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I got some major Read The Flesh Between The Lines vibes from this comic. Were there eight kings of the name of Henry in England, or were there eighty? Never mind; someday it will be recorded that there was only one, and the attributes of all of them will be combined into his compressed and consensus...

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https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/emoji_movie.png Alt Text: Some other studio should do the Antz/A Bug's Life thing and release The Dingbats Movie at the same time. I'm reminded of qntm's response to the movie. "Oh Lord, imagine the slash fiction, by which I mean the ＼⧹⧵\|/⁄∕／ fiction".

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http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_sake_of_argument.png Alt Text: " 'It's not actually ... it's a DEVICE for EXPLORING a PLAUSIBLE REALITY that's not the one we're in, to gain a broader understanding about it.' 'Oh, like a boat!' '...' 'Just for the sake of argument, we should get a boat! You can...

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I'm actually very surprised that Randall didn't mention the US Postal Service's past experiments with high-speed mail delivery, which actually included one instance of mail being delivered by rocket . From Wikipedia: In 1959 the U.S. Navy submarine USS Barbero assisted the Post Office Department, pr...

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Be honest: how many of you are rooting for the current ebola outbreak?

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http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/new.png Alt Text: "The nice thing about headcannnons is that it's really easy to get other people to believe in them." I'd love to see Black Hat Guy's take on shipping. I would not like to see Black Hat Guy's take on slash. EDIT: Fixed the alt text. That's what...

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Alt Text: "'Why on Earth would someone commit air piracy just to finance a terrible movie decades later?' 'People are very strange these days.'"

And they're both Keanu Reeves. It all makes perfect sense now.

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Alt Text: "Once again topping the list of tonight's hottest rising stars in Hollywood is ζ Persei!" You quote the alt-text wrong. Or perhaps it was changed after you posted. At any rate, it should be xi Persei , not zeta Persei . Thanks for pointing that out - hopefully it's fixed now. Al...

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Alt Text: "Once again topping the list of tonight's hottest rising stars in Hollywood is ξ Persei!"

So, who would it be? My personal bet is on Hugh Jackman - it would explain a lot about his wardrobe.

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Will he fix that? I thought that was just his own subtle experiment...

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http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/research_ethics.png Title text: "I mean, it's not like we could just demand to see the code that's governing our lives. What right do we have to poke around in Facebook's private affairs like that?" At first, I thought that everybody was overreacting to this: s...

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I think they should name a planet "After You". Can you think of a better Pick-Up-Astronomy line? "Wanna go to this planet? I named it after you?" We could also have fun naming planets "Where", "Here", "That", and "What"... What is the name...

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I haven't been here too much - mostly lurking - but all I can say is this: stay strong. Randall's efforts have gotten progressively more epic: we once thought nothing could top Click and Drag, but then came Time. His next big feat will more than make up for this.

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I don't know if this has been mentioned, but right now, there is no alt-text at all for me. Does this mean that a new one is coming soon? I still see "..." Or were you just referring to it BEING "..."? No, I saw it as "..." (and even "...." for a little bit),...

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I don't know if this has been mentioned, but right now, there is no alt-text at all for me. Does this mean that a new one is coming soon?

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Covarr wrote:This comic made me want to throw my computer screen out a window until I figured out it was on purpose.

I'm still wondering whether the missing apostrophes in the last frame are deliberate or not.

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cellocgw wrote:Randall got Ninja'd on this one. See the Twitter feed @NSA_PRISM or something close to that. Oh, here it is https://twitter.com/PRISM_NSA

That twitter feed made my day. Thank you.

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http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dwarf_fortress.png Alt-text: "I may be the kind of person who wastes a year implementing a Turing-complete computer in Dwarf Fortress, but that makes you the kind of person who wastes ten more getting that computer to run Minecraft." Sadly, the internet has alr...

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It is a good place to jump off into a conversation with people you Love. Yes. Sticks and stones can break bones. Don't let it get that far. Call! That is why God gave us Cell Phones and those clunky glasses. Call! If that is not possible, then; What do you tell them? "No matter what 'those' pe...

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http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sticks_and_stones.png Alt Text: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it." An alternative would be "Sticks and stones can't break my bones, and words can't hurt me either." I would recommend using it only if you...

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Is this the same guy who hunts tornadoes, from 640?

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bigcrag92 wrote:after less than an page?

If I stick around, I might get addicted and get no sleep at all tonight.

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Well, I wish you all the best of luck in waiting. I'll go to sleep so that I can wake up to twenty new frames or so (and thank you for the link to the xkcd-time wiki, though I'm a little amazed you guys actually set one up). Good night!

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eow ken not of the RECKONING of our Demon Overlords? there be an big needle-pulled thing on the individual comic page about it. And yes, thereia an glorious religion dedicated to Randall and Thing that keeps slipping into the future. The TimeWaiters, we be called. Ïa Ran'dall! Ïa Cthulhu! Ok, I rea...

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bigcrag92 wrote:Where to bigynne.FULL STOPFULL STOP

Well, I understand that this strip is somehow changing with time, but it seems to have become a religion (and everything I type is also being changed). I'm just confused.

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I'm a newcomer here (at least, to this monstrosity of a thread). What is going on?

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To be pedantic: Your bodys resistance is what it is, the voltage was 29kV, that means by Ohms law the current is fixed. What you mean is that the capacitance was so low that the voltage and current dropped fast enough to not harm you too badly (and that the amperage on the continual source were to ...

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It depends on the waveform of the applied current source. With a nice steady current, the Faraday cage effect will mostly protect you, but a really chaotic waveform could still be dangerous. It takes time for the charges to arrange themselves, and a really crazy waveform can allow significant trans...

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To the best of my (limited) knowledge of physics, electricity always flows on the outside of a conductor. Thus, if you were wearing a full plated suit of armor, would you be able to feel any electric shock applied to you from outside?

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The interesting thing about Zeta is that there were a number of fronts near it that would have ripped the storm apart, but it kept moving away from them and staying alive. It felt as though the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane season didn't want anything silly like the fact that it was now 2006 to stop it fr...

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Ahh, ok. I get that. Thanks for the help!

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No. Say n = 2. Then what you have is 1 = x^2 * e^(-x). There are two solutions there, one where x is positive, and the other where x is negative. They correspond to taking the positive square root of 1, and the negative square root (graph the functions to see this). If n is odd, then it does simpli...

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Yep, E is supposed to be euler's constant here. I'd heard of the Lambert W function before, but I lost you at step 4. If you take the Lambert W function of both sides, wouldn't you get W(-1^(1/n)/n) = -x/n? I mean, from there, the answer is easily found ( ( ( x=-n*W(-1^(1/n)/n) ), but I might just b...

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First off, my apologies if this has been asked before. I'm working on an equation which boiled down to E^x=xⁿ, I need to isolate x, and I have no idea where to go with it from there. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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DVC wrote:Last and First Men was the first thing I thought of. Anyone else have that reaction?

Dang it, I thought I was the only one who had ever heard of that book. Yep, that's what I thought of too.

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I'm game for it if you decide to have another one.

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link3000 wrote:A few songs I like have sounds that are just like the Gmail new-chat notification sounds. It's even worse than alarm-clock noises.

Agreed! I was going to post the same thing, but it is better to quote.

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I think Randall has found a way to incite a (if not multiple) flame wars within this very thread, without actually saying anything provocative. Then again, if the rest of the people posting in this thread are mindful of this, it could still theoretically be averted...

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does anyone besides me still think the ti-89 is the hack for ALL math( except stats because its just hard to type in the data on that calc))? Absolutely they do. My TI-89 Titanium has saved me on more than one year's worth of grades and standardized tests, especially after I learned to program it (...

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Trolley was always my favorite, but I loved the show. I should also hang his picture up as a reminder not to be so arrogant and condescending.

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