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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2345<br />
| date = August 12, 2020<br />
| title = Wish on a Shooting Star<br />
| image = wish_on_a_shooting_star.png<br />
| titletext = Congratulations to whoever wished for revenge on a forest near the Tunguska River, a 1980 Chevy Malibu in Peekskill NY, Alabama resident Ann Hodges, every building in Chelyabinsk with glass windows, and the non-avian dinosaurs.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a NON-AVIAN DINOSAUR HATER. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
This comic was published at the annual peak of the {{w|Perseids}} {{w|meteor shower}}. It is a common practice to make a wish when one sees a shooting star, in hopes that the wish comes true. This comic consists of a [[:Category:Venn diagrams|Venn diagram]] showing what things are commonly wished for upon seeing a shooting star, and what things the shooting star may cause. Shooting stars, as they are actually meteors, can only cause changes to physical phenomena, such as radio noise or the appearance of the sky as they burn up in the upper atmosphere. The only thing that is shared between the potential wish side of the diagram and the shooting star caused side is revenge. This would occur when a shooting star actually hits the planet, becoming a meteorite. This is frequently highly destructive, given the high speed of falling meteors. As such, it would be possible for the meteorite to hit something that someone for some reason or another wished revenge upon. However, given the massive surface area of the planet, the likelihood that someone's revenge would be "granted" by a meteorite would be very low. The title text makes fun of this by detailing several incidents where a meteorite landed and caused damage.<br />
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List of things that were damaged by meteors (from title text):<br />
* On June 30, 1908 ({{w|Gregorian Calendar}}, Russia still used Julian and was recorded there as June 17), an {{w|airburst}} caused by the {{w|Tunguska Event|breakup of a 100-meter falling meteorite or comet}} with the energy of some 30 megatons of {{w|TNT}} flattened some 80 million trees over 830 square miles (2,150 km<sup>2</sup>) of land in central {{w|Siberia}} near the {{w|Podkamennaya Tunguska|Tunguska River}}. Due to the remoteness of the area, no people were confirmed dead in the incident.<br />
* On October 9, 1992, a meteorite {{w|Peekskill meteorite|damaged a 1980 Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York}}.<br />
* On November 30, 1954, a {{w|Sylacauga (meteorite)|fragment of a meteorite}} passed through the roof of a house and struck a woman named Ann Hodges. She survived.<br />
* On February 15, 2013, a meteorite {{w|Chelyabinsk meteor|exploded in an airburst}} over Chelyabinsk, Russia, creating a shockwave that shattered windows in the area.<br />
* The {{w|Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event|extinction of the dinosaurs}} around 65 million years ago is believed to be caused by an {{w|Alvarez hypothesis|impact of a comet or asteroid}}. Randall mentions "non-avian" dinosaurs, as birds are descendants of dinosaurs (making them dinosaurs by definition), though they are not commonly thought of as dinosaurs.<br />
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Meteorites were most recently mentioned in [[2328: Space Basketball]].<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
:[A Venn diagram is shown:]<br />
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:[The left circle is labeled "Things people wish for" and contains:]<br />
:Love<br />
:Money<br />
:Fame<br />
:Health<br />
:Power<br />
:Luck<br />
:Success<br />
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:[The right circle is labeled "Things shooting stars can cause" and contains:]<br />
:Radio noise<br />
:Dust and ionized gas in the upper atmosphere<br />
:Infrasound<br />
:Cool lights in the sky<br />
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:[The only item in the overlapping section is:]<br />
:Revenge<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Astronomy]]<br />
[[Category:Venn diagrams]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring real people]]</div>162.158.123.29https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2232:_Hotel_Room_Party&diff=193550Talk:2232: Hotel Room Party2020-06-17T21:36:19Z<p>162.158.123.29: </p>
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Is the "aa" in the hovertext intentional? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.132.233|172.68.132.233]] 17:12, 22 November 2019 (UTC)<br />
::I don't think so [[User:Duraludon|Duraludon]] ([[User talk:Duraludon|talk]]) 17:34, 22 November 2019 (UTC)<br />
:::Ii agree it's probably aa typo. [[User:N0lqu|-boB]] ([[User talk:N0lqu|talk]]) 18:03, 22 November 2019 (UTC)<br />
::::The "aa" typo has been fixed at xkcd.com {{unsigned ip|172.68.34.154}}<br />
:::::And someone has fixed it here also --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:33, 24 November 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Should we rename Ponytail to Katie? IIRC she has been named such in several comicx {{unsigned ip|172.68.54.112}}<br />
:No we should not! Can you list all these other comics? I cannot remember any? Also it could be Blondie or Megan he names. Megan is our name here on explain xkcd not Randall's. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:33, 24 November 2019 (UTC)<br />
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What I've been able to find online suggests that the Tailhook scandal of 1991 did not involve the removal of a wall between hotel rooms with a chainsaw - that happened at a previous Tailhook convention rather than the 1991 convention marred by the sexual assault scandal. I think it's improper to say this was associated with the Tailhook scandal of 1991. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 14:15, 24 November 2019 (UTC)<br />
:Fixed it [[User:N0lqu|-boB]] ([[User talk:N0lqu|talk]]) 16:20, 25 November 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Names like "Ponytail," "Megan," ,"Cueball" "White/Black Hat Guy" etc. date back long before explainxkcd. They were generated in the XKCD forum pages -- I'm not sure how many existed prior to the OneTrueThread. [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 16:45, 25 November 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Did anyone else mentally follow "Did I do a good job?" with "Do I get to come home?" [[User:Mathmannix|Mathmannix]] ([[User talk:Mathmannix|talk]]) 18:18, 25 November 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Uhh, can someone say the hovertext? I’m on a Mobile device. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.123.29|162.158.123.29]] 21:36, 17 June 2020 (UTC)Anonymize</div>162.158.123.29