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Thread: xkcd
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2022-07-01, 06:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
Yeah, but a lot of the universe is in a state where the laws of chemistry don't really matter. The void of space, or even when there's a stray proton floating around doesn't really have anything for chemistry to apply to. Large amounts of the mass of the universe are probably dark matter, which likely doesn't follow chemistry either. And even a large chunk of normal matter is bound up in things like plasmas, which are their own corner of chemistry, or locked behind an event horizon, beyond which chemistry is irrelevant.
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2022-07-01, 07:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
Chemistry or astronomy is not really a question as it is all just applied physics anyway.
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2022-07-02, 05:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Depends on the ratio of star- to non-star matter. Not a lot of chemistry happening in stars, what with all the electrons and nuclei running around loose at those temperatures.
(And I'm a few years out of date, but last I remember they weren't sure whether dark matter was chemicals either.)I'm pretty much the opposite of concise. If I fail to get to the point, please ask me and I'm happy to (attempt to) clarify.
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2022-07-02, 09:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Depends on the star as memory serves. Some stars have cold enough atmospheres that some chemicals can form. And I would describe emission and absorption lines as chemistry rather than physics, and those afflict all stars (we call it helium because we first discovered it in absorption lines in the sun).
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2022-07-06, 09:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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A new What-If? is up, for those who don't tend to check that part of the site. (I idly wondered when it came in, and lo and behold, it's actually only 8h old).
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2022-07-14, 06:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-07-14, 06:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
There was a new post (Hot Banana) back in May, and then the one DataNinja mentioned (Hailstones) a week ago.
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2022-07-14, 07:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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From my understanding the absence of updates was due to using the materials for his book instead. Which, you know, fair enough.
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2022-07-14, 07:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-07-15, 08:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
Yeah, I honestly wasn't expecting more, so it was a pleasant surprise out of force of habit more than anything.
The stars predict tomorrow you'll wake up, do a bunch of stuff, and then go back to sleep.~ That's your horoscope for today.
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2022-07-18, 06:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
If today's comic is to be believed, you can still just BUY lab coats!
Stop using good evidence and logic that makes sense to refute points, that's my job
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2022-07-18, 07:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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The worst part is that between working in LTC pharmacy and having a strong nursing background in my family, this is actually less horrible than many of the worst things I've seen or heard of being done within a medical environment. (Excepting discussions of people being criminally neglectful of people in assisted care or the like; that's not funny, that's just horrifying.)
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2022-07-18, 07:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
Sure! I found some on Amazon for like $30!
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2022-11-25, 11:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Can anyone here tell me which one is the one where people fall in love and they're like "ha! You lost the game! I make you happy!"
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2022-11-26, 02:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
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2022-12-03, 04:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
The mention of a literal interpretation of "squaring the circle" in the mouseover text of the most recent comic makes me want to watch an animation of an increasingly accurate Fourier approximation of a square in polar coordinates. Is that weird?
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2022-12-07, 12:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
You might also like Matt Parker's "squircle" video, then.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjtTcyWL0NA
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2022-12-07, 03:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
It doesn't seem to approach very quickly. Friggin' discontinuities, amirite?
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2022-12-17, 08:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
A new interactive comic !
Try steering with the cursor-keys.-HaJo
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2022-12-17, 09:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
Or if you're on mobile, tap directly left/right/below the focus.
(Now I'm wondering if tapping directly above the focus would do anything.) Edit: same as tapping below.
Edit: if you get lost (which I did almost immediately) - the little persistent circles do mean something. Go find them.Last edited by theangelJean; 2022-12-17 at 09:25 AM.
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2022-12-17, 10:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-12-17, 02:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
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2022-12-18, 01:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-12-18, 09:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
Click on the comic, then steer with the cursor-keys.
Try to get the cannonball orbiting the starting planet ;)
The dots around the ship indicate nearby objects.
Up and down are relative to the gravity of the nearest object.
Watch the background stars as a speed-indicator.
See explainxkcd for more info,
as well as forum (and old forum) and reddit.
Last edited by hajo; 2022-12-21 at 03:39 PM.
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2023-02-11, 04:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
Am I the only one whos says "avec serifs" for fonts that aren't sans serifs?
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2023-02-11, 12:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-02-23, 02:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
Ironically, "only serif" font's most useful usage is probably that you can typeset it over a "sans serif" font with the same metrics, and then you can manipulate its color or style. To produce this effect:
But obviously Randall also realized this part, hence his joke about typesetting Times only serif over Comic Sans.Last edited by ahyangyi; 2023-02-23 at 02:02 PM.
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