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DollarStoreBa'al: 'Early comics' has been used to indicate basically any comic before #1000 on this wiki. Title texts explained the joke in the LiveJournal comics

2025-11-11T15:29:05Z

'Early comics' has been used to indicate basically any comic before #1000 on this wiki. Title texts explained the joke in the LiveJournal comics

BobcatInABox at 19:29, 14 September 2025

2025-09-14T19:29:42Z

Squishmallow fan: did no one else notice this?

2024-02-08T22:27:45Z

did no one else notice this?

172.71.242.124: Undo revision 331730 by GetPunnedOn (talk) Misspelt. And duplicates (with differences) the actual Transcript right below...

2023-12-31T04:42:14Z

Undo revision 331730 by GetPunnedOn (talk) Misspelt. And duplicates (with differences) the actual Transcript right below...

GetPunnedOn at 02:02, 31 December 2023

2023-12-31T02:02:37Z

162.158.74.42: Undo revision 323186 by IdiosyncraticLawyer (talk)

2023-09-02T23:41:00Z

Undo revision 323186 by IdiosyncraticLawyer (talk)

IdiosyncraticLawyer: Spacing

2023-09-02T22:19:47Z

Spacing

FaviFake at 07:56, 31 August 2023

2023-08-31T07:56:15Z

FaviFake at 07:49, 31 August 2023

2023-08-31T07:49:11Z

FaviFake at 10:26, 19 August 2023

2023-08-19T10:26:00Z

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 This comic is a mathematical and technical joke involving prime numbers and primary colors. In the comic, a black-colored ''70'' sees a package, but it turns out to be a {{w|letter bomb}} that explodes when opened. The result is pieces of the number scattered about: a red-colored ''7'', a green-colored ''5'', and a blue-colored ''2''.
-The title text explains the logic for splitting 70 into 7, 5, and 2; as with many of the earlier comics, the title text explains the joke rather than adding to it. 7*5*2 is a {{w|prime factorization}} of the number 70. {{w|Prime number|Prime numbers}} are numbers that cannot be divided by any number other than itself and 1. Factors of a number are numbers that can be multiplied together to produce that number (e.g., 2&times;5&times;7 = 70). 70 has other factors, including 1, 10, 14, 35, and 70, but 2, 5, and 7 are the only factors that are prime. All other factors of 70 can be formed by choosing zero, two, or three of the prime factors and multiplying them together.
+The title text explains the logic for splitting 70 into 7, 5, and 2; as with many other comics posted to LiveJournal, the title text explains the joke rather than adding to it, as later comics would7*5*2 is a {{w|prime factorization}} of the number 70. {{w|Prime number|Prime numbers}} are numbers that cannot be divided by any number other than itself and 1. Factors of a number are numbers that can be multiplied together to produce that number (e.g., 2&times;5&times;7 = 70). 70 has other factors, including 1, 10, 14, 35, and 70, but 2, 5, and 7 are the only factors that are prime. All other factors of 70 can be formed by choosing zero, two, or three of the prime factors and multiplying them together.
 An implication of this comic is that prime numbers would be immune to explosions, as they are already their smallest parts. Although not explicitly called out, the colors of the numbers also seem to have been blown apart. Red, green, and blue are the primary colors in the {{w|additive color}} model. These colors mixed in pairs produce cyan, magenta, and yellow, which are primary colors in the {{w|subtractive color}} model. The removal of all additive primary colors, or conversely, the combination of all subtractive primary colors, produces black, which is the color of the original 70. The comic is somewhat misleading in that red, green, and blue do not compose black in either color model, but the difference between the two models is not widely understood (most still view the additive primaries as red, yellow, and blue).

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 ==Transcript==
-:[A black number 70 sees a red package. This small panel is partly overlaid on the next larger panel, which is shifted down.]
+:[A black number 70 sees a red package with the appearance of a Christmas present. This small panel is partly overlaid on the next larger panel, which is shifted down.]
 :'''70'''
 :70: hey, a package!

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	An implication of this comic is that prime numbers would be immune to explosions, as they are already their smallest parts. Although not explicitly called out, the colors of the numbers also seem to have been blown apart. Red, green, and blue are the primary colors in the {{w\|additive color}} model. These colors mixed in pairs produce cyan, magenta, and yellow, which are primary colors in the {{w\|subtractive color}} model. The removal of all additive primary colors, or conversely, the combination of all subtractive primary colors, produces black, which is the color of the original 70. The comic is somewhat misleading in that red, green, and blue do not compose black in either color model, but the difference between the two models is not widely understood (most still view the additive primaries as red, yellow, and blue).		An implication of this comic is that prime numbers would be immune to explosions, as they are already their smallest parts. Although not explicitly called out, the colors of the numbers also seem to have been blown apart. Red, green, and blue are the primary colors in the {{w\|additive color}} model. These colors mixed in pairs produce cyan, magenta, and yellow, which are primary colors in the {{w\|subtractive color}} model. The removal of all additive primary colors, or conversely, the combination of all subtractive primary colors, produces black, which is the color of the original 70. The comic is somewhat misleading in that red, green, and blue do not compose black in either color model, but the difference between the two models is not widely understood (most still view the additive primaries as red, yellow, and blue).
−	~~==Accsesibility script==~~
−	~~:A number seventy spots a package.~~
−	~~:“hey, a package!“~~
−	~~:The package explodes in a huge mushroom cloud.~~
−	~~:A seven, five, and two are lying down near the scorch that the explosion made.~~

	==Transcript==		==Transcript==

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	An implication of this comic is that prime numbers would be immune to explosions, as they are already their smallest parts. Although not explicitly called out, the colors of the numbers also seem to have been blown apart. Red, green, and blue are the primary colors in the {{w\|additive color}} model. These colors mixed in pairs produce cyan, magenta, and yellow, which are primary colors in the {{w\|subtractive color}} model. The removal of all additive primary colors, or conversely, the combination of all subtractive primary colors, produces black, which is the color of the original 70. The comic is somewhat misleading in that red, green, and blue do not compose black in either color model, but the difference between the two models is not widely understood (most still view the additive primaries as red, yellow, and blue).		An implication of this comic is that prime numbers would be immune to explosions, as they are already their smallest parts. Although not explicitly called out, the colors of the numbers also seem to have been blown apart. Red, green, and blue are the primary colors in the {{w\|additive color}} model. These colors mixed in pairs produce cyan, magenta, and yellow, which are primary colors in the {{w\|subtractive color}} model. The removal of all additive primary colors, or conversely, the combination of all subtractive primary colors, produces black, which is the color of the original 70. The comic is somewhat misleading in that red, green, and blue do not compose black in either color model, but the difference between the two models is not widely understood (most still view the additive primaries as red, yellow, and blue).
		+	==Accsesibility script==
		+	:A number seventy spots a package.
		+	:“hey, a package!“
		+	:The package explodes in a huge mushroom cloud.
		+	:A seven, five, and two are lying down near the scorch that the explosion made.

	==Transcript==		==Transcript==

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 | date      = January 1, 2006
 | title     = Blown apart
-| image     = blownapart color.jpg
+| image     = blownapart_color.jpg
 | titletext = Blown into prime factors
 }}

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 ==Trivia==
-* This comic and [[12: Poisson]] were posted for the first time on the [[:Category:First day on xkcd|first day of xkcd.com]]. Both of these comics were exclusively published on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] and were never shared on [[LiveJournal]].
+* This comic and [[12: Poisson]] were posted for the first time on the [[:Category:First day on xkcd.com|first day of xkcd.com]]. Both of these comics were exclusively published on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] and were never shared on [[LiveJournal]].
 * This comic was [[:Category:Sunday comics|released on a Sunday]].

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 {{comic discussion}}
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+[[Category:First day on xkcd.com]]
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