The title text continues this theme of connecting to other people's networks, noting that we should have a holiday in honour of those people who don't bother reconfiguring their Linksys routers (thus leaving them with the default name of 'linksys'), which allows other people to connect to those networks very easily, as they aren't encrypted by default and don't need a password. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.79|108.162.216.79]] 16:10, 7 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
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:There are few forces more powerful than geeks desperately trying to get internet in a new apartment.<br />
:Cueball: Okay, the pringles cantenna has let us patch into the WiFi network across the road.<br />
:Megan: And they have internet?<br />
:Cueball: No, but I think the cable van will hook up their house first.<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Internet]]</div>108.162.216.79https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:653:_So_Bad_It%27s_Worse&diff=69367Talk:653: So Bad It's Worse2014-06-11T18:47:36Z<p>108.162.216.79: </p>
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<div>Once, I trolled my friends by "recommending" the movie to them. They won't know what hit 'em. :) (P.S. Mwhaaa Haaa Haaa) {{unsigned ip|173.72.159.14}}<br />
: Mandatory... "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo........!!!!!!" [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.79|108.162.216.79]] 18:47, 11 June 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Does anyone else take exception to Randall considering Rocky Horror to fall into this category? So it's not The Godfather, but it's not supposed to be! I think it's exactly the movie they were trying to make, and the result is low-budget brilliance. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223|108.162.219.223]] 01:03, 7 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Does anyone else think Manos: The Hands of Fate should be below Star Wars? {{unsigned ip|108.162.238.11}}<br />
:It's not nearly as bad, in my opinion. The MST3K version is definitely enjoyable. Birdemic, on the other hand, is definitely worse. [[User:Ad1217|Ad1217]] ([[User talk:Ad1217|talk]]) 01:36, 7 April 2014 (UTC)</div>108.162.216.79https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:161:_Accident&diff=67557Talk:161: Accident2014-05-19T14:24:16Z<p>108.162.216.79: </p>
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<div>The issue date of the comic is not given. Can someone add this? [[User:Rikthoff|Rikthoff]] ([[User talk:Rikthoff|talk]]) 18:53, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
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http://xkcd.com/851/ - more katamari damacy shenanigans {{unsigned ip|128.237.217.152}}<br />
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In guitar hero you tilt the controler to active star power.<br />
If you did so with steering wheel you would crash. 21:47, 10 January 2014 (UTC) {{unsigned ip|173.245.52.205}}<br />
Any reason for an incomplete? [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.144|199.27.128.144]] 06:29, 16 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I have changed the last part about the title text, as it referred to playing the games while driving, rather than listening to the music. Although the idea is that you then think you are playing! I hope my wording makes more sense. I have never played either of the two games, and cannot say if the explanation for driving poorly while listening to guitar hero music makes sense. But if it does, I would say it was OK to remove the incomplete tag now! [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:45, 16 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
:I have never played guitar hero either, but I believe the game shows a series of objects approaching you to represent the notes. The point is then to "hit" large objects, much like the point of Katamari Damacy is to hit small objects. This makes more sense since otherwise any game music could simply distract you from driving.<br />
:Is there a guitar hero player reading this who could make a final edit?--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.242.8|108.162.242.8]] 00:45, 17 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
::I don't think guitar hero has to do with hitting things, as much as doing sudden turns and hitting your horn on certain notes..[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.79|108.162.216.79]] 14:24, 19 May 2014 (UTC)<br />
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After I play a lot of Mario Kart, I feel urges to run over boxes, and to shake the steering wheel on top of speed bumps. - [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.90|173.245.54.90]] 15:06, 14 May 2014 (UTC)</div>108.162.216.79https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:125:_Marketing_Interview&diff=67307Talk:125: Marketing Interview2014-05-14T22:01:39Z<p>108.162.216.79: </p>
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<div>I believe I disagree with the explanation of the title text on this one. To me it suggests that this would be a rare case in which buying the most popular book would be the best because the people who wrote it obviously know a great deal about marketing.{{unsigned ip|75.151.211.170}}<br />
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I don't understand what you mean by "rare case"[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.202|108.162.219.202]] 05:14, 30 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:Agreed. The title text appears to connote that although a case of Black Hat or his ilk is rare, the tendency of good marketers' books to sell better ought most often to be the rule rather than the exception. --[[User:Jolbucley|Jolbucley]] ([[User talk:Jolbucley|talk]]) 04:16, 29 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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or is it? i think he honestly wonders, not leaning towards one answer or the other. cause being the best selling book on marketing guarantees the writer is (or has) a very good marketer (sry, english is not my first language. is marketer a word?). anyway, it doesn't guarantee that there will be any useful information in it, just that the marketing department did their part in promoting the said book. am i going too far here? {{unsigned ip|141.101.98.14}}<br />
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The most popular book can imply the best marketing, but doesn't ever imply the best content or the best source of information about a topic. However, if the topic is marketing, the at least the reader can look at the marketing strategy for selling the marketing book, which would make the book's author the best source. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.79|108.162.216.79]] 22:01, 14 May 2014 (UTC)</div>108.162.216.79https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1335:_Now&diff=614611335: Now2014-03-01T21:28:09Z<p>108.162.216.79: Minor fixes</p>
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| before = ''Explainxkcd note: The image below is accelerated to show a full day's spin in approximately 10 seconds. The actual comic completes one revolution per day. <br/>For the current state, see [http://xkcd.com/now/ http://xkcd.com/now]''<br />
| date = February 26, 2014<br />
| title = Now<br />
| image = now.gif<br />
| titletext = This image stays roughly in sync with the day (assuming the Earth continues spinning). Shortcut: [http://xkcd.com/now xkcd.com/now]<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Too many guesses, too many parentheses, maybe more. The time zones need an explanation. The gif is way too fast, a minute would be better}}<br />
The picture is divided in 24 segments representing the 24 hours of the day. The break between segments is not visible at noon or midnight because of the words, but presumably exists.<br />
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The picture rotates by 3.75 {{w|degree (angle)|degrees}} every 15 minutes, as does the Earth, so that it is constantly up to date in showing which regions are currently at which times of day. The picture change seems to happen half-way through a 15-minute time increment (that is, at 7½, 22½, 37½, and 52½ minutes after each hour), so that the picture is always correct for the nearest multiple of 15 minutes.<br />
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The map projection of the earth in the middle of the picture shows an {{w|azimuthal equidistant projection}} with the {{w|South Pole}} in the center which is uncommon because most times this projection has the North Pole at its center. [[Randall]] was playing on projections before here: [[ 977: Map Projections ]].<br />
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The list of cities and countries doesn't always match the map, because the list takes into account local variations in {{w|time zone}}s. The map shows the current (February 2014) configuration of time zones with respect to {{w|daylight saving time}} (also known as summer time), which is being observed at the time of the comic's initial release in parts of Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, and other countries not named in this comic. If the map is to stay accurate through the year, the location of place names will have to move over the next few months as parts of the southern hemisphere go off DST and parts of the northern hemisphere go onto it, but we don't yet know whether this will happen.<br />
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In many countries, {{w|business hours}} are considered to be from 9&nbsp;am to 5&nbsp;pm. With some exceptions, including emergencies, it is generally considered rude to place a {{w|telephone}} call to someone's residence during the hours when most people are asleep (Randall portrays this time period as extending from 10&nbsp;pm to 8&nbsp;am). This may be a reference to the 10&nbsp;pm "cutoff" time [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0WeQJW-H3Y discussed] in an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." <br />
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On midnight at UTC we can see this situation:<br />
*00:00 UTC {{w|Greenwich Mean Time}}<br />
::UK, Portugal<br />
::West Africa<br />
*01:00 UTC {{w|Central European Time}}<br />
::Most of central Europe<br />
::Nigeria, and many more countries belonging to the {{w|West Africa Time}} zone<br />
*02:00 UTC {{w|Eastern European Time}}<br />
::Eastern Europe, many countries like Bulgaria, Romania or Greece<br />
::The {{w|Levant}} (Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Israel, and a part of southern Turkey)<br />
::Egypt<br />
*03:00 UTC {{w|UTC+03:00}} (East Africa Time, Eastern Europe Forward Time, and Arabia Standard Time)<br />
::Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Somalia, and more<br />
::Kaliningrad and Belarus<br />
::Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and more.<br />
::Iran is at {{w|Iran Standard Time}}, using an offset of UTC+03:30<br />
*04:00 UTC {{w|UTC+04:00}} <br />
::{{w|Moscow Time}}<br />
::United Arab Emirates, Mauritius, and more<br />
::Afghanistan is at {{w|Time in Afghanistan}}, using an offset of UTC+04:30<br />
::Iran is at {{w|Iran Standard Time}}, using an offset of UTC+03:30<br />
*05:00 UTC {{w|UTC+05:00}}<br />
::Pakistan, Western Australia, Maldives and some France former colonies.<br />
::Afghanistan is at {{w|Time in Afghanistan}}, using an offset of UTC+04:30<br />
::India and Sri Lanka using {{w|UTC+05:30}}<br />
::Nepal is using a much more odd offset at {{w|UTC+05:45}}<br />
*06:00 UTC {{w|UTC+06:00}}<br />
::Bangladesh, Bhutan...<br />
::UK {{w|British Indian Ocean Territory}}<br />
::Russia at {{w|Yekaterinburg Time}}, also Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan<br />
::China doesn't use only a single time zone because Xinjiang and Tibet are different.<br />
::India and Sri Lanka using {{w|UTC+05:30}}<br />
::Nepal is using a much more odd offset at {{w|UTC+05:45}}<br />
*07:00 UTC {{w|UTC+07:00}}<br />
::South-east Asia like Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and more<br />
::Christmas Island belonging to Australia<br />
::Russia is also using the {{w|Omsk Time}}<br />
*08:00 UTC {{w|UTC+08:00}}<br />
::Western Australia<br />
::China uses only {{w|Time in China|one time zone}} while the country spans about five.<br />
::Singapore<br />
::Philippines<br />
::Perth<br />
*09:00 UTC {{w|UTC+09:00}}<br />
::Japan<br />
::The Koreas<br />
*10:00 UTC {{w|UTC+10:00}}<br />
::Brisbane and the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria<br />
::US: Guam and Northern Mariana Islands<br />
*11:00 UTC {{w|UTC+11:00}}<br />
::Micronesia, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu<br />
::Russia {{w|Vladivostok Time}}<br />
*12:00 UTC {{w|UTC+12:00}} or {{w|UTC−12:00}}<br />
::Kamchatka (a Russian peninsula at the east Siberia), Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Tuvalu, Tuvalu, and more<br />
*13:00 UTC {{w|UTC+13:00}} or {{w|UTC−11:00}}<br />
::New Zealand, Kiribati, Tonga, Hawaii<br />
*14:00 UTC {{w|UTC+14:00}} or {{w|UTC−10:00}}<br />
::Hawaii, Samoa<br />
::Alaska, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, and more<br />
::Line Islands, belonging to Kiribati<br />
*15:00 UTC {{w|UTC−09:00}}<br />
::Alaska and French Polynesia <br />
*16:00 UTC {{w|Pacific Time Zone}}<br />
::US West Coast<br />
::Canada (British Columbia and Yukon)<br />
::Mexico (Baja California)<br />
*17:00 UTC {{w|Mountain Time Zone}}<br />
::US: Denver, and much more<br />
::Canada: Alberta (Calgary, Edmonton), British Columbia, more<br />
*18:00 UTC {{w|Central Time Zone}}<br />
::Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua and more<br />
::US: Chicago, Texas except of some most westernmost counties, and many more<br />
*19:00 UTC {{w|Eastern Time Zone}}<br />
::Eastern Canada like Ontario or Quebec<br />
::US East Coast including New York and Florida.<br />
::But also Cuba, Haiti, Panama and much more countries<br />
*20:00 UTC {{w|UTC−04:00}} or {{w|Atlantic Time Zone}}<br />
::Canadian Maritimes: New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia. (Newfoundland uses {{w|UTC-03:30}} )<br />
::Chile<br />
::Greenland<br />
::Most of the Caribbean Islands.<br />
*21:00 UTC {{w|UTC−03:00}}<br />
::Coastal Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, French Guiana, the UK Falkland Islands, and more<br />
*22:00 UTC {{w|UTC−02:00}}<br />
::UK: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands<br />
::Brazil: Fernando de Noronha<br />
*23:00 UTC {{w|UTC−01:00}}<br />
::Cape Verde<br />
::Portugal: Azores<br />
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==Technical notes==<br />
When first posted, the picture was exactly 12 hours off. Somewhere around 5:10 UTC, this was fixed. The original version also included a listing for Inland Brazil; this could have created a conflict with US East Coast when Daylight-Saving Time begins in the US, and it has been removed.<br />
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The names used for the image files refer not to {{w|Universal Time|UTC (Universal Time)}} as one might expect but rather to the time exactly 12 hours off of that. The name of the image file linked from the page matched Universal Time during the first few hours, but the file-naming scheme did not change when the comic was corrected.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|The table should be removed by a more simple way for showing the content here. And the table is incorrect.}}<br />
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:[The comic is a moving circle with a static outer ring.]<br />
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:[The outermost part of the static ring is divided in 22 segments representing the 24 hours of the day. Noon and Midnight actually mean 11-13 and 23-1.]<br />
::Noon - 6 PM - Midnight - 6 AM<br />
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:[The innermost part of the static ring contains descriptions of the time intervals.]<br />
::Business hours (9-5) [i.e. 9 AM - 5 PM]<br />
::Rude to call [11 PM - 6 AM]<br />
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:[On the outermost ring of the moving circle are written names of the regions of the Earth.]<br />
::UK - Most of Europe - Eastern Europe - Iraq - Moscow - Pakistan - Southeast Asia - China - Singapore - Japan - The Koreas - Kamchatka<br />
::Alaska - US West Coast - Denver - Mexico - Eastern Canada - Canadian Maritimes<br />
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:[On the second ring, counting from out to in, are the names of some cities, countries and states.]<br />
::West Africa - Nigeria - The Levant - Egypt - East Africa - Iran - Afghanistan - India - Java - Philippines - Perth - Brisbane - Most Australian cities - New Zealand<br />
::Chicago - Texas - US East coast - Coastal Brazil<br />
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:[On the third ring are the names of some continents.]<br />
::Europe Asia <br />
::North America<br />
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:[On the fourth ring are the names of the other continents.]<br />
::Africa - Oceania<br />
::South America<br />
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:[On the innermost part of the circle is the Earth as seen from the south pole.]<br />
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