Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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Title text: The universe fandom is great. Such sweet and enthusiastic people. |
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This is one of 61 incomplete explanations:
Created by a THREE-D PRINTED FORM BASED ON A HYPOTHETICAL SOLUTION TO THE NAVIER-STOKES LAMINAR-TURBULENCE BOUNDARY EQUATION. Do NOT delete this tag too soon. If you can fix this issue, edit the page!
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Once again,
Randall has devised a new and effective way to annoy a very sizable proportion of the scientific community.In this comic,
Cueball refers to scientific {{w|hypothesis|hypotheses he is trying to explain to
Ponytail,
White Hat, and
Megan, as "fan theories." Scientists are sometimes upset when their very serious hypotheses are not treated with the upmost respect, because there are a lot of charismatic cranks who obtain undeserved recognition.This comic appeared 60 years after
Thomas S. Kuhn's renowned 1962 treatise, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions."The title text may be mocking fandoms, which are sometimes thought of as unwelcoming and inconsiderate.==Transcript=={{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.:[Ponytail, Cueball, White Hat, and Megan standing in a line. Cueball has his hand raised, and Megan has hands balled into fists, exasperated.]:Cueball: But according to leading fan theories, Jupiter's moons may harbor subsurface oceans.:Megan: Will you
please stop calling them that?:[Caption below the panel:]:How to annoy scientists: refer to all hypotheses as "fan theories"{{comic discussion}}
