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Sun in sunglasses is also in whatif "Into the sun" and I'm 99% sure this is not the only xkcd appearance of that... --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.86.119|162.158.86.119]] 11:38, 15 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Why is Randall using JPEG for the second time in a row? Gosh, the comics look horrifying when zoomed in. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.244.67|108.162.244.67]] 12:35, 15 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Are the spectral lines actually accurate apart from the sunglasses? Wouldn't surprise me to much... (Meh, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_lines, believably close). [[Special:Contributions/141.101.105.10|141.101.105.10]] 12:51, 15 September 2016 (UTC)</div>141.101.105.10https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1717:_Pyramid_Honey&diff=125056Talk:1717: Pyramid Honey2016-08-10T15:25:14Z<p>141.101.105.10: </p>
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Wouldn't Black Hat just be trolling everyone else? I can't find the idea among the discussion, and neither in the the explanation, while it seems the obvious one to me. Deliberately spreading conspiracy theorists seems exactly his thing (just like the way he met Danish was a form of deliberate trolling...) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.105.10|141.101.105.10]] 15:25, 10 August 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Seems like this could be the [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-science-behind-honeys-eternal-shelf-life-1218690/ Smithsonian reference]! --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:53, 8 August 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Anyone know what the counter source or argument is?{{unsigned ip|141.101.98.16}}<br />
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This looks like it could be the source that inspired the strip:<br />
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http://irna.lautre.net/Honey-in-the-pyramids.html{{unsigned ip|173.245.54.53}}<br />
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Looks like a place to start digging for references: http://bumblehive.com/honey-was-not-found-in-pharaohs-tombs/ <!--JourneymanWizard ~~~~-->{{unsigned|JourneymanWizard}}<br />
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Did Randall draw the wrong colored hat?? [[User:Jameslucas|jameslucas]] <small>([[User talk:Jameslucas|" "]] / [[Special:Contributions/Jameslucas|+]])</small> 15:09, 8 August 2016 (UTC)<br />
: Nah, I think it's just IRL trolling. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.80|173.245.54.80]] 15:34, 8 August 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Could this be the ned of Black Hat? The end of ''xkcd?!'' [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.51|173.245.54.51]] 16:06, 8 August 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Correction: this doesn't put "Megan unwillingly into the same camp as conspiracy theorists" it puts Black Hat there.{{unsigned ip|108.162.246.111}}<br />
: No. Black hat is very much willing to join the conspiracy theorist camp. Rather, he creates it. Megan isn't a conspiracy theorist, her scepticism towards Cueballs honey claims are perfectly valid. But to an outside observer, she promotes the same viewpoint as Black hat. Indeed, Black hat even refers to Megan for "evidence". So Megan is forever assosiated with the Pyramid Honey truthers, despite having nothing to do with them. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.80.70|141.101.80.70]] 09:35, 9 August 2016 (UTC)<br />
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[https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/4wq6pf/xkcd_1717_pyramid_honey/d690yct This Reddit thread] cites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey#Preservation and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey#Ancient_times [[Special:Contributions/172.68.35.71|172.68.35.71]] 18:58, 8 August 2016 (UTC)<br />
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The phrase "a weird hill to die on" could probably use an explanation, too, as I'd never heard of that (or its apparent source phrase "Is this the hill you want to die on?", based on some quick googling) before. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.133.101|199.27.133.101]] 23:04, 8 August 2016 (UTC)<br />
: "Is this the hill you want to die on?" sounds to me like a line from a war movie, e.g. this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_Hill. Maybe its origin is indeed something military, as some sources suggest: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/162813/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-a-mountain-im-willing-to-die-on [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 06:49, 9 August 2016 (UTC) <br />
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I have a possible source for the "weird hill to die on" reference, saw it on BBC a while back: Body on the Moor; http://www.bbc.com/news/resources/idt-e8c6cbab-da44-4a3c-8f9b-c4fccd53dd24. {{unsigned ip|108.162.244.85}}<br />
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Every particle physicist knows that the shelf life of honey is at most 10<sup>42</sup> years, just like everything else. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.129|108.162.215.129]] 00:51, 9 August 2016 (UTC)<br />
: Only if you assume nucleon decay. If Earth doesn't get absorbed into a black hole and then Hawking Radiated out, the honey would just continue to cool long into the heat death of the universe, eventually cold-fusioning via quantum-tunnelling into Iron-56 by 10<sup>1500</sup> years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_an_expanding_universe#Future_without_proton_decay. [[User:Ehryk|Ehryk]] ([[User talk:Ehryk|talk]]) 02:23, 10 August 2016 (UTC)<br />
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re: tooltip - I thought it was a floating giant eye? --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.28|173.245.54.28]] 00:59, 9 August 2016 (UTC)<br />
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The "weird hill to die on" phrase could mean a point of view Black Hat will defend to the last, regardless the sense of it (which makes sense with the militarian source).<br />
He might find such a thing worth to find because it would give his entire life a (though in general maybe and in this case definitely unuseful) purpose.<br />
furthermore, by simply spreading Megan's claim without considering the nuances of her point and questioning it thouroughly he does basically the same as ll the people who claim honey's shelf life to be infinite (who apparently never thought of asking for further information where exactly the honey was found and by whom).<br />
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:when the explanation for "weird hill to die on" as a phrase gets settled the explanation should probably also reference Black Hat's mixing of the metaphorical use (a debate position or principled stand) and a literal hill ("[A]ll the real ones are too far from my house.") [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.242|108.162.237.242]] 12:24, 9 August 2016 (UTC)<br />
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So, the "hill to die on" expression does relate back to the military some. Hills are good defensive places (ask any Civilization player). It's much easier to defend yourself when the other army is trying to run up a hill. Hence why lots of forts and military battles are associated with hills. The hill you die on, then, is that area of contention that you'll stubbornly defend to the very end. And of course Black Hat is making something like a zeugma when he mixes the metaphorical and literal meanings. {{unsigned ip|108.162.216.152}}<br />
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"a hill to die on" appears in chapter 27 of the novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls", by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1940, about the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War in which many non-Spanish volunteers joined the fight on one side or the other for ideological reasons. The book ends with the American protagonist, alone and wounded, preparing to ambush the enemy to buy time for the escape of his comrades; he will probably not survive. [[User:GrayJay|GrayJay]] ([[User talk:GrayJay|talk]]) 04:36, 10 August 2016 (UTC)--<br />
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Some facts about honey [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FlzHiURdTs Honey: Bacteria's Worst Enemy] --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.92.207|162.158.92.207]] 14:27, 9 August 2016 (UTC)<br />
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"While some conspiracy theories turn out to be true, most, like the two mentioned here, are fake": while it's completely clear that the Moon landing not happening theory is false, we can't be 100% sure about the 9/11 theories at the moment (of course, the one mentioned is highly unlikely, but it's not refuted to the level of the moon landing conspiracy theories at the moment). I suggest correcting this statement into something weaker.{{unsigned ip|198.41.242.75}}</div>141.101.105.10https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1708:_Dehydration&diff=1235391708: Dehydration2016-07-18T15:10:04Z<p>141.101.105.10: feeling dizzy. Maybe should drink something.</p>
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| titletext = I don't care what the research says. Everybody knows you should drink 3,000 glasses of water a day and change your oil every 8 miles.<br />
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Dehydration<br />
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White hat says to Cueball: "Many people are mildly dehydrated. And don't realize it. You should drink at least six glasses of water per day."<br />
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Off-pane, left: "No, EIGHT glasses!"<br />
Ponytail says: "I heard ten."<br />
Black hat says: "You need to drink at least five glasses of water per minute."<br />
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Megan holding a book or a thick binder, says: "Okay, I just read through every study I could find to try to figure out whether low-grade dehydration is even a real thing."<br />
Off-panel, right: "What did you learn?"<br />
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Megan, with squeans above hear head: "If you spend all day doing research and forget to eat or drink, you start to feel pretty bad."<br />
Off-panel, right: "I'll get some water."<br />
Megan: "''But how many glas'' - Whoa, feeling dizzy."<br />
Cueball: "Maybe you should just drink straight from the tap."<br />
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Title text: I don't care what the research says. Everybody knows you should drink 3,000 glasses of water a day and change your oil every 8 miles.<br />
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Whitehat & cueball standing LTR next to each other, whitehat explaining to cueball:<br />
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Whitehat: "Many people are mildly dehydrated. And don't realize it. You should drink at least six glasses of water per day.<br />
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Whitehat & Cueball get joined by Ponytail and Blackhat<br />
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Offscreen comment: No, Eight glasses!<br />
Ponytail: I heard ten.<br />
Blackhat: You need to drink at least five glasses of water per minute.<br />
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one-eye-behind-her-hair-girl: Okay, I just read trough every study I could find to try to figure out wether low-grade dehydration is even a real thing.<br />
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Offscreen: What did you learn?<br />
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o-e-b-h-h-g: If you spend all day doing research and forget to eat or drink, you start to feel pretty bad.<br />
Offscreen: I'll get some water.<br />
o-e-b-h-h-g: (Italic text) ''but how many glas-'' Whoa, feeling dizzy.<br />
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cueball: Maybe you should just dring straight from the tap.<br />
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Uhm, shot glasses or lemonade glasses? Does it have to be a glass or can it be a mug? Could we specify it in litres perhaps?<br />
(How small a glass would you need for 5 glasses a minute in "normal" climate (20 C / 50% RH), without water poisoning? And maybe in 40 C / 15% RH?) --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.105.10|141.101.105.10]] 14:55, 18 July 2016 (UTC)</div>141.101.105.10