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Coronavirus or Covid-19 should be tags. [[User:Netherin5|“That Guy from the Netherlands”]] ([[User talk:Netherin5|talk]]) 17:39, 11 March 2020 (UTC)<br />
:Agreed. Depending on how you count [[2278]], this series has been running continuously since [[2275]]. So this is the 4th or 5th NCOV-2019 comic. The only problem is what should we name the tag? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.211.34|172.68.211.34]] 18:37, 11 March 2020 (UTC)<br />
::"COVID-19" I'd say, for scientific accuracy.--[[User:GoldNinja|GoldNinja]] ([[User talk:GoldNinja|talk]]) 18:59, 11 March 2020 (UTC)<br />
:::I just added a [[:Category:SARS-CoV-2]] since {{W|Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2}} indicates that's the current official name. BTW, reCAPTCHA got very aggressive after I tagged the second page. I don't suppose there's a proper place to complain? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.33.89|172.69.33.89]] 19:10, 11 March 2020 (UTC)<br />
::::I would use [[:Category:COVID-19]] instead. If I'm reading the Wikipedia articles correctly, SARS-CoV-2 is the ''virus'', while COVID-19 is the ''disease''. And "COVID-19" is actually in fairly common use in the media compared to SARS-CoV-2. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.38.56|172.68.38.56]] 19:51, 11 March 2020 (UTC)<br />
:::::That makes sense. But I'm not going thru that many reCAPTCHAs again. (I'm also not likely to make an account at this time, or to respond to further messages here. Sorry.) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.46.179|172.68.46.179]] 20:24, 11 March 2020 (UTC)<br />
::::::You not creating account really doesn't make sense. Done. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:20, 11 March 2020 (UTC)<br />
:::::::I think Category:Corona virus would have been better. Since that is what everyone calls it and what it will be remembered as later. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 11:27, 12 March 2020 (UTC)<br />
:::::::There are now many references to COVID-19 instead of Coronavirus. It seems to be replacing the former, socially speaking. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.227|108.162.246.227]] 14:39, 12 March 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Re. the title text, my reaction would be, "The medicine must not be working. I'd better take more." [[Special:Contributions/172.68.38.120|172.68.38.120]] 18:38, 11 March 2020 (UTC)Pat<br />
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Again? I get that this pandemic is a big deal, but I was really hoping Randall would be a little more creative and come up with some other topics to talk about. [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 14:35, 12 March 2020 (UTC)<br />
:I have no clue if he's just jumping on the bandwagon to stay relevant or if he's legitimately extremely panicked over it. --[[User:Youforgotthisthing|Youforgotthisthing]] ([[User talk:Youforgotthisthing|talk]]) 19:49, 12 March 2020 (UTC) @youforgotthingthing: keep in mind that Randall's wife is a cancer survivor and most likely immunocompromised. I wouldn't blame him for being worried. [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 11:13, 13 March 2020 (UTC)<br />
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::Or for that matter if he, like most intelligent people, is dealing with what little danger there is by making fun of the people who are legitimately extremely panicked over it.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.174.128|172.68.174.128]] 20:01, 12 March 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Hey, a hummingbird is only 80fps? That's nothing, people are now buying gaming monitors with 260 fps just because they claim they can see frame tear. [[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 17:40, 12 March 2020 (UTC)<br />
: Some tests (admittedly run by the companies which make hardware to enable gaming at 240+ fps) have shown benefits of high-refresh monitors in terms of snap reactions to sudden movement, but not the ability to perceive high-frequency cyclical phenomena. --[[User:NotaBene|NotaBene]] ([[User talk:NotaBene|talk]]) 21:14, 12 March 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Am I the only one reading Megan's reaction instead as being sarcastic about fitting that description most of the time, even when (relatively) well? I think it's not the first comic by Randall exploring being behind on the fitness/health curve relative to general population, so it felt like continuation of the theme. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.131|162.158.91.131]] 12:10, 13 March 2020 (UTC)</div>162.158.91.131https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1855:_Telephoto&diff=1420551855: Telephoto2017-06-27T06:00:01Z<p>162.158.91.131: The title text says nothing about take-off</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1855<br />
| date = June 26, 2017<br />
| title = Telephoto<br />
| image = telephoto.png<br />
| titletext = I was banned from the airliners.net photography forum by concerned moderators after the end of my lens started brushing against planes as they flew by.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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Telephoto lenses are special lenses for cameras that have a longer focal length than standard lenses, which allows the photographer to zoom in on an object. The joke is that Cueball did not want to spend the money on buying a new telephoto lens, and instead added many many "converters" and "extenders" to his existing lens to get the same effect by moving his cheap camera (a standard webcam, in this case) close enough to the subject to obviate the need for zoom. <br />
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There are many problems with this. First, the end result is completely impractical to carry around; as shown in the comic, Cueball has to set up two tripods just to support the weight of his hulking behemoth of a camera. Second, if you're an animal photographer like Cueball, you need to be able to see the animal as close up as possible in order to get a good picture; a lens with lots of magnification power accomplishes just that without alerting the animal to the photographer's presence, but Cueball's camera would surely scare off any birds he tried to picture (except in fanciful proof-of-concept diagrams like this comic).<br />
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Perhaps most damning of all, though, is the fact that Cueball's idea involves installing a webcam at the far end to be able to photograph anything. Webcams are not designed to capture high-resolution images, so the resulting image will be of considerably lower quality compared to professional photographers' works. But more importantly, the presence of the webcam renders the functionality of the extenders (and the base camera itself!) completely redundant, cementing this idea as a total waste of time and effort.<br />
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The title text continues this by saying he was banned from [http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=7 the airliners.net photography forum] because his new modified lens got so long from all of the attachments that it started brushing against planes as they flew by. It would seem that having a greater than 100 foot lens set up on or near the runway, along with the potential to damage planes in-flight, being banned from an online forum would be the least of his worries.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:[Cueball stands behind a huge telephoto lens which rests on two tripods, one at the left in front of Cueball, and an other larger one in the middle. The lens is more than five times longer than Cueball is high. In front of the lens is a tree with a bird on top close to the lens. The bird is labeled "Subject". Inside the telephoto lens at the location of the objective lens a small device is shown and labeled "Webcam". From that device a small cable runs through the entire telephoto lens to the eyepiece, where an other device labeled "Camera" is shown.]<br />
:[Caption below the panel:]<br />
:Telephoto tip: If you add enough converters and extenders, you don't actually need a fancy lens.<br />
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