https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=172.70.85.137&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T13:42:41ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2784:_Drainage_Basins&diff=3148962784: Drainage Basins2023-06-03T09:03:50Z<p>172.70.85.137: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2784<br />
| date = June 2, 2023<br />
| title = Drainage Basins<br />
| image = drainage_basins_2x.png<br />
| imagesize = 659x500px<br />
| noexpand = true<br />
| titletext = After a pail of water was thrown on the Wicked Witch of the West outside Salt Lake City, Utah's Great Salt Lake was measured to be 7 parts per trillion witch by volume.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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Alex Mack was the main character in the Nickelodeon show ''{{w|The Secret World of Alex Mack}}'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120516025126/http://articles.latimes.com/1994-10-02/news/tv-45351_1_alex-mack] who developed superpowers after being drenched by an experimental substance. One of these is the ability to turn into a puddle of liquid.<br />
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A {{w|drainage basin}} is an area of land where all flowing water converges to one or more outlets to the same body of water. A depiction of drainage basins is a {{w|Drainage divide|watershed map}}, which for the United States is shown in the comic.<br />
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When Randall sees a map of the US's major drainage basins, he thinks of Alex turning into liquid and flowing as part of the basin she happens to be in at the time.<br />
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The title text refers to the {{w|Wicked Witch of the West}}, a character from ''{{w|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz}}''. When a bucket of water is thrown on her, she dissolves into a puddle. If this happens in the {{w|Great Basin}}, she'll flow into Utah's {{w|Great Salt Lake}}. If its dissolved particles are measured, a tiny fraction will be witch. Seven trillionths of its 18.93 cubic km volume is about 130 liters, which is approximately twice the volume of a typical human being &mdash; Randall is likely including the Witch's sister, the Wicked Witch of the East as well. Randall does however assume that Oz is somewhere within the Great Basin. The {{w|Land of Oz}} is depicted to somewhere else entirely, surrounded by desert and thus perhaps has its own salt-lake basin(s); but famously it is not in Kansas, from which any witch-water would have ultimately flowed down to the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:US Drainage Basins [Crossed Out]<br />
:<span style="color:red">Where Alex Mack Will End Up</span> [Below, in red]<br />
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:[Map of the United States, with the following drainage basins labeled:]<br />
:Pacific Ocean<br />
:Great Basin<br />
:Arctic Ocean<br />
:Various Basins<br />
:Hudson Bay<br />
:Gulf of Mexico<br />
:Atlantic Ocean<br />
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:[Caption below the panel:]<br />
:How I still think of these maps, deep down<br />
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[[Category:Fiction]]</div>172.70.85.137https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2780:_Physical_Quantities&diff=314171Talk:2780: Physical Quantities2023-05-25T20:41:28Z<p>172.70.85.137: </p>
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Planck Length here actually refers to the length of Planck himself. The same may apply to other names. [[User:Unreliable Connection|2659: Unreliable Connection]] ([[User talk:Unreliable Connection|talk]]) 03:02, 25 May 2023 (UTC)<br />
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I wonder if this is alluding to the [[wikipedia:Smoot|Smoot]], a unit of measure devised by MIT students to represent the height of Oliver R. Smoot. Probably worth a mention in the description nonetheless. [[User:Trimeta|Trimeta]] ([[User talk:Trimeta|talk]]) 03:45, 25 May 2023 (UTC)<br />
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Hawking radiation: ~100 W (through heat)<br />
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Planking is a thing.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planking_(fad) One pretends that one is a board, or plank. Are some funny pics. The opposite of planking would be good god how? How can even a cat!?!! [Special:Contributions/172.69.58.161|172.69.58.161]] 06:26, 25 May 2023 (UTC)<br />
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Hubble length is {{w|Hubble Space Telescope|13.2 m}}. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.64|141.101.98.64]] 10:30, 25 May 2023 (UTC)<br />
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The m³ unit for Broca's area is surely a typo, right? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.94.47|162.158.94.47]] 14:55, 25 May 2023 (UTC)<br />
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Just a couple of others: 1 Watt is what it takes to invent the condensing steam engine and Euler's number doesn't exist, because he died before telephones were invented. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.247.45|172.69.247.45]] 15:08, 25 May 2023 (UTC)<br />
:There are lots of <someone>'s Number constants. We could have an entire phonebook of these. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 17:53, 25 May 2023 (UTC)<br />
::I tried phoning Graham's Number, once. I'm still not yet finished dialling! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.186|172.70.91.186]] 19:22, 25 May 2023 (UTC)<br />
:Chandresekhar's Limit = 3 pints? [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 17:53, 25 May 2023 (UTC)<br />
:Don't forget that numbers are now [[2721|Euler letters]]! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.137|172.70.85.137]] 20:41, 25 May 2023 (UTC)</div>172.70.85.137