Talk:2344: 26-Second Pulse

The transcript is calling the character "Hairbun," and while apparently Hairbun has several different renditions, one thing common to them all is that she has a single bun. This character has two buns, as can be seen in the second panel. Probably should not be conflated with a character that has a single bun. 108.162.237.172 01:13, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

I think it's Science Girl? Definitely not Hairbun. 172.69.35.31 01:20, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

It's Science Girl except she's an adult. We really need to resolve whether all appearances of this hairstyle are Science Girl or if we need different character pages for the child and adult versions. And reassign all of the Hairbun appearances that have the darker hair and ponytail to be SG instead. LtPowers (talk) 12:24, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Is this pulse a real phenomenon? A cursory google search turned up nil.

   Future me: Yes it's real I was just using poor google-fu. https://phys.org/pdf214488694.pdf

(Could future future you learn to properly indent and sign comments? Just as courtesy.) 162.158.159.18 01:47, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

(And, while you’re at it, don’t forget to point out the Easter egg in your link. The photographer credited. Coincidence? I think not.) Dhugot (talk) 07:50, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

XKCD seems to be posted later and later. I mean, it was always somewhat Tuesdayish (I'm in Australia) but now I don't seem to see it until Tuesday afternoons... Am I imagining this, or are the posts getting to be much later than they used to be? 172.69.134.139 03:10, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Back in the olden days, it would update at midnight Eastern time sharp, but those days are long gone. Some comics have come out a day late even in Randall's timezone. --188.114.103.205 04:29, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

My notification script has to check for new comics a lot more often because of how inconsistent the post times are; however, because of the relatively short check interval I know that new comics are posted mostly between 8pm-midnight (UTC) but many as wide as 4pm and 1am the next day.

...actually, I think I'm going to go plot the post times I have and find out what my data says. Vaedez (talk) 05:38, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Something similar happened in Oklahoma last year and until the real explanation was found the pulse was a mystery: National Geographic’s Article

The location was probably just not determined exactly. The giant was actually buried at 0° 0° for convenience. Fabian42 (talk) 08:28, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

As well as Poe's poem, I wonder if Randall is also thinking of HP Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu", and of the great old one Cthulhu, unawake beneath the oceans at R'lyeh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu Paul Seed 09:43, 11 August 2020 (UTC) <-- this. I was going to post Cthulhu but ya ninja'd me. So I did some RESEARCH (aka Making Shit Up) and discovered that this pulse is coming from Красный Oктябрь , which accidentally ran aground there and is trying to drive free. Cellocgw (talk) 10:55, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Isn't it obviously some human source, like an oil drilling rig or so. --162.158.159.18 09:49, 11 August 2020 (UTC)