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)
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)
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)
