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:I have tried to make some explanation of the title text. Maybe someone can improve with a better explanation? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:00, 22 February 2016 (UTC) | :I have tried to make some explanation of the title text. Maybe someone can improve with a better explanation? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:00, 22 February 2016 (UTC) | ||
β | Regarding the Incomplete reasoning: "There may be another joke here. What about the branches in the title text. Is there some well known reference to such a tree. Sound like something with parallel universes and infinite possibilities?"... I must disagree, there's no other joke here. The word "branch" here isn't referring to any tree, but rather the ongoing logical possibilities of a conversation. If you take a video game where you can chose what you say in a conversation (or the choose-your-own-comic xkcd that came out a while ago), and map out all the options, it would look like a "tree", selecting THIS option leads to a new set of options, each of which will lead to ITS own set of options. In the aforementioned comic, selecting "Let me refresh" in the first panel leads to a different set of options for the second panel than if you had selected something else for the first panel. You are now following the "Let me refresh" branch of the conversation. That's all "branch" means in the title, it's referring to the conversation which would result from this, which would "branch off" of such a declaration. - NiceGuy1[[Special:Contributions/198.41.235.215|198.41.235.215]] 06:22, 20 February 2016 | + | Regarding the Incomplete reasoning: "There may be another joke here. What about the branches in the title text. Is there some well known reference to such a tree. Sound like something with parallel universes and infinite possibilities?"... I must disagree, there's no other joke here. The word "branch" here isn't referring to any tree, but rather the ongoing logical possibilities of a conversation. If you take a video game where you can chose what you say in a conversation (or the choose-your-own-comic xkcd that came out a while ago), and map out all the options, it would look like a "tree", selecting THIS option leads to a new set of options, each of which will lead to ITS own set of options. In the aforementioned comic, selecting "Let me refresh" in the first panel leads to a different set of options for the second panel than if you had selected something else for the first panel. You are now following the "Let me refresh" branch of the conversation. That's all "branch" means in the title, it's referring to the conversation which would result from this, which would "branch off" of such a declaration. - NiceGuy1[[Special:Contributions/198.41.235.215|198.41.235.215]] 06:22, 20 February 2016 (UTC) |
:I have tried to make some explanation of the title text. Maybe someone can improve with a better explanation? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:00, 22 February 2016 (UTC) | :I have tried to make some explanation of the title text. Maybe someone can improve with a better explanation? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:00, 22 February 2016 (UTC) | ||
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Edit 2: No, they came back! {{unsigned ip|108.162.219.79}} | Edit 2: No, they came back! {{unsigned ip|108.162.219.79}} | ||
:Well not that much expert ;-) If you look at the wiki for {{w|Andromeda (constellation)}} you will find that it is indeed in the northern part of the sky, as are Sirius and Betelgueze (in winter at least). I actually tried to spot Andromeda after this comic came out, but it was not really possible from my garden too close to a larger city (at least at the time of night I tried). But it is rather close to cassiopeia which is even closer to the northern star. So yes all of these three items would be clearly visible at the time of year the comic was releases in the area where the author lives i the US or from the UK where the program he spoofs is made. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 07:19, 26 May 2016 (UTC) | :Well not that much expert ;-) If you look at the wiki for {{w|Andromeda (constellation)}} you will find that it is indeed in the northern part of the sky, as are Sirius and Betelgueze (in winter at least). I actually tried to spot Andromeda after this comic came out, but it was not really possible from my garden too close to a larger city (at least at the time of night I tried). But it is rather close to cassiopeia which is even closer to the northern star. So yes all of these three items would be clearly visible at the time of year the comic was releases in the area where the author lives i the US or from the UK where the program he spoofs is made. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 07:19, 26 May 2016 (UTC) | ||
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