2198: Throw - Revision history

66.58.216.90: moar triviars

2025-11-27T17:36:11Z

moar triviars

FaviFake at 17:05, 25 February 2025

2025-02-25T17:05:13Z

172.68.2.126: /* Trivia */

2024-07-08T19:14:55Z

‎Trivia

172.70.162.18: /* Table of throw distances */ Actually, I decided to. And it does look quite good. (Maybe matching lower-left colour and first-column cells below would be better, but not right now.)

2024-06-03T02:20:22Z

‎Table of throw distances: Actually, I decided to. And it does look quite good. (Maybe matching lower-left colour and first-column cells below would be better, but not right now.)

172.70.160.248: /* Table of throw distances */ Would be better with {{diagonal split header|RowTopHeader|ColSideHeader}}, if that were available, and can't be bothered to try to deconstruct and reconstruct its style from where it works...

2024-06-03T02:06:50Z

‎Table of throw distances: Would be better with {{diagonal split header|RowTopHeader|ColSideHeader}}, if that were available, and can't be bothered to try to deconstruct and reconstruct its style from where it works...

162.158.155.19: /* Table of distance units */

2024-06-03T01:02:22Z

‎Table of distance units

172.70.131.24: /* Safety Considerations */

2024-04-28T19:45:18Z

‎Safety Considerations

172.71.103.11: Undo revision 336213 by 108.162.245.167 (talk): bad choice, the proletarians have nothing to throw but their chains

2024-03-02T11:43:42Z

Undo revision 336213 by 108.162.245.167 (talk): bad choice, the proletarians have nothing to throw but their chains

108.162.245.167 at 01:05, 1 March 2024

2024-03-01T01:05:17Z

FaviFake at 09:03, 24 July 2023

2023-07-24T09:03:52Z

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 ==Trivia==
 *If you set the height and mass low enough, you can become throwable by Pikachu.
 *The comic refers to Thor as the character from the Marvel comics and movies (and other media), who is himself a reference to the ancient Norse god.  In Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, Thor is played by Chris Hemsworth.

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 | titletext = The keys to successfully throwing a party are location, planning, and one of those aircraft carrier steam catapults.
 }}
-<div class="toclimit-3">{{TOC}}</div>
+<div class="toclimit-3">{{TOC}}</div>To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2198|original comic}}.
 ==Explanation==

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 ==Trivia==
 *The comic refers to Thor as the character from the Marvel comics and movies (and other media), who is himself a reference to the ancient Norse god.  In Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, Thor is played by Chris Hemsworth.
 *Thor's hammer, Mjölnir, bears an enchantment that prevents any living being from lifting it unless they are "worthy." This is reflected in the simulation by giving Mjölnir a mass of 2,000 kg.

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 ===Table of throw distances===
 {| class="wikitable"
-!Item&nbsp;\&nbsp;Thrower
+!style="background:#EAECF0;background:linear-gradient(to top right,#EAECF0 49%,#AAA 49.5%,#AAA 50.5%,#EAECF0 51%);line-height:1.2;padding:0.1em 0.4em;{{{style|}}}"|<div style="margin-left:2em;text-align:right">Thrower</div><div style="margin-right:2em;text-align:left">Item</div>
 !NFL&nbsp;Quarterback
 !George&nbsp;Washington

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 ===Table of throw distances===
 {| class="wikitable"
-!Item&nbsp;/&nbsp;Thrower
+!Item&nbsp;\&nbsp;Thrower
 !NFL&nbsp;Quarterback
 !George&nbsp;Washington

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 |{{w|List_of_unusual_units_of_measurement#Block|Manhattan blocks}}
 |80.0
-|The numbered streets in {{w|Manhattan}} run east-west and are generally 60 feet (18 m) wide, with about 200 feet (61 m) between each pair of streets. With each combined street and {{w|City block|block}} adding up to about 260 feet (79 m), there are almost exactly 20 blocks per mile. The typical block in Manhattan is 250 by 600 feet (76 by 183 m). When driving in a grid-like city, the {{w|Manhattan distance}} between two points is a concept, although it is also called {{w|Taxicab geometry}}. It seems like it is indeed the combined street and block distance. This measurement is used for lengths from 75 to 131 meters.
+|Most of {{w|Manhattan}} is a main {{w|street grid}} (the southernmost ~2 miles (3.2 km) isn't (no 1811 plan yet), the next ~8.25 miles is (including the bigger of two main central business districts), the remaining ~2.8 miles of island street system is less and less like the famous part the further north you go (steep hills and pro- and anti-grid people fighting). Between 1st Street and 164th or 165th {{w|city block|blocks}} are roughly 200 feet (79 m) wide net of streets and sidewalks (which sum to 60 feet (18 m) except 155th, 145th, 135th, 125th, 116th, 106th, 96th, 86th, 79th, 72nd, 57th, 42nd, 34th, 23rd, and 14th Streets are 100 feet (30 m) and {{w|Houston Street|the street below 1st}} is 125 feet (38 m) which is almost the perfect width to give the row of blocks below 1st a maximum width of 280 feet (85 m) street centerline-to-centerline which is what it would be if 0th Street existed and was 100 feet wide and the grid continued to its south side). Thus there are almost exactly 20 blocks per mile (the 100 foot streets aren't exactly once per 10 streets cause Broadway etc) and I measured 43,560.01 feet from the lowest street centerline point of the row of blocks below 1st to what the centerline of the grid-compliant part of 165th Street would be if it was 100 feet wide instead of 80 (this is closer to what it should be (43,560 feet) than my method's error bar size). {{w|Manhattan distance}} is a {{w|taxicab geometry}} concept (the shortest distance if you must travel parallel to or on Cartesian axes). This measurement is used for lengths from 75 to 131 meters.
 |-
 |{{w|List_of_unusual_units_of_measurement#Football_field_(length)|Football fields}}
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 |A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units equal to one-eighth of a mile. It is part of the {{w|List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement#FFF_units|FFF_units}} of the {{w|FFF system}} for furlong/firkin/fortnight, length, mass and time. One furlong should therefore be 201.168 meters, though the United States does not uniformly use this conversion ratio. Older ratios are in use for surveying purposes in some states. Only Thor's distances are given in furlongs. This measurement is used for lengths of 201 meters (1 furlong) and up. For the standard throwers and items only Thor can throw over 200 m, thus only he uses Furlongs to measure his throws. Given that this is an old unit, and Thor is based on ancient Nordic Mythology, this may seem appropriate.
 |}
 ===Data from xkcd code===

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 * A squirrel might bite the person attempting to throw it, which is dangerous as some squirrels have rabies.
 * Pikachu could shock (possibly fatally) someone trying to throw it.
-* If a {{w|Dwarf-tossing|person is thrown}}, that person may be badly injured. If you throw people without consent they might punch you.
+* If a {{w|Dwarf-tossing|person is thrown}}, that person may be badly injured. If you throw people without consent they might punch you{{Citation needed}}.
 ==Throwers and throw items==

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 | date      = September 3, 2019
 | title     = Throw
-| image     = Flag of the Soviet Union.svg
+| image     = throw.png
 | titletext = The keys to successfully throwing a party are location, planning, and one of those aircraft carrier steam catapults.
 }}

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 This is an interactive comic made to celebrate the release of [[Randall|Randall's]] new book, ''[[How To]]''. The comic is based on a chapter in the book.
-As the comic celebrates the book, which was released on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019, the comic was thus also released on a [[:Category:Tuesday comics|Tuesday]] to coincide with the release day, replacing that week's normal Wednesday release. This was the same timing used for another of Randall's book releases, when [[1608: Hoverboard]] came out on the Tuesday when [[Thing Explainer]] came out. Although the Hoverboard comic is much more complex than this one, they are both [[:Category:Dynamic comics|dynamic]] and [[:Category:Interactive comics|interactive]], and include [[:Category:Comics with animation|animations]]. Also, the [[header text]] changed to [[header_text#2019-09-04_-_Happy_Release_Day_-_bookstore|promote the release]] creating a large [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/08/2198_Throw_-_Front_page_promotion.PNG combined promotion] of the book during the three full days the comic was on the front page (see more [[2198:_Throw/Screen-shots#Entire_xkcd_page_with_promotion|here]]).
+As the comic celebrates the book, which was released on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019, the comic was thus also released on a [[:Category:Tuesday comics|Tuesday]] to coincide with the release day, replacing that week's normal Wednesday release. This was the same timing used for another of Randall's book releases, when [[1608: Hoverboard]] came out on the Tuesday when [[Thing Explainer]] came out. Although the Hoverboard comic is much more complex than this one, they are both [[:Category:Dynamic comics|dynamic]] and [[:Category:Interactive comics|interactive]], and include [[:Category:Comics with animation|animations]]. Also, the [[Header text|header text]] changed to [[Header text#2019-09-04_-_Happy_Release_Day_-_bookstore|promote the release]] creating a large [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/08/2198_Throw_-_Front_page_promotion.PNG combined promotion] of the book during the three full days the comic was on the front page (see more [[2198:_Throw/Screen-shots#Entire_xkcd_page_with_promotion|here]]).
 In this comic the viewer can select a thrower and an object to be thrown, see this [[#Throwers and throw items|table]], and get an [[2198:_Throw/Screen-shots#Animation|animation]] of how the selected throw would work out, along with an estimated distance of the throw (both in the SI unit meter (m) and in other very arbitrary units; see this [[#Table of distance units|table]] below) if the throw was possible. Impossible throws include those where the thrower is not strong enough to throw the object, or when the thrower tries to throw themselves, which is possible as four "objects" are also listed as throwers, most prominently {{w|George Washington}}. As the picture above cannot show all the possible selections in the two windows, pictures of all possible selections can be found [[2198:_Throw/Screen-shots#Throwers_and_Objects|here]]