https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=108.162.250.134&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T01:43:33ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1565:_Back_Seat&diff=99767Talk:1565: Back Seat2015-08-17T13:12:34Z<p>108.162.250.134: </p>
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<div>The backseats of some cars are really messy. I have yet to see any dead animals though, unless you count hamburgers. <br />
[[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.163|173.245.54.163]] 04:30, 17 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I wrote a very quick first draft of the explanation. This is my first time writing from scratch, so feel free to take it all down and start over. Also, my first time posting a comment, so sorry for inevitable formatting errors. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.84|162.158.255.84]] 04:33, 17 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:Welcome! I would say that to me this is not a comic about how raccoons always end up in the back seat of cars, but more a comic about how the phrase "clear a few things out of the back" is always an understatement/euphemism for disgusting stuff that's back there. In my opinion he just chose dead raccoon because of how gross that is. [[User:Bbruzzo|Bbruzzo]] ([[User talk:Bbruzzo|talk]]) 04:36, 17 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
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::The raccoon is on purpose. They like to rummage through trash. Unless you mean, 'why was it dead'? If that, then because of how bad keeping trash and never cleaning it is like that of how hoarders live (where dead animals are often found). [[User:Azule|Azule]] ([[User talk:Azule|talk]]) 07:36, 17 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
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::I don't think the explanation addresses the "understatement" aspect, that you mention, directly enough. Someone, please integrate it. [[User:Azule|Azule]] ([[User talk:Azule|talk]]) 07:41, 17 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:Hello. I'm sorry, I rewrote the explanation. It appears to be about raccoons being attracted to trash and therefore how the person's car is basically a trashcan on wheels. [[User:Azule|Azule]] ([[User talk:Azule|talk]]) 07:36, 17 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I for one am mildly offended by this comic; while I am lazy about when I throw out bags of trash that often find their way to the back seat--mostly stuff like "trays that used to contain pecan twirls" or soda bottles--I do at least keep it wrapped up in ready-to-throw-out plastic bags to hide the smell, and under no circumstances do I leave enough food for a raccoon to go hunting in my back seat. (Please note *mildly* offended; I get it's just a comic.) Also, I hope it's okay to fix obvious typos in other people's comments, because I just did that.[[User:PsyMar|PsyMar]] ([[User talk:PsyMar|talk]]) 07:20, 17 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:I fixed the formatting in the comments section a bit, so I'm sure that fixing typos is fine, too (as long as it actually is a typo). [[User:Azule|Azule]] ([[User talk:Azule|talk]]) 07:36, 17 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:Speaking of typos, the hovertext should read "Hang on, let me scare the live raccoon over to the same side '''as''' the dead one." (not "of", as it is/was at the time of this comment). [[User:Cosmogoblin|Cosmogoblin]] ([[User talk:Cosmogoblin|talk]]) 08:09, 17 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
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::To be clear, that's an official typo. A "[sic]" could be added to the transcript, if you prefer, until it is fixed, if that ever happens. [[User:Azule|Azule]] ([[User talk:Azule|talk]]) 08:36, 17 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
::I was wondering if that was not just American grammar, conflicting with my British education. (There's plenty of other instances. e.g. it's "I'll write '''to''' you", for me; not "I'll write you", which just sounds wrong in my ears but obviously not to Leftpondians where their use of the lone transitive verb is expanded. Although I'll gladly say "I'll've writ summat for ya...", in the right context, so 'go figure'.) Anyway, if it's not a 'merkinism, what's the original intention in the phrase? "..the same side that the dead one is currently (possessed/in possession) of"...? That sounds unwieldy but, as before, there's possibly something in some dialect or other that works. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.159|141.101.98.159]] 11:58, 17 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Added my very first transcript. If there are errors in formatting etc. please fix them 05:37, 17 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Added my first description (added explanation for 'Protip') - thoughts? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.134|108.162.250.134]] 13:12, 17 August 2015 (UTC)</div>108.162.250.134https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1565:_Back_Seat&diff=997661565: Back Seat2015-08-17T13:10:19Z<p>108.162.250.134: /* Explanation */ Added explanation for use of 'Protip' (source: Know Your Meme)</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1565<br />
| date = August 17, 2015<br />
| title = Back Seat<br />
| image = back_seat.png<br />
| titletext = Hang on, let me scare the live raccoon over to the same side of the dead one.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|verification and language fixes needed.}}<br />
This comic depicts the common situation of a messy car but the uncommon scenario of that car containing decaying animals, in this case a {{w|raccoon}}. Raccoons are known to rummage through trash cans and other trash areas. This person's car is therefore in such a bad state as to appear to the raccoon to be just another trash area. That this is so bad as to trap the animal is similar to the horrible conditions that {{w|hoarding}} may create.<br />
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This is the polar opposite of [[1267: Mess]], where the person apologizes for a nearly non-existent mess. Here, the person minimizes a completely atrocious mess into a quick fix situation. The form of the comic is that of a pro-tip, which tells the reader what the phrase "I just have to clear a few things out of the back" really means.<br />
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'Protips' are used to give snarky, obvious or inadequate advice, in order to either humor a well-learnt audience or to prank a naive audience. This phenomenon originated in a gaming magazine column offering advice on ''Doom'': "To defeat the Cyberdemon, shoot at it until it dies."<br />
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The title text further exposes the reality of the person's knowledge of how bad the situation really is when he acknowledges the existence of the dead raccoon while trying to usher the live one to the same side. Sitting next to a dead '''and''' a live raccoon is not an improved scenario.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
[Cueball is holding the back door of his car open. Cartoon-style stink lines emanate from the back seat area. Megan and another Cueball-like figure stand to the side, looking at each other and waiting.]<br /><br />
'''Cueball''': Hang on, I just have to clear a few things out of the back.<br /><br />
'''[Caption]''': PROTIP: When you hear "I just have to clear a few things out of the back," you are about to see, at minimum, a decaying raccoon.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
Another comic to feature raccoons in disgusting situations is [[1025: Tumblr]].<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Protip]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]<br />
[[Category:Animals]]</div>108.162.250.134https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:399:_Travelling_Salesman_Problem&diff=99350Talk:399: Travelling Salesman Problem2015-08-09T22:27:39Z<p>108.162.250.134: Questioned O() notation</p>
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<div>Does anyone remember if the Brown Hat appears in any other comics?<br />
: I'm not sure, so I created a category and page for him, let's see if that catches any others. --[[User:Jeff|<b><font color="orange">Jeff</font></b>]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 22:04, 29 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
::According to the transcript we have two different Brown Hat Guys here. I'm working on this.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:49, 5 October 2013 (UTC)<br />
:::I'm inclined to think that Brown Hat is specific to this comic, the brown hat being the 50's style homburg or fedora common to salesmen trying to look respectable... Randall likely added the hats to depict folks from a bygone era, (one of whom has caught up with the trend.) -- [[User:IronyChef|IronyChef]] ([[User talk:IronyChef|talk]]) 01:49, 10 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
::The second Brown Hat Guy seems similar to Black Hat both in personality and hat shape. Could he be the same character? [[User:Richmond tudor|Richmond tudor]] ([[User talk:Richmond tudor|talk]]) 03:22, 13 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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It's probably not in the least important, but the network appears to be a collection of key cities in the US arranged by geographical location. [[Special:Contributions/130.160.145.185|130.160.145.185]] 23:07, 9 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
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added a better explanation of the title text. -- Nick,5 Oct 2013 {{unsigned ip|69.193.7.67}}<br />
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Has anyone answered the question in the title text? --[[User:Ricketybridge|Ricketybridge]] ([[User talk:Ricketybridge|talk]]) 23:55, 9 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
:"it is bitter news that in the forty years since Held and Karp no better guarantee <nowiki>[than n^2.2^n]</nowiki> has been found for the problem" [http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/methods/progress/progress.htm]. So whereas linear programming techinques tend to be quicker than other algorithms, they have not been shown to be better than O(n^2.2^n).[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.55|141.101.98.55]] 17:05, 17 August 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Doesn't someone at ebay still have to solve the TSP? I guess that's the entire point though. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.85.223|141.101.85.223]] 08:48, 27 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
:No because you can send your sales information to all customers at once because they come to you, electronically. It takes no longer for you to be viewed by 100 people than by one person. Thus O(1). [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.55|141.101.98.55]] 17:05, 17 August 2014 (UTC)<br />
::I never used ebay so I don't know how it works and I'm probably missing something obvious. (Maybe it should be explained at the explanation?) If you wanted to personally sell about 17 items to 17 cities like the guy on the left, you have to visit each city by car or something. How does ebay visit the 17 cities to send the items?[[Special:Contributions/141.101.85.199|141.101.85.199]] 06:34, 19 August 2014 (UTC)<br />
:::You don't have to personally visit each buyer. You put a description of the item(s) you are selling online on eBay, and then people can decide to buy or not. If they do buy, they pay you online, any communication is done online, and you send them the item(s) in the mail. I don't think its necessary to have an explanation of how eBay works, as the majority of people would know. --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 16:31, 8 December 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Oh god, wish I could vote this up... somehow... [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.108|108.162.219.108]] 15:43, 11 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
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It is curious that nobody here appears to have noticed that O(n!) is equivalent to O(n log(n)). Last time I checked, I seem to recall finding that O(n log(n)) was under O(n^2), and therefore under O(n^2.2^n). Or have I missed something? Certainly the worst-case can't be over O(n log(n)), as this is the class of the number of ways to sort a list of the cities. So, then, the O(n^2.2^n) must be better by some other multiplier. Come to that, O(n^2.2^n) seems to be within O(2^n). What am I missing here?<br />
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.134|108.162.250.134]] 22:27, 9 August 2015 (UTC)</div>108.162.250.134https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1547:_Solar_System_Questions&diff=971161547: Solar System Questions2015-07-07T01:57:28Z<p>108.162.250.134: Ice spikes a reference to Europa water geysers</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
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| date = July 6, 2015<br />
| title = Solar System Questions<br />
| image = solar_system_questions.png<br />
| titletext = My country's World Cup win was exciting and all, but c'mon, what if the players wore nylon wings and COULD LITERALLY FLY?<br />
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{{incomplete|1) Explain "in the wrong places" re: Io's volcanoes. 2) Do known exoplanets also have a "size gap"? 3) Explanation needed for why "ice spikes" on Europa are hypothesized.}}<br />
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This comic is a list of questions which [[Randall]] has about the Solar System, which at first glance may appear to be things that Randall would like to learn about.<br />
In actual fact most of the questions have not been satisfactorily answered or proven by anyone in the {{w|List_of_unsolved_problems_in_physics#Astronomy_and_astrophysics|scientific community}}.<br />
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! Question given<br />
! Answer given by Randall (in Red)<br />
! Comments<br />
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| Why is the the Moon so blotchy?<br />
| Lava<br />
| The {{w|Moon}} is in synchronous rotation with Earth, which means that we always can see only one half of the surface of the Moon. And on that side we can see large {{w|lunar mare}} formed by lava from big volcanoes. This surface is very different to all other celestial bodies we know in our Solar system. The double "the the" could be a Randallism — intended or unintended.<br />
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| Why are all the blotches on the near side?<br />
| ...<br />
| The nearside of the Moon is dominated by the blotchy 'seas' or maria, the far side by craters. {{w|Far_side_of_the_Moon#Differences|Several explanations}} for this have been proposed, including an overabundance of impacts obliterating the blotches on the more exposed far side, different compositions of heat-producing elements, large collisions, or heat produced by the still-cooling Earth.<br />
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| Did Mars have seas?<br />
| Yes (briefly?)<br />
| Recent explorations have confirmed there was once standing (and also flowing) water. Many rovers and orbiters on Mars give us the evidence on this early development of that planet, but it is still unknown how long such conditions existed in its history.<br />
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| Was there life on Mars?<br />
| ...<br />
| One of the big mysteries, not yet answered.<br />
|-<br />
| What's Titan like?<br />
| Cold, yellow, lakes + rivers (methane)<br />
| The {{w|Cassini–Huygens}} mission confirmed the presence of {{w|Lakes_of_Titan|lakes and rivers}} on Titan. The {{w|Huygens_(spacecraft)#Findings|Huygens}} lander itself returned some very yellow images of a dry lake bed from Titan's surface.<br />
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| What was Earth like during the Hadean?<br />
| ...<br />
| The {{w|Hadean}} was the first geologic era on earth, the planet had just formed and not much is known of that period of Earth.<br />
|-<br />
| Is the Oort Cloud a real thing?<br />
| ...<br />
| The {{w|Oort Cloud}} is a theoretical spherical cloud of icy planetesimal, maybe dust, and also larger objects at a distance of up to around 100,000 {{w|Astronomical units|AU}} to our Sun. We can see similar clouds at other stars, but there is still no evidence that this cloud exists in our Solar System.<br />
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| Why is the Sun's corona so hot?<br />
| Something about magnets?<br />
| The {{w|corona}} of the sun is hotter than it theoretically should be. The looping magnetic fields in this area could be responsible.<br />
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| What are comets like?<br />
| Precipitous<br />
| The {{w|Philae (spacecraft)|Philae lander}} is next to a cliff...<br />
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| Where's Philae, exactly?<br />
| ...<br />
| ...but we're not sure ''which'' cliff.<br />
|-<br />
| What's Pluto like?<br />
| rowspan="2" | [Soon!]<br />
| rowspan="2" | The probe {{w|New Horizons}} may be about to answer both of these questions.<br />
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| What's Charon like?<br />
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| Why don't we have in-between-sized planets?<br />
| ...<br />
| There is a size-gap between the rocky planets up to Earth size and the gas giants much larger than Earth.<br />
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| What's Ceres like?<br />
| [Working on it!]<br />
| The {{w|Dawn (spacecraft)|Dawn probe}} is currently exploring the Dwarf Planet {{w|Ceres (dwarf planet)|Ceres}} and reveals unseen surface features.<br />
|-<br />
| Why is Europa so weird-looking and pretty?<br />
| Ice over a water ocean<br />
| {{w|Europa (moon)|Europa}} is a moon of Jupiter and the surface is basically thick pack ice covered in {{w|lineae}}.<br />
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| Why is Io so weird-looking?<br />
| Sulfur volcanoes (? in the wrong places?)<br />
| The moon {{w|Io (moon)|Io}} is also orbiting Jupiter and is close enough that tidal forces make it the most volcanic object in the solar system. The bright red color comes from {{w|sulfur}} which is ejected by the volcanoes.<br />
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| Why are so many Kuiper Belt objects red?<br />
| ...<br />
| Many objects in the {{w|Kuiper Belt}} have a reddish hue. A possible explanation is that they are [http://www.space.com/9418-icy-red-objects-solar-system-edge-point-life-building-blocks.html| covered in organic molecules] formed by the irradiation of their surface ices. The {{w|New Horizons}} probe might also shed light on this.<br />
|-<br />
| What are those spots on Ceres?<br />
| ...<br />
| The {{w|Dawn probe}} found some misterious spots on the dwarf planet {{w|Ceres (dwarf planet)|Ceres}}. These [http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA19568.jpg white spots] are still not understood, but the mission is still running and we hopefully will figure out the source of that glowing white features.<br />
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| What's in the seas under Europa's ice?<br />
| ...<br />
| The European {{w|ESA}} selected the mission {{w|Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer|Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE)}} to Jupiter. The moon {{w|Europa (moon)|Europa}} is one target for that mission. But we have to wait, it's launch target is 2022 and the arrival at Jupiter is planned for 2030. But that's not uncommon for missions like this, {{w|New Horizons}} or {{w|Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta}} did also travel approx. ten years to reach their target. And before such a mission can start many preparations have to be done.<br />
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| Which of the other moons have seas?<br />
| Several<br />
| Depending on the definition of 'sea', other less obviously 'frozen water world' moons such as Ganymede may have {{w|Ganymede (moon)#Subsurface oceans|subsurface}} [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27151-aurora-reveals-jupiter-moons-secret-subsurface-sea.html oceans] of liquid water.<br />
|-<br />
| What are the big white things in Titan's Lakes?<br />
| ...<br />
| {{w|Lakes of Titan}}<br />
|-<br />
| What do Jupiter's clouds look like up close?<br />
| ...<br />
| <br />
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| What's all that red stuff in the Great Red Spot?<br />
| ...<br />
| {{w|Great Red Spot}}<br />
|-<br />
| What's pushing the Pioneer Probes?<br />
| Heat from the RTG<br />
| Discussed as the {{w|Pioneer anomaly}}. RTG stands for {{w|Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator}}.<br />
|-<br />
| What pushes spacecraft slightly during flybys?<br />
| ...<br />
| Several spacecraft experienced unexplained speed increases during Earth flybys. This is called the {{w|flyby anomaly}}.<br />
|-<br />
| Where are all the Sun's Neutrinos?<br />
| Oscillating<br />
| {{w|Solar neutrino problem}}<br />
|-<br />
| Why is there so much air on Titan?<br />
| ...<br />
| Titan has an atmospheric pressure 1.45 times that of Earth, but 1/7th of the surface gravity (that's less than Earth's own, practically airless, Moon). Hence the confusion. In fact, Titan actually has almost 20% more atmosphere (by mass) than Earth, and ''seven times'' more atmosphere across a given surface area!<br />
Less influence from the more distant Sun probably helps retain more of the atmosphere's gasses (mostly nitrogen), and {{w|cryovolcanoes}} may replenish the methane fraction (which should by now have ''all'' been converted into the other hydrocarbons present) from subsurface reservoirs. But further studies are required to properly answer this question.<br />
|-<br />
| Why does the Kuiper Belt Stop?<br />
| ...<br />
| A reference to the {{w|Kuiper Cliff}}.<br />
|-<br />
| Why is Iapetus weird-colored?<br />
| ...<br />
| {{w|Iapetus (moon)}} is a moon of Saturn and has a white side and a dark side.<br />
|-<br />
| Why does Iapetus have a belt?<br />
| ...<br />
| {{w|Iapetus (moon)|Iapetus}} has a 13 km high ridge around most of the equator, and a number of 10 km high mountains where the ridge is interrupted.<br />
|-<br />
| What's the deal with Miranda?<br />
| ...<br />
| {{w|Miranda_(moon)|Miranda}} is the smallest of Uranus's five round satellites, and it's {{w|Verona Rupes|a bit rough around the edges}} and also has an unusually high orbital inclination that is difficult to explain. Also possibly a [[Firefly|''Firefly'' reference]] since {{w|List of Firefly planets and moons#Miranda|Miranda}} is the name of a planet in {{w|Serenity (film)|''Serenity''}}, a film in the {{w|Firefly (TV series)|''Firefly''}} series.<br />
|-<br />
| Did Uranus and Neptune change places?<br />
| ...<br />
| The {{w|Nice model}} is a theory of how our solar system formed, which suggested the possibility of Uranus and Neptune having swapped places before reaching their current positions. Work by Professor S. Desch [http://dusty.la.asu.edu/~desch/publications/2007/Desch2007.pdf| also came to this result].<br />
|-<br />
| Did the Late Heavy Bombardment happen?<br />
| ...<br />
| {{w|Late Heavy Bombardment}}<br />
|-<br />
| Did life start before it?<br />
| ...<br />
| For some speculation on this topic, see [http://www.livescience.com/5426-life-survived-earth-early-bombardment.html].<br />
|-<br />
| Is Europa covered in Ice Spikes?<br />
| ...<br />
| Perhaps a reference to the giant water geysers occasionally seen erupting from the moon.<br />
|-<br />
| Why haven't we built a big inflatable Extreme Sports Complex on The Moon?<br />
| ...<br />
| See, e.g., ''{{w|The Menace From Earth}}'', a 1957 short story by Robert Heinlein.<br />
|}<br />
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The title text refers to the {{w|2015 FIFA Women's World Cup}} which was won by USA a day before. The nylon wings and flying may be a reference to two passages from 3001: The Final Odyssey, one where Frank Poole tries out various wings while in an extremely low gravity environment, and one where he remarks while watching Swan Lake that Tchaikovsky could never have imagined a performance where the dancers were actually flying (due to aforementioned low gravity).<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:'''Questions I have'''<br />
:'''about the solar system'''<br />
:(some answered)<br />
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| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Why is the the Moon so blotchy?<br />
| style="border: 0px; color:red;" | Lava<br />
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| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Why are all the blotches on the near side?<br />
| style="border: 0px;" | <br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Did Mars have seas?<br />
| style="border: 0px; color:red;" | Yes (briefly?)<br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Was there life on Mars?<br />
| style="border: 0px;" | <br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | What's Titan like?<br />
| style="border: 0px; color:red;" | Cold, yellow, lakes + rivers (methane)<br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | What was Earth like during the Hadean?<br />
| style="border: 0px;" | <br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Is the Oort Cloud a real thing?<br />
| style="border: 0px;" | <br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Why is the Sun's corona so hot?<br />
| style="border: 0px; color:red;" | Something about magnets?<br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | What are comets like?<br />
| style="border: 0px; color:red;" | Precipitous<br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Where's Philae, exactly?<br />
| style="border: 0px;" | <br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | What's Pluto like?<br />
| style="border: 0px; color:red;" rowspan="2" | [Soon!]<br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | What's Charon like?<br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Why don't we have in-between-sized planets?<br />
| style="border: 0px;" | <br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | What's Ceres like?<br />
| style="border: 0px; color:red;" | [Working on it!]<br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Why is Europa so wierd-looking and pretty?<br />
| style="border: 0px; color:red;" | Ice over a water ocean<br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Why is Io so weird-looking?<br />
| style="border: 0px; color:red;" | Sulfur volcanoes (? in the wrong places?)<br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Why are so many Kuiper Belt objects red?<br />
| style="border: 0px;" | <br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | What are those spots on Ceres?<br />
| style="border: 0px;" | <br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | What's in the seas under Europa's ice?<br />
| style="border: 0px;" | <br />
|-<br />
| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Which of the other moons have seas?<br />
| style="border: 0px; color:red;" | Several<br />
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| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | What are the big white things in Titan's Lakes?<br />
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| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | What's all that red stuff in the Great Red Spot?<br />
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| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | What's pushing the Pioneer Probes?<br />
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| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Where are all the Sun's Neutrinos?<br />
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| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Why is Iapetus weird-colored?<br />
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| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Why does Iapetus have a belt?<br />
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| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | What's the deal with Miranda?<br />
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| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Did Uranus and Neptune change places?<br />
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| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Did the Late Heavy Bombardment happen?<br />
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| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Did life start before it?<br />
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| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Is Europa covered in ice spikes?<br />
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| style="border: 0px; text-align: right" | Why haven't we built a big inflatable<br> extreme sports complex on the moon?<br />
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