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| Chasing |
 Title text: Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley. |
Explanation
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This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Created by an exciting BOT on the run - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon. |
This comic is a scatter plot comparing how exciting it is to see various things with how possible it is to chase those things using a convoy of coordinated vehicles.
The least chasable are stationary places like the Grand Canyon or International Date Line. It makes no sense to chase them because they don't move around, you just go to their known locations. At the other end of he chasability spectrum are animals that move around rapidly, and fleeting astronomical and atmospherical phenomena like clouds, meteors, and aurora. However, some of these are difficult to chase because they're small and hard to detect from a moving vehicle, e.g. gnats.
| Entity | Explanation |
|---|---|
| The Grand Canyon | Stationary place in Arizona |
| Niagara Falls | Stationary place on the border of US and Canada |
| Tourist attractions | |
| Tourist traps | |
| Sand traps | |
| The International Date Line | Jagged line running from the North to South poles around 180 degrees of longitude, used to separate the time zones that start and end each day. There's nothing to actually see at these locations, and it's mostly in oceans. |
| Meteors | |
| Rainbows | |
| Comets | |
| Sunsets | |
| The Moon | |
| Unusual clouds | |
| Regular clouds | |
| Fog | |
| Rain | |
| Gnats | |
| Aurora | |
| Your favorite band's shows | |
| Rare birds | Many birders will "twitch" to see rare birds, and this requires a fair amount of checking location, behavior, etc. Also, rare birds tend to be exciting to see. |
| Hot air balloons | |
| Radiosondes | |
| Tourist traps | |
| Regular clouds | |
| Regular birds | These are easier to see than rare birds.[citation needed] |
| Neighborhood possums | |
| Sand traps | |
| Fog | Very few people will chase fog. [citation needed] |
| Rain | |
| Regular balloons | |
| Ice cream trucks | |
| Gnats | Nobody wants to track down gnats, but people could theoretically use fancy instruments to do so. |
| Tumbleweeds | |
| Speed traps | |
| Other chasers |
Transcript
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- [An X Y axis graph]
- [Y axis label:]
- Exciting to see in person
- [X axis label:]
- Possible to chase in a convoy of vehicles coordinating over radio and using instruments and data to find optimal viewing locations?
- [X and Y axis values (from bottom left):]
- No
- Yes
- [Top left quarter:]
- The Grand Canyon
- Meteors
- Rainbow
- Comets
- Niagara Falls
- Sunsets
- The Moon
- Tourist attractions
- Unusual clouds
- [Top right quarter:]
- Aurora
- Tornadoes
- Whales
- Your favorite band's shows
- Icebergs
- Rare birds
- Hot air balloons
- [Bottom left quarter:]
- Tourist traps
- Regular clouds
- Sand traps
- Fog
- Rain
- The International Date Line
- Gnats
- [Bottom right quarter:]
- Regular birds
- Radiosondes
- Neighborhood possums
- Regular balloons
- Ice cream trucks
- Tumbleweeds
- Speed traps
- Other chasers
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