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| title = Gravity | | title = Gravity | ||
| image = gravity_2x.png | | image = gravity_2x.png | ||
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| titletext = It's a long way down. | | titletext = It's a long way down. | ||
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+ | *To experience the interactivity, visit the [http://xkcd.com/2712/ original comic]. | ||
==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|Created by HOTBLACK DESIATO'S TAX RETURNS - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
+ | In this interactive comic, the viewer pilots a small spaceship throughout a vast area in space. The viewer is capable of exploring various bodies and planets within the play area, many containing easter eggs alluding to What If? 2 and previous xkcd comics. The flight mechanics are largely, if not entirely, Newtonian, so the vessel is capable of using the gravity of planets to alter its trajectory or even enter orbit. The spaceship has several indicator circles around it which appear when a gravitational body comes into range, showing the direction towards their center of gravity. | ||
− | + | The arrow keys rotate the spaceship and accelerate it forward and backward. On mobile the comic will full screen, pressing either side of the center rotates the spaceship, and pressing in the center accelerates it forward. There is no way to accelerate backward on mobile. | |
− | + | It is fairly easy to fly between planets as long as you pay attention to orbital mechanics don't just floor the accelerator. The background stars show your velocity and orientation relative to the nearest gravity well. If you are having difficulties navigating space, point towards a gravity orb and accelerate for only a few seconds. Wait until the background stars spin wildly, and then reduce your velocity to 0 before genitally <=REALLY?!?? This mistake is too good to correct! :D accelerating towards to object. | |
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+ | Throughout the play area are coins that change the spaceship into different rockets and non-space based vehicles, including humans. | ||
− | + | The comic promotes Randall's new book [https://xkcd.com/what-if-2/ What If? 2], which was released in September and is available for purchase. Many of the planets contain references to various What If? articles. | |
− | + | The comic is similar to [[1608: Hoverboard]], which celebrated Thing Explainer instead. | |
===Celestial Bodies=== | ===Celestial Bodies=== | ||
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− | |The player begins on the launch pad in a landed position. Collecting the orbiting cannonball will transform you into a | + | | |
− | + | |The starting planet. The player begins on the launch pad in a landed position. Collecting the orbiting cannonball will transform you into a more advanced rocket. | |
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− | + | |A planet with among other things; a crane dropping a comet onto a dinosaur, unusually high speed squirrels, Megan inviting Cueball into a pool, a region where the frame rate is intentionally limited, a flagpole, a literal rabbithole referencing the figuratively speaking rabbit hole, someone aiming at a satellite with an arrow, a lake with an eel, the earth-moon firepole, a volcano, two figures being attacked by a third with a sword, two kids playing soccer (Catching the ball will turn the ship into a soccer ball), a farmer on a tractor being stuck in what seems elastic earth, a banana pile, Megan and Cueball digging a hole (in the center of this planet is the "earth's core" referenced below, the Niagara Falls water being redirected into the LHC, Japan(?) leaving earth, a tube to the bottom of the ocean and a reference to everyoneorjustme.com | |
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− | | | + | |Earth's core |
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− | |[[Cueball]] and [[Megan]] floating in a small space in the center of the planet in inverted rotations | + | | |
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+ | |[[Cueball]] and [[Megan]] floating in a small space in the center of the planet in inverted rotations. | ||
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+ | |<code>europa</code> | ||
|'''Europa''' | |'''Europa''' | ||
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|Europa, one of Jupiter's many moons (in real life). A broken, icy crust has a single path into its core. | |Europa, one of Jupiter's many moons (in real life). A broken, icy crust has a single path into its core. | ||
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− | "It's so unfair we don't get to compete in EuroVision." | + | |Europa's crust |
− | + | |"It's so unfair we don't get to compete in EuroVision." | |
"The region of the solar system where liquid water can exist on the surface is the habitable zone, and the region where it can exist beneath the surface of moons is the Eurozone." | "The region of the solar system where liquid water can exist on the surface is the habitable zone, and the region where it can exist beneath the surface of moons is the Eurozone." | ||
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|Europa's crust, with a single entrance into the core demarcated by an octopus leaving a hole. | |Europa's crust, with a single entrance into the core demarcated by an octopus leaving a hole. | ||
− | + | Cueball states that Europa is in the Eurozone, a pun on the ''other'' Eurozone, with liquid underneath its surface. | |
− | + | A roomba whirs across the icy crust. | |
− | + | Cueball has a hairdryer and is melting the surface of the crust. A direct reference to [https://what-if.xkcd.com/35/ What If's Hairdryer]. | |
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− | Cueball has a hairdryer and is melting the surface of the crust. A direct reference to | ||
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− | |A watery ocean with octopi looking out into the great unknown using telescopes. This is a reference to octopus's intelligence here on earth! | + | |A watery ocean with octopi looking out into the great unknown using telescopes. This is a reference to octopus's intelligence here on earth! There's also a secret path leading to a book club, through the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. |
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+ | |<code>b612</code> | ||
|'''B-612''' | |'''B-612''' | ||
− | + | |"Asteroid deflection mission to earth. The package is delivered. Commencing planetary threat neutralization." | |
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− | |A reference to [ | + | |A reference to [https://xkcd.com/618/ Asteroid]. The little prince is having his asteroid blown up as it was heading towards Earth, apparently. |
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− | + | |'''Dog park planet''' | |
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− | + | |A planet with a dog park. Covered in dogs, along with dog walkers and some fences. There's a hole being dug by two dogs and a dog bone empty space in the center. | |
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|'''The Sun''' | |'''The Sun''' | ||
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− | |Difficult to escape from if you hit the core | + | | |
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+ | |Difficult to escape from if you hit the core. | ||
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− | |Difficult to escape from. Can be escaped by rotating around the | + | |Difficult to escape from. Can be escaped by rotating around the sun until an escape-like velocity could be reached. |
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|'''Soupiter''' | |'''Soupiter''' | ||
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|"I think it's chicken noodle? Hard to tell." | |"I think it's chicken noodle? Hard to tell." | ||
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− | |A | + | |A planet made of soup, with a core. As commented by Cueball, noodle soup. Has several small versions of other planets floating around it. |
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+ | |<code>nojapan</code> | ||
|'''Earth without Japan''' | |'''Earth without Japan''' | ||
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|"Something is missing." | |"Something is missing." | ||
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− | |Earth, except it's missing | + | |Earth, except it's missing japan. |
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+ | |<code>japanmoon</code> | ||
|'''Just Japan''' | |'''Just Japan''' | ||
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+ | |<code>pigeons</code> | ||
|'''A blob labeled "Pigeons"''' | |'''A blob labeled "Pigeons"''' | ||
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− | |A reference to Chapter 6 of | + | |A reference to Chapter 6 of What If? 2, where it would take 1.6 x 10^25 pigeons to lift you and a chair up to the halfway point of Australia's Q1 skyscraper. |
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+ | |<code>enterprise</code> | ||
|'''Starship Enterprise''' | |'''Starship Enterprise''' | ||
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+ | |'''Dinosaur planet''' | ||
+ | |<code>qwantz</code> | ||
+ | | (20403,-49559) | ||
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+ | |An homage to [https://www.qwantz.com/ Dinosaur Comics], a webcomic Randall has mentioned several times before. All the dinosaurs on the planet are black-and-white versions of the clip art dinosaurs in that comic. Also references the Jurassic Park movies, in which the long grass depicted is a plot point in later films. | ||
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− | |It looks like a planet labeled "edge of the universe". Outside the universe, so inside the "edge of the universe" | + | |It looks like a planet labeled "edge of the universe". Outside the universe, so inside the "edge of the universe planet", is another universe, the bubble universe. Hidden entrance is between 10 and 11 'o clock. |
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|'''A tree larger than the planet it's growing on''' | |'''A tree larger than the planet it's growing on''' | ||
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− | |May be a reference to [ | + | |May be a reference to [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2:_Petit_Trees_(sketch) Petit Trees]. More probably, a reference to ''The Little Prince'', a french children's novel about a traveler from a distant asteroid. In the novel, baobab trees are a serious threat to the Prince's home asteroid, as they are so large that their roots would engulf the asteroid entirely. Randall has alluded to The Little Prince numerous times before, especially in what-if articles. |
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|'''Milliways''' | |'''Milliways''' | ||
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|'''Present''' | |'''Present''' | ||
− | + | |"I didn't do any of my Christmas shopping yet because I was too busy drawing tiny planets." | |
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"I'm done with my shopping! I got everyone What if? 2" | "I'm done with my shopping! I got everyone What if? 2" | ||
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− | |The | + | |The XKCD cast react to giving each other What if 2? as a present. Gravity at the bottom of the missing quarter of the planet is inescapable. Black Hat gives Cueball a "gift" which he claims "might not be a bobcat", a reference to [[A-Minus-Minus]] |
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+ | |A cluster of black holes with extremely high gravitational strength, set to the maximum of 2048. Not particularly easy to land on with multiple conflicting gravitational fields, but once landed on, rather difficult to escape. | ||
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+ | |<code>remnant</code> | ||
|'''Remnant''' | |'''Remnant''' | ||
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|"All right, that's close enough" | |"All right, that's close enough" | ||
"Oh no" | "Oh no" | ||
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"In 5 billion years, the Sun will run out of fuel and suffer gigennial burnout." | "In 5 billion years, the Sun will run out of fuel and suffer gigennial burnout." | ||
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"The immense gravity of the sun's remnant means that this is the tallest possible skyscraper." | "The immense gravity of the sun's remnant means that this is the tallest possible skyscraper." | ||
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|'''Steerswoman Planet''' | |'''Steerswoman Planet''' | ||
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|"As a Steerswoman, I have to answer any question anyone asks me, or I'm expelled from the order." | |"As a Steerswoman, I have to answer any question anyone asks me, or I'm expelled from the order." | ||
"What's one question that you would be unwilling to answer?" | "What's one question that you would be unwilling to answer?" | ||
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|A reference to the Steerswoman series of books by Rosemary Kirstein. Includes a number of references to the series, including a group of people observing a small object orbiting the planet. | |A reference to the Steerswoman series of books by Rosemary Kirstein. Includes a number of references to the series, including a group of people observing a small object orbiting the planet. | ||
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|'''Peeler''' | |'''Peeler''' | ||
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! Location | ! Location | ||
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+ | ! Image | ||
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− | | | + | | On the starting planet, relatively easy to get |
− | | On the starting planet | + | | ship-tintin |
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− | | Stick figure | + | |On Goodhart |
− | | On Goodhart | + | |ship-figure |
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− | | Soccer | + | | On Earth |
− | | On Earth | + | |ship-soccerball |
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− | | | + | |Slightly thicker version of default ship |
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− | ==Data | + | ==Data Dump== |
− | + | extracted from a JSON blob near the bottom of <code>https://xkcd.com/2712/comic.js</code>. | |
+ | I believe this to be all the data but i'm not sure. this should probably be on a different page but i'll leave that up to the smart people | ||
+ | <pre style="height:10em;overflow-y:scroll;"> | ||
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+ | "image": "figure", | ||
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+ | "size": [ | ||
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+ | }, | ||
+ | "coin-regular": { | ||
+ | "consumable": "yes", | ||
+ | "effect": "transformship|ship2", | ||
+ | "image": "regular", | ||
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+ | "size": [ | ||
+ | 40, | ||
+ | 40 | ||
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+ | }, | ||
+ | "coin-soccerball": { | ||
+ | "consumable": "yes", | ||
+ | "effect": "transformship|ship-soccer", | ||
+ | "image": "soccerball", | ||
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+ | "size": [ | ||
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+ | } | ||
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+ | "tile_source": "tile", | ||
+ | "tile_width": 1024 | ||
+ | } | ||
− | + | </pre> | |
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==Hacks== | ==Hacks== | ||
− | + | '''Modes''' are activated by opening the Javascript Console (F12 [Or Command-Alt-I in most browsers under Mac OS X] to open Developer Tools, then Console tab) and writing corresponding commands.<br> | |
+ | '''Click to expand:'''<br> | ||
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+ | <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed leftAlign" style="width:100%"> | ||
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*'''Speedhack:''' <code>ship.engines = "warp"</code> - Speed hacking, sets speed to 1.4x. set to "standard" to reset to normal speed | *'''Speedhack:''' <code>ship.engines = "warp"</code> - Speed hacking, sets speed to 1.4x. set to "standard" to reset to normal speed | ||
*'''Teleport to planet:''' <code>[Comic.voyager.pos.x, Comic.voyager.pos.y] = Comic.planetRects.'''''origin'''''.slice(0,2)</code> - teleport near a planet, in this example near earth. You'll still have to fly a bit towards the nearest planet to reach it. Replace '''''origin''''' with the ID of the planet you want to go to, from the table above. | *'''Teleport to planet:''' <code>[Comic.voyager.pos.x, Comic.voyager.pos.y] = Comic.planetRects.'''''origin'''''.slice(0,2)</code> - teleport near a planet, in this example near earth. You'll still have to fly a bit towards the nearest planet to reach it. Replace '''''origin''''' with the ID of the planet you want to go to, from the table above. | ||
*'''Teleport to coordinate:''' <code>[Comic.voyager.pos.x, Comic.voyager.pos.y] = '''''[0, -2000]'''''</code> - teleport to an exact coordinate. <code>[0, -2000]</code> happens to take you to the starting area. | *'''Teleport to coordinate:''' <code>[Comic.voyager.pos.x, Comic.voyager.pos.y] = '''''[0, -2000]'''''</code> - teleport to an exact coordinate. <code>[0, -2000]</code> happens to take you to the starting area. | ||
− | + | *'''Chaos Mode:''' <code>ship.engines="infinite improbability drive"</code> - Seems to randomly teleports the ship | |
− | *'''Chaos Mode:''' <code>ship.engines="infinite improbability drive"</code> - Seems to randomly teleports the ship | ||
*'''Insta Death:''' <code>ship.shields = false</code> - Kill the player if they land on a planet, the code never sets it to false, so it seems to be always true. | *'''Insta Death:''' <code>ship.shields = false</code> - Kill the player if they land on a planet, the code never sets it to false, so it seems to be always true. | ||
*'''No Clip:''' <code>noclip = true</code> - Enables noclip. | *'''No Clip:''' <code>noclip = true</code> - Enables noclip. | ||
*'''Select ship:''' <code>Comic.ship = "ship-tintin"</code> - Select ship (use filename from list of ships) | *'''Select ship:''' <code>Comic.ship = "ship-tintin"</code> - Select ship (use filename from list of ships) | ||
− | *'''Autorotate:''' <code>Comic.cameraRotation = false</code> - View does not rotate with ship | + | *'''Autorotate:''' <code>Comic.cameraRotation = false</code> - View does not rotate with ship) |
− | *'''Goggles:''' <code>ze.goggles()</code> - returns a warning: "they do nothing!". This is a reference to Hoverboard, where ''ze.goggles()'' would give you the ability to see false walls. | + | *'''Goggles:''' <code>ze.goggles()</code> - returns a warning: "they do nothing!". This is a reference to Hoverboard, where ''ze.goggles()'' would give you the ability to see false walls. |
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− | + | To celebrate the world of what if? 2, here is your very own planet to explore! | |
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xkcd.com/whatif2 | xkcd.com/whatif2 | ||
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