Talk:3135: Sea Level - Revision history

Utdtutyabthsc at 08:09, 4 May 2026

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Utdtutyabthsc at 08:07, 4 May 2026

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Utdtutyabthsc at 04:36, 4 May 2026

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42.book.addict: "New comments should be added at the bottom"

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"New comments should be added at the bottom"

Elizium23: corrected date

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Elizium23: first post

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first post

RadiantRainwing at 00:40, 12 February 2026

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82.13.184.33 at 08:35, 8 September 2025

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82.13.184.33 at 08:33, 8 September 2025

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80.189.2.17: Romans

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Romans

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 ::::Wait, no, not everyone has read comic 493 by the time they're adults. I'm too lazy right now to calculate how many people learn about comic 493 each day, so I'll leave it as [[356|an exercise for the reader]]. <span class="nowrap">—megan [[user talk:megan|talk]] [[special:contribs/megan|contribs]]</span> 01:01, 31 August 2025 (UTC)
 ::::This is where it pays to have read every XKCD comic :P [[User:Logalex8369|Logalex8369]] ([[User talk:Logalex8369|talk]]) 16:45, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
 This one is related to the [https://xkcd.com/2809/ Moon] comic. [[User:Pgn674|Pgn674]] ([[User talk:Pgn674|talk]]) 01:39, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

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	Anyone here in 2005? [[User:Elizium23\|Elizium23]] ([[User talk:Elizium23\|talk]]) 02:06, 12 February 2026 (UTC)		Anyone here in 2005? [[User:Elizium23\|Elizium23]] ([[User talk:Elizium23\|talk]]) 02:06, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
	:IS ANYONE HERE IN 2422. --[[User:Utdtutyabthsc\|Utdtutyabthsc]] ([[User talk:Utdtutyabthsc\|talk]]) 04:36, 4 May 2026 (UTC)		:IS ANYONE HERE IN 2422. --[[User:Utdtutyabthsc\|Utdtutyabthsc]] ([[User talk:Utdtutyabthsc\|talk]]) 04:36, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
		+	:(in case you're wondering, this imitates the style of WV from Homestuck, who, in the first bit is on Earth in the year 2422) --[[User:Utdtutyabthsc\|Utdtutyabthsc]] ([[User talk:Utdtutyabthsc\|talk]]) 08:07, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

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	Anyone here in 2005? [[User:Elizium23\|Elizium23]] ([[User talk:Elizium23\|talk]]) 02:06, 12 February 2026 (UTC)		Anyone here in 2005? [[User:Elizium23\|Elizium23]] ([[User talk:Elizium23\|talk]]) 02:06, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
		+	:IS ANYONE HERE IN 2422. --[[User:Utdtutyabthsc\|Utdtutyabthsc]] ([[User talk:Utdtutyabthsc\|talk]]) 04:36, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

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-Anyone here in 2005? [[User:Elizium23|Elizium23]] ([[User talk:Elizium23|talk]]) 02:06, 12 February 2005 (UTC)
+Holy crud empty page! F1RST P0ST! [[User:RadiantRainwing|K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk)]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 01:38, 30 August 2025
 :2038: Last of the original Star Wars cast dies. <span class="nowrap">—megan [[user talk:megan|talk]] [[special:contribs/megan|contribs]]</span> 02:18, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
-::What? If you're trying to get back at me because I was being useless and just "first posting", it's a reference to [[269: TCMP]], and I also, by the way, wrote the whole first paragraph of this explanation. [[User:RadiantRainwing|K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk)]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 00:40, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
+::What? If you're trying to get back at me because I was being useless and just "first posting", it's a reference to [[269: TCMP]], and I also, by the way, wrote the whole first paragraph of this explanation. [[User:RadiantRainwing|K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk)]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 02:50, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
-:::Alright, sorry, just realized what you did is a reference to [[493: Actuarial]]. Sorry about that! [[User:RadiantRainwing|K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk)]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 00:40, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
+:::Alright, sorry, just realized what you did is a reference to [[493: Actuarial]]. Sorry about that! [[User:RadiantRainwing|K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk)]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 02:53, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
 ::::I guess you're one of today's lucky [[Ten Thousand]]...
 ::::Wait, no, not everyone has read comic 493 by the time they're adults. I'm too lazy right now to calculate how many people learn about comic 493 each day, so I'll leave it as [[356|an exercise for the reader]]. <span class="nowrap">—megan [[user talk:megan|talk]] [[special:contribs/megan|contribs]]</span> 01:01, 31 August 2025 (UTC)
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 This one is related to the [https://xkcd.com/2809/ Moon] comic. [[User:Pgn674|Pgn674]] ([[User talk:Pgn674|talk]]) 01:39, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
-:Clearly. [[User:RadiantRainwing|K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk)]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 00:40, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
+:Clearly. [[User:RadiantRainwing|K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk)]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 01:49, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
 :Definitely easy to see, even the references are the same…Randall we trust in you not to copy again…《プロキシ》(XKCD中毒者) 19:07, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
 ::it's almost a repeat. is he running out of ideas? [[user:lett‪herebedarklight|raeb]] 09:54, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
-:::Hope not. [[User:RadiantRainwing|K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk)]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 00:40, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
+:::Hope not. [[User:RadiantRainwing|K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk)]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 16:56, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
 :::Why do people talk about running out of ideas?  That is something I can't imagine.  The world throws ideas and absurdities at you all the time.  Running out of time to execute an idea - sure.  Seems much more likely to be filtering error (have to check current idea against 3000 previous strips).  [[Special:Contributions/107.77.205.64|107.77.205.64]] 19:42, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
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 As we're still mentioning Pluto-Charon, just need to properly point out that (regardless of planethood), its moon is ''so good'' at causing tides, on Pluto's actual hard-mass, that Pluto would now not experience cyclic tides ''anything like'' Earth's twice-daily version. It's perhaps a bit anthropocentrically-expdriential, but we could say that Earth's sweet-spot of tides lies between those of moons too small+distant to create notable tides and those so large+near that they've dominated the 'planet' into a situation where tides are meaningless. (Ditto other twin-dwarf-planets out there.)<br/>
 We also have an oceanic, but land-studded, surface; pretty much without precedent on any other body that we know sufficient information about. Tides on Titan (by Saturn, i.e. planet-on-moon) can't do quite so much with its methane 'lakes', Tides on Europa (by Jupiter) can at most flex the icy shell over its substantial water-ocean with no 'land' to flood/reveal. Which might well each produce interesting alternative tide-related effects, to the tides as ''we'' best known them, but very much not the same thing. (Titan, in particular, seems to have possible dominating 'seasonal' transference of liquid from hemisphere to hemisphere, but not by a tide-type mechanism. Any nominal Titanians would perhaps be used to that change of local shorelines, but still be mystified/surprised by ''our'' tides. What potential Europans might think is even harder to say, as we have even less unambiguous understanding about what ''their'' home-experience is, like if there's any 'spires' of base rock that reach significantly up the local column of liquid-water to make the icy shell movement a notable effect. And our world would already be considered strange enough to their 'eyes'.) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.238.108|82.132.238.108]] 18:24, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

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-Anyone here in 2005? [[User:Elizium23|Elizium23]] ([[User talk:Elizium23|talk]]) 02:06, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
+Anyone here in 2005? [[User:Elizium23|Elizium23]] ([[User talk:Elizium23|talk]]) 02:06, 12 February 2005 (UTC)
 Holy crud empty page! F1RST P0ST! [[User:RadiantRainwing|K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk)]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 00:40, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
 :2038: Last of the original Star Wars cast dies. <span class="nowrap">—megan [[user talk:megan|talk]] [[special:contribs/megan|contribs]]</span> 02:18, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

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 All planets with intelligent life we know have tides. In fact one could argue that tides play an important role in the development in life. Thus any intelligent observe is arguably familiar with tides. Thus the text is wrong in arguing that tides are surprising based on the observation that most known planets likely do not have large tides. --[[Special:Contributions/2A01:599:114:9E35:D827:C56:FF88:1858|2A01:599:114:9E35:D827:C56:FF88:1858]] 19:09, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
 :Argument has problems - insufficient sample size, selection bias.  Nothing in the comic talked about intelligent life.
 :The role of tides in development of life certainly makes sense to add.
 :Tides are strange in that they are very complex and hard to explain in detail.  Fluid dynamics in a very complex, non-ridgid vessel, involve gravitational forces from multiple bodies.  [[Special:Contributions/107.77.205.64|107.77.205.64]] 20:00, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
 :: Sample size is definitely a problem. Nothing in the comic talks about tides being strange in a cosmic sense. They are just very weird for one of the two observers from earth. --[[Special:Contributions/195.63.76.62|195.63.76.62]] 20:39, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
 ::: Realistic. Early Romans had no experience of tides until they ventured out of the Medditeranean, and were probably as spooked by them as the observer here. [[Special:Contributions/80.189.2.17|80.189.2.17]] 22:38, 3 September 2025 (UTC)
 :All planets with intelligent life that we know of also have microwave ovens and television cameras and rubber ducks. Perhaps those are also essential for the long-term continued existence of intelligent life? [[User:PotatoGod|PotatoGod]] ([[User talk:PotatoGod|talk]]) 19:09, 31 August 2025 (UTC)
 ::Well, I can confirm that microwave ovens are essential for the continued existence of this intelligent lifeform. [[Special:Contributions/159.118.184.96|159.118.184.96]] 04:47, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
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 :On a (twice-)daily basis, yes. But that's like saying an unseasonal/hyperseasonal cold snap belies the possibility of global warming. (If that's the point you're trying to make.)
 :And I'm not sure if you're saying that Randall "is the sort of person who would go on and on about climate change, but for soe reason he surprisingly didn't do so here" or "he really ought to be mentioning climate change at every opportunity, but he missed the opportunity to convey the concept"..? I'd disagree with ''both'' of those assessments of his (non-)inclusion here, though, and perhaps you're even coming from a completely different third direction that I might or might not understand. But really not the place to discuss it, as he obviously hasn't made that part of the joke/message in this comic. [[Special:Contributions/92.17.62.87|92.17.62.87]] 23:27, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
 Lightning should be common throughout the universe, as the ingredients for it (planetary atmospheres containing things like dust that can build up differential static charges through agitation) appear to be. It's still a very weird phenomenon, with many aspects not understood (how does the triboelectric effect work, can breakdown patterns be predicted, wtf is going on with sprites and ball lightning, etc) but it really isn't likely to be rare. --[[Special:Contributions/81.96.108.67|81.96.108.67]] 05:48, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

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	:: Sample size is definitely a problem. Nothing in the comic talks about tides being strange in a cosmic sense. They are just very weird for one of the two observers from earth. --[[Special:Contributions/195.63.76.62\|195.63.76.62]] 20:39, 30 August 2025 (UTC)		:: Sample size is definitely a problem. Nothing in the comic talks about tides being strange in a cosmic sense. They are just very weird for one of the two observers from earth. --[[Special:Contributions/195.63.76.62\|195.63.76.62]] 20:39, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
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		+	::: Realistic. Early Romans had no experience of tides until they ventured out of the Medditeranean, and were probably as spooked by them as the observer here. [[Special:Contributions/80.189.2.17\|80.189.2.17]] 22:38, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

	:All planets with intelligent life that we know of also have microwave ovens and television cameras and rubber ducks. Perhaps those are also essential for the long-term continued existence of intelligent life? [[User:PotatoGod\|PotatoGod]] ([[User talk:PotatoGod\|talk]]) 19:09, 31 August 2025 (UTC)		:All planets with intelligent life that we know of also have microwave ovens and television cameras and rubber ducks. Perhaps those are also essential for the long-term continued existence of intelligent life? [[User:PotatoGod\|PotatoGod]] ([[User talk:PotatoGod\|talk]]) 19:09, 31 August 2025 (UTC)