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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 569<br />
| date = April 15, 2009<br />
| title = Borders<br />
| image = borders.png<br />
| titletext = Eventually a UN is set up. And then a lone rebel runs down the line of flags in front of it, runs back to his base, and gets a kajillion points.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{w|Capture the flag}} (CTF) is a common way of playing games where the objective is to capture the opponent's flag while protecting your own team's flag. This comic describes a CTF* server that [[Cueball]] joins for an online war game where peace has been established and no one is trying to capture the opponent's flags, therefore making the game unexciting and pointless, as Cueball says in the last panel.<br />
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The title text refers to the line of flags in front of UN buildings. If such a collection of flags of all the teams were established on a server, one could get a very high score by quickly capturing all of them. <br />
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A {{Wiktionary|kajillion}} is slang for "an unspecified large number."<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Two Cueball-like guys stand on a hill overlooking a great city. One of them points at the city. Between them and the city stands an embassy flying a red flag. The text is not spoken by either of the guys.]<br />
:Three years ago, the kingdom of Liate overthrew their old order and established a constitutional monarchy. Our leaders signed a treaty with their queen, and our borders were set by the Yarbis Accords.<br />
:Many said war would be unending, that peace would always be a dream deferred. But today, our flag flies proudly over our embassy in their kingdom, and they walk our lands without fear.<br />
:So come, traveller. Lay down your grudges and join us in brotherhood. It is time not to fight, but to live.<br />
:[Cueball sitting at computer.]<br />
:Cueball: This is the worst capture-the-flag server ever.<br />
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| date = November 18, 2022<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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<pre>>YOU WILL WEAR THE MASK<br />
>YOU WILL SOCIALLY DISTANCE<br />
>YOU WILL FOLLOW THE ARROWS<br />
>YOU WILL CLAP FOR OUR HEALTH HEROES<br />
>YOU WILL OBEY THE CURFEW<br />
>YOU WILL STOP SEEING YOUR LOVED ONES<br />
>YOU WILL REPORT DISSENTERS<br />
>YOU WILL GIVE UP YOUR PRIVACY AND FREEDOM<br />
>YOU WILL USE NEWSPEAK SUCH AS "COVIDIOT" AND "KAREN"<br />
>YOU WILL EMBRACE MASS SURVEILLANCE ADVERTISED AS "TEST AND TRACE"<br />
>YOU WILL TAKE THE TEST<br />
>YOU WILL BE SODOMIZED, TO TEST FOR COVID-19<br />
>YOU WILL SELF ISOLATE<br />
>YOU WILL TAKE THE GENE MODIFYING "VACCINE"<br />
>YOU WILL BE MARKED WITH THE DIGITAL "SMART TATTOO" MICROCHIP<br />
>YOU WILL BE PLACED IN DEATH CAMPS IF YOU RESIST<br />
>YOU WILL EMBRACE THE GREAT RESET, THE FORTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION<br />
>YOU WILL REJECT GOD<br />
>YOU WILL LIVE IN THE SMART CITY<br />
>YOU WILL LIVE IN THE POD<br />
>YOU WILL EAT THE BUGS<br />
>YOU WILL EAT THE SHIT CAPSULES<br />
>YOU WILL DRINK THE COCKROACH "MILK"<br />
>YOU WILL GIVE UP EVERYTHING YOU OWN<br />
>YOU WILL RENT EVERYTHING, INCLUDING YOUR CLOTHES<br />
>YOU WILL ONLY USE THE APPROVED PRODUCTS AND SERVICES PROVIDED BY FAGMAN<br />
>YOU WILL ONLY BE ALLOWED SELF DRIVING ELECTRIC CARS<br />
>YOU WILL EMBRACE THE CASHLESS SYSTEM<br />
>YOU WILL TRADE IN CARBON CREDITS<br />
>YOU WILL CONNECT WITH NEURALINK<br />
>YOU WILL HAVE PROPAGANDA BEAMED INTO YOUR MIND, INCLUDING SISSY HYPNO<br />
>YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO LEAVE YOUR ASSIGNED QUARANTINE REGION<br />
>YOU WILL EMBRACE OUR NEW WORLD ORDER<br />
>YOU WILL ACCEPT THEIR VERSION OF HISTORY<br />
>YOU WILL ACCEPT THE NEW NORMAL<br />
>YOU WILL OWN NOTHING<br />
>AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY.</pre><br />
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<pre>>The soldiers on Omaha beach died to use tough at the end of their sentences?? MANDELA EFFECT i thought it was for biblically-accurate basedjaks listening to so-bad-it's-good lofi hip hop Plastic Love like in my uncanny valley immersive sim lost media metroidvania-inspired mature animes with no Ludonarrative dissonance because it's almost as if, for less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a coke, you can vote with your wallet and buy techwear and asmr pc music in the liminal spaces at the same femboy hooters where john lennon used to beat his wife like an irl boss battle along with the other low-end karens and male manipulaters who gatekeeped and gaslit the /mu/core prequel memes that fact checked that part of neon evangelion where the pope existed in the cars universe during a fucking pandemic like how Ed Edd n Eddy took place in purgatory or how Yakuza John Wick literally made comfy trope threads that trusted the science saying that an inheritance is just your relatives dropping loot when they die, though[1][2][3][6][11][14][19][22][24][25][28][33][39]. Fuck Jim Morrison.<br />
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2678<br />
| date = September 28, 2022<br />
| title = Wing Lift<br />
| image = wing_lift_2x.png<br />
| imagesize = 679x358px<br />
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| titletext = Once the air from the top passes below the plane of the wing and catches sight of the spooky skulls, it panics, which is the cause of turbulent vortices.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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Wings can produce {{w|Lift (force)|lift}}.<ref name="Prandtl & Tietjens (1952)">{{cite book |last1=Prandtl |first1=L |last2=Tietjens |first2=O K G |author-link1=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Prandtl |date=1952 |title=Fundamentals of Hydro- and Aeromechanics |publisher= Dover |isbn=9780486603742}}</ref><br />
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Three erroneous reasons often given as to why airplane wings produce lift:<br />
* {{w|Bernoulli's principle}} (which is the most frequently cited)<br />
* The airplane wing is angled up at the front so that air hits the bottom and is pushed downwards (The ski effect or {{w|Newton's sine-square law of air resistance}}).<br />
* {{w|Coandă effect}} (The top is curved, so air going over the wing must curve downwards in order to avoid creating a vacuum above the back of the wing, and by Newton's third law, this results in an upwards force on the wing.)<br />
The comic references all three of these reasons. Airflow splitting references Bernoulli's principle, while the air at the bottom being scared and fleeing downwards is similar to the actual effect, which is caused by air hitting the angled bottom of the wing. The air going over the top curving down references the Coandă effect, claiming that this effect is instead caused by the top-flow of air itself noticing the bottom side of the wing going down to investigate why the bottom-flow had fled. The mention of Newton's third law is indeed correct, even if the movement of the air is for the wrong reasons. In the title text, it additionally suggests that the top-flow henceforth glimpses the printed skulls, causing it to also chaotically flee, generating a wing's classic turbulant wake.<br />
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Randall previously dealt with explanations of wing lift in [[803: Airfoil]].<br />
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[Caption at the top of the panel:] How a wing produces lift<br />
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[A diagram of the cross-section of a plane wing. It is large and rounded on the left end and flat on the bottom while the top curves down to meet it at a sharp point. There are many small arrows indicating the flow of wind, as well as captions.]<br />
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[The arrows come from the left of the panel, point towards the wing, and then half begin to go over and half begin to go under. A caption in the middle of this flow reads:] Airflow splits around the top and bottom of the wing<br />
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[A circle underneath the diagram is connected to an arrow which points to the underside of the wing. A repeating pattern of small black (simplified) skulls fills the circle and arrow. The caption to the right of this is:] Spooky skulls microprinted on the bottom of the wing frighten the air, which flees away downward<br />
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[The arrows begin to curve downwards after this caption, and are joined by the top arrows which have also begun to curve downward. In these arrows is a caption:] Top air goes to see what's wrong<br />
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[Both streams of arrows have joined and are pointing to the bottom right of the panel. In front of them is a caption:] By Newton's third law, downward deflection of air pushes wing upward<br />
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[[category:Aviation]]</div>172.71.146.73https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2669:_Things_You_Should_Not_Do&diff=295342Talk:2669: Things You Should Not Do2022-09-23T04:52:46Z<p>172.71.146.73: /* "Remove someone's bones without asking" */ new section</p>
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Seems like this could become a series. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.210.31|172.68.210.31]] 20:42, 7 September 2022 (UTC)<br />
:Maybe. But I don't think it will be.<br />
:What I was thinking was that there are clearly, on average, around 43 <!-- (!) miscalculated. Not as significant as I thought. --> items per 'page', up to this point. This page shows only 19 items (both pre-New and New, or 20 if the "New" line counts as one, don't know if multilines reduce the number of numbered items ler page), so either it's been{{Citation needed}} manually split/new-paged (for changing aesthetics) or else it is highly varying according to the font-height/multiline-wrappings in use beforehand. Or perhaps we should expect around the same number of 'newer New' items to complete this page before the next page number is automatically started to be populated. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.8|172.70.86.8]] 20:53, 7 September 2022 (UTC)<br />
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<nowiki>#156,819</nowiki> looks like a reference to the Phineas and Ferb title sequence, and the episode Oil on Candace and probably more relevant here, What If 84. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.233|108.162.210.233]] 21:49, 7 September 2022 (UTC)<br />
:It's true that it could be a reference, but I think I recognized most of the topics on the list as being mentioned in some what-if article from the archives--in the case of the "painting" one, https://what-if.xkcd.com/84/. [[User:Dextrous Fred|Dextrous Fred]] ([[User talk:Dextrous Fred|talk]]) 22:13, 7 September 2022 (UTC)<br />
::I think that given that he learned about this doing his new book that has not been released yet most of the new items would first be clear when we read the book, and hence all references to old what if seems moot to me... In my opinion it seems that those writing the current explanation failed to read this sentence: ''Updates to my "Things You Should Not Do" list, based on what I learned writing What If? 2''!!! Taking this into acount nothing on the new list should be from the old what if blog/book. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:02, 8 September 2022 (UTC)<br />
:::Many articles (roughly half) in the blog were published after the first book was written, so those references are fair game to be included in the new book, and thus valid references as things he learned in the interim. Take a look at the archive thumbnails for the articles in 2014. [[User:Dextrous Fred|Dextrous Fred]] ([[User talk:Dextrous Fred|talk]]) 22:52, 12 September 2022 (UTC)<br />
:I think <nowiki>#156,819</nowiki> is confusing because [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Guillaumet-_Le_Sahara.jpeg it's been done]. -- [[User:Ken g6|Ken g6]] ([[User talk:Ken g6|talk]]) 17:01, 8 September 2022 (UTC)<br />
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Added a transcript, hopefully it isn't too terrible. (also first explainxkcd edit!) [[User:Merrybot|Merrybot]] ([[User talk:Merrybot|talk]]) 21:52, 7 September 2022 (UTC)<br />
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Any indication what the purpose of the misspelling of ''hemorrhagic'' as ''*hemorraghic'' might be? XKCD is usually typo-free, which makes this look deliberate – but why? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.94.3|172.71.94.3]] 00:29, 8 September 2022 (UTC)<br />
:I assume just a typo by Randall Munroe. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.214.79|172.70.214.79]] 02:11, 8 September 2022 (UTC)<br />
::"XKCD is usually typo-free" Oh, they do happen every now and then but usually get corrected eventually by Randall. Nothing too special about this. [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 07:13, 8 September 2022 (UTC)<br />
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<nowiki>#156,823</nowiki> is actually a subplot in the movie "Only Lovers left Alive" by Jim Jarmusch. {{unsigned ip|162.158.129.163}}<br />
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<nowiki>#156,820</nowiki> sounds like a reference to TF2's "Meet the medic" which starts off with The Medic describing how he lost his medical licence by stealing a patient's skeleton {{unsigned ip|108.162.241.103}}<br />
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The last item suggests to me that the new book has a question like "What SPF would the sunscreen need to be if you were falling into the sun?" [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 21:10, 8 September 2022 (UTC)<br />
: Far more than any SPF a terrestrial chemical could attain, which is essentially equivalent to positive infinity in this case, barring any new extremely unlikely physics. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.214.79|172.70.214.79]] 04:08, 9 September 2022 (UTC)<br />
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Is the maximum jail sentence for telling California poultry regulators that your farm is selling Pokemon eggs eight or ten years? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.206.213|172.70.206.213]] 04:06, 9 September 2022 (UTC)<br />
:We need a more practical approach to legal advice. For example, how realistically could there ever be any compensatory damages? If a government regulator ever took a claim that a farm was producing Pokemon eggs seriously, wouldn't their liability for waste, fraud, and abuse damages to the public overwhelm that of the supposed defendant? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.206.163|172.70.206.163]] 07:26, 9 September 2022 (UTC)<br />
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I'm assuming that a Sun-sized ball of sunscreen would collapse and ignite as a star, right? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.214.79|172.70.214.79]] 10:47, 11 September 2022 (UTC)<br />
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<nowiki>#156,816</nowiki> was also in the news. I'm wondering if all of these up to some point have actually happened.{{unsigned ip|172.69.134.131|02:39, 13 September 2022}}<br />
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== "Remove someone's bones without asking" ==<br />
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I believe this may actually be a tf2 reference. In "Meet The Medic", a short animation made by valve, the medic implies he removed someone's bones without killing them, resulting in the loss of his medical license. <br />
Link to the video I'm talking about:<br />
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Who is God empress?{{unsigned ip|172.68.50.207|23:05, 19 August 2022}}<br />
:I reminds me of the God-empress of Missouri from an earlier comic about nested WWII speculation.{{unsigned ip|172.69.69.207|23:17, 19 August 2022}}<br />
::That's comic [[2149]], yeah. There's also "I Swear Allegiance To The God-Empress In Life And In Death" in comic [[1413]], a phrase that will suddenly be very familiar in the year 2038.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.111.46|172.70.111.46]] 03:28, 20 August 2022 (UTC)<br />
: The age to learn about Her Majesty, the God-empress is accurate, you kids will just think he's joking before you turn 45 and hear Her voice in your head.{{unsigned ip|162.158.62.167|23:56, 19 August 2022}}<br />
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The age must be stored in a 7 bit number because it wraps back to zero when 128 is reached. - Brian K {{unsigned ip|172.70.174.159|23:52, 19 August 2022}}<br />
:''(Hey, you eager lot, you've all forgotten to (''properly'', if at all) sign your discussion contributions...)''<br />
:...if it were 8-bit signed, unchecked bitwise rollover could be awkward. Especially in 1's Compliment. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.5|172.70.85.5]] 00:23, 20 August 2022 (UTC)<br />
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Make sure the explanations you’re putting in the table are explanations, not reviews of the comic! I agree with the fact that the comic is “America-centric,” but things like that should be stripped of opinion before being put into the article. A better way to put that might be (before the table) “Since Randall lives in America, many of the entries in this comic are specific to the U.S.” [[User:Szeth Pancakes|Szeth Pancakes]] ([[User talk:Szeth Pancakes|talk]]) 01:39, 20 August 2022 (UTC)<br />
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Image has been updated, a new line item at age 50 for shingles vaccine. Whosoever knows how to fix the image on this site, please do so. [[User:Mrob27|Mrob27]] ([[User talk:Mrob27|talk]]) 05:24, 20 August 2022 (UTC)<br />
:I think perhaps the 125 item was meant to be (17+21+35+50) but Randall got it wrong. [[User:Mrob27|Mrob27]] ([[User talk:Mrob27|talk]]) 05:51, 20 August 2022 (UTC)<br />
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I think 118 means thereafter you get to vote 100 times in each election, not that you have voted 100 times ever. Not correcting the table yet, as I may be the only one who thinks this. [[User:Miamiclay|Miamiclay]] ([[User talk:Miamiclay|talk]]) 06:34, 20 August 2022 (UTC)<br />
:I thought that, for what it's worth (there wasn't even a table when I first was here, though, and left everyone else to get on with it). If nobody else mentions it ('officially'), I may do so later. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.225|141.101.98.225]] 08:47, 20 August 2022 (UTC)<br />
:I assumed a joke about getting to cast 100 votes in each subsequent election, but the explanation could be what he meant. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.73|172.71.146.73]] 09:05, 20 August 2022 (UTC)</div>172.71.146.73