Talk:2312: mbmbam - Revision history

172.70.85.63: /* Wrong comic title? */

2024-08-10T00:00:31Z

‎Wrong comic title?

Adrmcr: /* Wrong comic title? */ new section

2024-08-09T21:40:09Z

‎Wrong comic title?: new section

172.68.51.107 at 09:56, 11 January 2023

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PoolloverNathan: If you don't know what millibuckets are, play modded Minecraft.

2021-09-24T17:54:37Z

If you don't know what millibuckets are, play modded Minecraft.

172.69.63.13 at 02:09, 28 June 2021

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PaulSeed at 21:38, 28 June 2020

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PaulSeed at 21:34, 28 June 2020

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162.158.74.209 at 10:08, 23 June 2020

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Bischoff at 19:54, 2 June 2020

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162.158.155.218 at 21:52, 29 May 2020

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	The XKCD website shows the comic title as "MBMBaM" instead of "mbmbam"; should this be fixed? [[User:Adrmcr\|Adrmcr]] ([[User talk:Adrmcr\|talk]]) 21:40, 9 August 2024 (UTC)		The XKCD website shows the comic title as "MBMBaM" instead of "mbmbam"; should this be fixed? [[User:Adrmcr\|Adrmcr]] ([[User talk:Adrmcr\|talk]]) 21:40, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
		+	:It was created by the BOT of the day, which (from experience, but also checking some of the contemporary comics/local pages) should have taken exactly what it was called at the time of discovering its release.
		+	:If it needs a page move, it'd ideally also need a "comic details changed"-type note, perhaps even an appropriate category membership (there's one for comic images changing, which this wouldn't be, but ...without checking... not entirely sure if this kind of tweak has another). [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.63\|172.70.85.63]] 00:00, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

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	mb • mb [millibar times millibarn] is not mbmb - it is ubb [microbarbarn]. Such a gabing plot hole...		mb • mb [millibar times millibarn] is not mbmb - it is ubb [microbarbarn]. Such a gabing plot hole...
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		+	== Wrong comic title? ==
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		+	The XKCD website shows the comic title as "MBMBaM" instead of "mbmbam"; should this be fixed? [[User:Adrmcr\|Adrmcr]] ([[User talk:Adrmcr\|talk]]) 21:40, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

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	:Here's a link to a page with multiple uses of mb with the meaning millibarn. It's in the [https://books.google.com/books?id=VVezDAAAQBAJ&pg=SA11-PA174 CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (97th ed., 2016)], a "comprehensive one-volume reference reasource for scientific research". [[User:JohnB\|JohnB]] ([[User talk:JohnB\|talk]]) 13:28, 29 May 2020 (UTC)		:Here's a link to a page with multiple uses of mb with the meaning millibarn. It's in the [https://books.google.com/books?id=VVezDAAAQBAJ&pg=SA11-PA174 CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (97th ed., 2016)], a "comprehensive one-volume reference reasource for scientific research". [[User:JohnB\|JohnB]] ([[User talk:JohnB\|talk]]) 13:28, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
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		+	[[Special:Contributions/172.68.51.107\|172.68.51.107]] 09:56, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
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		+	mb • mb [millibar times millibarn] is not mbmb - it is ubb [microbarbarn]. Such a gabing plot hole...

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 The five consistent versions of superstring theory apparently suggests that space-time has only ten dimensions, so this may be a rare error by Randall. Or I may just have misunderstood.
 --Paul Seed 21:34, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
 == mbar ==

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	Can anyone please explain (to me) the role of white hat in this comic? He is not part of the conversation and just makes more or less random statements, concluding in "I hate you". What am I missing here? [[User:Bischoff\|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff\|talk]]) 19:54, 2 June 2020 (UTC)		Can anyone please explain (to me) the role of white hat in this comic? He is not part of the conversation and just makes more or less random statements, concluding in "I hate you". What am I missing here? [[User:Bischoff\|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff\|talk]]) 19:54, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
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		+	: I really think that this comic would be better without White Hat in it. His actions do seem like a complete non-sequitar.

	For most of the dialogue, Megan and Cueball are discussing some oddities of dimensional units and making puns, while White Hat struggles to keep up.		For most of the dialogue, Megan and Cueball are discussing some oddities of dimensional units and making puns, while White Hat struggles to keep up.

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 ) True but lacking insight ("UNITS ARE WEIRD")
 ) A valid pun but out by about 10^50 ("ONE PODCAST")
-) Freaking out becasue it is all too weird for him ("PLANCK YEAST!")
+) Freaking out because it is all too weird for him ("PLANCK YEAST!")
 ) Final breakdown due to some very high level punning by Cueball and Megan ("...I HATE YOU")

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	Can anyone please explain (to me) the role of white hat in this comic? He is not part of the conversation and just makes more or less random statements, concluding in "I hate you". What am I missing here? [[User:Bischoff\|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff\|talk]]) 19:54, 2 June 2020 (UTC)		Can anyone please explain (to me) the role of white hat in this comic? He is not part of the conversation and just makes more or less random statements, concluding in "I hate you". What am I missing here? [[User:Bischoff\|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff\|talk]]) 19:54, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
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		+	For most of the dialogue, Megan and Cueball are discussing some oddities of dimensional units and making puns, while White Hat struggles to keep up.
		+	His utterances can be seen as
		+	1) True but lacking insight ("UNITS ARE WEIRD")
		+	2) A valid pun but out by about 10^50 ("ONE PODCAST")
		+	3) Freaking out becasue it is all too weird for him ("PLANCK YEAST!")
		+	4) Final breakdown due to some very high level punning by Cueball and Megan ("...I HATE YOU")
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		+	In the last panel, Cueball and Megan link Planck yeast (not a thing) and unleavened (yeast-free)
		+	bread to several concepts in theoretical physics:
		+	Quantum foam, the curvature of space time, and M-theory.
		+	M-theory suggests that space-time has eleven ("unleavened") dimensions, and is described by Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory) as a unification of superstring theories.
		+	The five consistent versions of superstring theory apparently suggests that space-time has only ten dimensions, so this may be a rare error by Randall. Or I may just have misunderstood.
		+	--Paul Seed 21:34, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

	== mbar ==		== mbar ==

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	So ... what would the MMMbop unit be?		So ... what would the MMMbop unit be?
		+	:: the power of love

	This has gotta be at least the third or fourth time he's referenced MBMBaM. https://what-if.xkcd.com/155/ and https://xkcd.com/1836/ I know are two more examples, but there might be more. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.13\|162.158.107.13]] 00:54, 28 May 2020 (UTC)		This has gotta be at least the third or fourth time he's referenced MBMBaM. https://what-if.xkcd.com/155/ and https://xkcd.com/1836/ I know are two more examples, but there might be more. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.13\|162.158.107.13]] 00:54, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

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	anyone following that podcast who can shed light on the arrangement of the dashes? why is there non between "and" and "me" but between all the other words? (my-brother-my-brother-and [[2109\|(how do I emphasize a space?)]] me) --[[User:Lupo\|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo\|talk]]) 06:40, 29 May 2020 (UTC)		anyone following that podcast who can shed light on the arrangement of the dashes? why is there non between "and" and "me" but between all the other words? (my-brother-my-brother-and [[2109\|(how do I emphasize a space?)]] me) --[[User:Lupo\|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo\|talk]]) 06:40, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
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		+	Can anyone please explain (to me) the role of white hat in this comic? He is not part of the conversation and just makes more or less random statements, concluding in "I hate you". What am I missing here? [[User:Bischoff\|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff\|talk]]) 19:54, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

	== mbar ==		== mbar ==

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	: Reminds me of how this symbol: "μ" means both "micro" (micrometer is μm.), and "friction" (frictional constant of X would be μ = X), and the population statistical average (the average acceleration due to gravity on the surface of earth is μ_gravity), and something like 20 other things according to this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(letter)#Use_as_symbol [[User:Tsumikiminiwa\|Tsumikiminiwa]] ([[User talk:Tsumikiminiwa\|talk]]) 15:53, 28 May 2020 (UTC)		: Reminds me of how this symbol: "μ" means both "micro" (micrometer is μm.), and "friction" (frictional constant of X would be μ = X), and the population statistical average (the average acceleration due to gravity on the surface of earth is μ_gravity), and something like 20 other things according to this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(letter)#Use_as_symbol [[User:Tsumikiminiwa\|Tsumikiminiwa]] ([[User talk:Tsumikiminiwa\|talk]]) 15:53, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
		+	::: Reminds me of the old joke: Several kittens have found their way up onto a sloping roof, which one falls off first? The one with the lowest μ... [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.218\|162.158.155.218]] 21:52, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

	:: "It's an advice show for the ''modren'' era", not modern. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.79.15\|162.158.79.15]] 19:35, 28 May 2020 (UTC)		:: "It's an advice show for the ''modren'' era", not modern. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.79.15\|162.158.79.15]] 19:35, 28 May 2020 (UTC)