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− | This is another one of [[Randall|Randall's]] [[:Category: Tips|Tips]], this time a Spacetime health tip. | + | {{incomplete|Created by a DIZZY ROBOT - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
+ | This is another one of [[Randall|Randall's]] [[:Category:Tips|Tips]], this time a Spacetime health tip. | ||
This comic may refer to a thing that some people with {{w|OCD}} do, which is to spin around to get rid of "net rotations," hence the title of this comic. [[Cueball]] (perhaps representing [[Randall]]?) takes this one step beyond the typical person with OCD - he calculates the net rotations each day and spins around at the end of the day to cancel this out. In this case, he would be spinning left 17 rotations to return to zero. | This comic may refer to a thing that some people with {{w|OCD}} do, which is to spin around to get rid of "net rotations," hence the title of this comic. [[Cueball]] (perhaps representing [[Randall]]?) takes this one step beyond the typical person with OCD - he calculates the net rotations each day and spins around at the end of the day to cancel this out. In this case, he would be spinning left 17 rotations to return to zero. | ||
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A mobile device with position and orientation sensing might be able to keep track of one's net rotations, eliminating the need for calculations. One would need only to do one's spinning while monitoring the device to see when it returned to zero. | A mobile device with position and orientation sensing might be able to keep track of one's net rotations, eliminating the need for calculations. One would need only to do one's spinning while monitoring the device to see when it returned to zero. | ||
− | The caption suggests that this is healthy and necessary/highly recommended to do this. However, most people don’t, and most people are still | + | The caption suggests that this is healthy and necessary/highly recommended to do this. However, most people don’t, and most people are still ok.{{Citation needed}} In fact, xkcd's own characters are perfectly ok with [[162: Angular Momentum|accumulating net rotations]] and [[2679: Quantified Self|similar topological excesses]]. |
− | + | While unlikely, this comic could also be influenced by a 1966 novel, The Revolving Boy by {{w|Gertrude Friedberg}}, if Randall has read it, whose protagonist suffered from being out of true depending on the number of turns he was forced to make in his everyday life. No spoiler as to why that was important to the plot. | |
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