52: Secret Worlds - Revision history

FaviFake at 11:19, 25 April 2025

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FaviFake at 16:11, 26 March 2025

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FaviFake: Undo revision 369854 by 162.158.74.94 (talk) - It's there for other reasons, and I'm planning to change it. see my talk page

2025-03-22T14:28:16Z

Undo revision 369854 by 162.158.74.94 (talk) - It's there for other reasons, and I'm planning to change it. see my talk page

162.158.74.94: Move LiveJournal to trivia. It's not about the comic itself.

2025-03-22T11:50:07Z

Move LiveJournal to trivia. It's not about the comic itself.

172.70.58.5: /* Explanation */

2025-03-22T11:47:28Z

‎Explanation

172.70.58.5: /* Explanation */ Not four coloured, if white blobs exist but their colour is undetermined.

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‎Explanation: Not four coloured, if white blobs exist but their colour is undetermined.

FaviFake at 13:00, 31 August 2023

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FaviFake at 12:59, 31 August 2023

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FaviFake at 08:58, 20 August 2023

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FaviFake at 08:57, 20 August 2023

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 {{comic
 | number    = 52
-| date      = January 21, 2006  <!-- The comic was released two days earlier on xkcd.com than on LiveJournal (23/1 2006). We use the earliest possible day-->
+| date      = January 21, 2006<!-- The comic was released two days earlier on xkcd.com than on LiveJournal (23/1 2006). We use the earliest possible day-->
 | title     = Secret Worlds
-| before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/#:~:text=8%3A15%20am-,Secret%20Worlds,-(1%20Comment LiveJournal title</span>]: '''Secret Worlds'''</big></big>
+| ognumber  = 50
 | image     = secret_worlds.jpg
 | titletext = No two adjacent circles are the same color.
 }}
-This was the fiftieth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[51: Malaria]], and the next one was [[53: Hobby]]. It was among the [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd.com|last eleven comics]] posted both on LiveJournal and on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] after the new site was launched. This comic wasn't published on the same day across both sites, but most of them shared the same posting day. It was released on LiveJournal on January 23, 2006, two days after originally being posted on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. See the [[#Trivia|triva section]] below.
+This was the fiftieth comic [[LiveJournal|originally posted to LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[51: Malaria]], and the next one was [[53: Hobby]]. It was among the [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd.com|last eleven comics]] posted both on LiveJournal and on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] after the new site was launched. This comic wasn't published on the same day across both sites, but most of them shared the same posting day. It was released on LiveJournal on January 23, 2006, two days after originally being posted on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. See the [[#Trivia|triva section]] below.
 ==Explanation==

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 }}
 This was the fiftieth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[51: Malaria]], and the next one was [[53: Hobby]]. It was among the [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd.com|last eleven comics]] posted both on LiveJournal and on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] after the new site was launched. This comic wasn't published on the same day across both sites, but most of them shared the same posting day. It was released on LiveJournal on January 23, 2006, two days after originally being posted on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. See the [[#Trivia|triva section]] below.
 The quote written in the large white bubbles comes from {{w|The Sandman (Vertigo)|The Sandman}}, a comic book series about dreams. {{w|Neil Gaiman}} is a science fiction and fantasy author who came to fame for writing The Sandman. The interconnected bubbles represent the secret worlds of different people and how they are connected. They may have the second meaning of the neurons in our brain.

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 ==Explanation==
 The quote written in the large white bubbles comes from {{w|The Sandman (Vertigo)|The Sandman}}, a comic book series about dreams. {{w|Neil Gaiman}} is a science fiction and fantasy author who came to fame for writing The Sandman. The interconnected bubbles represent the secret worlds of different people and how they are connected. They may have the second meaning of the neurons in our brain.
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 ==Trivia==
 * For unknown reasons, on January 18, 2006, [[54: Science]] was posted on LiveJournal on the same day that [[51: Malaria]] was released on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. Three days later, on January 21, 2006, [[51: Malaria]] was posted on LiveJournal, thus forcing the next two comics (this one and [[53: Hobby]]) to be released on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] two days before LiveJournal. Four days later, on January 25, 2006, [[54: Science]] was finally posted on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com], which fixed the date discrepancies and allowed the next comic, [[55: Useless]], to be published on the same day across both sites.
 * This comic was [[:Category:Saturday comics|released on a Saturday]].

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 ==Explanation==
 The quote written in the large white bubbles comes from {{w|The Sandman (Vertigo)|The Sandman}}, a comic book series about dreams. {{w|Neil Gaiman}} is a science fiction and fantasy author who came to fame for writing The Sandman. The interconnected bubbles represent the secret worlds of different people and how they are connected. They may have the second meaning of the neurons in our brain.
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 ==Trivia==
 * For unknown reasons, on January 18, 2006, [[54: Science]] was posted on LiveJournal on the same day that [[51: Malaria]] was released on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. Three days later, on January 21, 2006, [[51: Malaria]] was posted on LiveJournal, thus forcing the next two comics (this one and [[53: Hobby]]) to be released on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] two days before LiveJournal. Four days later, on January 25, 2006, [[54: Science]] was finally posted on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com], which fixed the date discrepancies and allowed the next comic, [[55: Useless]], to be published on the same day across both sites.
 * This comic was [[:Category:Saturday comics|released on a Saturday]].

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 The quote written in the large white bubbles comes from {{w|The Sandman (Vertigo)|The Sandman}}, a comic book series about dreams. {{w|Neil Gaiman}} is a science fiction and fantasy author who came to fame for writing The Sandman. The interconnected bubbles represent the secret worlds of different people and how they are connected. They may have the second meaning of the neurons in our brain.
-The title text suggests that Randall used the {{w|Four color theorem}}, which states that a {{w|graph theory|graph}} drawn on a flat plane (like this one) requires at most four colors so that each region differs from all of its neighbors. The comic uses four colors (red, yellow, green, blue). This clearly does not include the white bubbles with text. Nor can the white bubbles be replaced with a different colour: each white bubble is connected to all four other colours.
+The title text suggests that Randall used the {{w|Four color theorem}}, which states that a {{w|graph theory|graph}} drawn on a flat plane (like this one) requires at most four colors so that each region differs from all of its neighbors. Whilst the comic uses four colors (red, yellow, green, blue), this clearly does not include the white bubbles with text. Nor can the white bubbles be replaced with a different colour: each white bubble is connected to all four other colours.
 Here is the original quote:

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 This was the fiftieth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[51: Malaria]], and the next one was [[53: Hobby]]. It was among the [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd.com|last eleven comics]] posted both on LiveJournal and on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] after the new site was launched. This comic wasn't published on the same day across both sites, but most of them shared the same posting day. It was released on LiveJournal on January 23, 2006, two days after originally being posted on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. See the [[#Trivia|triva section]] below.
-The quote written in the large white bubbles comes from {{w|The Sandman (Vertigo)|The Sandman}}, a comic book series about dreams. {{w|Neil Gaiman}} is a science fiction and fantasy author who came to fame for writing The Sandman. The interconnected bubbles represent the secret worlds of different people and how they are connected. They may have the second meaning of the neurons in our brain. The title text indicates that Randall used the {{w|Four color theorem}}, which states that a {{w|graph theory|graph}} drawn on a flat plane (like this one) requires at most four colors so that each region differs from all of its neighbors. The comic uses four colors (red, yellow, green, blue). This clearly does not include the white bubbles with text. Here is the original quote:
+The quote written in the large white bubbles comes from {{w|The Sandman (Vertigo)|The Sandman}}, a comic book series about dreams. {{w|Neil Gaiman}} is a science fiction and fantasy author who came to fame for writing The Sandman. The interconnected bubbles represent the secret worlds of different people and how they are connected. They may have the second meaning of the neurons in our brain.
 {{Quote|Everybody has a secret world inside of them... All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.|[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/413047-everybody-has-a-secret-world-inside-of-them-i-mean- Neil Gaiman]}}

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