Talk:3000: Experimental Astrophysics

Moaning about this being the 3000th comic

I really thought he would do something special for the 3000th comic :( i was so hyped 172.68.64.207 03:48, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Saaame:( but maybe he will do something at 3072SomeRandomNerd (talk) 03:57, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

It's about blowing up the Sun and likely destroying the Solar System. That's not special enough for you? Barmar (talk) 04:01, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

It doesn't reference its three-thousandness, unlike comics 1000 and 2000; it could've been released any other day. 162.158.90.25 04:22, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

I was expecting xkcd 3000 for long but very busy today. I found this comic seemingly not too long after its publication, but not rather upset now 物灵 (talk) 06:40, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

SAME! :( B for brain (talk) (youtube channel wobsite (supposed to be a blag)) 09:22, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

ugh me too! why didn't he do it it's so special! 172.71.151.4 (talk) 01:51, 20 October 2024 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I was so hyped but couldn't check because I went camping-now I'm just disappointed. 42.book.addict (talk) 22:06, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Randall really did fall off 😭 Caliban (talk) 10:23, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

xkcd 4000 is coming out on 10 march 2031 unless randall uploads inconsistently during those 1000 comics (very likely)
unrelatedly i pronounce TŻO as /tiː ʐɛd oʊ/. is that normal? MinersHavenM43 (talk) 04:10, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

You (as I) seem to be rightpondian (or have a smattering of ¿polish? culture still within your leftpondian upbringing). I suspect it would be more /ʐi/ for Randall and most of his countrypeople (or straight /zi/, if not a different attempt at the dot-diacritic). It might more correctly be pronounced as /ˈʐɛt/, however, if I have the correct origin. 172.70.162.2 06:12, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

actually i am brazillian, my english is a mix of primarily american and british english. my understanding of polish came from when i was really into linguistics a few years ago. MinersHavenM43 (talk) 12:34, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

That’s it? That’s 3000? 162.158.154.245 04:20, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

3000th comic! Yay? Beanie ^talk 10:29, 19 October 2024 (UTC) sad172.68.54.32 11:01, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

4096 is the next big release by standard XKCD counting? 172.69.71.190 (talk) 13:54, 19 October 2024 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

wow, that's it? c'mon Randall, you made all those neat April fools comics, and you cant make something special for this 172.69.71.130 16:18, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Even worse. He did something special for comic #1000 & #2000. I was SO hyped! B for brain (talk) (youtube channel wobsite (supposed to be a blag)) 18:37, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Damn. Ever since February of this year I've been waiting with bated breath for today to see what awesome and neat thing Randall will have cooked up for 3000. Talk about a disappointment. Hopefully this is just a mistake or a misdirection, and he'll either replace this comic with the real 3000 comic or maybe release the cool comic tomorrow for 3001. Pie Guy (talk) 17:25, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

3001 is a much more geeky number than 3000, anyway... (or maybe 3072). I shall definitely be anticipating something good for 4096, though. 172.68.205.178 19:13, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

And the disappointment of the year award goes to… 172.70.110.93 02:35, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Perhaps Comic 3141 could have some reference to being the first 4 decimal digits of pi? Disappointed nonetheless. 172.70.127.139 (talk) 17:36, 20 October 2024 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Perhaps we're not looking hard enough. Is there a numbering system where TZO means 3000? Or maybe the "Ż" symbol? The little dot is U+0307, which is just off by 7... Or perhaps the "little circle pointing into a mirrored C shape" means 3000 in some kind of diagram... --FrankHightower (talk) 17:09, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Actual comments about this comic

Randall's "Comic 3000" joke is... that he's actually found the funding, as we're soon to discover. (Any guesses where the neutron star came from?) 172.70.58.30 10:03, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Luckily for us, the nearest neutron star is at least 200 light years away. Getting there to capture it and bring it back is going to be at least another 400 years (maybe more like a few thousand) in the making.172.70.134.22 15:25, 21 October 2024 (UTC)