Talk:1395: Power Cord - Revision history

172.70.90.203 at 00:11, 6 September 2024

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172.68.71.90 at 21:35, 5 September 2024

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Plushiefan4111 at 00:26, 20 November 2023

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172.70.162.147 at 21:23, 6 December 2021

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172.70.162.147 at 21:20, 6 December 2021

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Nitpicking: self-reference

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self-reference

172.69.62.203 at 22:07, 2 September 2021

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172.68.141.146 at 17:05, 9 July 2020

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Lupo at 11:13, 16 January 2020

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162.158.2.221 at 02:49, 11 June 2015

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 :: Or if you're blowing a balloon using a straw that has a one way valve, which goes from your mouth, through your space-suit, and to a balloon which is outside your spacesuit, when you're on the Venusian surface.
 :: They can do so, even on Earth, if the air coming out of your mouth is filtered such that the only bits let through are the components of air that are lighter than the natural mixture of air. (For example, a power line that's been highly charged, could ionise Oxygen atoms much more preferentially than ionising Nitrogen atoms as the flow past the sharp edges of the prongs. The ionised oxygen would react with surrounding bits, and be fixed into a solid state... leaving only the Nitrogen to continue flowing). Nitrogen is lighter than Air. Do this for long enough (a big enough balloon) and it will start floating. If you want to do it faster, and with a smaller balloon - pass the exhaled air over some chemical that absorbs and reacts with carbon-di-oxide (Alkali[ne] hydroxides), absorbs and reacts with water vapour (dessicant), absorbs and reacts with oxygen (bacteria), and absorbs and reacts with nitrogen (nitrogen fixing bacteria). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.208.169|108.162.208.169]] 17:39, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
-:That's the point of Beret Guy. He's the reality-bender. The SCP-001 among these SCP-999s (or 682, in Black Hat's case).
+:That's the point of Beret Guy. He's the reality-bender. The SCP-001 among these SCP-999s (or 682, in Black Hat's case). {{unsigned ip|172.68.71.90|21:35, 5 September 2024}}
 You obviously don't know how gross a keyboard can be...

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 :: Or if you're blowing a balloon using a straw that has a one way valve, which goes from your mouth, through your space-suit, and to a balloon which is outside your spacesuit, when you're on the Venusian surface.
 :: They can do so, even on Earth, if the air coming out of your mouth is filtered such that the only bits let through are the components of air that are lighter than the natural mixture of air. (For example, a power line that's been highly charged, could ionise Oxygen atoms much more preferentially than ionising Nitrogen atoms as the flow past the sharp edges of the prongs. The ionised oxygen would react with surrounding bits, and be fixed into a solid state... leaving only the Nitrogen to continue flowing). Nitrogen is lighter than Air. Do this for long enough (a big enough balloon) and it will start floating. If you want to do it faster, and with a smaller balloon - pass the exhaled air over some chemical that absorbs and reacts with carbon-di-oxide (Alkali[ne] hydroxides), absorbs and reacts with water vapour (dessicant), absorbs and reacts with oxygen (bacteria), and absorbs and reacts with nitrogen (nitrogen fixing bacteria). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.208.169|108.162.208.169]] 17:39, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
 You obviously don't know how gross a keyboard can be...

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	:Reading xkcd, it looks like. Good catch. [[User:Nitpicking\|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking\|talk]]) 16:25, 6 December 2021 (UTC)		:Reading xkcd, it looks like. Good catch. [[User:Nitpicking\|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking\|talk]]) 16:25, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
	::Looks more like a newsletter(/paper), to me. A traditional printed-style (but PDFed, scanned or HTML+CSSed, obviously) two-column split of various paragraphs and images (no obvious headlines). The obvious image looks less than stick-figure... could be a boxer in action, but the residual resolution (and the method of interpolation needed to 'read between the dots') leaves that a very open issue and maybe flavoured by the eye of this particular beholder, unable to unsee what the vague first imrpession was. But it looks like it was doodled as more than a stick-figure (within the limitations of the pixelation), and doesn't have that basic Comic-like look of XKCD (or even a What-If). Though maybe one of the more Infographic ones, extending well off page? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.147\|172.70.162.147]] 21:20, 6 December 2021 (UTC)		::Looks more like a newsletter(/paper), to me. A traditional printed-style (but PDFed, scanned or HTML+CSSed, obviously) two-column split of various paragraphs and images (no obvious headlines). The obvious image looks less than stick-figure... could be a boxer in action, but the residual resolution (and the method of interpolation needed to 'read between the dots') leaves that a very open issue and maybe flavoured by the eye of this particular beholder, unable to unsee what the vague first imrpession was. But it looks like it was doodled as more than a stick-figure (within the limitations of the pixelation), and doesn't have that basic Comic-like look of XKCD (or even a What-If). Though maybe one of the more Infographic ones, extending well off page? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.147\|172.70.162.147]] 21:20, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
		+	::: i did a manual quality upscale. its at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vznnh7ZkSJXei9brI4sNE9cVM8-QmXOc/view?usp=sharing [[User:Plushiefan4111\|plushie fan]] ([[User talk:Plushiefan4111\|talk]]) 00:26, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

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 We can see his screen a bit in panel 3. Can anyone tell what he's doing? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.62.203|172.69.62.203]] 22:07, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
 :Reading xkcd, it looks like. Good catch. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 16:25, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
-::Looks more like a newsletter(/paper), to me. A traditional printed-style (but PDFed, scanned or HTML+CSSed, obviously) two-column split of various paragraphs and images (no obvious headlines). The obvious image looks less than stick-figure... could be a boxer in action, but the residual resolution (and the method of interpolation needed to 'read between the dots') leaves that a very open issue and maybe flavoured by the eye of this particular beholder, unable to unsee what the vague first imrpession was. But it looks like it was doodled as more than a stick-figure (within the limitations of the pixelation), and doesn't have that basic Comic-like look or XKCD. Though maybe one of the more Infographic ones, extending well off page? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.147|172.70.162.147]] 21:20, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
+::Looks more like a newsletter(/paper), to me. A traditional printed-style (but PDFed, scanned or HTML+CSSed, obviously) two-column split of various paragraphs and images (no obvious headlines). The obvious image looks less than stick-figure... could be a boxer in action, but the residual resolution (and the method of interpolation needed to 'read between the dots') leaves that a very open issue and maybe flavoured by the eye of this particular beholder, unable to unsee what the vague first imrpession was. But it looks like it was doodled as more than a stick-figure (within the limitations of the pixelation), and doesn't have that basic Comic-like look of XKCD (or even a What-If). Though maybe one of the more Infographic ones, extending well off page? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.147|172.70.162.147]] 21:20, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

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	We can see his screen a bit in panel 3. Can anyone tell what he's doing? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.62.203\|172.69.62.203]] 22:07, 2 September 2021 (UTC)		We can see his screen a bit in panel 3. Can anyone tell what he's doing? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.62.203\|172.69.62.203]] 22:07, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
	:Reading xkcd, it looks like. Good catch. [[User:Nitpicking\|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking\|talk]]) 16:25, 6 December 2021 (UTC)		:Reading xkcd, it looks like. Good catch. [[User:Nitpicking\|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking\|talk]]) 16:25, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
		+	::Looks more like a newsletter(/paper), to me. A traditional printed-style (but PDFed, scanned or HTML+CSSed, obviously) two-column split of various paragraphs and images (no obvious headlines). The obvious image looks less than stick-figure... could be a boxer in action, but the residual resolution (and the method of interpolation needed to 'read between the dots') leaves that a very open issue and maybe flavoured by the eye of this particular beholder, unable to unsee what the vague first imrpession was. But it looks like it was doodled as more than a stick-figure (within the limitations of the pixelation), and doesn't have that basic Comic-like look or XKCD. Though maybe one of the more Infographic ones, extending well off page? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.147\|172.70.162.147]] 21:20, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

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	We can see his screen a bit in panel 3. Can anyone tell what he's doing? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.62.203\|172.69.62.203]] 22:07, 2 September 2021 (UTC)		We can see his screen a bit in panel 3. Can anyone tell what he's doing? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.62.203\|172.69.62.203]] 22:07, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
		+	:Reading xkcd, it looks like. Good catch. [[User:Nitpicking\|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking\|talk]]) 16:25, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

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	My mother once blown a lighter than air balloon, our best guess was that it was hot air from some fever or something. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.233\|108.162.210.233]] 19:56, 18 July 2014 (UTC)		My mother once blown a lighter than air balloon, our best guess was that it was hot air from some fever or something. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.233\|108.162.210.233]] 19:56, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
	:That would only work for as long as the air in the balloon is warmer than the air surrounding it. I doubt that the balloon is that good as an isulator to have this occur for long. --[[User:Lupo\|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo\|talk]]) 11:13, 16 January 2020 (UTC)		:That would only work for as long as the air in the balloon is warmer than the air surrounding it. I doubt that the balloon is that good as an isulator to have this occur for long. --[[User:Lupo\|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo\|talk]]) 11:13, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
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		+	We can see his screen a bit in panel 3. Can anyone tell what he's doing? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.62.203\|172.69.62.203]] 22:07, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

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 why are all the ips from cloudfare servers? sockpuppets?[[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.121|173.245.53.121]] 09:08, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
+: explainxkcd is hosted through Cloudflare's cdn and all of us connect through Cloudflare. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.141.146|172.68.141.146]] 17:05, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 My mother once blown a lighter than air balloon, our best guess was that it was hot air from some fever or something. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.233|108.162.210.233]] 19:56, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
 :That would only work for as long as the air in the balloon is warmer than the air surrounding it. I doubt that the balloon is that good as an isulator to have this occur for long. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 11:13, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

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	My mother once blown a lighter than air balloon, our best guess was that it was hot air from some fever or something. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.233\|108.162.210.233]] 19:56, 18 July 2014 (UTC)		My mother once blown a lighter than air balloon, our best guess was that it was hot air from some fever or something. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.233\|108.162.210.233]] 19:56, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
		+	:That would only work for as long as the air in the balloon is warmer than the air surrounding it. I doubt that the balloon is that good as an isulator to have this occur for long. --[[User:Lupo\|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo\|talk]]) 11:13, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

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	Beret Guy is obviously exhaling a lighter-than-air gas, either by just taking a large breath of helium beforehand or by a very special cellular breathing process. Moreover, it should be noted that one averts one's eyes before something holy. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.220.41\|108.162.220.41]] 11:02, 16 July 2014 (UTC)		Beret Guy is obviously exhaling a lighter-than-air gas, either by just taking a large breath of helium beforehand or by a very special cellular breathing process. Moreover, it should be noted that one averts one's eyes before something holy. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.220.41\|108.162.220.41]] 11:02, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
		+	:You also avert your eyes when you know something is going to be propelled at your head from a compressed air keyboard... -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/162.158.2.221\|162.158.2.221]] 02:49, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

	Transcript accuracy: is Cueball actually looking up in panel 2? He's still typing after all. (Also, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0f0QzMNk-E&t=17 power chords?]]) --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.87\|108.162.221.87]] 00:48, 17 July 2014 (UTC)		Transcript accuracy: is Cueball actually looking up in panel 2? He's still typing after all. (Also, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0f0QzMNk-E&t=17 power chords?]]) --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.87\|108.162.221.87]] 00:48, 17 July 2014 (UTC)