https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=108.162.250.225&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T08:41:29ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1393:_Timeghost&diff=76105Talk:1393: Timeghost2014-09-20T03:35:14Z<p>108.162.250.225: </p>
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<div>A lot of the facts seem to fit information that sites like http://you.regettingold.com/ would provide. But I'll leave it up to someone else to work out the dates of everything (except for the imminent and possibly eerie deaths of the strip characters) being referenced, and thus what ages Randall is assuming the various cohorts are... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.233|141.101.99.233]] 04:58, 11 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
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''Forrest Gump'' the book - 1986<br />
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''Forrest Gump'' the movie - 1994<br />
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Vietnam War - 1955 to 1975<br />
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Keanu Reeves - born 1965 (age 49)<br />
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''The Simpsons'' season 5 - 1993 [[User:Dude1818|Dude1818]] ([[User talk:Dude1818|talk]]) 05:15, 11 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I'm sure you all remember [[1108:_Cautionary_Ghost|Cautionary Ghost]]; there's got to be a lot of those around in the xkcd universe... [[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.73|108.162.231.73]] 07:23, 11 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I don't know enough about the English usage of the term to see the connection, but could this be a play on "zeitgeist", seeing how it is a literal translation of the word? [[Special:Contributions/103.22.200.115|103.22.200.115]] Tobl<br />
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Maybe it is just me, but I don't see the characters' deaths as imminent. In the first panel, Megan is not suprised to see that ghost and can even identify it easily. So my guess is that she previously met the ghost "some time" before, but she (obviously) doesn't like to know how much time she has left to live. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.156|108.162.229.156]] 08:12, 11 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
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(average age of new grandparents is less than 50) [citation needed] {{unsigned ip|141.101.99.53}}<br />
:can I site xkcd:1393 as a source for that data?[[Special:Contributions/173.245.48.79|173.245.48.79]] 09:17, 11 July 2014 (UTC)BLuDgeons<br />
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Google gives 25 as the average age people get their first child. Wikipedia also says Eminem rose to mainstream popularity in 1999 (His debut was earlier but the comic says "when Eminem got big", a subjective term but the 1999 figure might be more accurate?) This also makes season 5/6 of the Simpsons at age 4/5 the earliest age most people remember well.<br />
Maybe change the dates to 1989, 1993 and 1999 for parenthood, simpsons and eminem respectively?<br />
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Parent age: http://www.babycenter.com/0_surprising-facts-about-birth-in-the-united-states_1372273.bc?page=2 (questionable maybe)<br />
Eminem got big: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem (Second paragraph, subjective)<br />
Earliest memories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia (Second paragraph, personal recollection offset is 4.5 years)[[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.86|141.101.104.86]] 09:46, 11 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
:I can't find a current number, but extrapolation from [http://www.familyfacts.org/charts/219/the-average-age-of-first-time-mothers-has-steadily-increased this] chart would put the average parent age for their first child at 25 or maybe 26. 28 is the average parent age for any child. [[User:Condor70|Condor70]] ([[User talk:Condor70|talk]]) 12:34, 11 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
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How can we say that the time-ghost only first appeared in the beginning of this particular comic? In the first panel Megan seems to recognize the time-ghost, inferring that she's met him before - but Cueball has not. [[User:Jarod997|Jarod997]] ([[User talk:Jarod997|talk]]) 12:29, 11 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
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: Implying. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.215|108.162.246.215]] 05:47, 12 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I do not know about the proper etiquette for submitting possible edits to the explanations.<br />
Should "[...] than the time that has past since the ghost's began its" become "[...] than the time that has '''passed''' since the ghost began its"?<br />
[[User:Zyzygy|Zyzygy]] ([[User talk:Zyzygy|talk]]) 9:24, 12 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
:Looks reasonable. When you see lexical errors like that, feel free to just change it yourself. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 11:02, 12 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
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So, how old is Randall? {{unsigned ip|141.101.99.55}}<br />
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We need a category for "comics that make people feel old", if we don't already have one. You know, like that one with the eight-year-old talking about 9/11. If we do, just add this comic to it. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.222|199.27.128.222]] 22:53, 12 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
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RE The Simpsons: If you had a tape or boxset you may remember more of seasons 1-4, because you watched it over and over. Also at the time, seasons 1 and 2 were entering rerun territory/premiering in other countries (see below). The strange thing is, Network Ten in Australia used to regularly broadcast episodes dating back to at least season 3 during my childhood (late '90s and early 2000s'), but now the earliest episodes they play are from seasons 4-6, minimum.</div>108.162.250.225https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1324:_Weather&diff=76082Talk:1324: Weather2014-09-19T13:44:55Z<p>108.162.250.225: </p>
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<div>So, how 'bout that local sports team eh? --[[User:Buggz|Buggz]] ([[User talk:Buggz|talk]]) 07:28, 31 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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:The same gag is made in the movie Groundhog Day:<br />
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:'''Mrs. Lancaster''': There's talk of a blizzard.<br />
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:'''Phil Connors''': We may catch a break and that blizzard's gonna blow right by us. All of this moisture coming up out of the south by midday is probably gonna push on to the east of us and at high altitudes it's gonna crystallize and probably give us what we call snow. Probably will be some accumulation but here in Punxsutawney our high is gonna get up to about 30 today, teens tonight. Chance of precipitation about 20% today, 20% tomorrow. Did you want to talk about the weather or were you just making chit chat?<br />
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:[[User:Condor70|Condor70]] ([[User talk:Condor70|talk]]) 09:58, 31 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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::But because February 2 is this Sunday, today is the appropriate day for this comic. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.35|108.162.221.35]] 14:39, 31 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Does Minnesota have anything to do with the actual comic? --[[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.187|199.27.128.187]] 21:36, 31 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Article: "In title text, a clerk instead makes small talk about Derinkuyu Underground Cities"<br />
Title Text: "store clerks <b>aren't like</b> 'hey, how 'bout those Derinkuyu underground cities!'" (emphasis mine) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.64|108.162.237.64]] 23:08, 31 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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This could still use an explanation for "Think it'll verify?" [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.50|173.245.54.50]] 08:11, 5 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Cueball's opening line isn't too bad. A lot of people are vaguely aware of the jet stream layer, because it affects flying. If they aren't, it's at least composed of common words that don't baffle them.</div>108.162.250.225https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:941:_Depth_Perception&diff=70412Talk:941: Depth Perception2014-06-26T00:45:50Z<p>108.162.250.225: </p>
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<div>Somebody needs to try this. Couldn't be that hard.<br />
[[Special:Contributions/71.178.11.180|71.178.11.180]] 21:27, 22 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
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Those must have been some tall goalposts if his point of view is above the clouds! -- mwburden [[Special:Contributions/70.91.188.49|70.91.188.49]] 13:16, 10 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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Also, the cameras should be mounted on servos so that when the phone is moved or tilted the cameras can follow, so your viewpoint isn't fixed in one direction. -- mwburden [[Special:Contributions/70.91.188.49|70.91.188.49]] 13:18, 10 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:That wouldn't work. The entire football field would have to swivel, or else he'd get some wicked image shearing... [[Special:Contributions/108.28.72.186|108.28.72.186]] 01:42, 7 August 2013 (UTC)<br />
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An updated solution would be to put the two stabilised cameras on quadracopters which are coded to remain a set distance apart. When you want to look left/right it would take a while for the pair of drones to rotate around their centre point but not too long..... Then you could also get a perspective from the height of a giant (drones can go to any height) and with their degree of parallax (from whatever value of height and eye spacing you choose).</div>108.162.250.225