https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=162.158.159.110&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T12:58:48ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1662:_Jack_and_Jill&diff=2083861662: Jack and Jill2021-03-17T20:04:27Z<p>162.158.159.110: Referenced the Well series.</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1662<br />
| date = March 30, 2016<br />
| title = Jack and Jill<br />
| image = jack_and_jill.png<br />
| titletext = Jill and Jack / began to frack. / The oil boosts their town. / But fractures make / the bedrock shake / and Jack came tumbling down.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
"{{w|Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme)|Jack and Jill}}" is a traditional English nursery rhyme. The rhyme dates back at least to the 18th century, one version even with 15 stanzas.<br />
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The first and most commonly known verse is the one referenced by Jill in the comic as she says the first three lines:<br />
:Jack and Jill<br />
:went up the hill<br />
:To fetch a {{w|wikt:pail|pail}} of water.<br />
:Jack fell down<br />
:and broke his crown,<br />
:And Jill came tumbling after.<br />
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The comic makes fun of the counterintuitive idea that Jack and Jill go ''up'' a hill to fetch water, because natural water sources like rivers and streams flow downhill, making them usually found in valleys rather than on top of hills. Thus it shouldn't be necessary to have to go up a hill to get water. Similarly, if the water is coming from a well, then building a well at the top of a hill seems an odd choice to [[Megan]]. The groundwater table stays at about the same level over smaller areas, so building a well on a hill would require digging further.<br />
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However, Megan is probably not aware that since groundwater tends to flow in a similar direction to the slope of the land, it is often considered safer to dig a well uphill from potential sources of runoff, such as outhouses, fields, or septic systems. In times when populations were more predominantly rural, and probably when the poem was composed, "Always dig your well uphill from the outhouse" was a well-known maxim. Moreover, since it takes more energy to bring water uphill from a well (especially in a pail), there is a long-term advantage to having wells higher than main residential areas, as opposed to lower. (This principle explains why water towers are used, even in cities.) Finally, artesian wells deliver water from confined aquifers, which can sometimes be as close to the surface at higher elevations as at lower ones. As an urban dweller, Megan probably gets water from city plumbing, and is not familiar with the principles of well placement that Jack and Jill grew up with.<br />
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This all said, the predominance of [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rkQ-MitrSvI/maxresdefault.jpg drawing Jack's and Jill's well at the peak], which is not the best place to put the well, makes Megan's (and Randall's) comment understandable. Alternatively, the nursery rhyme may refer to a {{w|Dew pond|dew pond}} (which is more likely to be at the peak than a well), another concept that Megan would not be familiar with, having not grown up in the English countryside.<br />
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The title text is [[Randall]]'s own version, a parody of this first verse, where the names have been switched in the first and last line:<br />
:Jill and Jack<br />
:began to frack.<br />
:The oil boosts their town.<br />
:But fractures make<br />
:the bedrock shake<br />
:and Jack came tumbling down.<br />
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This version, which may explain why they went up the hill after water, connects the idea to {{w|hydraulic fracturing}} (colloquially "fracking") methods for oil and gas extraction. In these methods, highly pressurized liquids are forced into a given ground stratum (or layer). With enough pressure, the stratum starts to deform and crack. This allows potential gas and oil to flow more freely. The liquid used for fracturing usually also contains materials like sand or ceramics which, once the liquid is removed, will help to maintain the newly formed cracks so as to further allow the desired free movement of oil and gas.<br />
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A common {{w|Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing|side effect of this method}} is that water levels and presence at the surface might be modified. In this comic, water can now be found at the top of the hill. This goes against the usual laws of hydraulics, themselves subject to the laws of gravity, which indicate that water should go down through ground cracks. Thus water is usually found at the bottom of valleys or hills. But in the comic, fracking at the bottom forces the water up, thus explaining why the kids go get water up the hill, which, as [[Megan]] points out, is messed-up {{w|hydrology}}. Also, fracking may cause {{w|induced seismicity}} in the form of {{w|microearthquake}}s, as alluded to in the title text, which is the cause for tumbling down in the title text version.<br />
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Randall has previously composed another version of this poem, which was by mistake published in [[Five-Minute Comics: Part 4]]. <br />
:Jack and Jill went up a hill <br />
:To fetch a pail of water. <br />
:Alas, that hill was San Juan Hill, <br />
:And gruesome was the slaughter. <br />
In this comic it is made clear that Randall did know that it is possible to have a well on top of a hill, as he has drawn just one of these in the second image. The well in [[561: Well]] and more obviously in [[568: Well 2]] was also found on top of a hill, although it appears this well did not contain any water.<br />
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This is the second Wednesday in a row that Randall uses two children to make a reference to an environmental issue, the first being [[1659: Tire Swing]], about {{w|tire recycling}}. In the other comic one of the girls is [[Science Girl]] who looks like Jill in this comic, and this fits well with her knowledge of science, fracking, and needing to go up the hill after water...<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Megan is watching as the two kids Jill (drawn as Science Girl) and Jack (with spiky hair) are walking by her. Jack has a pail in his hand.]<br />
:Jill: Me and Jack are going up the hill to fetch a pail of water.<br />
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:[Megan, standing back alone, calls out after them.]<br />
:Megan: Okay, have fun!<br />
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:[Beat panel.]<br />
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:Megan: ...Wait. What the ''heck'' is going on with the hydrology around here?<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Science Girl]]</div>162.158.159.110https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2358:_Gravitational_Wave_Pulsars&diff=1970882358: Gravitational Wave Pulsars2020-09-12T17:00:37Z<p>162.158.159.110: /* Explanation */</p>
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| number = 2358<br />
| date = September 11, 2020<br />
| title = Gravitational Wave Pulsars<br />
| image = gravitational_wave_pulsars.png<br />
| titletext = The most important attributes of a vector in 3-space are {Location, Location, Location}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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{{w|Radio astronomy|Radio astronomers}} use {{w|pulsars}} to try to detect {{w|gravitational waves}}. They do this by tracking the rotation of an array of pulsars, super precisely over long periods of time, and fitting for a whole bunch of effects. The process is called {{w|Gravitational_wave#Using_pulsar_timing_arrays|"pulsar timing"}}, or just "timing" for short.<br />
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[[Ponytail]] presents this to [[Cueball]] as a joke. Specifically, a joke about comedy. One of the most important aspects of comedy is revealing the punchline with correct timing. Ponytail sets Cueball up for a joke like: "Ask me what the secret of comedy is." / "What's the secret--" / "Timing!" In this format, the punchline ("Timing!") deliberately comes too soon, which makes it funny because the timing is bad. Ponytail also replaces the secret to comedy with the secret to detecting pulsars, to set up the joke about the word "timing".<br />
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The title text references a well-known real estate saying that the three most important parts are "location, location, location." In 3D {{w|Euclidean space}}, the three {{w|Cartesian coordinates}} (X, Y, Z) all refer to locations along an axis.<br />
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:[Single panel with Ponytail and Cueball standing facing each other]<br />
:Ponytail: Ask me what the secret to detecting gravitational waves using pulsars is.<br />
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:Cueball: What's the secret to detecting grav&mdash;<br />
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:Ponytail: '''''Timing!'''''<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category: Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br />
[[Category: Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category: Astronomy]]</div>162.158.159.110https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2357:_Polls_vs_the_Street&diff=197016Talk:2357: Polls vs the Street2020-09-10T13:04:23Z<p>162.158.159.110: </p>
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Love the title text! [[User:Fwacer|Fwacer]] ([[User talk:Fwacer|talk]]) 23:56, 9 September 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I Edit Conflicted with someone (2 minutes too late, after quite a bit of typing, then half a dozen Captcha submissions - just two to put ''this'' text in). If anyone wants to review my attempt, I'm HTML-commenting it in this gap...<br />
<!-- Perhaps being prompted by the nearing of the 2020 US Presidential (and also a vote for a selection of Senatorial seats) on November 3rd, Randall is taking a poke at some attitudes to polling numbefs.<br />
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Many pollsters, commentators and party-faithful have been opining upon the eventual results for some time now, with varying degrees of self-certainty and possibly even self-bias. A very common attempt to refute (other) experts is to point out that one's own experience is totally unlike theirs, so obviously ''they'' are wrong.<br />
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"The man on the street" (usually Main Street, rather than Wall Street, at least figuratively) is a common epithet for the 'average' voter, reflecting the modal viewpoint of the general public.<br />
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Ideally, a national poll should be properly aggregating all the views that will bring about the eventual result. One failing of the equivalent 2016 election analyses (those that turned out 'wrong') was that the mix of polled persons did not properly reflect the eventual voters. And/or too little account was made of the disproportionate influence of the result of certain constituencies. White Hat, here, may be making the mistake of limiting his mix of future voters to just those he meets on an ''actual'' street. It is unlikely that any given street holds a properly representative population. Depending on where this street is, it will probably be heavily biased for one or other candidate or party for many localised reasons. It appears White Hat's chosen street is biased against whichever viewpoint the professional pollsters are predicting. (Noting that different pollsters have their own potential biases, too, intentionally or as a result of their ultimate focus.)<br />
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To amplify his personal bias, he questions the apparent information that most of those more officially polled are not where he is. From his viewpoint an overwhelming number of those he talks to on his street are local to there. Of course, the truth is that with so many other streets (lanes, highways, tracks, strips, trails, etc) out there, it is inevitable that he is wrong about this.{{Citation needed}}<br />
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He also seems to have a disproportionate number of respondents enjoying "playing in traffic". It is unclear which actual polls his observations disagree with, but clearly they do. What is less clear is whether this is because he is not just "on the street" but on the ''roadway'', thus ending up avoiding talking to those who are keener to walk on the adjacent pedestrian sidewalks and instead mostly getting information about jaywalkers and similar.<br />
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Finally, the titletext addresses an inherent bias insofar as participation. A big problem with pollsters is not being able to question those unwilling or unable to be polled, thus missing their possibly important attitudes. His more 'direct' experience seems to suggest that, of those who were happy enough to talk to him, most (but not quite all) ''said'' they were happy enough to talk to him. Just one out of 25 (giving a rough lower limit to his eventual sample size) may have reported that they'd be unlikely to talk to him - while talking to him.--><br />
...I already knew I'd have to Wikilink some bits, and can see at least one typo. Maybe I'll integrate some into what's there now, myself but probably not tonight. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.241|162.158.158.241]] 00:39, 10 September 2020 (UTC)<br />
:(Self-reply) Looking into it, I must have been editing for a whole hour, actually. Didn't feel like it, but given there wasn't even a transcript when I started (but the BOT had been replaced) I must have been. And I want paying for all the Captcha responses I'm asked for. It seems I'm either being 'a useful idiot' for slavishly helping the Algorithm, or I am far better(/worse?) at identifying traffic lights, crosswalks, motorbikes, traffic and bicycles than "the man on the street" that pre-populated the Captcha knowledgebase thresholds... [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.175|162.158.158.175]] 00:54, 10 September 2020 (UTC)<br />
::I swear half of the answers were wrong in the first place. One time I took a capatcha and it misidentified a mailbox as a parking meter and I had to answer wrong on purpose to get through.<br />
:::One that I didn't get a 'by' on (I'm convinced that being correct just gives you another test in order to generate that result with more authority) was a request for "bicycle" that featured a surface-painted bike-lane symhol. I said "skip" as there was no actual bike (like features that clearly look cross-walkish but aren't even on the road, or horizontal). So unless most other people had a more generous/playful citeria, I should have been correct. And I'm a whiz at identifying hydrants (in my mind?) Of all kinds of colours, but I think there must be far too many opposing opinions. (Traffic Lights: Do you just highlight the lit bits? The composite frames upon which all the lights sit? The whole lot including the support poles/cables? And do you choose frames that have a sneaky tiny bit of overlap of your chosen feature, but are otherwise mostly empty? Or exclude squares that have a slice that wouldn't be recognised as such if given in isolation?) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.110|162.158.159.110]] 13:04, 10 September 2020 (UTC)<br />
Reminiscent of this beautifully snarkastic tweet. https://twitter.com/DavidLJarman/status/1302719537234599936 [[Special:Contributions/172.68.189.173|172.68.189.173]] 03:27, 10 September 2020 (UTC)</div>162.158.159.110https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2356:_Constellation_Monstrosity&diff=196929Talk:2356: Constellation Monstrosity2020-09-09T08:52:37Z<p>162.158.159.110: </p>
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This is some human centipede sh*t. Constellation centipede? 22:53, 7 September 2020 (UTC)<br />
:I was sorely tempted to add this in myself, as a reference, but I thought I'd do the 'wholesome' stuff first, and only just decided to stop adding/changing my submissions for a while in case I'm causing other people some edit-conflicts. (Someone may also want to wikilink the named constellations, perhaps say something about the greek-letter 'numbering' of constituent stars of a constellation that would run out of subsidiary names in this meta-constellation, etc, which are other things I was thinking about.) So, if you really feel like it needs mentioning, you are of course at liberty to fill your boots accordingly. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.176|162.158.158.176]] 23:44, 7 September 2020 (UTC)<br />
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This could be referencing how NASA recently mentioned a 13th start sign Ophiuchus, https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/starfinder2/en/ especially because it is placed prior to Scorpio/Libra/Virgo/Leo<br />
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The International Astronomical Union calls the constellation "Scorpius" (https://www.iau.org/public/themes/constellations/#sco).<br />
:But they probably don't officially recognise the actual picture of a scorpion, so perhaps it's at least as valid to reference the not-quite-identical astrological grouping by name. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.197|162.158.158.197]] 12:27, 8 September 2020 (UTC)<br />
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He'd already been kicked out of the IAU in<br />
[[541: TED Talk]]. How did he regain admission?<br />
:There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us but he thinks he'd blow our minds. There's a starman waiting in the sky. He's told us not to blow it 'cause he knows it's all worthwhile... [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.197|162.158.158.197]] 12:27, 8 September 2020 (UTC)<br />
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This is probably in part a reference to the fact that Zubenelgenubi, Zubeneschamali, and Zubenelhakrabi, while astronomically in Libra, are artistically and linguistically in the constellation Scorpio ("zuben" means "claw") [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.30|108.162.245.30]] 20:14, 8 September 2020 (UTC)<br />
:Ah, you beat me to it! As a teenager (sometime in the last century), I volunteered at a planetarium in New York City (no, not ''that'' one), where I learned the names of the stars in the claws of Scorpius that were cut off by the IAU and "given" to Libra. [[User:Mr. I|Mr. I]] ([[User talk:Mr. I|talk]]) 22:54, 8 September 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Does someone want to explain the title text? I've been awake to 04:00 <i>every</i> night doing homework and I don't really feel up to it today.<br />
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Also, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA<br />AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA<br />AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA <span style="font-family:Palatino,serif">[[User:Bubblegum|<span style="color:#00BFFF">bubblegum</span>]]-[[User_talk:Bubblegum|<span style="color:#BF7FFF">talk</span>]]|[[Special:Contributions/Bubblegum|<span style="color:#FF7FFF">contribs</span>]]</span> <span style="font-family:Palatino">06:19, 9 September 2020 (UTC)</span><br />
:(You break proper page rendering, for me, with your unbroken lines of text. You considerately put in BRs, but that's still twice as wide as the usual frame for me - and I'm not even using a portrait view...)<br />
:a) Astronomers have loads of stars like Denebola that are catagorically listed as things like "ß-Leonis" (for the most visible, and Flamstead/Gould numbers for others), which now need reindexing under this new grouping name (F/G numbers can stay the same, but the greek-index would be necessarily be shuffled, as you can't suddenly have four separate ßs, even if you're happy differentiating a single letter when it actually turns out to be an N-ary system or coincidental in-line occultation). It'd not be inconceivable to add a "Munroe Id" field to every electronic database and treat the 'old' ß-Leonis as non-classification name like Denebola, but it's a fuss that has no real advantages compared to the effort of the undertaking.<br />
:b) Astrologers have a similar issue. "You're a typical Leo!", they may say currently, perhaps even "...on the cusp with Virgo", in establishing someone's link to the progression and precession of the heavens. A "fire" sign. With such'n'such 'planets' (includes Moon and Sun) passing into and out of it to establish subtle elements of Destiny. So if you merge them, this new sign (built up of air, earth fire ''and'' water signs, what is it now... a ventilation brick?) now has to encompass ~25% of people (rather than ~8.3% of everybody, as now) and, at least at the upper levels of astrological 'calculation', has the same planets influencing all of them equally, meaning far more people finding it simultaneously profitable to look for a new job/love, take care of their money/health, share/retain an unspecified secret, etc. And they'd have to pad out the columns in the paper with nine (or four?) star-signs in the space they once had twelve. Probably have to tack on some totally nonsensical cold-reading generic bullshit, or something!<br />
:But how to say this neatly in the Explanation, that which aint already there, I wouldn't know. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.110|162.158.159.110]] 08:52, 9 September 2020 (UTC)</div>162.158.159.110https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2356:_Constellation_Monstrosity&diff=1968902356: Constellation Monstrosity2020-09-07T23:21:00Z<p>162.158.159.110: /* Explanation */ Reordered/phrased.</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2356<br />
| date = September 8, 2020<br />
| title = Constellation Monstrosity<br />
| image = constellation_monstrosity.png<br />
| titletext = It's rare to get both astronomers and astrologers equally mad at you, but apparently I've messed up both a bunch of star location databases AND the will of the fates.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a Sagicapriquarius. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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{{w|Constellation}}s in the night sky are formed by pattern-forming various {{w|Asterism (astronomy)|asterisms}} and other 'obvious' stellar relationships in the night sky.<br />
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Being rather subjective, {{w|Chinese constellations|different cultures}} have inculcated differences in their interpretations, some subtle and others less so, for the exact same objective views of the night sky. Even where the same groupings are recognised, different cultures can 'see' different forms behind that group of stars. However, observers in the southern hemisphere will see entirely new constellations not visible to those in the northern one, and vice-versa, whilst observing those patterns fully visible to both (on the {{w|ecliptic}}) as inverted and therefore may inspire vastly different conceptualised images or even connectivities.<br />
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Randall has taken one particular {{w|zodiac}} (or at least part of the one associated with western astrology and used historically as the organisational references that modern astronomy uses for its cataloguing nomenclature) and imagined further 'lines' connecting stars to link up four separate constellations, to create a portmanteau constellation with a {{w|portmanteau}} name.<br />
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In reality, apparent proximity upon the 'night-time sphere' does not guarantee actual proximity radially. Naming issues should not change any scientific understanding, but it could have a knock-on effect to the cataloguing if that is rearranged to obey the new 'object' grouping.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>162.158.159.110https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2356:_Constellation_Monstrosity&diff=1968892356: Constellation Monstrosity2020-09-07T23:18:00Z<p>162.158.159.110: /* Explanation */ Yeah, need to add the hemisphere differences, which I forgot to add a moment ago.</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2356<br />
| date = September 8, 2020<br />
| title = Constellation Monstrosity<br />
| image = constellation_monstrosity.png<br />
| titletext = It's rare to get both astronomers and astrologers equally mad at you, but apparently I've messed up both a bunch of star location databases AND the will of the fates.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a Sagicapriquarius. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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{{w|Constellation}}s in the night sky are formed by pattern-forming various {{w|Asterism (astronomy)|asterisms}} and other 'obvious' stellar relationships in the night sky.<br />
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Being rather subjective, {{w|Chinese constellations|different cultures}} have inculcated differences in their interpretations, some subtle and others less so, for the exact same objective views of the night sky. Although observers in the southern hemisphere will see entirely new constellations not visible to those in the northern one, and vice-versa, while observing those patterns fully visible to both (on the {{w|ecliptic}}) as inverted and therefore inspiring vastly different conceptualised images. Even where the same groupings are recognised, different cultures can 'see' different forms behind that group of stars.<br />
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Randall has taken one particular {{w|zodiac}} (or at least part of the one associated with western astrology and used historically as the organisational references that modern astronomy uses for its cataloguing nomenclature) and imagined further 'lines' connecting stars to link up four separate constellations, to create a portmanteau constellation with a {{w|portmanteau}} name.<br />
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In reality, apparent proximity upon the 'night-time sphere' does not guarantee actual proximity radially. Naming issues should not change any scientific understanding, but it could have a knock-on effect to the cataloguing if that is rearranged to obey the new 'object' grouping.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>162.158.159.110https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1485:_Friendship&diff=196783Talk:1485: Friendship2020-09-04T14:29:36Z<p>162.158.159.110: /* I found a website to do it for me */</p>
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<div>In the article Randall wants to make us believe friendship is a rather new phenomenon or trend and its "early" occurences are something special,which may be true for bromance - at least for the term - but not for the concept. Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.68|108.162.231.68]] 07:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:I think you totally misunderstand the intentions of the cartoon. I think the point is a very simple one. It is similar to Liz Feldman's argument that people should not call it 'gay marriage': it's marriage. "You know, because I had lunch this afternoon, not gay lunch. I parked my car; I didn’t gay park it" [[http://www.salon.com/2013/06/26/lets_end_gay_marriage/]} Or in this case: Call it friendship - marking the fact that it is between men as if that is in some way abnormal is a homophobic thing to do. [[User:Andries|Andries]] ([[User talk:Andries|talk]]) 15:14, 11 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
::In my experience the term bromance is used to describe a particularly strong and close friendship, one which exceeds the normal bounds of simple friendship. In the same way that two close but non-related males might cal themselves blood brothers. Noting that the term is almost exclusively used for male-male relationships (due to the use of 'bro') is entirely valid, and personally I don't see any suggestion that friendship between men is abnormal in Sebastians comment. --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 16:39, 11 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
::I tend to agree with Pudder here.[[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.195|199.27.128.195]] 16:53, 11 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I'm afraid I'm not currently up to doing it, but I feel we need further details of, and definitely citations for, the articles that have been vandalised. Maybe we could even have graphs showing view, edit, and vandalism spikes. Davii [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.154|141.101.98.154]] 11:18, 11 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Why am I not surprised that this lead to Wiki-vandalism? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.109|108.162.216.109]] 12:25, 11 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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The explanation currently seems to suggest that this is the page for "Bromance", trying to bring it into line with "Friendship". But with the "Friendship page" being the ''target'' of the comic, "How to improve the Bromance page" titletext and the "Portmanteau of 'Friend' and 'Ship' (i.e. romantic linking)" bits, I read the comic as "If Bromance is being used for non-homosexual same-sex associations, then Friendship 'obviously' now means for homosexual same-sex (indeed, it appears male/male only!) relationships. This is similar to complaints (which I personally have sympathy for) about the word "Guesstimate" being an unnecessary neologistic portmanteau in common use, as someone using it often ''actually'' means "Estimate" in its normal state of the term and thus must imagine "Estimate" is something far more strict. (Or else they invoke th term when they actually mean "Guess" in the first place, either to make it sound 'better than a guess' or with the same 'shove-over' attitude applied to ''that'' word, e.g. guess is "only ever out of thin air" rather than often-as-not based upon a semi-educated hunch if not more.) So, anway, as it it currently stands, I don't agree with the way the explanation goes. But I can't actually say it's wrong either! We now return you to your regularly-scheduled programme. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.112|141.101.99.112]] 14:03, 11 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:Completely off topic for the comment, but a guestimate is an estimate without the math, using intuitive averaging, and thus, more kin to a guess than an estimate.[[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 14:45, 11 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
::A 'guestimate' is of course already either a 'guess' or an 'estimate', depending on your personal dividing line is between "not using maths" and "using maths". "Intuitive averaging" would probably be "estimation" in my eyes. "Fermi estimation" (as seen in the What-Ifs) definitely would. Even if the limits to "guessing" and "estimation" are not equal, "guesstimation" would likely be the intersection on the Venn Diagram of guessing/estimation (i.e. it's both, not 'in-between'), and we'll be arguing over the exact position of ''two'' boundaries, rather than just the one.<br />
::But I really came here to say that I go with the "Change the Friendship page to improve the Bromance one ''by proxy''" idea, and didn't really want to quibble over semantics. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.192|141.101.98.192]] 00:52, 14 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:Additionally, I meant to add that I'm surprised that Randall didn't "Bluetext" the word Ship, indicating a link to {{w|Shipping_(fandom)}}. But then the fictional Wiki editors he's emulating are notoriously inconsistent with what they do link and what they don't link (upon first appearance in an article), so it's accurate enough. ;) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.112|141.101.99.112]] 14:10, 11 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:(Although, to reply to myself, given the inclusion of the phrase "There is also something called 'friendshipping', or a 'BrOTP' (a portmanteau of the terms bromance and one true pairing).", there'd be some weird recursiveness that arises if all the competing claims for word-origin are true!) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.112|141.101.99.112]] 14:16, 11 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I used the FoxReplace plugin to see what this would look like, with some hilarious results: <br />
<pre>The first legislation on the subject was The Fanclub Act of 1792 which provided, in part:<br />
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That each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age <br />
of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years (except as is herein after excepted) shall severally and respectively <br />
be enrolled in the fanclub, ... every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with <br />
a good musket or firelock....<br />
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During the nineteenth century, each of the states maintained its fanclub differently, some more than others.</pre><br />
[[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.195|199.27.128.195]] 16:53, 11 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Pretty sure this isn't the first WP-related comic that then led to vandalism of the pages in question, and I'll be damned if it will be the last. [[User:Schiffy|<font color="000999">Schiffy</font>]] ([[User_talk:Schiffy|<font color="FF6600">Speak to me</font>]]|[[Special:Contributions/Schiffy|<font color="FF0000">What I've done</font>]]) 22:19, 11 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:Yep. I can find [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wood&offset=20080708000000&action=history Wood] ([[446: In Popular Culture]]), [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=430796083 Spark Plug] ([[903: Extended Mind]]) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=535635995&oldid=535635680 Star Trek Into Darkness] ([[1167: Star Trek into Darkness]]) after a [[:Category:Wikipedia|quick check]], and considering [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiality_and_Other_Tripling_Elephants how bizarre edits some vandals make], there's got to be a lot more. -[[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.188|173.245.53.188]] 10:51, 12 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Anyone notice [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friendship&diff=prev&oldid=646768341 this edit?] Well, not so much the edit, but the edit summary... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.43|141.101.99.43]] 10:40, 12 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:I'd prefer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZZ7oFKsKzY a slightly more modern method], but I fully agree with the general idea. -[[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.188|173.245.53.188]] 10:59, 12 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Greetings. Long time, now ex-, lurker here. As I read this entry, I developed a notion that perhaps only Sebastian has touched upon: that Randall was imagining a Wikipedia derived solely from knowledge and events from the last 30 years (or roughly twice the age of WP itself.) With the exception of the "Odd Couple" mention, that seems to be the case. (Despite Damon & Affleck being childhood friends, they didn't come into prominence until the early 90s). [[User:These Are Not The Coments You Are Looking For|These Are Not The Coments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Coments You Are Looking For|talk]]) 00:01, 17 February 2015 (UTC)<br />
:I agree. [[Special:Contributions/188.114.99.189|188.114.99.189]] 00:16, 9 December 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I believe the <nowiki>{{DISPLAYTITLE:Friendship}}</nowiki> wouldn't work, because I have looked at the wikipedia page, and it can't change actual text. [[User:Jacky720|Jacky720]] ([[User talk:Jacky720|talk]]) 16:16, 2 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== I found a website to do it for me ==<br />
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https://www.wikiprank.org/index.php?word=friendship&url=bromance<br />
and the reverse<br />
https://www.wikiprank.org/index.php?word=bromance&url=friendship</div>162.158.159.110https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2353:_Hurricane_Hunters&diff=1966402353: Hurricane Hunters2020-08-31T17:28:05Z<p>162.158.159.110: /* Explanation */ Corrected paragraph forming, an accidental bit of bad grammar and decontracted a bit that didn't look good contracted.</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2353<br />
| date = August 31, 2020<br />
| title = Hurricane Hunters<br />
| image = hurricane_hunters.png<br />
| titletext = Our flight gathered valuable data on whether a commercial airliner in the eye of a hurricane can do a loop.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a HURRICANE'S EYE. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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The comic strip opens with Black Hat explaining to Cueball (who is presumed to be some government official) that flying into hurricanes, while risky, provides valuable scientific data. This is true. Although the {{w|Eye (cyclone)|eye}} itself is relatively calm, it is surrounded by the '''eyewall''', a region of extremely intense thunderstorms. Thus, the danger of flying through such storms must be carefully weighed against the scientific knowledge being gained. Highly-trained pilots with specialized aircraft, such as the {{w|NOAA Hurricane Hunters}} and the US Air Force's {{w|53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron}} (also nicknamed "Hurricane Hunters"), will occasionally conduct such missions, although they usually fly over storms and drop probes through them.<br />
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However, Cueball's comment in the third panel shows that Black Hat is not discussing the activity of hurricane hunting in general, but rather is attempting to justify his decision to fly a passenger jet through the eye of a hurricane (perhaps {{w|Hurricane Laura}}, which was active during the week prior to this comic strip's publication). It's not clear if Black Hat is (somehow) a jet pilot himself, or has come into ownership of an airline and was merely directing a flight, but the passengers wanted to go to St. Louis, Missouri, which is [https://www.homefacts.com/hurricanes/Missouri/St.-Louis-City-County/St.-Louis.html only very rarely struck by hurricanes] (although [https://www.homefacts.com/tornadoes/Missouri/St.-Louis-City-County/St.-Louis.html tornadoes are of greater concern]), so presumably the jet was taken quite far out of its way to conduct the "experiment". Passenger airliners are not meant to fly into hurricanes, and can easily crash there. Black Hat replies that the passengers should be proud of their contributions to meteorology, which is probably negligible, as they were not actively collecting useful scientific data.<br />
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In the title text, Black Hat says that their flight gathered data on the ''possibility'' of making loops in the eye of the hurricane by passenger airliners, but if it had ''actually done'' a loop, he probably would have said so. (The Boeing 707 ''was'' made to successfully execute a barrel roll and fly inverted [https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/60-years-ago-the-famous-boeing-707-barrel-roll-over-lake-washington/ during a 1955 test flight], but probably no commercial jetliner could perform any advanced aerobatic maneuvers under load.)<br />
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It is possible that this is his justification of why passengers contributed to meteorology. However, passenger airliners' abilities to do loops has nothing to do with that field of science. Moreover, the same data could be gathered by flying the same airliner without passengers, or with willing ones.<br />
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In the real world, Black Hat would certainly go to prison for what he's done.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:[Black hat facing left]<br />
:Black Hat: Yes, flying into the eye of a hurricane is dangerous.<br />
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:[Cueball on left at a desk being addressed by Black Hat on the right]<br />
:Black Hat: But it provides us with crucial data that helps us understand and predict these storms.<br />
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:[Same as previous cell, with Black Hat raising his hand]<br />
:Cueball: But your passengers had bought tickets to St. Louis.<br />
:Black Hat: They should be ''proud'' of our contributions to meteorology!<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]</div>162.158.159.110https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2351:_Standard_Model_Changes&diff=196533Talk:2351: Standard Model Changes2020-08-28T03:44:35Z<p>162.158.159.110: </p>
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Re: "but for the most part [the changes] are nonsensical"<br />
I find the symbol changes pretty compelling, actually. Much clearer :)<br />
[[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.210|172.69.34.210]] 00:05, 27 August 2020 (UTC) Related: I was going to respond to Randall here with Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense" :=) [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 10:04, 27 August 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Honestly, I'd vote to change every nu in physics to something else since its so damned hard to write differently and read lazily.<br />
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Yeah. Can we get the president of physics in here please? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.140|172.69.34.140]] 01:35, 27 August 2020 (UTC)<br />
:There is no president. Changing names is probably ok, but if you want to change the physics like with removing of neutrinos, you need to talk to God. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:41, 27 August 2020 (UTC)<br />
::So... We need to talk to the ''pontiff'' of physics, then? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.110|162.158.159.110]] 03:44, 28 August 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Top/Bottom should probably be In/Out or Front/Back or something. And that's even before Randall's proposed changes. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.70|141.101.98.70]] 01:51, 27 August 2020 (UTC) "T" and "B" originally were going to be short for [redacted] and Bums , back when sexism was rampant. Possibly that's an urban legend, but having been in Physics grad school around the time quarks became a thing, I can believe it. [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 10:04, 27 August 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Didn't t/b stand for truth and beauty at some point, thus formerly lining up more favorably with strange and charm? Also, a "cool bugs" ''boson'' with spin 1/2 would itself be a cool bug, in the sense of a glitch. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.150|172.69.34.150]] 05:07, 27 August 2020 (UTC)<br />
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It's a bit weird that he added left/right since most of the particle already come in left- and right-handed chirality.<br />
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Comic 2240 has a "cool bug epoch" in the expansion of the universe that could be linked from the "cool bug" particle in this comic. ----<br />
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The explanation says that the cool bugs particle goes into the scalar boson group, which isn't right because there isn't such a group here. Vin Diesel is a scalar, but the general agreement is that graviton has spin 2 (and for this reason it's also not really correct to move it to the gauge boson group). The group is more accurately called the everything else group. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.202.110|162.158.202.110]] 11:22, 27 August 2020 (UTC) anon<br />
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I posit the reason for "left, right" being in the order they are (instead of the more logical "right, left") is due to the Konami code being up, up, down, down, '''left, right''', etc... [[User:SiliconCarbide|SiliconCarbide]] ([[User talk:SiliconCarbide|talk]])<br />
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The Right/Strange description box included this: "What's strange is how Randall assigns the charm quark the left and the strange quark the right, when so many languages have it the other way around. But since when has Randall cared?"<br />
Which is not at all clear. What is it that languages have what other way around?<br />
I moved it because it is so vague to seems meaningless. If it was a useful observation, please clarify so somebody who doesn't know what it means already can understand. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.106.244|162.158.106.244]] 17:32, 27 August 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Isn't a τ-Lepton just the same as two π-Leptons? That's why it's superflous. -[[Special:Contributions/162.158.202.86|162.158.202.86]] 17:54, 27 August 2020 (UTC)</div>162.158.159.110https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2275:_Coronavirus_Name&diff=1880172275: Coronavirus Name2020-03-02T23:03:26Z<p>162.158.159.110: Removed references to coronavirus being an example of mass media hysteria. Major groups, such as the WHO, CDC etc agree that there is serious cause for concern</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2275<br />
| date = March 2, 2020<br />
| title = Coronavirus Name<br />
| image = coronavirus_name.png<br />
| titletext = It's important to keep the spider from touching your face.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a MUTANT T. ANNEXA WOLF SPIDER WITH COVID-19. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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This is [[Randall|Randall's]] take on the {{w|2019–20 coronavirus outbreak|coronavirus outbreak}}. The disease caused by the virus was properly named {{w|Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19}} on 11 February 2020, as "{{w|coronavirus}}" is a category of viruses named for their appearance, which is similar to a halo or crown. So it is like calling a specific strain of flu ''The Influenza virus''.<br />
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But with extensive media coverage, the name "Coronavirus" has become associated with COVID-19, making it difficult to discuss other types of coronavirus later on.<br />
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COVID-19 has a 20% hospitalization rate and a 2% death rate by current estimates, compared to a typical rate of around 0.1% for the flu in the US.[https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-myths.html]<br />
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In this comic, researchers [[Ponytail]], [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] are discussing that it is by now too late to try calling the virus its official name COVID-19, as the name coronavirus has stuck. [[Cueball]] reacts with dismay, since there are many other types of coronaviruses. <br />
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The comic becomes absurd when Ponytail compares the coronavirus naming to a "car eating spider" living on top of the skyscrapers of the town, which is also just called "The Spider" even though it is technically a mutated ''{{w|Tigrosa annexa}}'' {{w|wolf spider}}. Everyone know what you mean when you say "Coronavirus", as they do when you mention "The Spider".<br />
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[[Megan]] then asks if they should not also do something about the spider, but Ponytail and Cueball agree that they can only tackle one problem at a time, and coronavirus takes up all their time. Only thing is that Ponytail now takes another commute, probably to avoid getting her car eaten.<br />
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The title text references the health advice that people avoid touching their face with unwashed hands, in order to prevent infections that they picked up by touching things from entering their mucous membranes. (It's a lot easier for an infection to enter the body through the inside of your nose than your hands.) It is likewise quite important to keep giant spiders from touching your face, but for the dissimilar reason that they'll bite and eat you.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Megan is carrying a box with biohazard symbols on it towards a desk where Ponytail (wearing safety glasses) is working on a laptop, across from Cueball (also wearing safety glasses) who is putting a test tube into a centrifuge. There's also a flask on the desk.]<br />
:Ponytail: Feels like we missed the window for the "COVID-19" renaming. "Coronavirus" is just too catchy.<br />
:Cueball: But it's not specific! There are a lot of coronaviruses.<br />
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:[In a frameless panel, Ponytail (still wearing safety glasses) is pointing at a screen or picture showing a modern city skyline with a large spider crawling across three of the high-rise buildings.]<br />
:Ponytail: I think it's fine. It's like, you know the giant spider downtown that sits on the buildings and sometimes eats cars? I think ''technically'' it's a mutant ''T. annexa'' wolf spider, but everyone is just calling it "the spider" and we all know what they mean.<br />
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:[Back to the setting from the first panel. Megan is standing and Ponytail had turned towards her and Cueball has stepped back from the machine.]<br />
:Megan: I've been meaning to ask, what's '''''with''''' that spider? Should we...do something?<br />
:Ponytail: Honestly I've been too busy with the virus stuff to look into it-I just changed my commute to avoid Main St.<br />
:Cueball: Yeah, that's fair. One thing at a time.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
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[[Category:Spiders]]</div>162.158.159.110https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2274:_Stargazing_3&diff=1879802274: Stargazing 32020-03-02T18:48:41Z<p>162.158.159.110: /* Explanation */ Corrected semantics about comets (they are not, themselves, particles) and then gone a bit further to add what (especially notable, and potentially awe/fear-inspiring) comets look like. Maybe the Stargazer dislikes this sky-scribble?</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2274<br />
| date = February 28, 2020<br />
| title = Stargazing 3<br />
| image = stargazing_3.png<br />
| titletext = If we can destroy enough of the lights in our region, we may see more comets, but that's a risk we'll have to take.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a TERRIFIED LAMP. The explanation, for the most part, doesn't exist. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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This is the third in the Stargazing series. The first [[1644: Stargazing]] appeared four years earlier and the second [[2017: Stargazing 2]] one and a half years earlier. <br />
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{{w|Vega}} is a star in the constellation of {{w|Lyra}}. It does indeed have {{w|Magnitude (astronomy)|magnitude}} 0.03 and is the brightest star mentioned in this comic. The phrase <q>It's the brightest star I'm currently talking about</q> is an example of the technically correct but not at all useful information that is typical of the Stargazing series. Vega is only the {{w|List of brightest stars|5th brightest star}} (outside of the Sun), as {{w|Sirius}} is the brightest visible star. <br />
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{{w|Polaris}} is indeed the star over the North Pole, and is commonly called the North Star or the Pole Star. It is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor, but there are about fifty other stars that are as bright as it is (magnitude 2), so it's not really remarkable apart from being the pole star, as the host says. Despite the fact that being the pole star is "all it has going for it," it is nevertheless very important because it is used for navigation, as it appears fixed in the night sky. It hasn't always been and won't always be the pole star, however, as Earth's axis precesses in a 26,000 year cycle.<br />
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{{w|Comets}} are comparatively small clumps of rock and ice, seen mostly by the long, lit 'trail' of particles the heat of the sun causes to be ejected, and the solar wind then spreads outward in thin glowing lines that ''can'' be larger and more visible even than the constellations they are seen in front of - at least during the brief phase of their closest approach to the sun. Many comets have usually highly elliptical orbits around the sun and so they are seen "every few decades". Yelling at comets is believed to be an ineffective way to make them go away.{{Citation needed}} The host may dislike comets because of their history in superstition of being seen as a sign of doom. This provides humor because typically this superstitious fear was caused by a lack of understanding, and it would be expected that a stargazing host would be informed on and therefore unafraid of comets. No actual astronomers are bothered by comets{{Citation needed}}, but some are upset about [https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/starlink-satellites-astronomy/ satellite megaconstellations] such as {{w|SpaceX Starlink|SpaceX's Starlink}}. In that case, astronomers are not yelling at the satellites, but at the companies that launch them.<br />
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{{w|Light pollution}} is indeed a problem with stargazing. Light pollution is the presence of artificial light in the night sky, which makes it very difficult to see stars. Stargazing in remote locations is remarkably different than in populated cities. Light pollution was previously discussed in [[2121: Light Pollution]]. Light pollution does not actually make the "sky go away", but it does affect how humans can see stars or other astronomical features in the sky.<br />
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The host advocates an active approach to resolving light pollution—rather than lobbying for reductions in artificial lighting, as the {{w|dark-sky movement}} does, she intends to lead her audience in destroying artificial lights. Older lightbulbs are usually glass bulbs filled with inert gas (for incandescent bulbs) or high-pressure gases (for e.g. {{w|sodium-vapor lamp}}s) and so are easy to destroy with any blunt impact, thus accounting for the host's mention of "throwing rocks at them". Modern LED lights, however, are much more robust, which is why she is handing out crossbows to achieve greater projectile energy. An "[http://sonic.net/~rknop/php/astronomy/classes/a103/sum2006/info/angdist.shtml#xbow astronomy crossbow]" is a tool used to measure the angular distance between stars. They cannot shoot real {{w|crossbow bolt}}s, but any type of crossbow or other weapon could be used to destroy lights and "preserve" the sky. (Speaking of astronomy tools that have weapon-related names, there is a type of telescope called a "{{w|Sun Gun Telescope|Sun Gun}}", but it is only meant to be used during the day to enable groups of people to view the Sun safely. It is probably best that this host's show is taking place at night, or else she might cause even more trouble.)<br />
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The title text mentions that the destruction of lights, which they advocate for throughout this comic, would allow them to see more comets. While this is true, they seem to perceive comets as a risk for no apparent reason, perhaps related to their habit of yelling at comets to go away.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:[In a dark panel, a TV host stands in front of a group of people: Science Girl, Ponytail, and Cueball; the panel is inverse-colored, i.e. white text and drawings on black]<br />
:Host: Welcome back to Stargazing.<br />
:Host: There are no new stars since last time, but you came back for some reason.<br />
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:[Zoomed out on the same scene, the host is now with Science Girl, Ponytail, Cueball, Megan, and White Hat. The host is pointing upwards with her left hand.]<br />
:Host: That star is Vega. At magnitude 0.03, it's the brightest star I'm currently talking about.<br />
:Host: That one is Polaris. It's over the North Pole, which is all it has going for it.<br />
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:[A frame-less white panel, zoomed in on the host, who is now pointing upwards with her right hand.]<br />
:Host: That's a comet. Some of them come back every few decades, no matter how much I yell at them.<br />
:Host: But stargazing isn't all fun yelling. We face a problem even worse than comets: light pollution.<br />
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:[Back to a dark panel, the host now has a big bag of crossbows. The bag has a logo of a crossbow with stars around it. She has taken out one of them and is holding it in her right hand.]<br />
:Host: The sky is going away because people keep shining lights at it. The new LEDs are even worse - they're too blue, and you can't turn them off by throwing rocks at them like with the old ones.<br />
:Host: Luckily, I brought these astronomy crossbows.<br />
:Host: Take one, then let's fan out and look for lamps.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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