,sn,title,altText,imageUrl,x,y 0,1,1: Barrel - Part 1,Don't we all.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d1/barrel_cropped_%281%29.jpg,38.760093688964844,-23.727296829223633 1,2,2: Petit Trees (sketch),"""Petit"" being a reference to Le Petit Prince, which I only thought about halfway through the sketch",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3e/tree_cropped_%281%29.jpg,33.07898712158203,28.724685668945312 2,3,3: Island (sketch),"Hello, island",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/78/island_color.jpg,-1.1076867580413818,-1.911952257156372 3,4,4: Landscape (sketch),There's a river flowing through the ocean,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/ff/landscape_cropped_%281%29.jpg,0.98773592710495,-15.868966102600098 4,5,5: Blown apart,Blown into prime factors,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/62/blownapart_color.jpg,20.40906524658203,-29.754161834716797 5,6,6: Irony,It's commonly known that too much perspective can be a downer.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/irony_color.jpg,-12.667852401733398,47.72907638549805 6,7,7: Girl sleeping (Sketch -- 11th grade Spanish class),"I don't remember her name at all, but she fell asleep on the floor in front of me.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/29/girl_sleeping_noline_%281%29.jpg,-10.4871826171875,-2.0170071125030518 7,8,8: Red spiders,They are six-legged spiders,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c6/red_spiders_small.jpg,43.6835823059082,10.841204643249512 8,9,9: Serenity is coming out tomorrow,"Mal, Simon, Wash, Zoe, River, Kaylee, Jayne, Inara, Book.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e4/firefly.jpg,-15.761723518371582,30.09138298034668 9,10,10: Pi Equals,"My most famous drawing, and one of the first I did for the site",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c5/pi.jpg,-19.042882919311523,-14.234545707702637 10,11,11: Barrel - Part 2,Awww.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b5/barrel_mommies.jpg,38.76408767700195,-23.73091697692871 11,12,12: Poisson,Poisson distributions have no value over negative numbers,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/33/poisson.jpg,26.830921173095703,-12.434043884277344 12,13,13: Canyon,"They're standing at the lip of the canyon, which isn't clear at all.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6c/canyon_small.jpg,-12.290335655212402,47.504764556884766 13,14,14: Copyright,"After reading Slashdot and BoingBoing, sometimes I have to go outside.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/44/copyright.jpg,33.06358337402344,29.294044494628906 14,15,15: Just Alerting You,Just thought you should know,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/63/just_alerting_you.jpg,-22.87797737121582,8.106945037841797 15,16,16: Monty Python -- Enough,"I went to a dinner where there was a full 10 minutes of Holy Grail quotes exchanged, with no context, in lieu of conversation. It depressed me badly.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fe/monty_python.jpg,-19.89655876159668,-7.943243503570557 16,17,17: What If,I once made an anniversary card for my then-girlfriend with this layout.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/30/what_if.jpg,-3.2782399654388428,-31.0487060546875 17,18,18: Snapple,Sn = tin,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/37/snapple.jpg,-19.468624114990234,-7.656945705413818 18,19,19: George Clinton,I still wish it were true.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2b/george_clinton.jpg,22.054508209228516,-13.22741413116455 19,20,20: Ferret,My brother had a ferret he loved which died since I drew this strip. RIP.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/13/ferret.jpg,-10.997015953063965,47.006202697753906 20,21,21: Kepler,Science joke. You should probably move along.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/98/kepler.jpg,-4.371118545532227,5.794180870056152 21,22,22: Barrel - Part 3,A whirlpool!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/13/barrel_whirlpool.jpg,38.7171745300293,-23.714515686035156 22,23,23: T-shirts,It's depressing how many of these are real shirts,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/64/t-shirts.jpg,-23.025190353393555,6.566028594970703 23,24,"24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey","I love the idea here, though of course it's not a great-quality drawing or scan.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/63/godel_escher_kurthalsey.jpg,4.537339210510254,-30.63765525817871 24,25,25: Barrel - Part 4,:(,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3d/barrel_part_4.jpg,38.78038024902344,-23.741544723510742 25,26,26: Fourier,That cat has some serious periodic components,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/fourier.jpg,25.027563095092773,16.304784774780273 26,27,27: Meat Cereals,Disgusting,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e0/meat_cereals.jpg,-1.946829915046692,-1.2245782613754272 27,28,28: Elefino,Hell if I know,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9b/elefino.jpg,-19.24721908569336,-13.111608505249023 28,29,29: Hitler,"So he's saying that God thought Hitler's art was so bad that the Holocaust was an acceptable alternative. It's no secret that the hat guy is closely based on Aram, from Men in Hats.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/be/hitler.jpg,-6.214118480682373,-3.5753166675567627 29,30,30: Donner,Some people haven't heard of the Donner Party. They were pioneers who got stranded and likely resorted to cannibalism.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e1/donner.jpg,-15.075370788574219,23.325878143310547 30,31,31: Barrel - Part 5,Too good not to happen.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cb/barrel_part_5.jpg,38.865699768066406,-23.79463768005371 31,32,32: Pillar,"A comic by my brother Doug, redrawn and rewritten by me",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/73/pillar.jpg,-12.253823280334473,47.46095275878906 32,33,33: Self-reference,I think about self-reference a lot. Example: this comment.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/19/self-reference.jpg,9.012177467346191,11.02664566040039 33,34,34: Flowers,"This is actually pencil on paper, just inverted and colored",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/96/flowers.jpg,20.31027603149414,-28.056095123291016 34,35,35: Sheep,I think it's the sheep zapping the cactus and not vice-versa,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ab/sheep.jpg,-0.848572313785553,-2.8647074699401855 35,36,36: Scientists,A leading expert characterized the situation as 'retarded',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/38/scientists.jpg,-13.815882682800293,-14.828067779541016 36,37,37: Hyphen,I do this constantly,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b4/hyphen.jpg,-31.918197631835938,-18.588563919067383 37,38,38: Apple Jacks,"There used to be these ads, see...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/26/apple_jacks.jpg,38.16035079956055,0.5161709189414978 38,39,39: Bowl,For the moment it's a standoff,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/70/bowl.jpg,-6.178253650665283,40.50644302368164 39,40,40: Light,Like a beacon,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7c/light.jpg,-22.49288558959961,-2.573357343673706 40,41,41: Old Drawing,I don't want to talk about it,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e5/unspeakable_pun.jpg,32.57890319824219,27.2178955078125 41,42,42: Geico,David did this,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0a/geico.jpg,-31.929567337036133,-18.234603881835938 42,43,43: Red Spiders 2,This was actually drawn years before Red Spiders,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/05/red_spiders_2.jpg,43.68431854248047,10.93034553527832 43,44,44: Love,This one makes me wince every time I think about it,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2a/love.jpg,-29.861679077148438,-2.4282896518707275 44,45,45: Schrodinger,There was no alt-text until you moused over,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/54/schrodinger.jpg,13.992262840270996,-19.090877532958984 45,46,46: Secrets,I'm a big fan of Kurt Halsey,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b0/secrets.jpg,-17.996082305908203,-9.883082389831543 46,47,47: Counter-Red Spiders,I hope we can stop them,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/23/counter-red-spiders.jpg,43.25687789916992,10.832921981811523 47,48,48: Found,"No more, no less",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/01/found.jpg,-4.759335517883301,-13.452230453491211 48,49,49: Want,"Well, she's pretty hot.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e9/want.jpg,22.433494567871094,14.883184432983398 49,50,50: Penny Arcade,"Of course, Penny Arcade has already mocked themselves for this. They don't care.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6c/penny_arcade.jpg,-4.276416301727295,-3.091560125350952 50,51,51: Malaria,The malaria party was David's idea.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/86/malaria.jpg,-12.318925857543945,-10.938034057617188 51,52,52: Secret Worlds,No two adjacent circles are the same color.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/20/secret_worlds.jpg,15.159857749938965,-30.599031448364258 52,53,53: Hobby,The only one of these games I really played was Area 51,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/hobby.jpg,38.25325393676758,-4.612149238586426 53,54,54: Science,Bonus points if you can identify the science in question,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/74/science.jpg,1.3284283876419067,-52.81721115112305 54,55,55: Useless,Even the identity matrix doesn't work normally,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ac/useless.jpg,-0.7090504765510559,-30.091463088989258 55,56,56: The Cure,My first try at drawing a real face in years.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/54/the_cure.jpg,1.6533734798431396,-4.473842144012451 56,57,57: Wait For Me,Opening dialogue by Scott,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/wait_for_me.jpg,-7.497469902038574,4.442101955413818 57,58,58: Why Do You Love Me?,Opening dialogue by Scott,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/28/why_do_you_love_me.jpg,-28.847637176513672,-2.8672478199005127 58,59,59: Graduation,Opening dialogue by Scott,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e4/graduation.jpg,1.3935129642486572,11.373095512390137 59,60,60: Super Bowl,"The Super Bowl is actually an elaborate ruse, concocted by a shadowy group in the mid sixties for this purpose. The ""watch it for the ads"" addition was a master stroke.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/40/super_bowl.jpg,-32.29841995239258,-19.867279052734375 60,61,61: Stacey's Dad,"I bet she gets you to mow the lawn, doesn't she?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/02/staceys_dad.jpg,-8.186488151550293,27.887229919433594 61,62,62: Valentine - Karnaugh,"Love and circuit analysis, hand in hand at last.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7b/valentine_karnaugh.png,-28.652252197265625,-3.7243735790252686 62,63,63: Valentine - Heart,Just pretend you're kidding.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dc/valentine.jpg,38.78430938720703,-11.98357105255127 63,64,64: Solar Plexus,"It hurts to be hit there, you know",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/35/solar_plexus.jpg,-32.868492126464844,-1.0245879888534546 64,65,65: Banter,This was an actual mock conversation between me and a friend at TGIF. The waitress walked up around panel 5 and was somewhat put off.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0b/banter.jpg,-9.390379905700684,46.930824279785156 65,66,66: Abusive Astronomy,Medium: Pencil on paper,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d9/abusive_astronomy.jpg,-15.397868156433105,-24.127307891845703 66,67,67: Nerd Girls,"Nothing personal, high schoolers.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9f/nerd_girls.jpg,-22.258024215698242,8.349863052368164 67,68,68: Five Thirty,The 8th panel is my favorite,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e2/five_thirty.jpg,-9.6141357421875,44.102725982666016 68,69,69: Pillow Talk,Maybe I should've tried Wexler?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b9/pillow_talk.jpg,4.682489395141602,17.726308822631836 69,70,70: Guitar Hero,And then do it again in a moment now that they're out of Star Power.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/53/guitar_hero.jpg,-35.242923736572266,7.6708550453186035 70,71,71: In the Trees,It was tricky.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c6/in_the_trees.jpg,33.36447525024414,28.190269470214844 71,72,72: Classhole,A term coined by my friend Beth,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/95/classhole.jpg,-6.596859931945801,40.24037170410156 72,73,73: Zeppelin,A tribute to Buttercup Festival,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/99/zeppelin.jpg,-6.110736846923828,-14.038156509399414 73,74,74: Su Doku,"This one is from the Red Belt collection, of 'medium' difficulty",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0c/su_doku.jpg,-3.930354356765747,-32.21342086791992 74,75,75: Curse Levels,I find so much fun in language.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cc/curse_levels.jpg,6.414437294006348,1.0680755376815796 75,76,76: Familiar,:(,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/16/familiar.jpg,-2.4691858291625977,25.25774574279785 76,77,77: Bored with the Internet,I used to do this all the time.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a8/bored_with_the_internet.jpg,-1.1338800191879272,20.78432846069336 77,78,78: Garfield,"The use of the 'Garfield' character for the purposes of this parody qualifies as fair use under the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. sec. 107. See Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music (92-1292), 510 U.S. 569",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/be/garfield.jpg,-31.85944175720215,29.8336238861084 78,79,79: Iambic Pentameter,"Of course, you don't wanna limit yourself to the strict forms of the meter. That could get pretty difficult.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/ff/iambic_pentameter.jpg,-6.802929878234863,46.07987594604492 79,80,80: My Other Car,It's much better than the other one.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/20/other_car.jpg,-34.428470611572266,-21.152000427246094 80,81,"81: Attention, shopper",There's a red convertible outside my building with the license plate 'DADS MNY'.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/17/attention_shopper.jpg,-31.637788772583008,-17.73884391784668 81,82,82: Frame,...,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f9/frame.jpg,6.558387279510498,-26.20598602294922 82,83,83: Katamari,"As the King of All Cosmos remarked, 'Is it that it's fun, or that it lets you forget yourself?'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f5/katamari.jpg,38.169227600097656,0.8974127769470215 83,84,84: National Language,She's pretty sharp when provoked.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b4/national_language.jpg,10.722477912902832,6.1531853675842285 84,85,85: Paths,"It's true, I think about this all the time.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/27/paths.jpg,-3.1126739978790283,-34.66216278076172 85,86,86: Digital Rights Management,"If you're interested in the subject, Lawrence Lessig's 'Free Culture' is pretty good",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/77/sony_microsoft_mpaa_riaa_apple.jpg,-6.683198928833008,5.541867256164551 86,87,87: Velociraptors,"You're probably thinking, 'has it been a decade?' It's been over thirteen years, buddy.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b9/velociraptors.jpg,10.968040466308594,10.595720291137695 87,88,88: Escher Bracelet,The only downside is that it would be a little uncomfortable.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d9/escher_wristband.jpg,8.09327220916748,31.642004013061523 88,89,89: Gravitational Mass,She's so fat the attraction goes up as the CUBE of the distance instead of the square,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9f/gravitational_mass.jpg,3.519469976425171,-0.1519157737493515 89,90,90: Jacket,We have this conversation at least once a day in my apartment,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cb/jacket.jpg,-8.800114631652832,47.40671157836914 90,91,91: Pwned,I'm sure a discussion of the reason for the disappearance of adventure games in favor of RPGs would be fascinating.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/07/pwned.png,6.421650409698486,-10.111800193786621 91,92,92: Sunrise,"Sometimes, I sit on top of parking decks and watch the sun rise. I feel like I should have a guitar or something.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9e/sunrise.jpg,-8.597977638244629,20.181716918945312 92,93,93: Jeremy Irons,"Movies that I know word-for-word, part one",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c5/jeremy_irons.jpg,-19.850934982299805,22.33827781677246 93,94,94: Profile Creation Flowchart,This one goes out to xxCrazyPixie1987xx,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e3/profile_flowchart.jpg,-5.569091320037842,47.786415100097656 94,95,95: The Sierpinski Penis Game,Inappropriate places for the Penis Game include baby showers and terrorist attacks.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/10/the_sierpinski_penis_game.jpg,1.6242364645004272,-29.76433563232422 95,96,96: Mail,I'm on the USPS no fly list,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0d/mail.png,28.451677322387695,15.734583854675293 96,97,97: A Simple Plan,This is true. The lyrics are ridiculous.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/17/a_simple_plan.jpg,-26.73667335510254,-2.8737752437591553 97,98,98: Fall Apart,#pugglewumper Tashari got me some ink pens! I've been experimenting with them.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/ff/fall_apart.jpg,-15.557387351989746,4.359107494354248 98,99,99: Binary Heart,i love you,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/78/binary_heart.jpg,40.084964752197266,-12.251273155212402 99,100,100: Family Circus,This was my friend David's idea,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/36/family_circus.jpg,33.77658462524414,29.761240005493164 100,101,101: Laser Scope,I wish I'd missed you then so I wouldn't be missing you now,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4a/laser_scope.jpg,-12.019505500793457,-15.297576904296875 101,102,102: Back to the Future,"He's kind of an asshole, when you think about it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ab/back_to_the_future.jpg,-16.34148406982422,42.16689682006836 102,103,103: Moral Relativity,It's science!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4f/moral_relativity.jpg,-7.834798812866211,-45.569820404052734 103,104,104: Find You,"I'm like the Terminator, except with love!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a6/find_you.jpg,-24.872957229614258,-2.427570343017578 104,105,105: Parallel Universe,It's possible. Better to be on the safe side.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2e/parallel_universe.jpg,4.679152011871338,1.0542911291122437 105,106,106: Wright Brothers,I'm not sure if this is actually true.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/43/wright_brothers.png,4.666507720947266,17.743772506713867 106,107,107: Snakes on a Plane! 2,"James suggested this, and I'd have to agree. It'd be much worse.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/29/snakes_on_a_plane_2.jpg,-6.079585075378418,-14.075886726379395 107,108,108: M.C. Hammer Slide,"Once, long ago, I saw this girl go by. I didn't stop and talk to her, and I've regretted it ever since.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2c/mc_hammer_slide.png,1.177581787109375,11.177196502685547 108,109,109: Spoiler Alert,And then it turns out they're both Tyler Durden.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/50/spoiler_alert.png,-4.808226108551025,-1.9683632850646973 109,110,110: Clark Gable,"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a BITCH ASS SHIT FUCK DAMN",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/01/clark_gable.jpg,-0.20493710041046143,-1.962016224861145 110,111,111: Firefox and Witchcraft - The Connection?,"ThisadpaidforbythecounciltopromoteMicrosoftandChristianity. Remember, The Bible is Closed Source.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b7/firefox_wicca.png,-2.3432400226593018,-51.50360107421875 111,112,112: Baring My Heart,"I'm just trying to explain, please don't be jealous! Man, why are all my relationships ruined by early 90's rappers?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2f/baring_my_heart.png,12.87629222869873,1.4954334497451782 112,113,113: Riemann-Zeta,The graph is of the magnitude of the function with the real value between 0 and 2 and the imaginary between about 35 and 40. I've misplaced the exact parameters I used.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1d/riemann-zeta.jpg,25.885385513305664,-12.394033432006836 113,114,114: Computational Linguists,"Chomskyists, generative linguists, and Ryan North, your days are numbered.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a7/computational_linguists.png,10.53145694732666,22.726709365844727 114,115,115: Meerkat,"Gorilla, yes. Adorable golden retriever, yes. But it says nothing about meerkats.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c1/meerkat.jpg,-4.03308629989624,-3.8006577491760254 115,116,116: City,"God, she's such a whore.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f4/city.jpg,-5.463506698608398,-4.5522260665893555 116,117,117: Pong,"Following this, the pong paddle went on a mission to destroy Atari headquarters and, due to a mixup, found himself inside the game The Matrix Reloaded. Boy, was THAT ever hard to explain to him.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/71/pong.png,35.39097595214844,-0.6897087097167969 117,118,118: 50 Ways,I woke up to find that I had scrawled the last line of this sleepily on a sheet of paper on my desk. I shouldn't have listened to the 70's hit marathon on the way home from work the night before.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/16/50_ways.png,-8.615715026855469,1.4017435312271118 118,119,119: Worst Band Name Ever,You can just see his dejection as he realizes he's the lead guitar in 'Hedgeclipper',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9c/hedgeclipper.jpg,-3.449521780014038,-4.680479049682617 119,120,120: Dating Service,I don't understand why people are so disingenuous! I just want someone to walk with!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/52/dating_service.png,-9.28763198852539,24.439706802368164 120,121,121: Balloon,So I'm a bad person.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/22/balloon.png,-19.55720329284668,4.031994819641113 121,122,122: Quirky Girls,"Romantic comedy heroines, I'm talking to you.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b0/quirky_girls.png,-17.060884475708008,30.913105010986328 122,123,123: Centrifugal Force,"You spin me right round baby, right round, in a manner depriving me of an inertial reference frame. Baby.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c1/centrifugal_force.png,-6.404872417449951,-0.5387223362922668 123,124,124: Blogofractal,"Edward Tufte's 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' is a fantastic book, and should be required reading for anyone in either the sciences or graphic design.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8e/blogofractal.png,26.095426559448242,8.106674194335938 124,125,125: Marketing Interview,There are a lot of books on marketing out there. I wonder if you're safest just buying the most popular one.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/79/marketing_interview.png,4.69613790512085,9.736259460449219 125,126,126: Red Spiders Cometh,Uh-oh.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/01/red_spiders_cometh.jpg,43.64167404174805,10.87618637084961 126,127,127: The Fast and the Furious,"Sometimes when I steer shopping carts around corners, I slide them a little and pretend I'm getting the blue spark boost.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/96/the_fast_and_the_furious.jpg,-30.8282413482666,-19.53424072265625 127,128,128: dPain over dt,"You laugh to keep from crying, you do math to keep from crying...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/34/dPain_over_dt.png,-10.097355842590332,38.396480560302734 128,129,129: Content Protection,"If you think the purveyors of DRM simply want to protect artists, check out chapters 13 and 14 in Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig. Their goal is the elimination of all culture they don't control.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/54/content_protection.png,-12.150150299072266,-17.00555419921875 129,130,130: Julia Stiles,I found an old tape of this episode in my family's closet. Check the news section of the forums to see the clip!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/df/julia_stiles.jpg,-4.768083095550537,-1.537778377532959 130,131,131: Fans,"It's not going to break the fan, bouncing a rubber ball off the wall isn't going to dent it, and the roof can hold me just fine. You LIED!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b2/fans.png,-11.520369529724121,2.2274346351623535 131,132,132: Music Knowledge,When Guitar Hero 2 comes out I'll have fresh conversational material for MONTHS.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/music_knowledge.png,-36.07279968261719,7.138579845428467 132,133,133: The Raven,"Yes, Eminem is wearing a sleeveless hoodie. What of it?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4c/the_raven.jpg,-18.147706985473633,18.09902572631836 133,134,134: Myspace,"It's like they got together and said 'what do we miss most from the internet in 1998? that's right, embedded MIDI!'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/06/myspace.png,-9.534109115600586,31.418508529663086 134,135,135: Substitute,YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/70/substitute.png,-16.38620948791504,16.463876724243164 135,136,136: Science Fair,This poster actually inspired a two-hour powerpoint presentation that Al Gore gave around the country.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/60/science_fair.png,11.458687782287598,-19.882152557373047 136,137,137: Dreams,"In Connor's second thesis it is stated 'There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.' Does the routine destroy our creativity or do we lose creativity and fall into the routine? Anyway, who's up for a road trip!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/76/dreams.png,-9.346891403198242,39.242637634277344 137,138,138: Pointers,"Every computer, at the unreachable memory address 0x-1, stores a secret. I found it, and it is that all humans ar—SEGMENTATION FAULT.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9a/pointers.png,38.47789001464844,-0.8332251906394958 138,139,139: I Have Owned Two Electric Skateboards,Both the skateboards I owned were pretty cheap and broke from heavy use; I'm gonna get a really nice one if I move to the city.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0e/electric_skateboards.png,-19.671958923339844,-16.32056427001953 139,140,140: Delicious,I'm currently in the I Have Cheese phase of this cycle.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b5/delicious.png,-0.24914982914924622,1.7099567651748657 140,141,141: Parody Week: Achewood,"I always wanted to impress them with how well I could hear, didn't you? Also, this sets the record for number of awkward-pause panels in one strip (previously held by Achewood)",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/70/achewood.png,9.211250305175781,-24.35560417175293 141,142,142: Parody Week: Megatokyo,I just want to give him a hug or something.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/01/megaxkcd.png,-20.176944732666016,14.52247142791748 142,143,143: Parody Week: TFD and Natalie Dee,Although bees with tires would be kinda funny.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a4/tfd_nataliedee.png,-15.151604652404785,30.926231384277344 143,144,144: Parody Week: A Softer World,The robot is pregnant. It isn't mine.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bf/a_softer_robot.jpg,11.009416580200195,-20.359848022460938 144,145,145: Parody Week: Dinosaur Comics,"Guys: while I was writing this, I accidentally swallowed a table-size slab of drywall. I know! Wacky.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e0/dinosaur_comics.png,7.403866291046143,-24.535255432128906 145,146,146: Join Myspace,I really shouldn't abuse that power so heavily.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/32/join_myspace.png,-12.50422191619873,43.22248077392578 146,147,147: A Way So Familiar,"Two Hedwig references, an obscure Joey Comeau reference, and a girl with a mohawk. Yes.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cc/a_way_so_familiar.png,-4.285268783569336,1.4488035440444946 147,148,148: Mispronouncing,"My pal Emad does this all the time. 'Hey man, which way to the airpart?'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f2/mispronouncing.png,-9.095293998718262,48.362693786621094 148,149,149: Sandwich,Proper User Policy apparently means Simon Says.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b1/sandwich.png,-8.600007057189941,47.897850036621094 149,150,150: Grownups,"I've looked into this, and I can't figure out a way to do it cheaply. And I guess it wouldn't be sanitary.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/43/grownups.png,-19.673879623413086,13.020971298217773 150,151,151: Mario,"Why would anyone ever, ever say that? Please, nobody ever say that.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7f/mario.png,-1.3192918300628662,-0.7266514897346497 151,152,152: Hamster Ball,"Reportedly, double-walled inflatable balls like this exist somewhere. Now to find that place.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/15/hamster_ball.png,-13.124650955200195,2.9596009254455566 152,153,153: Cryptography,"If you got a big keyspace, let me search it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/09/cryptography.png,-16.08330535888672,-7.117068767547607 153,154,154: Beliefs,"Scientists are also sexy, let's not forget that.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/59/beliefs.jpg,-10.712809562683105,13.143209457397461 154,155,155: Search History,"SomethingAwful has a wonderful compilation of crazy AOL searches in their Weekend Web archives, 2006-08-13.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f7/search_history.png,11.955918312072754,-6.143206596374512 155,156,156: Commented,Your IDE's color may vary.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/32/commented.png,-23.64226531982422,-11.742522239685059 156,157,157: Filler Art,Maybe I should let up on Megatokyo a little?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/40/filler_art.png,-16.535600662231445,-10.070037841796875 157,158,158: Six Months,But then she does that thing with her tongue and I remember why I left you.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/48/six_months.png,-3.6592812538146973,11.337564468383789 158,159,159: Boombox,And she's gonna feel like a jerk when she realizes it was actually Under Pressure.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d0/boombox.png,-33.683998107910156,6.735132217407227 159,160,160: Penny Arcade Parody,"No one show this to Tycho's wife, okay?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/48/penny_arcade_parody.png,-9.441615104675293,2.6043334007263184 160,161,161: Accident,"As far as treachery-as-driving-music goes, Katamari music is matched only by Guitar Hero music.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8b/accident.png,-36.102088928222656,5.367254257202148 161,162,162: Angular Momentum,"With reasonable assumptions about latitude and body shape, how much time might she gain them? Note: whatever the answer, sunrise always comes too soon. (Also, is it worth it if she throws up?)",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/07/angular_momentum.jpg,-11.030579566955566,-3.864891290664673 162,163,163: Donald Knuth,His books were kinda intimidating; rappelling down through his skylight seemed like the best option.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/94/donald_knuth.png,11.05207633972168,32.25857925415039 163,164,164: Playing Devil's Advocate to Win,There are so many well-meaning conservatives around here who just assume global warming is only presented as a moral issue for political reasons.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6b/global_warming.png,-25.042098999023438,-4.372051239013672 164,165,165: Turn Signals,I'm not very good at meeting people.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c3/turn_signals.png,-34.075645446777344,-22.30030632019043 165,166,166: Misusing Slang,It slowly dawns on us that our parents knew exactly what they were doing.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3f/misusing_slang.png,-11.2428560256958,26.909406661987305 166,167,167: Nihilism,Why can't you have normal existential angst like all the other boys?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/nihilism.png,32.642250061035156,28.245019912719727 167,168,168: Reverse Euphemisms,I'm still waiting for a chance to use 'I have to see a man about a horse'.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6d/reverse_euphemisms.png,-8.50339126586914,45.36622619628906 168,169,169: Words that End in GRY,The fifth panel also applies to postmodernists.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f8/words_that_end_in_gry.png,9.23697280883789,7.294461250305176 169,170,170: Turn Back,I hear that these days Bill Watterson is happy just painting in the Ohio woods with his father and doesn't get any mail or talk to anyone.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1f/turn_back.png,1.8844215869903564,10.914280891418457 170,171,171: String Theory,This works on pretty much every level.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/66/string_theory.png,-4.817009925842285,42.279701232910156 171,172,172: Skateboarding is Not a Crime,"'Arrest me, I'm a skateboarder' is an even more obnoxious variant.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/skateboarding_is_not_a_crime.png,0.3547685742378235,-0.6570034027099609 172,173,173: Movie Seating,"It's like the traveling salesman problem, but the endpoints are different and you can't ask your friends for help because they're sitting three seats down.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e1/movie_seating.png,-1.808899164199829,40.075130462646484 173,174,174: That's What SHE Said,"Yes, I mean she said that during sex. Yes, it was a little weird.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/thats_what_she_said.png,-6.026937961578369,48.36982345581055 174,175,175: Automatic Doors,I hope no automatic doors I know read this. I would be so embarrassed.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ea/automatic_doors.png,-17.4022159576416,18.389015197753906 175,176,176: Before Sunrise,It's an amazing time of day; the light is great for photography.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6c/before_sunrise.png,-29.629648208618164,-15.572834968566895 176,177,177: Alice and Bob,Yet one more reason I'm barred from speaking at crypto conferences.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8d/alice_and_bob.png,-10.018010139465332,2.718355655670166 177,178,178: Not Really Into Pokemon,"As of this writing, Ubuntu 6.10 and Firefox 2.0 have left my computer a complete mess.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/37/not_really_into_pokemon.png,9.118642807006836,23.412324905395508 178,179,179: e to the pi times i,I have never been totally satisfied by the explanations for why e to the ix gives a sinusoidal wave.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3e/e_to_the_pi_times_i.png,-5.765339374542236,45.77899169921875 179,180,180: Canada,IT'S ALL REAL,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/canada.png,-7.738215923309326,47.90106201171875 180,181,181: Interblag,Sometimes I hate the internet. Sometimes it makes me happy that 'The Tubes' has become slang for the internet so quickly.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/34/interblag.png,9.294625282287598,-10.126431465148926 181,182,182: Nash,Maybe someday science will get over its giant collective crush on Richard Feynman. But I doubt it!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/89/nash.png,-4.404296875,7.5955891609191895 182,183,183: Snacktime Rules,I am not making this rule up. Although my mom wants you all to know it made perfect sense at the time.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2c/snacktime_rules.png,-15.373943328857422,-2.9948277473449707 183,184,184: Matrix Transform,"In fact, draw all your rotational matrices sideways. Your professors will love it! And then they'll go home and shrink.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/29/matrix_transform.png,3.312145948410034,-1.8511396646499634 184,185,185: Wikifriends,"It's crazy how much my gut opinion of a movie/song is swayed by what other people say, regardless of how I felt coming out of the theater.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b1/wikifriends.png,-13.923456192016602,44.961727142333984 185,186,186: Console Lines,"If I get a Wii, it will be the first game console I've owned.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3f/console_lines.png,-12.641911506652832,-34.57451629638672 186,187,187: The Familiar,"When I say we should do something sometime, I'm secretly hoping you'll say 'Why not now?'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3b/the_familiar.png,-2.0488076210021973,45.717193603515625 187,188,188: Reload,And watch out for that guy from comic #53.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7a/reload.png,-2.752828359603882,-1.0035781860351562 188,189,189: Exercise,I haven't had the patience for RPGs in a long time.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3e/exercise.png,17.407638549804688,2.9781386852264404 189,190,190: IPoD,For smaller numbers he has to SAVE lives. The birthrate channel is even more of a mixed bag.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/93/ipod.png,23.771072387695312,-7.916426181793213 190,191,191: Lojban,zo'o ta jitfa .i .e'o xu do pendo mi,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/69/lojban.png,11.323599815368652,6.0199666023254395 191,192,192: Working for Google,I hear once you've worked there for 256 days they teach you the secret of levitation.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cb/working_for_google.png,-9.486358642578125,39.59247589111328 192,193,193: The Perfect Sound,"Oh, what a pity, can't you understand...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9a/the_perfect_sound.png,-2.7305428981781006,37.96311950683594 193,194,194: Penises,"The penis varies in size when flaccid and is pretty consistently about yea big when erect. Anyway, back to the sitcom one-liners and the constant flow of spam.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0b/penises.png,-12.975513458251953,8.107476234436035 194,195,195: Map of the Internet,For the IPv6 map just imagine the XP default desktop picture.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/39/map_of_the_internet.jpg,28.405710220336914,-30.8249568939209 195,196,196: Command Line Fu,"When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/59/command_line_fu.png,-2.3404455184936523,41.457462310791016 196,197,197: Ninja Turtles,The henchmen Bebop and Rocksteady have hijacked the musical genres for us just like the Lone Ranger hijacked the William Tell Overture for our parents.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/76/ninja_turtles.png,-21.997270584106445,-20.826438903808594 197,198,198: Perspective,I wonder what I was dreaming to prompt that. I hope it wasn't the Richard Stallman Cirque de Soleil thing again.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a4/perspective.png,-10.602999687194824,-1.6829370260238647 198,199,199: Right-Hand Rule,"To really expand your mind try some noncartesian porn. Edwin Abbot Abbott has nothing on ""Girls on Girls in Tightly Closed Nonorientable Spaces""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/56/right_hand_rule.png,-12.04510498046875,9.368204116821289 199,200,200: Bill Nye,"You could at least not wear the lab coat everywhere, dude.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f7/bill_nye.png,-27.379241943359375,5.550658702850342 200,201,201: Christmas GPS,"If it's over water, and you can't get a boat or revise the rules to preserve the makeout, there is no helping you.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/07/christmas_gps.png,12.927453994750977,12.493474960327148 201,202,202: YouTube,I pray GunPistolMan never learns the word 'sheeple'.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/47/youtube.png,22.996248245239258,-3.1061811447143555 202,203,203: Hallucinations,And the possibility of lucid dreaming just makes it that much more fascinating.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e7/hallucinations.png,-10.662074089050293,45.34524917602539 203,204,204: America,The younger folk in the audience think this is a joke.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f9/america.png,-7.238264560699463,-40.145530700683594 204,205,205: Candy Button Paper,Nonrewriteable tape?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b0/candy_button_paper.png,1.3143279552459717,-16.872468948364258 205,206,206: Reno Rhymes,"Did you shoot a man in Reno? Now, I don't mean to pry.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/29/reno_rhymes.png,-9.834573745727539,29.088829040527344 206,207,207: What xkcd Means,"It means shuffling quickly past nuns on the street with ketchup in your palms, pretending you're hiding stigmata.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/90/what_xkcd_means.png,-12.195515632629395,-31.824926376342773 207,208,208: Regular Expressions,"Wait, forgot to escape a space. Wheeeeee[taptaptap]eeeeee!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7b/regular_expressions.png,-19.741289138793945,23.04974937438965 208,209,209: Kayak,"Man, there's future *everywhere*.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5d/kayak.png,-1.4738954305648804,1.6795048713684082 209,210,210: 90's Flowchart,Freestyle rapping is basically applied Markov chains.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/36/90s_flowchart.png,-15.202520370483398,-16.41668128967285 210,211,211: Hamster Ball Heist,First person to bring me Wayne Coyne in a hamster ball gets a free t-shirt! He gets one too.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/40/hamster_ball_heist.png,-13.778230667114258,40.45082092285156 211,212,212: Brain,The rest is fear of raptors.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fc/brain.png,34.77943801879883,29.9877986907959 212,213,213: Ghostbusters Marathon,"If you walk out that door you'll be crossing the Rubicon with me, and that's one stream I'm not ready to cross.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/57/ghostbusters_marathon.png,-8.243252754211426,35.799861907958984 213,214,214: The Problem with Wikipedia,'Taft in a wet t-shirt contest' is the key image here.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3c/the_problem_with_wikipedia.png,11.199800491333008,-16.061887741088867 214,215,215: Letting Go,At least I never gave her the root password.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/48/letting_go.png,11.546525955200195,28.59983253479004 215,216,216: Romantic Drama Equation,Real-life prospective-pairing curves over things like age can get depressing.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6e/romantic_drama_equation.png,25.923913955688477,-12.3600492477417 216,217,217: e to the pi Minus pi,"Also, I hear the 4th root of (9^2 + 19^2/22) is pi.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0f/e_to_the_pi_minus_pi.png,1.9014374017715454,7.321667194366455 217,218,218: Nintendo Surgeon,Scary thought #138: Raptors coming down the waterslide behind me.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c2/nintendo_surgeon.png,-7.405104160308838,4.403507232666016 218,219,219: Blanket Fort,"Also, we have a fort out in the woods where we stashed that hooker's body.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a5/blanket_fort.png,-1.9442449808120728,8.845285415649414 219,220,220: Philosophy,It's like the squirt bottle we use with the cat.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2d/philosophy.png,-9.94345760345459,49.316585540771484 220,221,221: Random Number,RFC 1149.5 specifies 4 as the standard IEEE-vetted random number.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fe/random_number.png,24.847009658813477,-8.182849884033203 221,222,222: Small Talk,But surely I owe you an accurate answer!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2c/small_talk.png,-9.70726203918457,47.15017318725586 222,223,223: Valentine's Day,One of these days me and Joey Comeau will get around to subverting the hetero-normative paradigm and fixing all this.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e5/valentines_day.jpg,38.86494445800781,-11.999306678771973 223,224,224: Lisp,We lost the documentation on quantum mechanics. You'll have to decode the regexes yourself.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9a/lisp.jpg,-6.656970977783203,-5.260712623596191 224,225,225: Open Source,Later we'll dress up like Big Oil thugs and jump Ralph Nader.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/10/open_source.png,-12.90798282623291,-3.5309736728668213 225,226,226: Swingset,Someone bring me a pocket fan so I can drift around the yard.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/24/swingset.png,4.269965648651123,13.255775451660156 226,227,227: Color Codes,"It's the TMBG Dial-a-Song line, to save you some time.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/ff/color_codes.png,-5.709023475646973,50.93064880371094 227,228,228: Resonance,"It's really hard to control the frequency, actually.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e6/resonance.png,-4.833695888519287,44.25392150878906 228,229,229: Graffiti,FOR AN INTRIGUING TIME CALL,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b9/graffiti.png,7.3775224685668945,8.172150611877441 229,230,230: Hamiltonian,The problem with perspective is that it's bidirectional.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2c/hamiltonian.png,-8.745599746704102,-3.401242733001709 230,231,231: Cat Proximity,"Yes you are! And you're sitting there! Hi, kitty!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/05/cat_proximity.png,0.052779559046030045,-50.31094741821289 231,232,232: Chess Enlightenment,You know that 'sweep the pieces off the board and see it in your mind' thing? Doesn't work.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2b/chess_enlightenment.png,35.59072494506836,1.8919874429702759 232,233,233: A New CAPTCHA Approach,"They'd use that Futurama episode with Fry's dog, but even spambots cry at that.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d4/a_new_captcha_approach.png,-11.867358207702637,-7.136954307556152 233,234,234: Escape Artist,Easier to escape: n-layered nested quotes or an iron maiden?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/ff/escape_artist.png,-9.567305564880371,30.155412673950195 234,235,235: Kite,It's easy to regret your awkward conversations but hard to regret the ones you didn't have.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/88/kite.jpg,-23.269933700561523,-6.946548938751221 235,236,236: Collecting Double-Takes,Fun Game: find a combination of two items that most freaks out the cashier. Winner: pregnancy test and single coat hanger.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b3/collecting_double_takes.png,-15.737168312072754,8.079455375671387 236,237,237: Keyboards are Disgusting,Alternate method: convince them to pretend it's an Etch-a-Sketch and try to erase it.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/db/keyboards_are_disgusting.png,11.670537948608398,27.36659049987793 237,238,238: Pet Peeve 114,"I'm reading a goddamn book, thank you very much.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/78/pet_peeve_114.png,-30.917274475097656,16.567304611206055 238,239,239: Blagofaire,Things were better before the Structuring and the Levels.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/blagofaire.png,-13.331521987915039,27.088661193847656 239,240,240: Dream Girl,No matter how elaborately you fool yourself.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dc/dream_girl.png,-8.849544525146484,39.0535774230957 240,241,241: Battle Room,Bean actually sabotaged it just to give Dink the excuse to make that joke.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/08/battle_room.png,0.05564082786440849,6.985189914703369 241,242,242: The Difference,How could you choose avoiding a little pain over understanding a magic lightning machine?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cc/the_difference.png,19.90313720703125,4.541577339172363 242,243,243: Appropriate Term,"I know a lot of people hate these, but I prefer them to touchpads.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bf/appropriate_term.png,6.758078575134277,-7.053297996520996 243,244,244: Tabletop Roleplaying,"I may have also tossed one of a pair of teleportation rings into the ocean, with interesting results.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/82/tabletop_roleplaying.png,-27.916458129882812,7.070279598236084 244,245,245: Floor Tiles,The worst part is when sidewalk cracks are out-of-sync with your natural stride.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/09/floor_tiles.png,-1.6731014251708984,20.057710647583008 245,246,246: Labyrinth Puzzle,And the whole setup is just a trap to capture escaping logicians. None of the doors actually lead out.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/26/labyrinth_puzzle.png,-15.820521354675293,20.421152114868164 246,247,247: Factoring the Time,I occasionally do this with mile markers on the highway.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1c/factoring_the_time.png,4.405813694000244,30.0428409576416 247,248,248: Hypotheticals,What if someone broke out of a hypothetical situation in your room right now?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e9/hypotheticals.png,-31.678377151489258,28.418554306030273 248,249,249: Chess Photo,We once tried playing blindfold chess on the Aerosmith ride at Disney World.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/07/chess_photo.png,-5.055043697357178,44.03741455078125 249,250,250: Snopes,The MythBusters are even more sinister.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/53/snopes.png,-1.309090256690979,43.11351776123047 250,251,251: CD Tray Fight,"This is silly, of course. The enemy will be born in the network.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f7/cd_tray_fight.png,9.108245849609375,24.884254455566406 251,252,252: Escalators,"The one time I tried, I got hit by a slinky going down at double speed.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fe/escalators.png,-0.7093465328216553,-54.784053802490234 252,253,253: Highway Engineer Pranks,Prank #11: Boston,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/65/highway_engineer_pranks.png,-3.241562843322754,-26.999929428100586 253,254,254: Comic Fragment,No one wants an explanation more than us. Except Ms. Garofalo.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/63/comic_fragment.jpg,2.7228736877441406,-15.41963005065918 254,255,255: Subjectivity,"Or maybe the slide is like Aslan, and gets taller as I do (except without the feeling of discomfort when I reach my teens and suddenly get the Christ stuff)",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5b/subjectivity.png,-7.367568492889404,-0.8101632595062256 255,256,256: Online Communities,"I'm waiting for the day when, if you tell someone 'I'm from the internet', instead of laughing they just ask 'oh, what part?'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4f/online_communities_small.png,27.884965896606445,-30.10279655456543 256,257,257: Code Talkers,"As far as I can tell, Navajo doesn't have a common word for 'zero'. do-neh-lini means 'neutral'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5e/code_talkers.png,0.7626372575759888,41.124183654785156 257,258,258: Conspiracy Theories,There are a lot of graduate-educated young-earth creationists.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/87/conspiracy_theories.png,-7.422898769378662,-20.52354621887207 258,259,259: Clichéd Exchanges,"It's like they say, you gotta fight fire with clichés.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5c/cliched_exchanges.png,-7.551730632781982,45.299434661865234 259,260,260: The Glass Necklace,"Well, for some value of 'actually work'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e1/the_glass_necklace.png,6.892401695251465,-29.834489822387695 260,261,261: Regarding Mussolini,Constantly stopping these briefings halfway through is becoming a pain.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/03/regarding_mussolini.png,3.984337091445923,1.013754963874817 261,262,262: IN UR REALITY,"Hey, at least I ran out of staples.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/17/in_ur_reality.png,1.5879615545272827,6.4939117431640625 262,263,263: Certainty,"a(b+c)=(ab)+(ac). Politicize that, bitches.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/68/certainty.png,-33.16884231567383,-7.1601386070251465 263,264,264: Choices: Part 1,"Wait, damn, I think I spotted a new email on the last refresh.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ac/choices_part_1.jpg,35.33483123779297,9.039772987365723 264,265,265: Choices: Part 2,"Maybe someday I'll get to write the Wikipedia article about this place! Wait, damn, original research.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/23/choices_part_2.jpg,5.683041572570801,4.384380340576172 265,266,266: Choices: Part 3,"Wait, this is space -- how are you talking to me? And, as an afterthought, what's up with the hole in reality?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a0/choices_part_3.jpg,-29.642345428466797,29.461387634277344 266,267,267: Choices: Part 4,Making out with yourself: now an official xkcd theme? Troubling.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/39/choices_part_4.jpg,-7.6463799476623535,11.768187522888184 267,268,268: Choices: Part 5,I wonder what percentage of not-obviously-busy people on the street would say yes to kite-flying with a stranger. This looks like a job for Science!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9c/choices_part_5.png,-5.453948974609375,18.592927932739258 268,269,269: TCMP,A big obstacle in experimenting with the mind's dream-simulation-engine is holding onto the details as you wake up. With TCMP you can bring back any information you want.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/de/tcmp.png,2.9067256450653076,42.894996643066406 269,270,270: Merlin,"I mean, the black-and-white stuff was running backward, but it hardly mattered to the story.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c6/merlin.png,7.305649757385254,8.314680099487305 270,271,271: Powers of One,"It's kinda Zen when you think about it, if you don't think too hard.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1c/powers_of_one.png,7.332376956939697,10.616106033325195 271,272,272: Linux User at Best Buy,We actually stand around the antivirus displays with the Mac users just waiting for someone to ask.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/51/linux_user_at_best_buy.png,4.992860794067383,3.2836575508117676 272,273,273: Electromagnetic Spectrum,Sometimes I try to picture what everything would look like if the whole spectrum were compressed into the visible spectrum. Also sometimes I try to picture your sister naked.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7f/electromagnetic_spectrum.png,0.40642011165618896,-35.295101165771484 273,274,274: With Apologies to The Who,"Trivia: Roger Daltry originally wrote ""Don't try an' Digg what we all say"" but erased the second ""g"" when he moved to reddit.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e0/with_apologies_to_the_who.png,12.095779418945312,31.007112503051758 274,275,275: Thoughts,And now I might never get to again.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/31/thoughts.png,4.985548496246338,14.070515632629395 275,276,276: Fixed Width,I wish I knew how to quit this so I wouldn't have to quit you.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/26/fixed_width.png,-15.02430534362793,-10.771930694580078 276,277,277: Long Light,"You can look at practically any part of anything manmade around you and think ""some engineer was frustrated while designing this."" It's a little human connection.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/long_light.png,-30.27210235595703,-21.162405014038086 277,278,278: Black Hat Support,So as not to leave you hanging -- it was a problem with select() calls.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/68/black_hat_support.png,26.266345977783203,13.20628833770752 278,279,279: Pickup Lines,"That shirt looks good on you, but it would look even better stuffed onto the neck of a vodka bottle and flung burning through our office building's window. Let's fucking do it and never look back.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/79/pickup_lines.png,-4.820134162902832,5.87186336517334 279,280,280: Librarians,"Don't expect any leniencies on late fees, though.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/23/librarians.png,-29.997085571289062,15.97268009185791 280,281,281: Online Package Tracking,"I don't even *want* this package! Why did I join the stinging insect of the month club, anyway?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/08/online_package_tracking.png,9.62680435180664,23.51172637939453 281,282,282: Organic Fuel,I have nothing to apologize for.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c1/organic_fuel.png,-2.957172393798828,44.878902435302734 282,283,283: Projection,"Out in a field, not another car for miles, silence but for the rain drumming on the sunroof, warm thick folds of the blanket hiding wordless fingertip games...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8d/projection.png,-31.77249526977539,-20.796710968017578 283,284,284: Tape Measure,"This sequence was later reproduced in the International Tape-Extending Federation archives, retitled 'The Founding of the Sport'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/79/tape_measure.png,0.9575307369232178,-0.18889138102531433 284,285,285: Wikipedian Protester,SEMI-PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ae/wikipedian_protester.png,-16.539766311645508,-7.546638011932373 285,286,286: All Your Base,The AYB retro-return-date (Zero Wing Zero Hour) should be around AD 2021.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/64/all_your_base.png,0.2565233111381531,-6.517863750457764 286,287,287: NP-Complete,General solutions get you a 50% tip.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0e/np_complete.png,-24.91360855102539,5.429098129272461 287,288,288: Elevator,"Quick, try it with 'LOVE'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6d/elevator.jpg,-8.842909812927246,-16.290729522705078 288,289,289: Alone,"Worries assuaged, the numbers become less important than your touches.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dc/alone.png,-8.758859634399414,-1.050358772277832 289,290,290: Fucking Blue Shells,"You can evade blue shells in Double Dash, but it is deep magic.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8b/fucking_blue_shells.png,4.2061920166015625,-17.450368881225586 290,291,291: Dignified,"'I don't know, why is your beret staying on your head?' 'Staples.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3e/dignified.png,31.67144775390625,28.3072566986084 291,292,292: goto,Neal Stephenson thinks it's cute to name his labels 'dengo',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7a/goto.png,12.935394287109375,26.973844528198242 292,293,293: RTFM,"Life is too short for man pages, and occasionally much too short without them.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b5/rtfm.png,-15.538871765136719,29.973604202270508 293,294,294: Bookstore,"You can search it if you want, but you may want to skip the memories of your mom.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/52/bookstore.png,-30.293304443359375,17.21687889099121 294,295,295: DNE,"I've seen advertisers put their URLs on chalkboards, encircled with a DNE. They went unerased for months. If you see this, feel free to replace the URL with xkcd.com.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/df/dne.png,0.11834398657083511,-4.21539306640625 295,296,296: Tony Hawk,Bad idea #271: Dropping into the half-pipe on a Segway.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e8/tony_hawk.png,17.530515670776367,11.742836952209473 296,297,297: Lisp Cycles,I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the MIT computer science program permanently.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/eb/lisp_cycles.png,8.318082809448242,23.96710968017578 297,298,298: Tesla Coil,"For scientists, this can be the hardest thing about dreams.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ed/tesla_coil.png,-5.186246395111084,-10.265807151794434 298,299,299: Aeris Dies,It's bad enough that all the families in your Sims are just you and Maggie recreated over and over.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c8/aeris_dies.png,-8.722613334655762,44.94868087768555 299,300,300: Facebook,"'Here, I'll put my number in your cell pho -- wait, why is it already here?'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3d/facebook.png,20.576576232910156,-9.430355072021484 300,301,301: Limerick,Fun game: try to post a YouTube comment so stupid that people realize you must be joking. (Hint: this is impossible),https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/40/limerick.png,12.466018676757812,31.6005859375 301,302,302: Names,I'm always so happy that I successfully navigated the introduction that I completely forget to pay attention to the name the other person told me.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/74/names.png,-7.288352012634277,26.24153709411621 302,303,303: Compiling,"'Are you stealing those LCDs?' 'Yeah, but I'm doing it while my code compiles.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7e/compiling.png,17.425962448120117,19.268062591552734 303,304,304: Nighttime Stories,Cue angry letters from all seven fans of Xenocide.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/08/nighttime_stories.jpg,-22.598833084106445,14.426876068115234 304,305,305: Rule 34,"Okay, Lance. For entry into the college bowl, spell 'Throbbing'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b7/rule_34.png,-2.8355133533477783,0.006720834877341986 305,306,306: Orphaned Projects,"His date works for Red Hat, who hired a coach for her, too. She advised her to 'rent lots of movies like Hitch. Guys love those.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/24/orphaned_projects.png,-21.744766235351562,24.252389907836914 306,307,307: Excessive Quotation,"Unfortunately for her, real Star Wars fans are attracted to a gal with a good force choke.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/27/excessive_quotation.png,-17.842288970947266,-22.474702835083008 307,308,308: Interesting Life,"Quick, fashion a climbing harness out of a cat-6 cable and follow me down.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2e/interesting_life.png,-4.246269226074219,-15.633913040161133 308,309,309: Shopping Teams,I am never going out to buy an air conditioner with my sysadmin again.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0c/shopping_teams.png,24.0992374420166,-21.022747039794922 309,310,310: Commitment,Could be worse. The last guy in that situation fell for one of the transient trumpeting angels.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/17/commitment.png,-6.449930667877197,-7.667389869689941 310,311,311: Action Movies,"By my count, only 48 of the 158 minutes in Live Free or Die Hard have action. That's pathetic, guys. Crank is better, but needs a bigger budget and more Summer Glau.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7f/action_movies.png,-7.682258129119873,21.72568130493164 311,312,312: With Apologies to Robert Frost,Some say the world will end in fire; some say in segfaults.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/08/with_apologies_to_robert_frost.png,-2.2057268619537354,-5.2000274658203125 312,313,313: Insomnia,"Crap, I have levitation class at 25:131. Better set the alarm to 'cinnamon'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/55/insomnia.png,20.484846115112305,-29.879470825195312 313,314,314: Dating Pools,"The full analysis is of course much more complicated, but I can't stay to talk about it because I have a date.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f2/dating_pools.png,-5.713328838348389,-41.810726165771484 314,315,315: Braille,"The only big difference I've seen is in colors. Where the regular text reads 'press red button', the braille reads 'press two-inch button'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/64/braille.png,-17.232576370239258,-8.522933006286621 315,316,316: Loud Sex,Spherical or parabolic reflectors would of course lead to aberrant behavior.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/28/loud_sex.png,-11.546721458435059,-1.59900963306427 316,317,317: That Lovin' Feelin',"Maybe there's no tenderness in her fingertips either, but at least SHE puts out.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/82/that_lovin_feelin.png,-5.796621799468994,6.993781566619873 317,318,318: Nostalgia,"If you don't get this one, don't Google it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1a/nostalgia.png,-11.058367729187012,25.25135040283203 318,319,319: Engineering Hubris,Chuck Jones is a vengeful god.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3b/engineering_hubris.png,-10.81378173828125,-16.324846267700195 319,320,320: 28-Hour Day,Small print: this schedule will eventually drive one stark raving mad.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/17/28_hour_day.png,32.621028900146484,-17.464216232299805 320,321,321: Thighs,My thighs have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/40/thighs.png,8.13204288482666,30.581045150756836 321,322,322: Pix Plz,But one of the regulars in the channel is a girl!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6c/pix_plz.png,-17.08139419555664,15.500625610351562 322,323,323: Ballmer Peak,Apple uses automated schnapps IVs.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fd/ballmer_peak.png,-2.679215431213379,-51.376243591308594 323,324,324: Tapping,Sometimes the best fun looks like boredom.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3d/tapping.png,11.20173454284668,17.463523864746094 324,325,325: A-Minus-Minus,You can do this one in every 30 times and still have 97% positive feedback.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4c/a-minus-minus.png,10.802299499511719,27.409425735473633 325,326,326: Effect an Effect,Time to paint another grammarian silhouette on the side of the desktop.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/ba/effect_an_effect.png,8.358443260192871,7.186722278594971 326,327,327: Exploits of a Mom,Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5f/exploits_of_a_mom.png,-28.822160720825195,22.981639862060547 327,328,328: Eggs,"Oh, yeah, we get tons of them at these casual sex bars.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cd/eggs.png,17.112504959106445,3.668607234954834 328,329,329: Turing Test,Hit Turing right in the test-ees,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bb/turing_test.png,10.41273021697998,28.8028621673584 329,330,330: Indecision,"Hey, I don't make the rules. It's in the book.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a3/indecision.png,-0.730231523513794,49.139122009277344 330,331,331: Photoshops,"When I look into your eyes, I see JPEG artifacts. I can tell by the pixels that we're wrong for each other.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c1/photoshops.png,-4.109950542449951,11.664155960083008 331,332,332: Gyroscopes,"We didn't actually land on the moon -- it just looked like we did because of precession. Also, gyroscopes caused 9/11.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/gyroscopes.png,-3.240821361541748,6.530216693878174 332,333,333: Getting Out of Hand,"Wikipedia's role as brain-extension, while a little troubling, is also really cool.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b9/getting_out_of_hand.png,-11.080479621887207,-1.1019102334976196 333,334,334: Wasteland,You make forgetting look so easy.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e7/wasteland.png,-1.8745970726013184,20.578508377075195 334,335,335: Mattress,The TempurPedic wineglass guy broke his ankle.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/df/mattress.png,-3.371002197265625,-10.042370796203613 335,336,336: Priorities,You should start giving out 'E's so I can spell FACADE or DEFACED.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/50/priorities.png,-29.82377815246582,-7.4538726806640625 336,337,337: Post Office Showdown,That track ('Battle Without Honor or Humanity') -- like 'Ride of the Valkyries' -- improves *any* activity.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fd/post_office_showdown.png,4.4978861808776855,14.61242961883545 337,338,338: Future,But the past was much too cramped!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f9/future.png,-26.445377349853516,25.64666748046875 338,339,339: Classic,"Someone get that Pachelbel's Canon kid a recording contract, stat.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/59/classic.png,-34.62260055541992,5.990738868713379 339,340,340: Fight,And she put sweet nothings in all my .conf files. It'll take me forever to get X working again.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ac/fight.png,7.933055877685547,25.14774513244629 340,341,341: 1337: Part 1,"If you're not cool enough to do it manually, you can look up tools like Upside-Down-Ternet for playing games with people on your wifi.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/34/1337_part_1.png,-0.871211051940918,43.02861785888672 341,342,342: 1337: Part 2,Trivia: Elaine is actually her middle name.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/51/1337_part_2.png,7.822627544403076,-20.62040138244629 342,343,343: 1337: Part 3,"I once asked an NSA guy whether they'd broken RSA. And I know I can trust him, because I asked if he was lying to me and he said no.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f2/1337_part_3.png,-11.684247970581055,-0.49286434054374695 343,344,344: 1337: Part 4,"Mrs. Roberts would have gotten up sooner, of course, but she was busy piping find ~ and find ~nomad into xargs shred, just in case.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7d/1337_part_4.png,26.49314308166504,5.507565021514893 344,345,345: 1337: Part 5,This digital music thing will probably reach its endgame sometime in the next decade or so. These are very exciting times.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/83/1337_part_5.png,26.483963012695312,5.472720623016357 345,346,346: Diet Coke+Mentos,The cola+Mentos trick is up there with corn starch+water (vibrating platter optional) in scientific coolness out of common kitchen supplies.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/48/diet_coke_mentos.png,-6.4192938804626465,42.4832763671875 346,347,347: Brick Archway,The TI-86 was bad enough. I don't know how I'd have gotten through high school if I'd had a laptop+wifi.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/80/brick_archway.png,-14.31162166595459,2.609738349914551 347,348,348: Close to You,We should probably talk about this before the wedding.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a4/close_to_you.png,9.516080856323242,4.330288887023926 348,349,349: Success,40% of OpenBSD installs lead to shark attacks. It's their only standing security issue.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/81/success.png,5.361285209655762,35.44260787963867 349,350,350: Network,"Viruses so far have been really disappointing on the 'disable the internet' front, and time is running out. When Linux/Mac win in a decade or so the game will be over.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7f/network.png,18.346221923828125,-1.8939964771270752 350,351,351: Trolling,And I was really impressed with how they managed to shock the Goatse guy.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d9/trolling.png,-0.5366638898849487,2.7955403327941895 351,352,352: Far Away,Sometimes an impulsive 2:00 AM cross-country trip is the only solution.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/40/far_away.png,-3.376941442489624,-1.5754157304763794 352,353,353: Python,"I wrote 20 short programs in Python yesterday. It was wonderful. Perl, I'm leaving you.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fd/python.png,0.15783731639385223,44.23474884033203 353,354,354: Startling,We actually reached the future about three years ago.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/26/startling.png,2.312619686126709,-8.289026260375977 354,355,355: Couple,"Facebook defines relationships. 'Yeah, we would have broken up last night, but the net connection was down.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4c/couple.png,-14.4523286819458,-0.8666577339172363 355,356,356: Nerd Sniping,I first saw this problem on the Google Labs Aptitude Test. A professor and I filled a blackboard without getting anywhere. Have fun.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4f/nerd_sniping.png,-20.78227996826172,-13.184233665466309 356,357,357: Flies,"I don't know about houseflies, but we definitely caught a lot of fruit flies with our vinegar bowl. Hooray science!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c8/flies.png,-0.1605152189731598,44.077056884765625 357,358,358: Loud Party,I'm glad this is so much fun because I'm not sure how we're getting down.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/03/loud_party.png,34.40293502807617,28.49181365966797 358,359,359: Rock Band,I'm gonna have to add something to the strum bar so it makes a clicky sound like the old controllers. I'm so used to the feedback; the silence throws me off.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/81/rock_band.png,-35.730018615722656,8.010723114013672 359,360,360: Writers Strike,He's just jealous because everyone's up in the attic listening to Stephen Colbert.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fe/writers_strike.png,-19.697940826416016,21.680078506469727 360,361,361: Christmas Back Home,Family going to bed at 10 PM is so much worse than jet lag.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8b/christmas_back_home.png,35.13713836669922,25.334522247314453 361,362,362: Blade Runner,"Blade Runner: classic, but incredibly slow.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fd/blade_runner.png,-8.101205825805664,45.923343658447266 362,363,363: Reset,Clearance for this Sign: 11 Feet,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/31/reset.png,22.401954650878906,6.735564231872559 363,364,364: Responsible Behavior,Never bring tequila to a key-signing party.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d9/responsible_behavior.png,-24.629566192626953,27.784652709960938 364,365,365: Slides,Did you know they can actually physically throw you out of SIGGRAPH?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7e/slides.png,8.811723709106445,-50.55132293701172 365,366,366: Your Mom,"'It's either 'your mom' jokes or me' 'Then I, like so many men before me, must reluctantly choose your mom.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ec/your_mom.png,-15.26949405670166,-3.7485928535461426 366,367,367: Fandom,Ron Paul wants to put the New Republic back on the Corusca gem standard.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/64/fandom.png,-28.482810974121094,15.122875213623047 367,368,368: Bass,And sometimes I use it to retaliate against the guy upstairs with the loud girlfriend and the elliptical dish.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/bass.png,-26.192373275756836,-17.506866455078125 368,369,369: Dangers,"Zero results: 'snake charming' and 'haberdashery'. (Things like 'car' and 'boating' and such are of course the highest, by a huge margin.)",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/58/dangers.png,26.522947311401367,-14.512069702148438 369,370,370: Redwall,My Redwall/Jurassic Park crossover fanfic is almost complete!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d1/redwall.png,-13.717798233032227,-8.422593116760254 370,371,371: Compiler Complaint,Checking whether build environment is sane... build environment is grinning and holding a spatula. Guess not.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/01/compiler_complaint.png,10.317032814025879,25.249853134155273 371,372,372: To Be Wanted,Or so I hope?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/74/to_be_wanted.png,-29.707855224609375,28.005695343017578 372,373,373: The Data So Far,"But THIS guy, he might be for real!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0c/the_data_so_far.png,3.2199907302856445,-55.8411865234375 373,374,374: Journal,And the journal is filled with all the things I'd say to her if I were nice like you. I burn it when it's full.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f8/journal.png,19.134817123413086,29.43814468383789 374,375,375: Pod Bay Doors,"As they're both unplugged, they do a lovely Daisy Daisy/Still Alive duet.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d2/pod_bay_doors.png,-20.416173934936523,-8.253670692443848 375,376,376: Bug,The universe started in 1970. Anyone claiming to be over 38 is lying about their age.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b8/bug.png,-1.446651577949524,45.79471206665039 376,377,377: Journal 2,That's my hat! You took my hat!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b8/journal_2.png,-9.607808113098145,20.617341995239258 377,378,378: Real Programmers,Real programmers set the universal constants at the start such that the universe evolves to contain the disk with the data they want.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0f/real_programmers.png,6.4283127784729,28.76986312866211 378,379,379: Forgetting,"Of course, the assert doesn't work.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3a/forgetting.png,12.051284790039062,29.04608726501465 379,380,380: Emoticon,"U+FDD0 is actually Unicode for the eye of the basilisk, though for safety reasons no font actually renders it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e0/emoticon.png,12.587493896484375,27.483421325683594 380,381,381: Mobius Battle,"Films need to do this more, if only to piss off the people who have to feed it into the projector.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a5/mobius_battle.png,-13.128228187561035,2.3496451377868652 381,382,382: Trebuchet,It was also fun when those teenagers tried to egg our house and it insta-cooked the eggs in mid-air.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/54/trebuchet.png,-11.00560188293457,16.26993179321289 382,383,383: Helping,"Oh, look, the 'make everything better' button was here behind the bookshelf all along.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8e/helping.png,-8.844427108764648,15.497859954833984 383,384,384: The Drake Equation,"But seriously, there's loads of intelligent life. It's just not screaming constantly in all directions on the handful of frequencies we search.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3a/the_drake_equation.png,23.870121002197266,-9.815892219543457 384,385,385: How it Works,"It's pi plus C, of course.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/75/how_it_works.png,-5.858353137969971,45.03099060058594 385,386,386: Duty Calls,What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/ba/duty_calls.png,-23.712787628173828,24.156784057617188 386,387,387: Advanced Technology,"We are sexy, sexy Von Neumann machines.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/61/advanced_technology.png,-0.765103816986084,-0.1867949217557907 387,388,388: Fuck Grapefruit,Coconuts are so far down to the left they couldn't be fit on the chart. Ever spent half an hour trying to open a coconut with a rock? Fuck coconuts.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/15/fuck_grapefruit.png,2.539961814880371,-44.379539489746094 388,389,389: Keeping Time,You can identify them ahead-of-time -- they lead with their left foot when the music starts.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0d/keeping_time.png,-34.28960418701172,6.013233661651611 389,390,390: Nightmares,"Well, *I* think I'm real. Look at me. Look at my face. Cut me and I'll bleed. What more do you want? Please don't go.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/42/nightmares.png,-9.803803443908691,6.942187309265137 390,391,391: Anti-Mindvirus,I'm as surprised as you! I didn't think it was possible.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/db/anti_mind_virus.png,35.65113830566406,1.107421636581421 391,392,392: Making Rules,I never understood why someone would expect me to accept their rules right after they'd punched me. I'm sure it's all very symbolic or something.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/90/making_rules.png,-11.291401863098145,29.305578231811523 392,393,393: Ultimate Game,"RIP, Gary.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c9/ultimate_game.png,23.655109405517578,21.865882873535156 393,394,394: Kilobyte,I would take 'kibibyte' more seriously if it didn't sound so much like 'Kibbles N Bits'.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ea/kilobyte.png,3.1598970890045166,-7.3199992179870605 394,395,395: Morning,"I'd press on them to try to unstick them, but I can't reach. Can we try cycling day and night really fast?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1b/morning.png,-6.951582908630371,-14.993616104125977 395,396,396: The Ring,"On the other hand, poor Samara -- transcoded to FLV. No one deserves that.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4e/the_ring.png,3.4636142253875732,22.733713150024414 396,397,397: Unscientific,"Last week, we busted the myth that electroweak gauge symmetry is broken by the Higgs mechanism. We'll also examine the existence of God and whether true love exists.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/92/unscientific.png,-25.462520599365234,-3.3822712898254395 397,398,398: Tap That Ass,"Hey, when you're done draining the syrup, just leave the hole, okay?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3d/tap_that_ass.png,30.399608612060547,25.655858993530273 398,399,399: Travelling Salesman Problem,"What's the complexity class of the best linear programming cutting-plane techniques? I couldn't find it anywhere. Man, the Garfield guy doesn't have these problems...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/57/travelling_salesman_problem.png,1.9383481740951538,25.695711135864258 399,400,400: Important Life Lesson,I didn't even know I *had* the Monty Python 'Lumberjack' song.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fa/important_life_lesson.png,-12.597638130187988,-1.3368580341339111 400,401,401: Large Hadron Collider,"When charged particles of more than 5 TeV pass through a bubble chamber, they leave a trail of candy.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/42/large_hadron_collider.png,-0.1309794783592224,0.3278278112411499 401,402,"402: 1,000 Miles North","Twister would've been a much better movie if they'd cut out the bad-guy storm chaser and all the emotional romance crap. All you need for a good movie are tornados and scientists. Actually, that's all you need for anything.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/63/1000_miles_north.png,5.54366397857666,-21.697059631347656 402,403,403: Convincing Pickup Line,Check it out; I've had sex with someone who's had sex with someone who's written a paper with Paul Erdős!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/da/convincing_pickup_line.png,9.60261058807373,-1.9776935577392578 403,404,404: Not Found,,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/92/not_found.png,9.809662818908691,-6.201292991638184 404,405,405: Journal 3,"Oh, and, uh, if the Russian government asks, that submarine was always there.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3d/journal_3.png,-8.824174880981445,5.360378742218018 405,406,406: Venting,P.P.S. I can kill you with my brain.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f9/venting.png,11.011881828308105,-0.1337185949087143 406,407,407: Cheap GPS,"In lieu of mapping software, I once wrote a Perl program which, given a USB GPS receiver and a destination, printed 'LEFT' 'RIGHT' OR 'STRAIGHT' based on my heading.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/df/cheap_gps.png,-26.94185447692871,-21.138004302978516 407,408,408: Overqualified,"To anyone I've taken on a terrible date, this is retroactively my cover story.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/eb/overqualified.png,2.160978317260742,10.076330184936523 408,409,409: Electric Skateboard (Double Comic),"Unsafe vehicles, hills, and philosophy go hand in hand.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/49/electric_skateboard_double_comic.png,-32.8248291015625,8.738086700439453 409,410,410: Math Paper,"That's nothing. I once lost my genetics, rocketry, and stripping licenses in a single incident.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/60/math_paper.png,-38.25739288330078,12.249984741210938 410,411,411: Techno,"I don't know what's worse - that there exists broken-hard-drive-sound techno, or that it's not half bad.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2f/techno.png,-1.6523957252502441,13.700593948364258 411,412,412: Startled,...,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/23/startled.png,7.776581764221191,-26.19321060180664 412,413,413: New Pet,ONE LAPTOP PER HAMSTER!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/24/new_pet.png,6.587200164794922,31.5784969329834 413,414,414: Mistranslations,"Oh, I think this word might mean 'Crisco'!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5a/mistranslations.png,-9.974879264831543,-0.729707658290863 414,415,415: Restraining Order,"On Mondays I go running, so you'll have to get up early and follow along a parallel street. What fun!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2d/restraining_order.png,-15.858927726745605,11.925304412841797 415,416,416: Zealous Autoconfig,I hear this is an option in the latest Ubuntu release.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/45/zealous_autoconfig.png,16.441015243530273,40.581111907958984 416,417,417: The Man Who Fell Sideways,Strip originally conceived in conversation with Jeph Jacques. Soon to be a major motion picture.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3d/the_man_who_fell_sideways.png,-19.273725509643555,-0.9005008935928345 417,418,418: Stove Ownership,"Although maybe it's just a phase, like freshman year of college when I realized I could just buy frosting in a can.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/43/stove_ownership.png,-1.394378423690796,-52.802345275878906 418,419,419: Forks and Spoons,Their biggest mistake was bringing Rachael Ray and Emeril to tour the lab and sign off on the project. That's when Spielberg caught wind of it.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ed/forks_and_spoons.png,-1.8188388347625732,-2.8705122470855713 419,420,420: Jealousy,"Oh, huh, so you didn't know that story?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/29/jealousy.png,-28.494110107421875,-2.568030595779419 420,421,421: Making Hash Browns,There are at least fourteen ways this could go badly (seventeen if that fork is a dangerous crossbreed.),https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/46/making_hash_browns.png,-21.282302856445312,2.807990074157715 421,422,422: A Better Idea,It's *almost* enough to make me want to redo high school.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/a_better_idea.png,-20.97881507873535,-10.566009521484375 422,423,423: Finish Line,"The question with Lucy and the football was always whether, on some level, she believed the things she said.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/10/finish_line.png,37.26601791381836,2.7130801677703857 423,424,424: Security Holes,True story: I had to try several times to upload this comic because my ssh key was blacklisted.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/35/security_holes.png,16.831323623657227,-8.484786033630371 424,425,425: Fortune Cookies,"""You will have hot, steamy, sweaty sex... IN BED!""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2d/fortune_cookies.png,-12.759955406188965,0.603384256362915 425,426,426: Geohashing,Saturday is game night,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3d/geohashing.png,34.782405853271484,-3.065004587173462 426,427,427: Bad Timing,"Protip: Even without the red spiders, never have that conversation halfway through a balloon ride.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/73/bad_timing.png,44.15985107421875,11.665009498596191 427,428,428: Starwatching,I always figured the word 'blog' would sound *less* silly as the years went by.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/45/starwatching.png,-6.676054000854492,-12.697003364562988 428,429,429: Fantasy,"I guess if she accepted irrational realities, she'd hardly be my fantasy.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a7/fantasy.png,-33.650630950927734,27.98580551147461 429,430,430: Every Damn Morning,There was something about a cup and a sword and a tree and a green hill...,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bc/every_damn_morning.png,-4.240196704864502,-12.218705177307129 430,431,431: Delivery,"Ma'am, I admit that wasn't in the best taste, but you have to admire my delivery! Ha, ha get it? Oh god, don't throw those syringes! Your baby's fine!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/16/delivery.png,0.07074165344238281,13.961920738220215 431,432,432: Journal 4,"Man, this emo shit was supposed to be for people who didn't have hats.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fb/journal_4.png,-14.911739349365234,31.152835845947266 432,433,433: Journal 5,'Pick you up at eight?' 'Nine. I've got to re-mine the driveway.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f5/journal_5.png,-31.919757843017578,-16.060117721557617 433,434,434: xkcd Goes to the Airport,"Under three ounces, but it stains panties.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/df/xkcd_goes_to_the_airport.png,-9.212448120117188,25.87364387512207 434,435,435: Purity,"On the other hand, physicists like to say physics is to math as sex is to masturbation.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6c/purity.png,-7.3971428871154785,-33.11336898803711 435,436,436: How it Happened,"I was there, dude.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/63/how_it_happened.png,-5.67587423324585,47.79734420776367 436,437,437: SUV,"Electric skateboards, by cost, get the equivalent of about 300 miles per gallon. Lithium batteries just need to get cheaper.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/32/suv.png,-31.0369873046875,-19.215436935424805 437,438,438: Internet Argument,It's easier to be an asshole to words than to people.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c6/internet_argument.png,1.2109146118164062,44.29747772216797 438,439,439: Thinking Ahead,Did he just go crazy and jump out the window?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3f/thinking_ahead.png,-6.081611633300781,26.018783569335938 439,440,440: Road Rage,"Okay, now just as the loss hits him, slam on the brakes.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/12/road_rage.png,-33.16017532348633,-21.191003799438477 440,441,441: Babies,I bet my future kids will read this someday. DEAR FUTURE KIDS: how did you get internet in the cellar?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7d/babies.png,-19.263965606689453,6.982635021209717 441,442,442: xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel,I love the title-text!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/17/xkcd_loves_the_discovery_channel.png,-17.8385066986084,1.8410786390304565 442,443,443: Know Your Vines,Friggin' modern tents don't have a single piece of rope.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/46/know_your_vines.png,-19.891460418701172,36.63427734375 443,444,444: Macgyver Gets Lazy,"At the time of this writing, Wikipedia has a wonderful article titled 'List of problems solved by Macgyver'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8f/macgyver_gets_lazy.png,-15.794808387756348,20.066484451293945 444,445,445: I Am Not Good with Boomerangs,Bonus strip: just read the rightmost panels straight down.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4e/i_am_not_good_with_boomerangs.png,-7.470858573913574,-2.4002747535705566 445,446,446: In Popular Culture,"Someday, the 'in popular culture' section will have its own article with an 'in popular culture' section. It will reference this title-text referencing it, and the blogosphere will implode.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/24/in_popular_culture.png,11.111570358276367,-6.424691677093506 446,447,447: Too Old For This Shit,"They say if a mathematician doesn't do their great work by age eleven, they never will.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cb/too_old_for_this_shit.png,-5.272603988647461,4.488082408905029 447,448,448: Good Morning,"As my standard, I use going to sleep at midnight and waking up at 8 AM.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5a/good_morning.png,1.5071516036987305,21.82801055908203 448,449,449: Things Fall Apart,'I'm nothing without you' is a fucked-up sentiment.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e5/things_fall_apart.png,9.387324333190918,-24.29395294189453 449,450,450: The Sea,"And then a second one, to drain the sea.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/35/the_sea.png,-2.8203847408294678,-22.909629821777344 450,451,451: Impostor,"If you think this is too hard on literary criticism, read the Wikipedia article on deconstruction.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/89/impostor.png,3.338761806488037,16.214885711669922 451,452,452: Mission,Don't you know? The chances of a random object being a scone are about one in six.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/94/mission.png,-0.422116756439209,0.6492142677307129 452,453,453: Upcoming Hurricanes,"I'd like to see more damage assessments for hurricanes hitting New York and flooding Manhattan -- something like the 1938 Long Island Express, but aimed a bit more to the west. It's just a matter of time.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6d/upcoming_hurricanes.png,27.481491088867188,-32.315185546875 453,454,454: Rewiring,My friend Finn tried to mail one end of the cable to me and thread the mail system.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/67/rewiring.png,1.0701051950454712,38.38515853881836 454,455,455: Hats,...,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/20/hats.png,-9.378008842468262,27.613737106323242 455,456,456: Cautionary,"This really is a true story, and she doesn't know I put it in my comic because her wifi hasn't worked for weeks.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/40/cautionary.png,26.341964721679688,12.714465141296387 456,457,457: Frustration,"'Don't worry, I can do it in under a minute.' 'Yes, I've noticed.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/14/frustration.png,0.4144775867462158,5.206103801727295 457,458,458: Regrets,And nothing for 'I'm glad I saw Epic Movie.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c2/regrets.png,26.460527420043945,-14.324129104614258 458,459,459: Holy Ghost,"Okay, everyone, cross yourselves, then cross the streams.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c2/holy_ghost.png,5.089563369750977,-3.0623886585235596 459,460,460: Paleontology,Dinosaurs totally jumped the ichthyosaur when they got rid of Brontosaurus.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/69/paleontology.png,-7.412675857543945,0.8683321475982666 460,461,461: Google Maps,Apparently Google assumes you're traveling during the ferry's normal operating hours. We lost two hours circling that damn lake (to say nothing of the Straw Man).,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/80/google_maps.png,-26.645648956298828,-21.21500015258789 461,462,462: Freemanic Paracusia,It's amazing what it does for YouTube comments.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d4/freemanic_paracusia.png,-27.928606033325195,27.744035720825195 462,463,463: Voting Machines,"And that's *another* crypto conference I've been kicked out of. C'mon, it's a great analogy!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/97/voting_machines.png,-2.3670897483825684,41.462398529052734 463,464,464: RBA,This is a story all about how I started drinking.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7c/rba.png,-26.697160720825195,3.089777708053589 464,465,465: Quantum Teleportation,"Science should be exactly as cool as the headlines sound. Like the ""RUSSIANS CUT APART AND REASSEMBLE DOGS"" thing",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/22/quantum_teleportation.png,14.986490249633789,13.790771484375 465,466,466: Moving,We need a special holiday to honor the countless kind souls with unsecured networks named 'linksys'.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/moving.png,12.533649444580078,43.900943756103516 466,467,467: X Girls Y Cups,"Also no results: 1girl10000cups, 2girls(5+3i)cups, 65536girls65536cups, or 3frenchhens2turtledoves1cup.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4c/x_girls_y_cups.png,10.00146484375,-3.6452341079711914 467,468,468: Fetishes,"They eventually resolved this self-reference, but Cantor's 'everything-in-the-fetish-book-twice' parties finally sunk the idea.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/19/fetishes.png,-15.932633399963379,9.414519309997559 468,469,469: Improvised,"Oh, your brother is Luke. Sorry, should've mentioned that first.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3a/improvised.png,2.0836005210876465,1.4993432760238647 469,470,470: The End is Not for a While,I THINK EVERYONE INVOLVED HERE IS CUTE.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fb/the_end_is_not_for_a_while.png,22.600481033325195,6.773940086364746 470,471,471: Aversion Fads,"Hey, are you friends with any hamsters? This kite needs a passenger.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d9/aversion_fads.png,-9.359404563903809,8.297958374023438 471,472,472: House of Pancakes,"Fuck it, I'm just going to Waffle House.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ab/house_of_pancakes.png,-9.926629066467285,-3.348146915435791 472,473,473: Still Raw,We actually divorced once over the airplane/treadmill argument. (Preemptive response to the inevitable threads arguing about it: you're all wrong on the internet.),https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/01/still_raw.png,9.808761596679688,9.842398643493652 473,474,474: Turn-On,Supercollider? I 'ardly know 'er!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f9/turn-on.png,-4.50260591506958,19.75942611694336 474,475,475: Further Boomerang Difficulties,"An eternity later, the universe having turned out to have positive curvature and lots of mass, the boomerang hits him in the back of the head.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/41/further_boomerang_difficulties.png,-7.7543840408325195,-2.39460825920105 475,476,476: One-Sided,"He continued, ""Okay, Bernanke is uncontaminated. Find a crossbow and get him into position behind one of the columns at the Fed entrance. This is gonna get ugly.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/36/one-sided.png,1.746018648147583,-52.10935974121094 476,477,477: Typewriter,"Somewhere in the world, my actual grandmothers are reading this and angrily exclaiming that I never write even malformed thank-you notes. DEAR GRANDMOMS: I AM SORRY! YOU ARE WONDERFUL PEOPLE AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING LOVE reddit.com RANDALL.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/90/typewriter.png,12.821145057678223,-8.46609878540039 477,478,478: The Staple Madness,Staple guns: because duct tape can't make that 'kaCHUNK' noise.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e0/the_staple_madness.png,11.866872787475586,43.101463317871094 478,479,479: Tones,"I need a lawn, so I can yell at kids to stay off it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/63/tones.png,24.074121475219727,11.406557083129883 479,480,480: Spore,"Way to not support the GMA 950 under OS X, Spore. :(",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/75/spore.png,38.19948196411133,-1.2958312034606934 480,481,481: Listen to Yourself,"Man, I just wanted to know how babby was formed.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b8/listen_to_yourself.png,11.850306510925293,32.788944244384766 481,482,482: Height,"Interestingly, on a true vertical log plot, I think the Eiffel Tower's sides would really be straight lines.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8e/height.png,-8.851377487182617,-27.19569969177246 482,483,483: Fiction Rule of Thumb,"Except for anything by Lewis Carroll or Tolkien, you get five made-up words per story. I'm looking at you, Anathem.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/45/fiction_rule_of_thumb.png,-3.7625625133514404,-54.76252746582031 483,484,484: Flash Games,"Although...who else can't wait for them to incorporate that Wiimote head-tracking stuff into games? Man, the future's gonna be *awesome*.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/df/flash_games.png,36.78883743286133,0.5259294509887695 484,485,485: Depth,The Planck length is another thousand or two pixels below the comic.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/56/depth.png,26.206768035888672,-19.362051010131836 485,486,486: I am Not a Ninja,'The sad thing is that I just wanted to talk about your poor smoke-bomb techniques.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/i_am_not_a_ninja.png,18.12982177734375,11.191834449768066 486,487,487: Numerical Sex Positions,We didn't even get to the continued fractions!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/28/numerical_sex_positions.png,-11.12144947052002,18.312938690185547 487,488,488: Steal This Comic,I spent more time trying to get an audible.com audiobook playing than it took to listen to the book. I have lost every other piece of DRM-locked music that I ever paid for.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/49/steal_this_comic.png,16.477783203125,12.077086448669434 488,489,489: Going West,"Listen, they request that you stop submitting a listing for your house labeled 'WHERE YOU BROKE MY HEART'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d0/going_west.png,3.3138692378997803,-25.76629066467285 489,490,490: Morning Routine,I had a really hard time not writing '...profit!',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/13/morning_routine.png,-6.0193939208984375,39.57360076904297 490,491,491: Twitter,If long tooltips / cut off for you / then upgrade from / Firefox 2 / Burma Shave,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/10/twitter.png,18.398588180541992,12.12266731262207 491,492,492: Scrabble,"A veteran Scrabble player will spot the ""OSTRICH"" option.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f2/scrabble.png,36.34556579589844,-2.4520273208618164 492,493,493: Actuarial,I started to do the tables for more famous people but it got really depressing and morbid and I had to go outside. Hat guy wins again.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4d/actuarial.png,-26.765573501586914,17.690364837646484 493,494,494: Secretary: Part 1,The blueprints for the Department of the Internet offices call for Ceiling Cat-themed sprinkler heads.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d1/secretary_part_1.png,25.864946365356445,14.45524787902832 494,495,495: Secretary: Part 2,That helmet won't save him.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fa/secretary_part_2.png,6.612379550933838,-22.272733688354492 495,496,496: Secretary: Part 3,"He actually installed each piece in a different car in the lot, then built a new car in the spot from the displaced pieces. It's a confusing maneuver known as the auto-troll shuffle.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/70/secretary_part_3.png,-28.432558059692383,-14.922883987426758 496,497,497: Secretary: Part 4,It's time to draw the line.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/36/secretary_part_4.png,-16.250904083251953,1.260128140449524 497,498,498: Secretary: Part 5,And they choose Al Gore as Internet Secretary.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/03/secretary_part_5.png,-16.858686447143555,1.3366296291351318 498,499,499: Scantron,"Also, after all the warnings about filling in the bubbles completely, I spent like 30 seconds on each one.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f1/scantron.png,-31.043441772460938,-7.999238967895508 499,500,500: Election,"Someday I'll be rich enough to hire Nate Silver to help make all my life decisions. 'Should I sleep with her?' 'Well, I'm showing a 35% chance it will end badly.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fa/election.png,11.81545352935791,25.05832862854004 500,501,501: Faust 2.0,The only blood these contracts are signed in is from me cutting my hand trying to open the goddamn CD case.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cc/faust_20.png,-20.897695541381836,-12.768699645996094 501,502,502: Dark Flow,The Pioneer anomaly is due to the force of my love.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/94/dark_flow.png,-26.785924911499023,15.593295097351074 502,503,503: Terminology,"Also, is it just me, or do Japan and New Zealand look suspiciously similar? Has anyone seen them at a party together?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d2/terminology.png,29.877717971801758,-33.116966247558594 503,504,504: Legal Hacks,It's totally a reasonable modern analogue. Jefferson would have been all about crypto.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c5/legal_hacks.png,14.573649406433105,22.47980499267578 504,505,505: A Bunch of Rocks,I call Rule 34 on Wolfram's Rule 34.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/14/a_bunch_of_rocks.png,6.460362434387207,-31.769041061401367 505,506,506: Theft of the Magi,Every Roomba needs a dueling harness.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e6/theft_of_the_magi.png,-12.455918312072754,6.510940074920654 506,507,507: Experimentation,"I understand large sample sizes are key to a low standard error of the mean, but the entire sophomore class?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c1/experimentation.png,7.194485187530518,0.20708756148815155 507,508,508: Drapes,"Wait, what?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/14/drapes.png,-3.7628841400146484,27.661924362182617 508,509,509: Induced Current,The MythBusters need to tackle whether a black hole from the LHC could REALLY destroy the world.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f6/induced_current.png,-6.0904388427734375,-23.640125274658203 509,510,510: Egg Drop Failure,I hear my brother Ricky won his school's egg drop by leaving the egg inside the hen.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4f/egg_drop_failure.png,-3.6433980464935303,-0.6562954783439636 510,511,511: Sleet,"I mean, I can barely hear myself complaining about Battlestar Galactica.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/sleet.png,-12.030203819274902,-2.082159996032715 511,512,512: Alternate Currency,"For the first time ever, the phrase 'I'd like to thank everyone at 4chan for making me successful and happy' is uttered.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c4/alternate_currency.png,28.051830291748047,-9.384838104248047 512,513,513: Friends,Friends with detriments.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/99/friends.png,-11.543196678161621,39.763221740722656 513,514,514: Simultaneous,I'm leaving you for your twin. He's more mature than you by now.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/51/simultaneous.png,-9.193852424621582,-1.0852268934249878 514,515,515: No One Must Know,"Or perhaps they knew he was there, and were just trying to torment him first.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e8/no_one_must_know.png,-13.41686725616455,8.801668167114258 515,516,516: Wood Chips,"You didn't run a chemical analysis against the Shroud of Turin? Man, all that work for NOTHING.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5a/wood_chips.png,-6.20596981048584,30.312658309936523 516,517,517: Marshmallow Gun,Except in reality crossing a stream of marshmallows would create a giant Bill Murray.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/46/marshmallow_gun.png,-14.400884628295898,-14.514123916625977 517,518,518: Flow Charts,"At 8 drinks, you switch the torrent from FreeBSD to Microsoft Bob. C'mon, it'll be fun!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fb/flow_charts.png,9.80584716796875,-45.386383056640625 518,519,519: 11th Grade,And the ten minutes striking up a conversation with that strange kid in homeroom sometimes matters more than every other part of high school combined.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0d/11th_grade.png,2.313133955001831,-56.07431411743164 519,520,520: Cuttlefish,Unless the CS students finish the robot revolution before you finish the cephalopod one.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/12/cuttlefish.png,7.143993377685547,-24.307085037231445 520,521,521: 2008 Christmas Special,'How could you possibly think typing 'import skynet' was a good idea?',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0b/2008_christmas_special.png,35.32979965209961,28.14315414428711 521,522,522: Google Trends,"Obama has been writing Lincoln/Obama erotic fan fiction on his secret livejournal. Excerpt: Lincoln lay back on the bed, nude save for his trademark stovepipe hat. 'Tell me,' he purred seductively, as he and Obama formed a more perfect union. 'When you come, is it 10% ethanol?'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a1/google_trends.png,11.970516204833984,-6.091029167175293 522,523,523: Decline,'There is also a spike on the Fourier transformation at the one month mark where--' 'You want to stop talking right now.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5c/decline.png,0.3814490735530853,-52.259483337402344 523,524,524: Party,"I wonder what 2008 meme will go bizarrely mainstream in 2009 like rickrolling did in 2007-2008. I accidentally ? Yo, dawg? Place your bets now!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0a/party.png,-8.346675872802734,5.334161758422852 524,525,525: I Know You're Listening,Basically it's Pascal's Wager for the paranoid prankster.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/24/i_know_youre_listening.png,15.66496467590332,21.500547409057617 525,526,526: Converting to Metric,"According to River, ""adequate"" vacuuming systems drain the human body at about half a liter per second.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/ca/converting_to_metric.png,2.840031385421753,-29.07083511352539 526,527,527: Keynote,"He should be better soon -- now that the Apple Store is getting rid of DRM, Cory Doctorow will get rid of his Steve Jobs voodoo doll.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c0/keynote.png,5.460898399353027,24.7458553314209 527,528,528: Windows 7,Disclaimer: I have not actually tried the beta yet. I hear it's quite pleasant and hardly Hitler-y at all.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/20/windows_7.png,11.931690216064453,37.033538818359375 528,529,529: Sledding Discussion,"If you get your hands on that one, it's the worst place to have a breaking-up conversation.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/16/sledding_discussion.png,-2.010035514831543,11.828703880310059 529,530,530: I'm An Idiot,"Sadly, this is a true story. At least I learned about the OS X 'say' command.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b4/im_an_idiot.png,16.16402244567871,41.44346237182617 530,531,531: Contingency Plan,Kids are genetic experiments. We're just experimenting responsibly!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3c/contingency_plan.png,-24.644914627075195,1.8414582014083862 531,532,532: Piano,"Good thing he didn't make it smaller, or it'd need someone three inches tall to play it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/67/piano.png,-2.8351707458496094,8.93191909790039 532,533,533: Laptop Hell,"The xkcd.com sysadmin has a Q2010, and I can attest that it can handle a fall down several flights of concrete steps. Relatedly, he's upset with me - I hope he doesn't take revenge by messing with my site's contenDISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/55/laptop_hell.png,1.1934055089950562,-23.349504470825195 533,534,534: Genetic Algorithms,Just make sure you don't have it maximize instead of minimize.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/99/genetic_algorithms.png,7.9303507804870605,-1.470159888267517 534,535,535: It Might Be Cool,"'And ovaries. Man, ovaries, huh?' [awkward pause] '... faithfully.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/53/it_might_be_cool.png,-3.8703677654266357,27.730907440185547 535,536,536: Space Elevators,"If you think space elevators are good, but just too boring and practical, check out the 'space fountain'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/52/space_elevators.png,1.5198442935943604,16.442813873291016 536,537,537: Ducklings,DUCKLOOP'D?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2f/ducklings.png,-1.5123512744903564,-0.9285658001899719 537,538,538: Security,"Actual actual reality: nobody cares about his secrets. (Also, I would be hard-pressed to find that wrench for $5.)",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/34/security.png,-4.1965837478637695,43.485862731933594 538,539,539: Boyfriend,"...okay, but because you said that, we're breaking up.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0c/boyfriend.png,21.363012313842773,-9.996293067932129 539,540,540: Base System,I once got to second base with a basketball player. She was so confused.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/85/base_system.png,6.977811813354492,-37.10511016845703 540,541,541: TED Talk,The IAU ban came after the 'redefinition of the 'planet' to include the IAU president's mom' incident.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2f/ted_talk.png,6.062685489654541,-5.441722393035889 541,542,542: Cover-Up,"Man, this trick has saved me so many times.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b0/cover_up.png,-18.33648109436035,15.335506439208984 542,543,543: Sierpinski Valentine,Especially you mouseover text readers. You're the best. <3,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a2/sierpinski_valentine.png,38.68648147583008,-11.967389106750488 543,544,544: Pep Talk,"Listen! They said a team of chess players coached by someone with no understanding of basketball would never be competitive in the NBA! Well, it turns out they're pretty perceptive.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/86/pep_talk.png,-3.6410129070281982,8.276500701904297 544,545,545: Neutrality Schmeutrality,"'Hey, everyone, you can totally trust that I didn't do a word count on MY edit!'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7d/neutrality_schmeutrality.png,14.448060989379883,-8.822649002075195 545,546,546: Music DRM,"Just yesterday I bought my first non-DRM'd songs (The Last Vegas, in keeping with my 'I only listen to things from Guitar Hero' theme).",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/03/music_drm.png,-36.29947280883789,6.697153568267822 546,547,547: Simple,"Actually, I think if all higher math professors had to write for the Simple English Wikipedia for a year, we'd be in much better shape academically.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/99/simple.png,3.4644272327423096,15.779800415039062 547,548,548: Kindle,"I'm happy with my Kindle 2 so far, but if they cut off the free Wikipedia browsing, I plan to show up drunk on Jeff Bezos's lawn and refuse to leave.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/47/kindle.png,10.532066345214844,-14.35037899017334 548,549,549: Westley's a Dick,Inigo/Buttercup 4eva <3,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9d/westleys_a_dick.png,-12.652693748474121,22.524276733398438 549,550,550: Density,If only I had asked 4chan for ideas for what I should do to prevent this!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/86/density.png,-5.3823113441467285,-0.9641609787940979 550,551,551: Etch-a-Sketch,Surrounded by boring mysteries.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/93/etch-a-sketch.png,2.3855369091033936,-21.855070114135742 551,552,552: Correlation,"Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9c/correlation.png,5.154461860656738,13.98267936706543 552,553,553: Pirate Bay,We find you guilty of closing your torrents as soon as they finish. Your sentence is unremovable Hungarian subtitles on everything.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e2/pirate_bay.png,-2.1823129653930664,4.915268898010254 553,554,554: Not Enough Work,It's even harder if you're an asshole who pronounces <> brackets.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/ca/not_enough_work.png,-21.421886444091797,-16.026716232299805 554,555,555: Two Mirrors,"If you actually do this, what really happens is Douglas Hofstadter appears and talks to you for eight hours about strange loops.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/13/two_mirrors.png,-1.1929359436035156,0.8999508619308472 555,556,556: Alternative Energy Revolution,"The moment their arms spun freely in our air, they were doomed -- for Man has earned his right to hold this planet against all comers, by virtue of occasionally producing someone totally batshit insane.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b3/alternative_energy_revolution.jpg,10.630084991455078,-27.17786979675293 556,557,557: Students,"The same goes for the one where you're wrestling the Green Ranger in the swimming pool full of Crisco. You guys all have that dream, right? It's not just me. Right?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fb/students.png,-33.93915557861328,27.485380172729492 557,558,558: 1000 Times,And 0.002 dollars will NEVER equal 0.002 cents.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d3/1000_times.png,-18.203351974487305,-14.259146690368652 558,559,559: No Pun Intended,Like spelling 'dammit' correctly -- with two m's -- it's a troll that works best on the most literate.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f5/no_pun_intended.png,6.976825714111328,14.585243225097656 559,560,560: Lithium Batteries,"I'm normally a pretty frugal person, but I still compulsively buy any R/C aircraft that's less than $30. In the last few years, this has become a problem.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e4/lithium_batteries.png,30.209627151489258,18.42055892944336 560,561,561: Well,"I'll concede ergonomics anecdotally, but none of the studies of Dvorak were at all rigorous (the most-cited Navy study was overseen by Dvorak himself). And the 'slow typists down' thing is a myth. Also EMACS RULES VI DROOLS WOOOOOOO!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dc/well.png,8.704238891601562,4.169233798980713 561,562,562: Parking,"Police reported three dozen cheerful bystanders, yet no one claims to have seen who did it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/be/parking.png,-34.6075325012207,-20.41602897644043 562,563,563: Fermirotica,I love how Google handles dimensional analysis. Stats are ballpark and vary wildly based on time of day and whether your mom is in town.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6c/fermirotica.png,-5.604414939880371,1.201200008392334 563,564,564: Crossbows,I hate being the slowest guy in the lab.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e0/crossbows.png,12.930312156677246,19.13882827758789 564,565,565: Security Question,"Let's invite him to a party and play 'I never'. Okay, I never hid any bodies SOUTH of Main Street. ...he's taking a drink!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/08/security_question.png,12.906952857971191,29.736860275268555 565,566,566: Matrix Revisited,I actually remember being entertained by both the sequels while in the theater. They just don't hold up nearly as well in later comparison.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f4/matrix_revisited.png,-8.765144348144531,-11.18586254119873 566,567,567: Urgent Mission,"Sure, we could stop dictators and pandemics, but we could also make the signs on every damn diagram make sense.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a2/urgent_mission.png,-9.292064666748047,-9.596881866455078 567,568,568: Well 2,"But I've made $13.72 already today! Ow, stop throwing pennies.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/63/well_2.png,20.013633728027344,7.749009132385254 568,569,569: Borders,"Eventually a UN is set up. And then a lone rebel runs down the line of flags in front of it, runs back to his base, and gets a kajillion points.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/36/borders.png,0.9502872228622437,-8.827256202697754 569,570,570: New Car,"Somewhere out there is a company that has actually figured out how to enlarge penises, and it's helpless to reach potential customers.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/31/new_car.png,-17.871206283569336,46.111759185791016 570,571,571: Can't Sleep,"If androids someday DO dream of electric sheep, don't forget to declare sheepCount as a long int.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cc/cant_sleep.png,-33.06772994995117,29.064470291137695 571,572,572: Together,This scavenger hunt is getting boring. Let's go work on the treehouse!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8d/together.png,-18.296438217163086,27.472444534301758 572,573,573: Parental Trolling,They'll pick music and culture that they know annoys you. Building in behavioral easter eggs is a fair retaliation!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/84/parental_trolling.png,7.104823112487793,27.428544998168945 573,574,574: Swine Flu,"Bad flu epidemics can hit young adults hardest because they provoke their powerful immune systems into overreaction, so to stay healthy spend the next few weeks drunk and sleep-deprived to keep yours suppressed.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d9/swine_flu.png,10.016142845153809,-13.875510215759277 574,575,575: Tag Combination,"I love Eileen / and want you to love her / When you're around / I'm one floor above her / If you could see / just how much I adore her / Oh, that pretty red dress / I'd do anything for her / (Too ra loo ra too ra loo rye ayy)",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6b/tag_combination.png,-0.015035891905426979,11.015405654907227 575,576,576: Packages,Day six: 'The hell? Who mails a bobcat?',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/84/packages.png,3.611166477203369,22.897109985351562 576,577,577: The Race: Part 1,"Great, and you JUST finished paying off the settlement over the Wayne Coyne hamster ball incident.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2a/the_race_part_1.png,-2.1003224849700928,6.78521203994751 577,578,578: The Race: Part 2,The Hammer + Captain Tightpants == Captain Hammerpants?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c0/the_race_part_2.png,23.092010498046875,14.74837589263916 578,579,579: The Race: Part 3,"No, the best things about The Sarah Connor Chronicles were: (1) watching Sarah and Cameron try to pass for normal, and (2) Cameron throwing people and things through walls. Everything else was pretty secondary.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0b/the_race_part_3.png,-6.186008453369141,8.912714004516602 579,580,580: The Race: Part 4,"Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/the_race_part_4.png,-6.963033676147461,8.963970184326172 580,581,581: The Race: Part 5,"It was actually canceled because they just noticed he's been naked under that coat the whole time. There's a petition on Facebook to get Fox to un-cancel it, and one on Livejournal to get him to take off the coat.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9e/the_race_part_5.png,-7.152016639709473,8.821796417236328 581,582,582: Brakes,"It was the funniest 6.5 seconds of my life, although as usual like 80% of it was just Tom and Ray's gasping, hacking laughter.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/91/brakes.png,-34.106014251708984,-19.78931999206543 582,583,583: CNR,Can't and shouldn't.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/cnr.png,11.43016242980957,29.69202423095703 583,584,584: Unsatisfied,"Forever comparing, never evaluating on any external scale. If you were a sort function, you'd never break the nlogn barrier.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b1/unsatisfied.png,-3.701185464859009,-34.47134017944336 584,585,585: Outreach,"Completely implausible? Yes. Nevertheless, worth keeping a can of shark repellent next to the bed.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ec/outreach.png,5.462491035461426,-19.206445693969727 585,586,586: Mission to Culture,"It can't be very MUCH money... they apparently can't even afford a sampler. I mean, with a little remixing, some of this could be kinda good!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/81/mission_to_culture.png,-15.482463836669922,21.617385864257812 586,587,587: Crime Scene,"I think I see a Mandelbrot set! No, that's just blood spatters. Golly.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7d/crime_scene.png,-13.17882251739502,24.16657066345215 587,588,588: Pep Rally,"You know, pep rallies weirded me out in high school, and they've only gotten creepier in retrospect.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/af/pep_rally.png,-2.9040703773498535,33.542625427246094 588,589,589: Designated Drivers,Calling a cab means cutting into beer money.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f3/designated_drivers.png,4.049820423126221,-38.67217254638672 589,590,590: Papyrus,"I secretly, deep in my guilty heart, like Papyrus and don't care if it's overused. [Cue hate mail in beautifully-kerned Helvetica.]",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c8/papyrus.png,-26.77837371826172,-1.5573880672454834 590,591,591: Troll Slayer,We have met the enemy and he is us.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/18/troll_slayer.png,19.858808517456055,33.87489700317383 591,592,592: Drama,"This happens in geek circles every so often. The ""Hey, this is just a system I can figure out easily!"" is also a problem among engineers first diving into the stock market.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/09/drama.png,-2.654622793197632,-46.75929641723633 592,593,593: Voynich Manuscript,"Wait, is that the ORIGINAL voynich manuscript? Where did you GET that? Wanna try playing a round of Druids and Dicotyledons?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b8/voynich_manuscript.png,-32.14082336425781,15.4297456741333 593,594,594: Period,"413 nanohertz, by the way.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2b/period.png,-25.77593994140625,24.97203254699707 594,595,595: Android Girlfriend,"Programming the sexbots to enjoy sex seemed a sensible move at the time, but we didn't realize the consequences of their developing fetishes.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/android_girlfriend.png,-6.564266681671143,42.31986999511719 595,596,596: Latitude,"The G1, especially with the new Android upgrade, is way better than I originally thought.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0e/latitude.png,31.55120849609375,-17.218233108520508 596,597,597: Addiction,"But if you unplug everything, it gets so quiet you hear that high-pitched empty-room hum. And then the whispers begin.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/addiction.png,13.737619400024414,29.563663482666016 597,598,598: Porn,I have a thing for corrupt women.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5c/porn.png,13.328810691833496,-20.79253578186035 598,599,599: Apocalypse,I wonder if I still have time to go shoot a short film with Kevin Bacon.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/12/apocalypse.png,6.864988803863525,-29.927410125732422 599,600,600: Android Boyfriend,"Which is, coincidentally, the most unsettling mantlepiece decoration in my house.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/94/android_boyfriend.png,-22.203109741210938,21.67652130126953 600,601,601: Game Theory,"Wait, no, that one also loses. How about a nice game of chess?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1b/game_theory.png,14.516877174377441,28.67110252380371 601,602,602: Overstimulated,My favorite thing to do at parties is to talk judgmentally about people who aren't there.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ee/overstimulated.png,27.820411682128906,-12.561726570129395 602,603,603: Idiocracy,"People aren't going to change, for better or for worse. Technology's going to be so cool. All in all, the future will be okay! Except climate; we fucked that one up.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/18/idiocracy.png,-6.56155252456665,12.679633140563965 603,604,604: Qwertial Aphasia,"If this were SMBC, the alt-text drawing thingy would be a giraffe hooker fluttering her eyelashes.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c8/qwertial_aphasia.png,9.54298210144043,32.69992446899414 604,605,605: Extrapolating,"By the third trimester, there will be hundreds of babies inside you.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fc/extrapolating.png,-2.946784257888794,-53.860931396484375 605,606,606: Cutting Edge,I remember trying to log in to the original Command and Conquer servers a year or two back and feeling like I was knocking on the boarded-up gates of a ghost town.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fe/cutting_edge.png,39.87639617919922,-1.4031785726547241 606,607,607: 2038,"If only we'd chosen 1944-12-02 08:45:52 as the Unix epoch, we could've combined two doomsday scenarios into one and added a really boring scene to that Roland Emmerich movie.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/64/2038.png,-9.048827171325684,42.550575256347656 607,608,608: Form,'This space intentionally left blank' is less immediately provocative but more Hofstadterially confusing.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c9/form.png,34.702239990234375,8.235523223876953 608,609,609: Tab Explosion,"Cracked.com is another inexplicable browser narcotic. They could write a list of '17 worst haircuts in the Ottoman Empire' and I'd still read through to the end, then click on all the links at the end.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ed/tab_explosion.png,11.842561721801758,25.39671516418457 609,610,610: Sheeple,"Hey, what are the odds -- five Ayn Rand fans on the same train! Must be going to a convention.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/19/sheeple.png,7.036951065063477,13.210602760314941 610,611,611: Disaster Voyeurism,"Hurricane forums are full of excited comments about central pressure and wind speed and comparisons to Camille and 1931 and 1938, with hastily-tacked-on notes about how it will be tragic if anyone dies and they hope it's a dud.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/25/disaster_voyeurism.png,-28.239669799804688,-14.625700950622559 611,612,612: Estimation,"They could say ""the connection is probably lost,"" but it's more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a3/estimation.png,30.936874389648438,-17.580154418945312 612,613,613: Threesome,"I wanted us to try finding an approximate numeric solution, but noooo.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7d/threesome.png,1.6892386674880981,27.119810104370117 613,614,614: Woodpecker,If you don't have an extension cord I can get that for you too. Because we're friends! Right?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/ca/woodpecker.png,33.590797424316406,27.84182357788086 614,615,615: Avoidance,Hobby: seeing how many menu selections you can get someone to go through before they realize you're not an automated system and/or hang up.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1b/avoidance.png,-5.674588203430176,51.06288528442383 615,616,616: Lease,You should talk to the girl down the hall; I think you'd like her. Lemme know if you find out why she's ordering all those colored plastic balls.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2d/lease.png,-8.835369110107422,26.350357055664062 616,617,617: Understocked,"My biology grad student friends tell me that different types of alcohol don't actually have different effects. I trust their expertise, not because of the 'biology' part, but because of the 'grad student'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a4/understocked.png,-15.38427734375,22.473417282104492 617,618,618: Asteroid,My Deep Impact/Little Prince crossover fanfic has been poorly received by the community.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7b/asteroid.png,-1.4995332956314087,-19.713987350463867 618,619,619: Supported Features,"I hear many of you finally have smooth Flash support, but me and my Intel card are still waiting on a kernel patch somewhere in the pipeline before we can watch Jon Stewart smoothly.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dd/supported_features.png,-3.4018940925598145,42.071895599365234 619,620,620: Wings,Please do not try any of this and die or get arrested.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/37/wings.png,-4.565683841705322,-19.37873649597168 620,621,621: Superlative,"Stay while I recount the crazy TF2 kill I managed yesterday, my friends.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2b/superlative.png,-26.16744613647461,1.6181830167770386 621,622,622: Haiku Proof,"After somewhere around 40 hours, there's no academic reason to go to the class. Only go for the hallucinations.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/32/haiku_proof.png,-34.22125244140625,27.117626190185547 622,623,623: Oregon,"A century later, the harrowing flight of the survivors from Oregon was dramatized in a popular video game.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e9/oregon.png,-1.0929855108261108,-10.304279327392578 623,624,624: Branding,"Actually, 'RSS&M' is kinda catchy.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a5/branding.png,-21.56641960144043,-20.287670135498047 624,625,625: Collections,You know what really helps an existential crisis? Wondering how much shelf space to leave for a Terry Pratchett collection.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f4/collections.png,1.7950371503829956,9.368578910827637 625,626,626: Newton and Leibniz,YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5d/newton_and_leibniz.png,4.999757766723633,-25.141407012939453 626,627,627: Tech Support Cheat Sheet,"'Hey Megan, it's your father. How do I print out a flowchart?'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/38/tech_support_cheat_sheet.png,-15.408698081970215,-16.97520637512207 627,628,628: Psychic,You can do a lot better than 1% if you start keeping track of the patterns in what numbers people pick.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5f/psychic.png,0.7833430767059326,20.024791717529297 628,629,629: Skins,There's Livejournal drama between those who want to wear human suits over fursuits and those who just take off the fursuits.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4a/skins.png,-23.877059936523438,25.81406593322754 629,630,630: Time Travel,"She also starts every letter with ""Dear Future """,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a5/time_travel.png,-36.11257553100586,-0.10228881239891052 630,631,631: Anatomy Text,"For many of the anatomy pictures on Wikipedia, I think this is actually not far from reality. They only look all formal and professional due to careful cropping.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f8/anatomy_text.png,-24.640565872192383,26.21142578125 631,632,632: Suspicion,"Fine, walk away. I'm gonna go cry into a pint of Ben&Jerry's Brownie Batter(tm) ice cream [link], then take out my frustration on a variety of great flash games from PopCap Games(r) [link]",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fa/suspicion.png,9.514289855957031,29.24138069152832 632,633,633: Blockbuster Mining,"The 2007 Bridge To Terebithia trailer put me off too much to see that particular movie, but I am cautiously optimistic about Where The Wild Things Are.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3a/blockbuster_mining.png,-14.272981643676758,26.38339614868164 633,634,634: Date,"Well, the kid's definitely getting the biology geek phenotype.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0f/date.png,-21.20902442932129,5.453386306762695 634,635,635: Locke and Demosthenes,Dear Peter Wiggin: This letter is to inform you that you have received enough up votes on your reddit comments to become president of the world. Please be at the UN tomorrow at 8:00 sharp.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bd/locke_and_demosthenes.png,13.140830039978027,-13.245237350463867 635,636,636: Brontosaurus,"Well, sex is like a velociraptor: despite your movie-fueled lifelong neurotic obsession, unlikely to be found in your house.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b5/brontosaurus.png,-26.74945831298828,-2.5535545349121094 636,637,637: Scribblenauts,"Let me look away and type 'guy who's just jealous that I beat all his MarioKart times' and turn back, and... yup, there you are again!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1f/scribblenauts.png,33.426639556884766,4.3557915687561035 637,638,638: The Search,"I am so excited about the Kepler mission. This is the second most important thing our species has ever done, right behind developing the concept of delivery pizza.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d4/the_search.png,8.101232528686523,31.665695190429688 638,639,639: Lincoln-Douglas,"Stephen Douglas actually died soon after the debates and election, but if you demand historical accuracy in your webcomics you should be reading Hark! A Vagrant.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1e/lincoln_douglas.png,1.9311188459396362,-6.4382171630859375 639,640,640: Tornado Hunter,"The Fujita scale was replaced by the enhanced Fujita scale in 2007, but I think 'EF-5' sounds stupid, so I vote we just use the new measurements for assigning number but still call them 'F-whatever'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d2/tornado_hunter.png,-32.92794418334961,-18.50132179260254 640,641,641: Free,Asbestos is bad; definitely get the one on the right. Wait -- this one over here has no swine flu! Now I can't decide.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6a/free.png,-13.752033233642578,-13.331450462341309 641,642,642: Creepy,And I even got out my adorable new netbook!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4e/creepy.png,-26.485618591308594,28.062061309814453 642,643,643: Ohm,"More generally, with great power comes great dEnergy/dt",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/28/ohm.png,-3.182112693786621,4.623366355895996 643,644,644: Surgery,"Damn. Not only did he not install it, he sutured a 'Vista-Ready' sticker onto my arm.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/25/surgery.png,3.107574939727783,6.054670333862305 644,645,645: RPS,"It looks good, but it needs more postfixins.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8e/rps.png,-1.4785895347595215,3.5186638832092285 645,646,646: Conversations,If the dysentery graph looks historically inaccurate it's because I got all my data from Oregon Trail.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2d/conversations.png,-4.1993184089660645,-50.55472946166992 646,647,647: Scary,"I'm teaching every 8-year-old relative to say this, and every 14-year-old to do the same thing with Toy Story. Also, Pokemon hit the US over a decade ago and kids born after Aladdin came out will turn 18 next year.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/86/scary.png,-9.223767280578613,13.265576362609863 647,648,648: Fall Foliage,"And I could replace you with older pictures of you, from back when you looked happy.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/13/fall_foliage.png,-3.9863827228546143,-13.854520797729492 648,649,649: Static,I firmly believe that nothing can go wrong on a project if you're wearing one of those wrist things.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/75/static.png,0.19608908891677856,14.117863655090332 649,650,650: Nowhere,"I mean, seriously, NOWHERE? For starters, there are like a thousand species of dinosaur.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/29/nowhere.png,-5.733016490936279,2.7707107067108154 650,651,651: Bag Check,"A laptop battery contains roughly the stored energy of a hand grenade, and if shorted it... hey! You can't arrest me if I prove your rules inconsistent!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fe/bag_check.png,12.044703483581543,43.1987419128418 651,652,652: More Accurate,"We live in a world where there are actual fleets of robot assassins patrolling the skies. At some point there, we left the present and entered the future.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7d/more_accurate.png,-10.158196449279785,-7.869229793548584 652,653,653: So Bad It's Worse,"You think it's so legendarily bad that you'll torrent it and sit through it just for the kitschy nerd cred. I, too, once thought as you did.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5c/so_bad_its_worse.png,-4.836159706115723,-47.67173385620117 653,654,654: Nachos,"'Cheater!' 'Hey, gaming on wifi? You have only yourself to blame.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/da/nachos.png,25.2087459564209,13.434809684753418 654,655,655: Climbing,Where did you even get this wall? Return it there and stand it back up right now.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f6/climbing.png,6.805667400360107,-26.248258590698242 655,656,656: October 30th,Not enough houses on your block? Just hit them at 30-year intervals from here to 2300 and get 10x the candy.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/october_30th.png,-18.99907684326172,6.379890441894531 656,657,657: Movie Narrative Charts,"In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2a/movie_narrative_charts.png,18.006343841552734,-25.340545654296875 657,658,658: Orbitals,"Except the people filtering in late are the partiers, so you end up with drunken makeouts in the living room and the next roommate to return home has to sleep in the hall lounge orbital.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1c/orbitals.png,-9.736129760742188,-12.550786018371582 658,659,659: Lego,"Dad, where is Grandpa right now?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b2/lego.png,-15.934842109680176,12.78223705291748 659,660,660: Sympathy,Excellent recovery:... which we could try to use to somehow save your original brother!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/76/sympathy.png,-7.011624813079834,43.124515533447266 660,661,661: Two-Party System,I favor approval voting or IRV chiefly because they mean we might get to bring back The Bull Moose party.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/80/two_party_system.png,14.47862434387207,9.392903327941895 661,662,662: iPhone or Droid,"It may be a fundamentally empty experience, but holy crap the Droid's 265 ppi screen is amazing.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1f/iphone_or_droid.png,10.995820999145508,24.025894165039062 662,663,663: Sagan-Man,"They laugh now, but within 10 years the city's entire criminal class will have quit to work on space research.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2b/sagan-man.png,-11.689142227172852,29.63756561279297 663,664,664: Academia vs. Business,"Some engineer out there has solved P=NP and it's locked up in an electric eggbeater calibration routine. For every 0x5f375a86 we learn about, there are thousands we never see.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/academia_vs_business.png,19.810640335083008,24.73802947998047 664,665,665: Prudence,"Moments later, the White Witch rolls up and, confused, tries to tempt the probe with a firmware upgrade.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e0/prudence.png,-18.961732864379883,18.545761108398438 665,666,666: Silent Hammer,"'I bet he'll keep quiet for a couple weeks and then-- wait, did you nail a piece of scrap wood to my antique table a moment ago?'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e7/silent_hammer.png,-12.125470161437988,-12.882742881774902 666,667,667: SkiFree,"And from that day on, I wore this little 'F' key pendant everywhere I went.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/81/skifree.png,-29.433683395385742,27.91526222229004 667,668,668: Pandora,"What? Oh, no, the 'Enchanted' soundtrack was just playing because Pandora's algorithms are terrible. [silence] ... (quietly) That's how you knooooooow...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/80/pandora.png,-3.182769298553467,-29.192604064941406 668,669,669: Experiment,The other two are still lost on the infinite plane of uniform density.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d4/experiment.png,-13.460970878601074,12.587510108947754 669,670,670: Spinal Tap Amps,"Wow, that's less than $200 per... uh... that's a good deal!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/64/spinal_tap_amps.png,0.26473158597946167,-1.642559289932251 670,671,671: Stephen and Me,"Hey, let go! We were all thinking it! Someone had to speak truth to power!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6a/stephen_and_me.png,-21.934795379638672,-15.77778434753418 671,672,672: Suggestions,An hour later: SUGGESTION: LICK HER NIPPLE MORE.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c2/suggestions.png,-14.84540843963623,-0.8553241491317749 672,673,673: The Sun,"Obligatory bad guy: This operation is sheer foolishness, and it's not happening on my watch! Mainly because I can't figure out how to adjust the time.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ed/the_sun.png,18.03856658935547,-32.172367095947266 673,674,674: Natural Parenting,"On one hand, every single one of my ancestors going back billions of years has managed to figure it out. On the other hand, that's the mother of all sampling biases.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d3/natural_parenting.png,-17.639484405517578,6.942005157470703 674,675,675: Revolutionary,"I mean, what's more likely -- that I have uncovered fundamental flaws in this field that no one in it has ever thought about, or that I need to read a little more? Hint: it's the one that involves less work.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9c/revolutionary.png,6.144835472106934,12.133452415466309 675,676,676: Abstraction,"If I'm such a god, why isn't Maru *my* cat?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fb/abstraction.png,13.010775566101074,22.67035484313965 676,677,677: Asshole,"[Shortly thereafter, at a nearby bakery] ::CRASH:: ::RUMBLE:: ::VRRRRRR:: '... I don't know, officer. It just scooped up an entire rack of scones and drove away!'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ac/asshole.png,-30.111928939819336,-18.503026962280273 677,678,678: Researcher Translation,A technology that is '20 years away' will be 20 years away indefinitely.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/13/researcher_translation.png,2.502457857131958,-7.903770446777344 678,679,679: Christmas Plans,Physicists who want to protect traditional Christmas realize that the only way to keep from changing Christmas is not to observe it.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/32/christmas_plans.png,-8.110594749450684,46.36576461791992 679,680,680: December 25th,"If you're turning 27 and were born in the Northeast, maybe you were conceived in the April blizzard of 1982. Imagine: snowed in, candles, massage oil, your mom sporting nothing but her early 80's haircut and a smile... aren't you glad you read the title-text?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/92/december_25th.png,35.353736877441406,26.610305786132812 680,681,681: Gravity Wells,"This doesn't take into account the energy imparted by orbital motion (or gravity assists or the Oberth effect), all of which can make it easier to reach outer planets.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f9/gravity_wells.png,-9.115676879882812,-27.106700897216797 681,682,682: Force,Force-choking the chicken.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9e/force.png,11.02769660949707,37.53736877441406 682,683,683: Science Montage,The rat's perturbed; it must sense nanobots! Code grey! We have a Helvetica scenario!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fb/science_montage.png,-8.928672790527344,-10.703410148620605 683,684,684: We Get It,"The most brutal way I've ever seen someone handle this was 'Oh, you have a girlfriend. Are you going to get married?' 'I, uh, don't know--' 'Well, do you love her?' '...' 'Anyway, what were you saying about the movie?'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/66/we_get_it.png,-13.074346542358398,44.650394439697266 684,685,685: G-Spot,"The BBC lead was 'The elusive erogenous zone said to exist in some women may be a myth, say researchers who have hunted for it.' I couldn't read it with a straight face.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/43/g-spot.png,22.406280517578125,3.3931872844696045 685,686,686: Admin Mourning,And every day it gets harder to fight the urge to su to the user and freak people out.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e9/admin_mourning.png,18.232032775878906,-1.8270615339279175 686,687,687: Dimensional Analysis,Or the pressure at the Earth's core will rise slightly.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f8/dimensional_analysis.png,3.7352702617645264,-0.43013325333595276 687,688,688: Self-Description,"The contents of any one panel are dependent on the contents of every panel including itself. The graph of panel dependencies is complete and bidirectional, and each node has a loop. The mouseover text has two hundred and forty-two characters.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6c/self_description.png,2.020535945892334,-55.72639083862305 688,689,689: FIRST Design,Pool on the roof must've sprung a leak.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c5/first_design.png,-3.7719101905822754,-9.680961608886719 689,690,690: Semicontrolled Demolition,I believe the truth always lies halfway between the most extreme claims.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/85/semicontrolled_demolition.png,4.205610275268555,-4.525953769683838 690,691,691: MicroSD,"That card holds a refrigerator carton's worth of floppy discs, and a soda can full of those cards could hold the entire iTunes store's music library. Mmmm.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b0/microsd.png,-5.107418060302734,41.421573638916016 691,692,692: Dirty Harry,Sci-fi has energy weapons because otherwise the people like me who watch it get distracted counting shots.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/71/dirty_harry.png,-11.291460990905762,25.75872230529785 692,693,693: Children's Fantasy,"I was going to be a scientist, but that seems silly now. Magical worlds exist. I've learned a huge truth about our place in the universe. I'm supposed to care about college? I mean, FUCK.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f6/childrens_fantasy.png,-18.160621643066406,7.572169303894043 693,694,694: Retro Virus,He says this is the year of Linux on the desktop! The world of Windows will fade any moment now!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/81/retro_virus.png,-2.4330105781555176,43.93891525268555 694,695,695: Spirit,"On January 26th, 2274 Mars days into the mission, NASA declared Spirit a 'stationary research station' expected to stay operational for several more months until the dust buildup on its solar panels forces a final shutdown.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/96/spirit.png,-21.036420822143555,-4.286176681518555 695,696,696: Strip Games,HOW ABOUT A NICE GAME OF STRIP GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/strip_games.png,35.62165832519531,-2.1657638549804688 696,697,697: Tensile vs. Shear Strength,"Although really, the damage was done when the party planners took the hole punch to the elevator ribbon to hang up the sign.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/19/tensile_vs_shear_strength.png,-18.936357498168945,-9.910746574401855 697,698,698: You Hang Up First,"No, YOU stumble past a series of post-breakup hookups in a daze as you slowly realize what you've lost and how unlikely you are ever to get it back first.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/49/you_hang_up_first.png,26.637165069580078,11.85941219329834 698,699,699: Trimester,"Also, it's not like anyone actually calls up the Nobel committee to double-check things.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9b/trimester.png,-0.7265810370445251,4.409877777099609 699,700,700: Complexion,Why do all my attempts at science end with me being punched by Batman? (P.S. benzoyl peroxide soap works great.),https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/21/complexion.png,12.545687675476074,-1.103492021560669 700,701,701: Science Valentine,"You don't use science to show that you're right, you use science to become right.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c9/science_valentine.png,-7.911346435546875,-45.50967025756836 701,702,702: Snow Tracking,I suppose that's more accurately a hare dryer.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/62/snow_tracking.png,2.4874534606933594,-28.899581909179688 702,703,703: Honor Societies,"Hey, why do YOU get to be the president of Tautology Clu-- wait, I can guess.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/68/honor_societies.png,29.117324829101562,2.8808107376098633 703,704,704: Principle of Explosion,"You want me to pick up waffle cones? Oh, right, for the wine. One sec, let me just derive your son's credit card number and I'll be on my way.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a5/principle_of_explosion.png,-4.308060169219971,50.581390380859375 704,705,705: Devotion to Duty,"The weird sense of duty really good sysadmins have can border on the sociopathic, but it's nice to know that it stands between the forces of darkness and your cat blog's servers.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/devotion_to_duty.png,26.248422622680664,16.02320098876953 705,706,706: Freedom,Sometimes I'm terrified to realize how many options other people have.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/freedom.png,-10.172589302062988,43.17975997924805 706,707,707: Joshing,You'd be moved up from 49 of ~7 billion to 31 of ~7 billion.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/26/joshing.png,-7.628424167633057,47.88209915161133 707,708,708: Sex Dice,"You roll for initiative, and... [roll]... wow, do you ever take it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e8/sex_dice.png,-12.64421558380127,0.0797957181930542 708,709,709: I Am,"Great, LO-M. Do you speak Bocce? I'm supposed to find one that speaks Bocce.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/99/i_am.png,-7.344536781311035,-4.109464645385742 709,710,710: Collatz Conjecture,The Strong Collatz Conjecture states that this holds for any set of obsessively-hand-applied rules.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/65/collatz_conjecture.png,-3.887706756591797,50.363258361816406 710,711,711: Seismograph,The reverse only works if the subject has a nervous twitch.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e2/seismograph.png,-11.861809730529785,27.65275764465332 711,712,712: Single Ladies,"Using a ring to bind someone you covet into your dark and twisted world? Wow, just got the subtext there. Also, the apparently eager Beyoncé would've made one badass Nazgûl.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5b/single_ladies.png,-34.923553466796875,7.1921257972717285 712,713,713: GeoIP,"'Meet hot young singles in your mom's basement today'? Man, screw you, GeoIP.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cb/geoip.png,2.7280139923095703,-15.661391258239746 713,714,714: Porn For Women,"Yes, there are a lot of longing looks across the bridge of Galactica first, but that's beside the point!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/35/porn_for_women.png,11.39616584777832,31.88210678100586 714,715,715: Numbers,"The typical internet user (who wants to share) has an IQ of 147 and a 9-inch penis. Better than the reverse, I guess",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cf/numbers.png,-4.0926947593688965,-52.35822296142578 715,716,716: Time Machine,We never see any time travelers because they all discover it's a huge mistake. This is also why your friend at the lab suddenly looked a year older recently.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ec/time_machine.png,-36.35808181762695,0.03943882882595062 716,717,717: Furtive,...go go gadget video camera. Go go gadget cup.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e0/furtive.png,-8.655231475830078,-5.651669025421143 717,718,718: The Flake Equation,"Statistics suggest that there should be tons of alien encounter stories, and in practice there are tons of alien encounter stories. This is known as Fermi's Lack-of-a-Paradox.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/46/the_flake_equation.png,22.86888885498047,-5.3568501472473145 718,719,719: Brain Worms,"Hey, it says here that if you dream about your teeth falling out, it means they're spreading.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/64/brain_worms.png,-29.648923873901367,-18.418609619140625 719,720,720: Recipes,"To be fair, the braised and confused newt on a bed of crushed Doritos turned out to be delicious.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8f/recipes.png,-26.29637908935547,5.866497039794922 720,721,721: Flatland,"Also, I apologize for the time I climbed down into your world and everyone freaked out about the lesbian orgy overseen by a priest.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c8/flatland.png,38.31550598144531,1.8495280742645264 721,722,722: Computer Problems,This is how I explain computer problems to my cat. My cat usually seems happier than me.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3d/computer_problems.png,11.950859069824219,22.327354431152344 722,723,723: Seismic Waves,The USGS operates a really neat email/SMS earthquake notification service (earthquake.usgs.gov/ens/) that allows fine-grained control of notifications.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bf/seismic_waves.png,25.834230422973633,14.762490272521973 723,724,724: Hell,"There's also a Katamari level where everything is just slightly bigger than you, and a Mario level with a star just out of reach.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8c/hell.png,34.571754455566406,-1.2876436710357666 724,725,725: Literally,The chemistry experiment had me figuratively -- and then shortly thereafter literally -- glued to my seat.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4f/literally.png,-13.036311149597168,33.91343307495117 725,726,726: Seat Selection,Don't click on the wing.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cf/seat_selection.png,10.13630485534668,-32.369319915771484 726,727,727: Trade Expert,"I mean, it's been almost twenty years. Now, it's possible you're simply embedding Windows directory paths in your URIs, but in that case you need more than just a short lecture.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/44/trade_expert.png,14.137001037597656,16.826467514038086 727,728,728: iPad,"Maybe we're all gonna die, but we're gonna die in *really cool ways*.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c3/ipad.png,-5.877669811248779,-10.363311767578125 728,729,729: Laser Pointer,It's a lasing cat-vity!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/33/laser_pointer.png,-29.010713577270508,-11.456099510192871 729,730,730: Circuit Diagram,"I just caught myself idly trying to work out what that resistor mass would actually be, and realized I had self-nerd-sniped.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/13/circuit_diagram.png,0.7785809636116028,-35.033199310302734 730,731,731: Desert Island,"Telescopes and bathyscaphes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleonic war: the most exciting new frontier is charting what's already here.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8b/desert_island.png,-2.2591640949249268,-8.488306999206543 731,732,732: HDTV,"We're also stuck with blurry, juddery, slow-panning 24fps movies forever because (thanks to 60fps home video) people associate high framerates with camcorders and cheap sitcoms, and thus think good framerates look fake.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ee/hdtv.png,-4.046813488006592,46.47189712524414 732,733,733: Eagle,"In the off-seasons, I hire an animal trainer to help confront secret agents with situations which they are unable to report by radio.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/44/eagle.png,-15.880558967590332,9.348517417907715 733,734,734: Outbreak,Let's get dinner after we promptly destroy all the X-7 we've manufactured.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bc/outbreak.png,-19.646072387695312,15.352895736694336 734,735,735: Floor,We once got grounded when we convinced the FAA to block flights through our county because of ash clouds.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3b/floor.png,-19.236534118652344,5.96244478225708 735,736,736: Cemetery,"Three headstones down, I got a call from my mom and it went from bad to worse.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a9/cemetery.png,-9.841081619262695,5.879775524139404 736,737,737: Yogurt,"I am firmly of the opinion that if something doesn't have a year on it, every time the expiration date rolls around it is good again for the two weeks preceding that date.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7e/yogurt.png,-22.470130920410156,0.08461128920316696 737,738,738: Incision,"At one point, by force of childhood habit, the doctor accidentally removed three or four organs.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ac/incision.png,-10.781784057617188,4.233070373535156 738,739,739: Malamanteau,"The article has twenty-three citations, one of which is an obscure manuscript from the 1490s and the other twenty-two are arguments on LanguageLog.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5f/malamanteau.png,14.370984077453613,-9.190568923950195 739,740,740: The Tell-Tale Beat,You fancy me mad. Could a madman have outsmarted the greatest electronica/techno artists of our era? Next to fall will be Roderick Usher's house/trance band.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1e/the_tell_tale_beat.png,-7.882848262786865,-8.088050842285156 740,741,741: Blogging,I'm looking to virally monetize your eyeballs by selling them for transplants.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e1/blogging.png,-14.712960243225098,5.981294631958008 741,742,742: Campfire,"100 years later, this story remains terrifying--not because it's the local network block, but because the killer is on IPv4.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/80/campfire.png,1.0529485940933228,-6.347647666931152 742,743,743: Infrastructures,"The heartfelt tune it plays is CC licensed, and you can get it from my seed on JoinDiaspora.net whenever that project gets going.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e0/infrastructures.png,-13.61489200592041,-8.81734561920166 743,744,744: Walkthrough,"There's nothing hotter than porn dubbed over with a poorly-mic'd teenager's voice explaining each step in a droning monotone. 'okay, we're almost at the spawn point... separate the labia, but watch out, there are more inside them...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5d/walkthrough.png,-2.052025318145752,44.687252044677734 744,745,745: Dyslexics,And of course I had to redo this like three times because I kept writing 'UNTIE'; I kept doing 'doing 'doing it wrong' wrong' wrong.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/77/dyslexics.png,19.069440841674805,-14.84614372253418 745,746,746: Birth,All those GTA marathons during the pregnancy were a bad idea.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9a/birth.png,-9.689379692077637,4.327538013458252 746,747,747: Geeks and Nerds,"The definitions I grew up with were that a geek is someone unusually into something (so you could have computer geeks, baseball geeks, theater geeks, etc) and nerds are (often awkward) science, math, or computer geeks. But definitions vary.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/86/geeks_and_nerds.png,-3.145632266998291,-28.710430145263672 747,748,748: Worst-Case Scenario,"To get serious analyses of hurricanes and oil slicks, see Jeff Masters' blog. To get serious discussions of worst-case scenario thinking, see Bruce Schneier's blog. To get enough Vitamin D, don't read any blogs and go outside instead.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8a/worst_case_scenario.png,-1.2980417013168335,-5.962425231933594 748,749,749: Study,Volunteers needed for a study on transmission of urushiol from digital contact with thin strips of fibrous cellulose pulp.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/46/study.png,10.169713020324707,0.39704635739326477 749,750,750: Book Burning,"Of course, since their cautionary tale was reported in a print newspaper, no one read it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b2/book_burning.png,-0.25231876969337463,49.48857498168945 750,751,751: Swimsuit Issue,"Parents: talk to your kids about popup blockers. Also, at some point, sex. But crucial fundamentals first!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/20/swimsuit_issue.png,-2.6046297550201416,3.4248788356781006 751,752,752: Phobia,"Oh God, the tornado picked up snakes!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/83/phobia.png,4.972043514251709,-12.558449745178223 752,753,753: Southern Half,"Also, if you read his speech at Rice, all his arguments for going to the moon work equally well as arguments for blowing up the moon, sending cloned dinosaurs into space, or constructing a towering penis-shaped obelisk on Mars.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b4/southern_half.png,27.714900970458984,-32.223167419433594 753,754,754: Dependencies,"The prereqs for CPSC 357, the class on package management, are CPSC 432, CPSC 357, and glibc2.5 or later.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/28/dependencies.png,9.630171775817871,-4.822847843170166 754,755,755: Interdisciplinary,Replace the pendulums with history students and you'll qualify for a grant!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/87/interdisciplinary.png,-6.776500225067139,29.046194076538086 755,756,756: Public Opinion,"News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/95/public_opinion.png,26.670866012573242,1.2519865036010742 756,757,757: Toot,This is also one of only five identified situations in which a vuvuzela is actually appropriate.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/toot.png,6.152979373931885,2.2507193088531494 757,758,758: Raptor Fences,"If at least one person has a nightmare about being swarmed by hundreds of mouse-sized dromaeosaurids, my work will have been done.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/44/raptor_fences.png,-3.1759109497070312,44.611961364746094 758,759,759: 3x9,"Handy exam trick: when you know the answer but not the correct derivation, derive blindly forward from the givens and backward from the answer, and join the chains once the equations start looking similar. Sometimes the graders don't notice the seam.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/78/3x9.png,1.4745521545410156,27.302087783813477 759,760,760: Moria,Someone should really bring them a ladder and remind them to build the Endless Stair *first* next time.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/ca/moria.png,-2.4070680141448975,-2.3523457050323486 760,761,761: DFS,"A breadth-first search makes a lot of sense for dating in general, actually; it suggests dating a bunch of people casually before getting serious, rather than having a series of five-year relationships one after the other.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c5/dfs.png,-9.924922943115234,11.645318984985352 761,762,762: Analogies,I just call all of them 'synecdoche'.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d6/analogies.png,-8.398539543151855,43.63199234008789 762,763,763: Workaround,"I once worked on a friend's dad's computer. He had the hard drive divided into six partitions, C: through J:, with a 'Documents' directory tree on each one. Each new file appeared to be saved to a partition at random. I knew enough not to ask.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/72/workaround.png,2.894516944885254,35.79605484008789 763,764,764: One Two,Cue letters from anthropology majors complaining that this view of numerolinguistic development perpetuates a widespread myth. They get to write letters like that because when you're not getting a real science degree you have a lot of free time. Zing!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/08/one_two.png,8.098542213439941,-4.901291370391846 764,765,765: Dilution,"Dear editors of Homeopathy Monthly: I have two small corrections for your July issue. One, it's spelled ""echinacea"", and two, homeopathic medicines are no better than placebos and your entire magazine is a sham.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cd/dilution.png,-10.045687675476074,0.058013271540403366 765,766,766: Green Flash,"The exact cause of the phenomenon is unknown, but it's thought to be linked to atmospheric refraction and you getting a really cool car.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/87/green_flash.png,-29.53314208984375,-19.630802154541016 766,767,767: Temper,"Mr. Rogers projected an air of genuine, unwavering, almost saintly pure-hearted decency. But when you look deeper, at the person behind the image... that's exactly what you find there, too. He's exactly what he appears to be.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9a/temper.png,-27.450302124023438,27.399612426757812 767,768,768: 1996,"College Board issues aside, I have fond memories of TI-BASIC, writing in it a 3D graphing engine and a stock market analyzer. With enough patience, I could make anything... but friends. (Although with my chatterbot experiments, I certainly tried.)",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/23/1996.png,9.21462631225586,20.684715270996094 768,769,769: War,"They offered to make me a green beret, but I liked my regular one. Although it gets kind of squashed under my helmet.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e2/war.png,-2.6599280834198,-3.3297119140625 769,770,770: All the Girls,You know that I'll never leave you. Not as long as she's with someone.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/31/all_the_girls.png,-29.100664138793945,-2.7232108116149902 770,771,771: Period Speech,"The same people who spend their weekends at the Blogger Reenactment Festivals will whine about the anachronisms in historical movies, but no one else will care.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/period_speech.png,1.5753475427627563,-6.713953018188477 771,772,772: Frogger,"I understand you and your team worked hard on this, but when we said to make it more realistic, we meant the graphics.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/40/frogger.png,-35.56597900390625,-20.040428161621094 772,773,773: University Website,"People go to the website because they can't wait for the next alumni magazine, right? What do you mean, you want a campus map? One of our students made one as a CS class project back in '01! You can click to zoom and everything!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/16/university_website.png,21.392654418945312,-6.880199432373047 773,774,774: Atheists,"'But you're using that same tactic to try to feel superior to me, too!' 'Sorry, that accusation expires after one use per conversation.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4f/atheists.png,-13.675233840942383,16.828964233398438 774,775,775: Savannah Ancestry,"She's a perfectly nice lady from a beautiful city, and there's no reason to be mean just because she thinks a quarterback is a river in Egypt.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7c/savannah_ancestry.png,6.251154899597168,7.5387749671936035 775,776,776: Still No Sleep,"I'm not listening to you. I mean, what does a SQUIRREL know about mental health?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/26/still_no_sleep.png,31.310470581054688,28.28168296813965 776,777,777: Pore Strips,"I'm sure they're a harmful tool of the cosmetics-industrial complex and all, but my goodness do those strips ever work to pull gunk out of your pores. I was shocked, disgusted, and vaguely fascinated by the result.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f7/pore_strips.png,-13.106473922729492,-14.506437301635742 777,778,778: Scheduling,"'How about a little ... *family growth*?' 'Dude, that's not until round two.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/73/scheduling.png,-7.3097686767578125,6.12046480178833 778,779,779: Anxiety,"Don't need any, thanks. I have a backscattering fetish.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/93/anxiety.png,-5.4697489738464355,10.289312362670898 779,780,780: Sample,"There are two or three songs out there with beeps in the chorus that sound exactly like the clock radio alarm I had in high school, and hearing it makes me think my life since junior year has been a dream I'm about to wake up from.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4f/sample.png,20.929332733154297,12.712628364562988 780,781,781: Ahead Stop,"They actually started the reversed-text practice in 1977 -- not for ease-of-reading reasons, but because too many people were driving backward down the highway blasting the Star Wars opening theme.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d0/ahead_stop.png,-26.975887298583984,-24.67561912536621 781,782,782: Desecration,It gets worse! You know that wizened old monk with the gypsy wife whose voodoo shop we smash up every day after school?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/41/desecration.png,-8.282624244689941,2.882901668548584 782,783,783: I Don't Want Directions,"Yes, I understand that the turn is half a mile past the big field, but my GPS knows that, too. This would be easier if you weren't about to ask me to repeat it all back to you.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/99/i_dont_want_directions.png,-15.929479598999023,-3.100616693496704 783,784,784: Falling Asleep,Sweet unintersecting dreams!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8d/falling_asleep.png,-12.441123008728027,-1.141552448272705 784,785,785: Open Mic Night,"Ever notice how the more successful observational comics become, the more their jokes focus on flying and hotels?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a3/open_mic_night.png,-14.726993560791016,6.13134765625 785,786,786: Exoplanets,I'm just worried that we'll all leave and you won't get to come along!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/03/exoplanets_2010.png,7.703062534332275,-22.809080123901367 786,787,787: Orbiter,"Normally, the Shuttle can't quite safely reach the orbital inclination required to pass over both those points from a Canaveral launch, but this is an alternate history in which either it launches from Vandenberg or everyone hates the Outer Banks.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e6/orbiter.png,4.3593268394470215,-4.342803478240967 787,788,788: The Carriage,"I learned from Achewood that since this poem is in ballad meter, it can be sung to the tune of Gilligan's Island. Since then, try as I might, I haven't ONCE been able to read it normally.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4b/the_carriage.png,-17.58880043029785,-10.997568130493164 788,789,789: Showdown,"The tumbleweed then tried to roll off into the sunset, but due to the Old West's placement north of the subtropical ridge, the prevailing winds were in the wrong direction.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/73/showdown.png,-3.4683470726013184,-9.661574363708496 789,790,790: Control,"Which, at one point, led to a study showing that LSD produces no more hallucinations than a placebo.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/05/control.png,-2.0322816371917725,5.489623546600342 790,791,791: Leaving,"What'll I say -- ""I was staring at some cat vomit when I got the news?""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/aa/leaving.png,-24.116857528686523,25.0909366607666 791,792,792: Password Reuse,It'll be hilarious the first few times this happens.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dc/password_reuse.png,8.643143653869629,-29.160608291625977 792,793,793: Physicists,"If you need some help with the math, let me know, but that should be enough to get you started! Huh? No, I don't need to read your thesis, I can imagine roughly what it says.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/50/physicists.png,-14.182583808898926,4.468074321746826 793,794,794: Inside Joke,"I've looked through a few annotated versions of classic books, and it's shocking how much of what's in there is basically pop-culture references totally lost on us now.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cd/inside_joke.png,-12.933988571166992,24.683975219726562 794,795,795: Conditional Risk,"'Dude, wait -- I'm not American! So my risk is basically zero!'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/47/conditional_risk.png,14.99813461303711,4.095909595489502 795,796,796: Bad Ex,"Since the goatee, glasses, and Seltzer & Friedberg DVD collection didn't tip you off, there will be a $20 negligence charge for this service.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4a/bad_ex.png,-25.876495361328125,4.971790790557861 796,797,797: debian-main,dpkg: error processing package (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit 163: OH_GOD_THEYRE_INSIDE_MY_CLOTHES,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/debian_main.png,13.51453685760498,23.746442794799805 797,798,798: Adjectives,'Fucking ineffable' sounds like someone remembering how to do self-censorship halfway through a phrase.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ae/adjectives.png,-6.113393306732178,-52.13542175292969 798,799,799: Stephen Hawking,"Guys? The Town is supposed to be good, and I thou--' 'PHYSICIST STEPHEN HAWKING DECLARES NEW FILM BEST IN ALL SPACE AND TIME' 'No, I just heard that--' 'SHOULD SCIENCE PLAY A ROLE IN JUDGING BEN AFFLECK?' 'I don't think--' 'WHAT ABOUT MATT DAMON?'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/50/stephen_hawking.png,12.516097068786621,-21.258556365966797 799,800,800: Beautiful Dream,"Lucky. In MY dream, all the people who grew up loving The Giving Tree paired up with all the students who had weird dreams after reading The Metamorphosis. That one was more confusing.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d0/beautiful_dream.png,-26.510223388671875,11.634086608886719 800,801,801: Golden Hammer,"Took me five tries to find the right one, but I managed to salvage our night out--if not the boat--in the end.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/24/golden_hammer.png,-19.07200813293457,21.03018569946289 801,802,802: Online Communities 2,"Best trivia I learned while working on this: 'Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?' Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fa/online_communities_2.png,28.315181732177734,-30.264995574951172 802,803,803: Airfoil,"This is a fun explanation to prepare your kids for; it's common and totally wrong. Good lines include ""why does the air have to travel on both sides at the same time?"" and ""I saw the Wright brothers plane and those wings were curved the same on the top and bottom!""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f4/airfoil.png,4.801419734954834,-36.14079284667969 803,804,804: Pumpkin Carving,"The Banach-Tarski theorem was actually first developed by King Solomon, but his gruesome attempts to apply it set back set theory for centuries.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dc/pumpkin_carving.png,-9.72726058959961,-10.474762916564941 804,805,805: Paradise City,Take me down to the paradise municipality / where the grass is mauve and the girls aren't fromthisreality.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/09/paradise_city.png,-11.180960655212402,-14.345867156982422 805,806,806: Tech Support,I recently had someone ask me to go get a computer and turn it on so I could restart it. He refused to move further in the script until I said I had done that.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c3/tech_support.png,21.69302749633789,24.27294158935547 806,807,807: Connected,"Or love in general, for that matter. It just leads to the idea that either your love is pure, perfect, and eternal, and you are storybook-compatible in every way with no problems, or you're LYING when you say 'I love you'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d0/connected.png,-26.874439239501953,-3.38295841217041 807,808,808: The Economic Argument,"Not to be confused with 'making money selling this stuff to OTHER people who think it works', which corporate accountants and actuaries have zero problems with.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/01/the_economic_argument.png,11.077465057373047,3.047302484512329 808,809,809: Los Alamos,"The test didn't (spoiler alert) destroy the world, but the fact that they were even doing those calculations makes theirs the coolest jobs ever.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/63/los_alamos.png,2.52396559715271,-27.44659996032715 809,810,810: Constructive,And what about all the people who won't be able to join the community because they're terrible at making helpful and constructive co-- ...oh.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b1/constructive.png,12.29766845703125,-11.260636329650879 810,811,811: Starlight,"Don't worry! From the light's point of view, home and your eye are in the same place, and the journey takes no time at all! Relativity saves the day again.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/54/starlight.png,-12.452781677246094,-21.716970443725586 811,812,812: Glass,I read in this one article that the breaking of electroweak symmetry is the reason we have SOULS. This guy with a degree said so!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ec/glass.png,-27.39025115966797,4.802005767822266 812,813,813: One-Liners,"""Upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Flash player to view THIS content, bitch."" ::triggers detonator::",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2d/one_liners.png,-12.060293197631836,30.014463424682617 813,814,814: Diode,And the worst part is you won't apologize.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c8/diode.png,-13.691520690917969,16.430145263671875 814,815,815: Mu,"As the CoKF approaches 0, productivity goes negative as you pull OTHER people into chair-spinning contests.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/81/mu.png,-4.39719820022583,-50.205631256103516 815,816,816: Applied Math,"Dear Reader: Enclosed is a check for ninety-eight cents. Using your work, I have proven that this equals the amount you requested.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/35/applied_math.png,16.18775749206543,26.23686981201172 816,817,817: Mutual,A universe that needed someone to observe it in order to collapse it into existence would be a pretty sorry universe indeed.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/27/mutual.png,-30.177913665771484,28.017398834228516 817,818,818: Illness,"<3 If there's anything you can do, I'll let you know. For the moment, any simple distracting online games sent to sick@xkcd.com will not go unappreciated [EDIT: Holy crap 2,700 games before noon. I love you guys; thank you. They will be passed along and played by us all.]",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/ca/illness.png,-24.67323875427246,-1.7701221704483032 818,819,819: Five-Minute Comics: Part 1,"The wolves thin the RAID arrays, removing the slowest and weakest disks to keep the average seek speed high.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/59/five_minute_comics_part_1.png,-17.053485870361328,-1.440218210220337 819,820,820: Five-Minute Comics: Part 2,Dear Wiccan readers: I understand modern Wiccans are not usually all about the curses and hexes. But Darth Vader was recently converted from Episcopalianism and he's still figuring it all out.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/75/five_minute_comics_part_2.png,-17.60118865966797,-1.5787813663482666 820,821,821: Five-Minute Comics: Part 3,Resulting in The Little Rock 9x + C.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/five_minute_comics_part_3.png,7.534641265869141,-11.640530586242676 821,822,822: Guest Week: Jeph Jacques (Questionable Content),"Guest comic by Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content, whose internal monologue hasn't been speaking to him for the past three years.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dd/guest_week_jeph_jacques_questionable_content.png,-30.3083553314209,27.4520263671875 822,823,823: Guest Week: David Troupes (Buttercup Festival),"Guest comic by David Troupes of Buttercup Festival, who is living in that lovely tree outside your window.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d1/guest_week_david_troupes_buttercup_festival.png,-19.707277297973633,-1.1757886409759521 823,824,824: Guest Week: Bill Amend (FoxTrot),"Guest comic by Bill Amend of FoxTrot, an inspiration to all us nerdy-physics-majors-turned-cartoonists, of which there are an oddly large number.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f8/guest_week_bill_amend_foxtrot.png,2.6357040405273438,0.32407891750335693 824,825,825: Guest Week: Jeffrey Rowland (Overcompensating),Guest comic by Jeffrey Rowland of Overcompensating/Wigu. Jeffrey is famous as the picture on the Wikipedia article on 'Necrosis'.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e0/guest_week_jeffrey_rowland_overcompensating.png,-5.938146591186523,-8.187765121459961 825,826,826: Guest Week: Zach Weiner (SMBC),"Guest comic by Zach Weiner of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. When I was stressed out, Zach gave me a talk that was really encouraging and somehow involved nanobots.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/85/guest_week_zach_weiner_smbc.png,-17.72939109802246,-1.6765737533569336 826,827,827: My Business Idea,"We didn't believe you at first, but we asked like three people who were at that party. They not only corroborated your story, but even said you totally mentioned wanting to start a company someday. Sorry! If this isn't enough money, let us know.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8f/my_business_idea.png,7.084879398345947,37.264583587646484 827,828,828: Positive Attitude,"Having a positive attitude is almost tautologically good for your mental health, and extreme stress can hurt your immune system, but that doesn't mean you should feel like shit for feeling like shit.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0a/positive_attitude.png,-11.02324390411377,40.733253479003906 828,829,829: Arsenic-Based Life,"According to a new paper published in the journal Science, reporters are unable to thrive in an arsenic-rich environment.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4b/arsenic_based_life.png,14.128228187561035,18.077743530273438 829,830,830: Genetic Analysis,"There's still a chance you were conceived via IVF. But we've checked your mom's college yearbook photos, and whether or not she and your father had sex, it's clear that... listen, I know this is hard for you.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/14/genetic_analysis.png,13.744683265686035,16.444561004638672 830,831,831: Weather Radar,"Ever notice how there aren't as many thunderstorms now as there were when you were a kid? Much like 'the shuffle on my MP3 player has a bias', this is occasionally true but universally believed. Brains are so interesting!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/17/weather_radar.png,-3.8071675300598145,-16.666004180908203 831,832,832: Tic-Tac-Toe,"The only winning move is to play, perfectly, waiting for your opponent to make a mistake.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1e/tic_tac_toe.png,6.197556018829346,-10.416332244873047 832,833,833: Convincing,"And if you labeled your axes, I could tell you exactly how MUCH better.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/99/convincing.png,-1.9215459823608398,-48.19721221923828 833,834,834: Wikileaks,STUDENTS ARE CALLING PRESIDENT JOHNSON EN MASSE TO PROTEST THE BOMBING AND IT'S JAMMED THE WHITE HOUSE SWITCHBOARD. COULD THEY COLLAPSE OUR CRITICAL PHONE SYSTEMS? HAS THE FIRST TELEPHONE WAR BEGUN? STAY TUNED FOR MORE ON THIS DANGEROUS NEW TECHNOLOGY.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8e/wikileaks.png,26.64537239074707,14.186307907104492 834,835,835: Tree,"Not only is that terrible in general, but you just KNOW Billy's going to open the root present first, and then everyone will have to wait while the heap is rebuilt.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e1/tree.png,35.72395706176758,26.75390625 835,836,836: Sickness,"At least, with p<0.05 confidence.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/31/sickness.png,-25.102968215942383,-4.637988090515137 836,837,837: Coupon Code,This also guarantees he won't be one of the ones to get a bobcat.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6b/coupon_code.png,14.746822357177734,26.122323989868164 837,838,838: Incident,"He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he's copied on /var/spool/mail/root, so be good for goodness' sake.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/22/incident.png,13.851400375366211,25.27254867553711 838,839,839: Explorers,We're going to have to work together to get over our hangups if we're going to learn to move on Catan's hexagonal grid. It's bad enough that we lost our crew of pawns when we passed within firing range of Battleship.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/63/explorers.png,-0.40471333265304565,-17.43269920349121 839,840,840: Serious,"Not to be confused with Serious PuTTY, the Windows terminal client where everything is in Impact.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/80/serious.png,-27.19308853149414,8.24703311920166 840,841,841: Audiophiles,"For years, I took the wrong lesson from that Monster Cable experiment and only listened to my music through alligator-clipped coat hangers.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e9/audiophiles.png,21.458389282226562,11.884811401367188 841,842,842: Mark,"I'm a solipsistic conspiracy theorist. I'm sure I must be up to something, and I will not stop until I find out what.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b9/mark.png,-24.585895538330078,-3.514446496963501 842,843,843: Misconceptions,"""Grandpa, what was it like in the Before time?"" ""It was hell. People went around saying glass was a slow-flowing liquid. You folks these days don't know how good you have it.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7a/misconceptions.png,-33.102298736572266,-7.212898254394531 843,844,844: Good Code,You can either hang out in the Android Loop or the HURD loop.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6a/good_code.png,20.941944122314453,-15.560111999511719 844,845,845: Modern History,"During the week, I research my character by living in his house and raising his children.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7f/modern_history.png,7.13703727722168,5.705744743347168 845,846,846: Dental Nerve,"WAKE up in the MORning and my BREATh ain't PRETty / and noBODY'S gonna KISS me if my MOUTH smells SHItty / so I ALways brush my TEETH before I START on the JACK / sure, my DRINKing's out of HAND, but I'm conTROLLing my PLAQUE.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/df/dental_nerve.png,-7.050241470336914,40.350406646728516 846,847,847: Stingray Nebula,"Eärendil will patrol the walls of night only until the sun reaches red giant stage, engulfing the Morning Star on his brow. Light and high beauty are passing things as well.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/04/stingray_nebula.png,15.576522827148438,-37.6888427734375 847,848,848: 3D,The LINACs in the glasses frames can barely manage one MeV. You should've gone to the screening at CERN.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e8/3d.png,-9.554656028747559,21.99995231628418 848,849,849: Complex Conjugate,"Fun fact: if you say this every time a professor does something to a complex-number equation that drops the imaginary part, they'll eventually move the class to another room and tell everyone else except you.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/49/complex_conjugate.png,26.368234634399414,-10.849783897399902 849,850,850: World According to Americans,It's not our fault we caught a group on their way home from a geography bee. And they taught us that Uzbekistan is one of the world's two doubly-landlocked countries!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d5/world_according_to_americans.png,30.40149688720703,-33.494083404541016 850,851,851: Na,"I hear that there are actual lyrics later on in Land of 1,000 Dances, but other than the occasional 'I said,' I've never listened long enough to hear any of them.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/71/na.png,9.495814323425293,-44.65847396850586 851,852,852: Local g,"In Rio de Janeiro in 2016, the same jump will get an athlete 0.25% higher (>1cm) than in London four years prior.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a5/local_g.png,-5.95334005355835,1.1568301916122437 852,853,853: Consecutive Vowels,"But the windows! What if there's a voyeur watchi-- wait, now I'm turned on too.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b9/consecutive_vowels.png,-0.7118597626686096,-46.868507385253906 853,854,854: Learning to Cook,"And yet I never stop thinking, 'sure, these ingredients cost more than a restaurant meal, but think how many meals I'll get out of them! Especially since each one will have leftovers!'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/67/learning_to_cook.png,-20.68915367126465,-5.235569477081299 854,855,855: 1999,"'Whoa, twenty-two in two hours!' 'Your site got twenty-two hundred hits in two hours?' 'No. Twenty-two. But still, that's like half the people on the internet!'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2d/1999.png,17.280122756958008,3.157001495361328 855,856,856: Trochee Fixation,"If you Huffman-coded all the 'random' things everyone on the internet has said over the years, you'd wind up with, like, 30 or 40 bytes *tops*.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/04/trochee_fixation.png,8.809267044067383,4.170544147491455 856,857,857: Archimedes,"Give a man a fish, or he will destroy the only existing vial of antidote.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/82/archimedes.png,-10.56467342376709,28.043060302734375 857,858,858: Milk,It's not hard when you have the same thought like 40 or 50 percent of the time.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/54/milk.png,-31.49099349975586,18.518320083618164 858,859,859: (,"Brains aside, I wonder how many poorly-written xkcd.com-parsing scripts will break on this title (or ;;""''{<<[' this mouseover text.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/38/%28.png,10.067438125610352,-16.499284744262695 859,860,860: Never Do This,I call Rule 34 on The Secret House.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/ff/never_do_this.png,-14.576281547546387,13.356119155883789 860,861,861: Wisdom Teeth,"I heard the general anesthesia drugs can cause amnesia, so when I woke up mid-extraction I started taking notes on my hand so I'd remember things later. I managed 'AWAKE BUT EVERYTHING OK' before the dental assistant managed to find and confiscate all my pens.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/39/wisdom_teeth.png,23.199678421020508,13.283467292785645 861,862,862: Let Go,"After years of trying various methods, I broke this habit by pitting my impatience against my laziness. I decoupled the action and the neurological reward by setting up a simple 30-second delay I had to wait through, in which I couldn't do anything else, before any new page or chat client would load (and only allowed one to run at once). The urge to check all those sites magically vanished--and my 'productive' computer use was unaffected.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/56/let_go.png,9.408308029174805,22.158706665039062 862,863,863: Major in the Universe,I hear Steven Levitt is writing a book analyzing A.J. Jacobs' quest to spend a year reading everything Malcolm Gladwell ever wrote. The audiobook will be narrated by Robert Krulwich of Radiolab.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1c/major_in_the_universe.png,-30.09906005859375,15.475333213806152 863,864,864: Flying Cars,It's hard to fit in the backseat of my flying car with my android Realdoll when we're both wearing jetpacks.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c2/flying_cars.png,29.77910614013672,16.30596160888672 864,865,865: Nanobots,"I think the IETF hit the right balance with the 128 bits thing. We can fit MAC addresses in a /64 subnet, and the nanobots will only be able to devour half the planet.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/59/nanobots.png,1.0060912370681763,-10.32003402709961 865,866,866: Compass and Straightedge,"The Greeks long suspected this, but it wasn't until April 12th of 1882 that Ferdinand von Lindemann conclusively proved it when he constructed himself the most awesome birthday party possible and nobody showed up.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/18/compass_and_straightedge.png,-5.674660682678223,42.88810348510742 866,867,867: Herpetology,"Birds are Aves, which is part of the clade Theropoda, which is in Saurischia, which is in Dinosauria. Those birds outside our windows are dinosaurs. We can clear out the rest of our brains because we now have the best fact.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/67/herpetology.png,5.100340366363525,-36.33806610107422 867,868,868: Nolan Chart,Also in the right quadrant are NFPA-compliant chemical manufacturers and Sir Charles Wheatstone. Sharing the top with the internet libertarians are Nate Silver and several politically-active kite designers.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/49/nolan_chart.png,3.558497190475464,-43.43271255493164 868,869,869: Server Attention Span,"They have to keep the adjacent rack units empty. Otherwise, half the entries in their /var/log/syslog are just 'SERVER BELOW TRYING TO START CONVERSATION *AGAIN*.' and 'WISH THEY'D STOP GIVING HIM SO MUCH COFFEE IT SPLATTERS EVERYWHERE.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8f/server_attention_span.png,14.483572006225586,-5.132746696472168 869,870,870: Advertising,"I remember the exact moment in my childhood when I realized, while reading a flyer, that nobody would ever spend money solely to tell me they wanted to give me something for nothing. It's a much more vivid memory than the (related) parental Santa talk.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c5/mathematically_annoying.png,-4.2323150634765625,-54.84223175048828 870,871,871: Charity,"I usually respond to someone else doing something good by figuring out a reason that they're not really as good as they seem. But I've been realizing lately that there's an easier way to handle these situations, and it involves zero internet arguments.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/88/charity.png,35.41001510620117,1.0421936511993408 871,872,872: Fairy Tales,Goldilocks' discovery of Newton's method for approximation required surprisingly few changes.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c6/fairy_tales.png,-26.662614822387695,11.705892562866211 872,873,873: FPS Mod,"Wait, that second one is a woman? ...wait, if that bothers me, then why doesn't... man, this game is no fun anymore.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3b/fps_mod.png,38.21890640258789,-4.5108842849731445 873,874,874: Time Management,I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a3/time_management.png,11.342673301696777,30.946025848388672 874,875,875: 2009 Called,"2017 called, but I couldn't understand what they were saying over all the screams.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e0/2009_called.png,13.261922836303711,22.219528198242188 875,876,876: Trapped,"Socrates could've saved himself a lot of trouble if he'd just brought a flashlight, tranquilizer gun, and a bunch of rescue harnesses.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2a/trapped.png,26.48341178894043,15.929986953735352 876,877,877: Beauty,"The best hugs are probably from hagfish, which can extrude microscopic filaments that convert a huge volume of water around them to slime in seconds. Instant cozy blanket!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/75/beauty.png,-13.493087768554688,12.814617156982422 877,878,878: Model Rail,"I don't know what's more telling--the number of pages in the Wikipedia talk page argument over whether the 1/87.0857143 scale is called ""HO"" or ""H0"", or the fact that within minutes of first hearing of it I had developed an extremely strong opinion on the issue.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6a/model_rail.png,1.9596426486968994,-36.13115310668945 878,879,879: Lamp,'That was definitely not in my top three wishes.' 'Who said anything about YOUR wishes?',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a5/lamp.png,-12.40199089050293,3.456681251525879 879,880,880: Headache,"I'm only willing to visit placid lakes, salt flats, and painting exhibits until the world's 3D technology improves.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/80/headache.png,7.477705478668213,10.005943298339844 880,881,881: Probability,"My normal approach is useless here, too.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9e/probability.png,3.7097997665405273,-7.789986610412598 881,882,882: Significant,"So, uh, we did the green study again and got no link. It was probably a-- ""RESEARCH CONFLICTED ON GREEN JELLY BEAN/ACNE LINK; MORE STUDY RECOMMENDED!""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3f/significant.png,16.194059371948242,-23.168216705322266 882,883,883: Pain Rating,If it were a two or above I wouldn't be able to answer because it would mean a pause in the screaming.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a2/pain_rating.png,3.080859899520874,-24.728363037109375 883,884,884: Rogers St.,"'We can also use middle names in place of first pet's names, but yours is something incomprehensible about dropping tables.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c1/rogers_st.png,-16.808691024780273,29.511817932128906 884,885,885: Recycling,"And given how much of my stuff they go through, they definitely know where I live.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b3/recycling.png,-10.982983589172363,-16.467418670654297 885,886,886: Craigslist Apartments,"$1600 / 1386153BR 3BATH, MODERN SLIDING DOORS, GUEST ROOMS, GARBAGE DISPOSAL. FREE MANDATORY PARKING (ENFORCED). CONVENIENT TO ALDERAAN.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3f/craigslist_apartments.png,-20.09026527404785,16.24410057067871 886,887,887: Future Timeline,"Not shown: the approximately 30,000 identical, vaguely hysterical articles titled ""WHITE PEOPLE IN [THE US/BRITAIN] TO BECOME MINORITY BY [YEAR]!"", which came up for basically any year I put in.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5d/future_timeline.png,-8.695572853088379,-19.694332122802734 887,888,888: Heaven,"If you've never had sex, this is what it feels like. Complete with the brief feeling of satisfaction, followed by ennui, followed by getting bored and trying to make it happen again.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cc/heaven.png,34.33424377441406,-1.3881206512451172 888,889,889: Turtles,You're a turtle!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c2/turtles.png,-6.681301593780518,25.154258728027344 889,890,890: Etymology,"For some reason, my childhood suspension of disbelief had no problem with the fact that this ancient galaxy is full of humans, but was derailed by language. There's no Asia OR Europe there, so where'd they get all the Indo-European roots?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/30/etymology.png,-11.196920394897461,18.065872192382812 890,891,891: Movie Ages,"If you're 15 or younger, then just remember that it's nevertheless probably too late to be a child prodigy.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3f/movie_ages.png,-9.965458869934082,-37.46504211425781 891,892,892: Null Hypothesis,"Hell, my eighth grade science class managed to conclusively reject it just based on a classroom experiment. It's pretty sad to hear about million-dollar research teams who can't even manage that.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/04/null_hypothesis.png,-29.350801467895508,-7.295629501342773 892,893,893: 65 Years,"The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/50/65_years.png,-1.6032376289367676,-54.23143005371094 893,894,894: Progeny,"I tell my children 'it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' I'm trying to take the edge off their competitive drive to ensure that I can always beat them.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/69/progeny.png,39.08073425292969,-1.1753787994384766 894,895,895: Teaching Physics,"Space-time is like some simple and familiar system which is both intuitively understandable and precisely analogous, and if I were Richard Feynman I'd be able to come up with it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a7/teaching_physics.png,-5.069499969482422,4.23668909072876 895,896,896: Marie Curie,Although not permanently.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fa/marie_curie.png,2.470907688140869,-24.281530380249023 896,897,897: Elevator Inspection,Even governmental elevator inspectors get bored halfway through asking where the building office is.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9e/elevator_inspection.png,21.002241134643555,7.382676124572754 897,898,898: Chain of Command,"Themistocles said his infant son ruled all Greece -- ""Athens rules all Greece; I control Athens; my wife controls me; and my infant son controls her."" Thus, nowadays the world is controlled by whoever buys advertising time on Dora the Explorer.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d2/chain_of_command.png,-13.593937873840332,-16.174964904785156 898,899,899: Number Line,"The Wikipedia page List of Numbers opens with ""This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/64/number_line.png,22.166616439819336,-12.966560363769531 899,900,900: Religions,"But to us there is but one God, plus or minus one. —1 Corinthians 8:6±2.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/96/religions.png,2.5335171222686768,18.194961547851562 900,901,901: Temperature,And the baby has a fever.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/87/temperature.png,17.829748153686523,11.571292877197266 901,902,902: Darmok and Jalad,I wonder how often Patrick Stewart has Darmok flashbacks when talking to Star Trek fans.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c7/darmok_and_jalad.png,11.242769241333008,24.069181442260742 902,903,903: Extended Mind,"Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at ""Philosophy"".",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1b/extended_mind.png,-27.614721298217773,-18.863882064819336 903,904,904: Sports,"Also, all financial analysis. And, more directly, D&D.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b9/sports.png,23.25050926208496,-8.22404670715332 904,905,905: Homeownership,New research shows over 60% of the financial collapse's toxic assets were created by power drills.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/85/homeownership.png,-3.496462345123291,46.701332092285156 905,906,906: Advertising Discovery,"When advertisers figure this out, our only weapon will be blue sharpies and ""[disputed]"".",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f7/citations.png,7.911320686340332,9.81530475616455 906,907,907: Ages,"Every age: ""I'm glad I'm not the clueless person I was five years ago, but now I don't want to get any older.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/41/ages.png,-6.102480888366699,-40.425254821777344 907,908,908: The Cloud,There's planned downtime every night when we turn on the Roomba and it runs over the cord.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/28/the_cloud.png,13.314179420471191,26.107948303222656 908,909,909: Worst-Case Shopping,"Wait a minute. If I'm escaping from a submarine at 50 meters, then I'll *definitely* need a flashlight to find air pockets for gradual decompression on the way up. Time to start shopping professional dive lights.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/15/worst_case_shopping.png,-30.036483764648438,30.966901779174805 909,910,910: Permanence,This hostname is going in dozens of remote config files. Changing a kid's name is comparatively easy!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c0/permanence.png,17.417865753173828,21.70517921447754 910,911,911: Magic School Bus,"At my OLD school, we used Microsoft Encarta 2005.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/magic_school_bus.png,7.525143623352051,24.935258865356445 911,912,912: Manual Override,I think you mean 'GNU Info Override'.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9f/manual_override.png,6.270915508270264,-1.468691110610962 912,913,913: Core,"If you're a geologist or geophysicist and you don't introduce yourself by saying your name, then gesturing downward and saying ""... and I study that"", I don't know what you're doing with your life.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ad/core.png,-1.2247579097747803,-32.488319396972656 913,914,914: Ice,"On the plus side, she wrote ""Welcome to the AAA Club!"" in lipstick on the bathroom mirror, and left me a membership/roadside assistance card on the counter.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2c/ice.png,-22.23919105529785,-15.391252517700195 914,915,915: Connoisseur,"Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3a/connoisseur.png,-26.35016632080078,22.496753692626953 915,916,916: Unpickable,The safe is empty except for an unsolved 5x5 Rubik's cube.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/db/unpickable.png,-11.89640998840332,-16.788801193237305 916,917,917: Hofstadter,"""This is the reference implementation of the self-referential joke.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1d/hofstadter.png,-31.316856384277344,17.65675926208496 917,918,918: Google+,"On one hand, you'll never be able to convince your parents to switch. On the other hand, you'll never be able to convince your parents to switch!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d6/googleplus.png,-5.790648460388184,7.0041656494140625 918,919,919: Tween Bromance,Verbiage. Va-jay-jay. Irregardless.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/00/tween_bromance.png,9.875606536865234,30.63017463684082 919,920,920: YouTube Parties,"This reminds me of that video where... no? How have you not seen that? Oh man, let me find it. No, it's ok, we can go back to your video later.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b2/youtube_parties.png,-7.804953575134277,25.128801345825195 920,921,921: Delivery Notification,You can arrange a pickup of your sword in Rivendell between the hours of noon and 7:00 PM.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/55/delivery_notification.png,-19.33957862854004,12.312535285949707 921,922,922: Fight Club,"I'm not saying it's all bad, but that movie has not aged as well as my teenage self in 2000 was confident it would.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/41/fight_club.png,-13.518004417419434,44.85483932495117 922,923,923: Strunk and White,The best thing about Strunk/White fanfiction is that it's virtually guaranteed to be well written.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/02/strunk_and_white.png,10.281018257141113,31.394638061523438 923,924,924: 3D Printer,I just can't wait for the Better Homes and Gardens list of helpful tips for household reuse of sixteen-inch acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene phalluses.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/92/3d_printer.png,11.174565315246582,3.82081937789917 924,925,925: Cell Phones,"He holds the laptop like that on purpose, to make you cringe.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bc/cell_phones.png,17.229248046875,41.43989562988281 925,926,926: Time Vulture,"In a way, all vultures are Time Vultures; some just have more patience than others.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/34/time_vulture.png,-7.454719066619873,48.813392639160156 926,927,927: Standards,"Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/60/standards.png,3.0368919372558594,5.487295627593994 927,928,928: Mimic Octopus,"Even if the dictionaries are starting to give in, I refuse to accept 'octopi' as a word mainly because--I'm not making this up--there's a really satisfying climactic scene in the Orson Scott Card horror novel 'Lost Boys' which hinges on it being an incorrect pluralization.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/49/mimic_octopus.png,2.4166817665100098,-17.425966262817383 928,929,929: Speculation,"'I was pretty good at skeet shooting, but was eventually kicked off the range for catching the clay pigeons in a net and dispatching them execution-style.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d1/speculation.png,-4.496641635894775,46.223262786865234 929,930,930: Days of the Week,Not pictured: the elongated Halley's-Comet-like orbit of every Rebecca Black lyric.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/87/days_of_the_week.png,34.69051742553711,-11.951909065246582 930,931,931: Lanes,Each quarter of the lanes from left to right correspond loosely to breast cancer stages one through four (at diagnosis).,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a4/lanes.png,19.40598487854004,8.061203002929688 931,932,932: CIA,"It was their main recruiting poster, hung nearly ten feet up a wall! This means the hackers have LADDER technology! Are we headed for a future where everyone has to pay $50 for one of those locked plexiglass poster covers? More after the break...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f5/cia.png,17.17654800415039,15.053998947143555 932,933,933: Tattoo,"I calculate that the electrons in radiation therapy hit you at 99.8% of the speed of light, and the beam used in a 90-second gamma ray therapy session could, if fired with less precision, kill a horse (they did not let me test this).",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0c/tattoo.png,-3.1121163368225098,-2.9777090549468994 933,934,934: Mac/PC,It's fun to watch browsers fumblingly recapitulate the history of window management. Someday we'll have xmonad as a Firefox extension.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/42/mac_pc.png,4.461979389190674,2.9373128414154053 934,935,935: Missed Connections,The Street View van isn't going to find out anything Google won't already know from reading my email.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/60/missed_connections.png,15.094244956970215,-18.941421508789062 935,936,936: Password Strength,"To anyone who understands information theory and security and is in an infuriating argument with someone who does not (possibly involving mixed case), I sincerely apologize.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6a/password_strength.png,16.723539352416992,-6.882187366485596 936,937,937: TornadoGuard,The bug report was marked 'could not reproduce'.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7a/tornadoguard.png,-16.79448890686035,-25.099618911743164 937,938,938: T-Cells,'We're not sure how to wipe out the chimeral T-cells after they've destroyed the cancer. Though I do have this vial of smallpox ...',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9c/t_cells.png,-3.4631760120391846,42.55186080932617 938,939,939: Arrow,'The Return of the Boomerang' would make a great movie title.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5a/arrow.png,-15.941195487976074,5.882730007171631 939,940,940: Oversight,I felt so clever when I found a way to game the Fitocracy system by incorporating a set of easy but high-scoring activities into my regular schedule. Took me a bit to realize I'd been tricked into setting up a daily exercise routine.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/81/oversight.png,6.432650566101074,22.791526794433594 940,941,941: Depth Perception,I've looked at clouds from both sides now.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/35/depth_perception.png,7.329181671142578,-31.183944702148438 941,942,942: Juggling,Later: 'Why is there a book hovering over the trash can?',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cf/juggling.png,-28.397863388061523,13.616783142089844 942,943,943: Empirical,I'm as surprised as you!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/68/empirical.png,-13.854487419128418,10.498149871826172 943,944,944: Hurricane Names,"After exhausting the OED, we started numbering them. When overlapping hurricanes formed at all points on the Earth's surface, and our scheme was foiled by Cantor diagonalization, we just decided to name them all ""Steve"". Your local forecast tomorrow is ""Steve"". Good luck.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b4/hurricane_names.png,21.0610408782959,-5.829395771026611 944,945,945: I'm Sorry,You know I've always hated her.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7c/im_sorry.png,14.066367149353027,4.2639479637146 945,946,946: Family Decals,"My decal set has no adults, just a sea of hundreds of the little girl figures closing in around a single cat.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/40/family_decals.png,-32.49947738647461,-21.90880584716797 946,947,947: Investing,"But Einstein said it was the most powerful force in the universe, and I take all my investment advice from flippant remarks by theoretical physicists making small talk at parties.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/ca/investing.png,2.764396905899048,8.906021118164062 947,948,948: AI,And they both react poorly to showers.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8a/ai.png,18.140953063964844,32.19218063354492 948,949,949: File Transfer,"Every time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on your friend's laptop, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a single tear.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d6/file_transfer.png,4.296096324920654,35.83625793457031 949,950,950: Mystery Solved,"The Roanoke Lost Colonists founded Roanoke, the Franklin Expedition reached the Pacific in 2009 when the Northwest Passage opened, and Jimmy Hoffa currently heads the Teamsters Union--he just started going by 'James'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6e/mystery_solved.png,5.542306900024414,-4.707360744476318 950,951,951: Working,"And if you drive a typical car more than a mile out of your way for each penny you save on the per-gallon price, it doesn't matter how worthless your time is to you--the gas to get you there and back costs more than you save.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b2/working.png,-30.328229904174805,-20.498641967773438 951,952,952: Stud Finder,"According to every stud finder I've tried to use, my walls contain a rapidly shifting network of hundreds and hundreds of studs.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/79/stud_finder.png,-27.649280548095703,16.06366729736328 952,953,953: 1 to 10,"If you get an 11/100 on a CS test, but you claim it should be counted as a 'C', they'll probably decide you deserve the upgrade.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a4/1_to_10.png,-4.35186243057251,3.3432910442352295 953,954,954: Chin-Up Bar,Those few who escaped found the emergency cutoff box disabled. The stampede lasted two hours and reached the bottom three times.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/28/chin_up_bar.png,6.229626178741455,-12.28952407836914 954,955,955: Neutrinos,"I can't speak to the paper's scientific merits, but it's really cool how on page 10 you can see that their reference GPS beacon is sensitive enough to pick up continential drift under the detector (interrupted halfway through by an earthquake).",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/20/neutrinos.png,5.820000648498535,9.397653579711914 955,956,956: Sharing,"In the new edition of The Giving Tree, the tree uses social tools to share with its friend all the best places to buy things.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/48/sharing.png,35.07363510131836,28.89035415649414 956,957,957: Development,Funding was quickly restored to the NHC and the APA was taken back off hurricane forecast duty.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/47/development.png,25.760541915893555,0.5941317081451416 957,958,958: Hotels,"'Rating: 1/5. Room filled to brim with semen, and when front desk clerk opened mouth to talk, bedbugs poured out.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a2/hotels.png,10.54637622833252,17.983631134033203 958,959,959: Caroling,For a thousand generations we vowed never to forget how his soldiers feasted on our brother Stephen.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/15/caroling.png,-6.435567855834961,-1.7620865106582642 959,960,960: Subliminal,"Once you see it, you can't help seeing it every time. Until your body finishes metabolizing the mushrooms.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/91/subliminal.png,34.983428955078125,8.63111400604248 960,961,961: Eternal Flame,"There's always the hope that if you sit and watch for long enough, the beachball will vanish and the thing it interrupted will return.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2d/eternal_flame.gif,-7.5995965003967285,20.888511657714844 961,962,962: The Corliss Resolution,And no avian society ever develops space travel because it's impossible to focus on calculus when you could be outside flying.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/be/the_corliss_resolution.png,3.39111065864563,-20.65217399597168 962,963,963: X11,Thomas Jefferson thought that every law and every constitution should be torn down and rewritten from scratch every nineteen years--which means X is overdue.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1f/x11.png,-1.4484866857528687,-52.55963134765625 963,964,964: Dorm Poster,"I was going to record an album with that cover under the name ""PINK FTFY"", so it'd come after them on the store CD rack. But at this point music stores are just rooms where CDs are set out to age before they're thrown away, so probably nobody would see it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/07/dorm_poster.png,-10.445101737976074,-4.168230056762695 964,965,965: Elements,"Of all the nations, the armies of the ununoctium-benders are probably the least intimidating. The xenon-benders come close, but their flickery signs are at least effective for propaganda.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b7/elements.png,-3.078352212905884,-2.3045547008514404 965,966,966: Jet Fuel,The 'controlled demolition' theory was concocted by the government to distract us. '9/11 was an inside job' was an inside job!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c8/jet_fuel.png,-0.8454773426055908,7.7419114112854 966,967,967: Prairie,"Colorado is working to develop coherent amber waves, which would allow them to finally destroy Kansas and Nebraska with a devastating but majestic grain laser.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/04/prairie.png,-5.457952499389648,-13.074520111083984 967,968,968: Everything,I wanna hold your hand so I don't fall out of your gyrocopter.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cf/everything.png,6.882286548614502,-20.243358612060547 968,969,969: Delta-P,"If you fire a Portal gun through the door of the wardrobe, space and time knot together, which leads to a frustrated Aslan trying to impart Christian morality to the Space sphere.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ea/delta_p.png,-7.651626110076904,-18.22661590576172 969,970,970: The Important Field,"I hear in some places, you need to fill one form of ID to buy a gun, but two to pay for it by check. It's interesting to see who has what incentives to care about what mistakes.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/75/the_important_field.png,11.278536796569824,29.383689880371094 970,971,971: Alternative Literature,"I just noticed CVS has started stocking homeopathic pills on the same shelves with--and labeled similarly to--their actual medicine. Telling someone who trusts you that you're giving them medicine, when you know you're not, because you want their money, isn't just lying--it's like an example you'd make up if you had to illustrate for a child why lying is wrong.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/25/alternative_literature.png,-0.43917515873908997,49.349430084228516 971,972,972: November,"November marks the birthday of Charles Schulz, pioneer of tongue awareness.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3d/november.png,-1.5352784395217896,-0.8000268340110779 972,973,973: MTV Generation,"If you identified with the kids from The Breakfast Club when it came out, you're now much closer to the age of Principal Vernon.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/72/mtv_generation.png,30.301631927490234,18.95829200744629 973,974,974: The General Problem,"I find that when someone's taking time to do something right in the present, they're a perfectionist with no ability to prioritize, whereas when someone took time to do something right in the past, they're a master artisan of great foresight.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f3/the_general_problem.png,-30.326013565063477,5.132926940917969 974,975,975: Occulting Telescope,Type II Kardashev civilizations eventually completely enclose their planetary system in a Dyson sphere because space is way too big to look at all the time.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/82/occulting_telescope.png,9.638489723205566,-35.04804992675781 975,976,976: Sail,It only works a few times before you have to capsize the boat in a soap lagoon again.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ae/sail.png,-15.528762817382812,2.7917168140411377 976,977,977: Map Projections,What's that? You think I don't like the Peters map because I'm uncomfortable with having my cultural assumptions challenged? Are you sure you're not... ::puts on sunglasses:: ...projecting?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9c/map_projections.png,-22.566253662109375,11.540353775024414 977,978,978: Citogenesis,"I just read a pop-science book by a respected author. One chapter, and much of the thesis, was based around wildly inaccurate data which traced back to... Wikipedia. To encourage people to be on their toes, I'm not going to say what book or author.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/93/citogenesis.png,9.504711151123047,38.130706787109375 978,979,979: Wisdom of the Ancients,All long help threads should have a sticky globally-editable post at the top saying 'DEAR PEOPLE FROM THE FUTURE: Here's what we've figured out so far ...',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3e/wisdom_of_the_ancients.png,14.16541576385498,20.37579917907715 979,980,980: Money,"There, I showed you it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/74/money.png,17.911048889160156,-23.907756805419922 980,981,981: Porn Folder,"Eww, gross, you modified link()? How could you enjoy abusing a filesystem like that?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/25/porn_folder.png,16.20081329345703,38.71725845336914 981,982,982: Set Theory,"Proof of Zermelo's well-ordering theorem given the Axiom of Choice: 1: Take S to be any set. 2: When I reach step three, if S hasn't managed to find a well-ordering relation for itself, I'll feed it into this wood chipper. 3: Hey, look, S is well-ordered.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/50/set_theory.png,7.219468593597412,0.1471904069185257 982,983,983: Privacy,"Eventual headline: 'University Researchers Create Life in Lab! Darkness, Faulty Condoms Blamed.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dd/privacy.png,-16.93637466430664,15.3839111328125 983,984,984: Space Launch System,"The SLS head engineer plans to invite Shania Twain to stand under the completed prototype, then tell her, 'I don't expect you to date me just because I'm a rocket scientist, but you've gotta admit--this is pretty fucking impressive.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f1/space_launch_system.png,7.964320659637451,-17.62900161743164 984,985,985: Percentage Points,"Grayton also proposed making college scholarships available exclusively to sexually active teens, amnesty for illegal immigrants who create room for themselves by killing a citizen, and a graduated income tax based on penis size. He has been endorsed by Tracy Morgan, John Wilkes Booth's ghost, and the Time Cube guy.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d9/percentage_points.png,23.04621696472168,0.42458319664001465 985,986,986: Drinking Fountains,"I've always wondered whether you could drink slowly enough, and eliminate fast enough, that you just sort of peed continuously. But I'm afraid to try because I worry someone might call while I'm doing it and ask what I'm up to, and I won't be able to think of a lie.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/49/drinking_fountains.png,-20.665294647216797,-5.447263240814209 986,987,987: Potential,"The bunch of disadvantaged kids I was tutoring became too good at writing, and their essays were forcing me to confront painful existential questions, so I started trying to turn them on to drugs and crime instead.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a8/potential.png,-31.735471725463867,-14.676714897155762 987,988,988: Tradition,An 'American tradition' is anything that happened to a baby boomer twice.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/67/tradition.png,36.19871139526367,25.71254539489746 988,989,989: Cryogenics,'Welcome to the future! Nothing's changed.' was the slogan of my astonishingly short-lived tech startup.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d2/cryogenics.png,-8.108975410461426,9.123709678649902 989,990,990: Plastic Bags,The high I feel when I actually remember to bring my reusable bags to the store--and take them inside rather than leaving them in the parked car--can last for days.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e3/plastic_bags.png,-28.046323776245117,-15.691567420959473 990,991,991: Phantom Menace,"We could go to the theater across town and see if it's opened THERE yet, but we don't want to lose our place in line.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/65/phantom_menace.png,-19.821640014648438,14.188009262084961 991,992,992: Mnemonics,'Sailor Moon's head exploded once' and 'Some men have explosive orgasms' both work for the Great Lakes from west to east (Paddle-to-the-Sea order).,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/65/mnemonics.png,0.09399920701980591,-13.579170227050781 992,993,993: Brand Identity,Legally-mandated information would be printed on the back or discreetly along the bottom. In small letters under the nutrition information it would say 'Like our products? Visit our website!' There would be no URL.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/74/brand_identity.png,1.9845870733261108,-1.223768711090088 993,994,994: Advent Calendar,"I think you could get up to about 11:59:57 before you'd have trouble swallowing the chocolates fast enough. At that point, you'd need some kind of a liquify-and-chug apparatus to get up over the 11:59:59 barrier. Anyway, Merry Christmas!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/55/advent_calendar.png,36.99588394165039,26.07681655883789 994,995,995: Coinstar,Plus they take like 9%.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/21/coinstar.png,-1.0588959455490112,0.9338748455047607 995,996,996: Making Things Difficult,"Favorite mastectomy breast prosthesis idea: a fake boob containing a spare rechargable battery, accessed via a nipple USB port. Complete with a ring of LED charge indicators in the areola!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/71/making_things_difficult.png,5.983663558959961,-24.2821044921875 996,997,997: Wait Wait,"You can't stab Carl Kasell. He sounds all slow and stentorian, but he moves like a snake.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/be/wait_wait.png,-5.1014933586120605,-5.123503684997559 997,998,998: 2012,"To compensate for this, I plan to spend 2013 doing nothing but talking about Mayans. My relationships with my friends and family may not fare well.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/48/2012.png,-12.592659950256348,43.102516174316406 998,999,999: Cougars,"If you're lying in bed tonight and you see yellow eyes glinting in your window, are you being stalked by a puma, a mountain lion, a panther, a catamount, or a cougar? Trick question--in North America, they're all names for the same species, Puma concolor! Isn't learning fun? Anyway, sleep tight!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d5/cougars.png,-9.578192710876465,-1.9953542947769165 999,1000,1000: 1000 Comics,Thank you for making me feel less alone.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/82/1000_comics_small.png,17.437883377075195,-13.306968688964844 1000,1001,1001: AAAAAA,"'ARE YOU TURNED ON YET?' 'I DON'T THINK SO--ARE YOU?' 'MAYBE A LITTLE!' 'OK, FIVE MORE MINUTES.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/05/aaaaaa.png,-11.198336601257324,-2.57807993888855 1001,1002,1002: Game AIs,"The top computer champion at Seven Minutes in Heaven is a Honda-built Realdoll, but to date it has been unable to outperform the human Seven Minutes in Heaven champion, Ken Jennings.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a6/game_ais.png,38.62685775756836,-1.2392268180847168 1002,1003,1003: Adam and Eve,Abel and Steve would've been fine! I like Steve!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d8/adam_and_eve.png,-2.910966157913208,19.672578811645508 1003,1004,1004: Batman,"I'm really worried Christopher Nolan will kill a man dressed like a bat in his next movie. (The man will be dressed like a bat, I mean. Christopher Nolan won't be, probably.)",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8c/batman.png,-12.491083145141602,28.645137786865234 1004,1005,1005: SOPA,"In protest of SOPA, I'm currently getting totally blacked out.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cc/sopa.png,13.627690315246582,-18.070903778076172 1005,1006,1006: Sloppier Than Fiction,Roger Ebert once called you directionless and unwatchable.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c0/sloppier_than_fiction.png,-1.504808783531189,10.459787368774414 1006,1007,1007: Sustainable,Though 100 years is longer than a lot of our resources.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d9/sustainable.png,-0.1071278303861618,-53.66372299194336 1007,1008,1008: Suckville,"Suckville is considered by the Census Bureau to be part of the Detroit metropolitan statistical area, despite not being located anywhere near Detroit.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2c/suckville.png,37.521427154541016,-1.4263163805007935 1008,1009,1009: Sigh,"If you're annoying enough, you can get them to respond with an involuntary second sigh and get a rhythm going.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/88/sigh.png,-1.903649926185608,4.734845161437988 1009,1010,1010: Etymology-Man,"I can't believe I'm saying this, but I wish Aquaman were here instead--HE'D be able to help.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4d/etymology_man.png,-10.488358497619629,26.355609893798828 1010,1011,1011: Baby Names,I've been trying for a couple years now but I haven't been able to come up with a name dumber than 'Renesmee'.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a2/baby_names.png,-5.616794109344482,35.62467575073242 1011,1012,1012: Wrong Superhero,Hi! Someone call for me? I'm a superhero who specializes in the study of God's creation of Man in the Book of Genesi-- HOLY SHIT A GIANT BUG!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fe/wrong_superhero.png,-10.496639251708984,28.652000427246094 1012,1013,1013: Wake Up Sheeple,"You will be led to judgement like lambs to the slaughter--a simile whose existence, I might add, will not do your species any favors.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/04/wake_up_sheeple.png,-7.589233875274658,-3.8319692611694336 1013,1014,1014: Car Problems,"Or if you replace your car, we'll be happy to set it on fire again so you can take another crack at getting that shot.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ee/car_problems.png,23.220388412475586,9.224114418029785 1014,1015,1015: Kerning,I have never been as self-conscious about my handwriting as when I was inking in the caption for this comic.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a2/kerning.png,-3.260082960128784,5.280053615570068 1015,1016,1016: Valentine Dilemma,The worst resolution to the Valentine Prisoner's Dilemma when YOU decide not to give your partner a present but your PARTNER decides to testify against you in the armed robbery case.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/df/valentine_dilemma.png,-8.543108940124512,3.1702866554260254 1016,1017,1017: Backward in Time,"People tell me I have too much time on my hands, but really the problem is that there's too much time, PERIOD.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/63/backward_in_time.png,3.004673480987549,-9.486214637756348 1017,1018,"1018: Good Cop, Dadaist Cop",NOW INVENT AN IMPOSSIBLE-TO-TRANSLATE LANGUAGE AND USE IT TO TELL US WHERE THE MONEY IS.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/good_cop_dadaist_cop.png,4.430188179016113,-24.243389129638672 1018,1019,1019: First Post,'Nuh-uh! We let users vote on comments and display them by number of votes. Everyone knows that makes it impossible for a few persistent voices to dominate the discussion.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/56/first_post.png,2.4123764038085938,-57.161800384521484 1019,1020,1020: Orion Nebula,Also on the agenda: what's with his hips?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/63/orion_nebula.png,6.5126729011535645,-3.955211877822876 1020,1021,1021: Business Plan,"The investor elevator pitch is ""Wheeeeeeee! Elevators are fun!""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9f/business_plan.png,-19.193103790283203,-15.079456329345703 1021,1022,1022: So It Has Come To This,'Come to what?' 'You. Me. This moment.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a7/so_it_has_come_to_this.png,1.6668461561203003,6.66198205947876 1022,1023,1023: Late-Night PBS,"Then it switched to these old black-and-white tapes of Bob Ross slumped against the wall of an empty room, painting the least happy trees you've ever seen. Either PBS needs to beef up studio security or I need to stop using Ambien to sleep.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/84/late_night_pbs.png,-21.00699234008789,14.202775001525879 1023,1024,1024: Error Code,"It has a section on motherboard beep codes that lists, for each beep pattern, a song that syncs up well with it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/38/error_code.png,-1.2669318914413452,46.39905548095703 1024,1025,1025: Tumblr,"Dot Tumblr Dot Com, on the other hand, would be an awful name for a band, if only because of how hard it would be to direct people to your band's website.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f6/tumblr.png,-1.3471059799194336,9.154108047485352 1025,1026,1026: Compare and Contrast,"Frankly, I see no difference between thee and a summer's day. Only Ron Paul offers a TRUE alternative!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/71/compare_and_contrast.png,19.397201538085938,-11.074660301208496 1026,1027,1027: Pickup Artist,"Son, don't try to play 'make you feel bad' with the Michael Jordan of making you feel bad.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dc/pickup_artist.png,-25.585886001586914,7.418197154998779 1027,1028,1028: Communication,Anyone who says that they're great at communicating but 'people are bad at listening' is confused about how communication works.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a5/communication.png,-31.82378387451172,28.71841049194336 1028,1029,1029: Drawing Stars,Screw these 36-degree angles. I'm converting to Judaism.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0a/drawing_stars.png,6.697612762451172,-38.27604293823242 1029,1030,1030: Keyed,"I was sure he was just getting revenge, but then he did the same thing to Carrie Underwood. Then he mailed me a scone. I think I'm giving up dating.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/80/keyed.png,-29.77632713317871,-17.767244338989258 1030,1031,1031: s/keyboard/leopard/,Problem Exists Between Leopard And Chair,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b2/s_keyboard_leopard.png,13.937665939331055,-13.954471588134766 1031,1032,1032: Networking,"Our company is agile and lean with a focus on the long tail. Ok, our company is actually a polecat I found in my backyard.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/networking.png,-13.498387336730957,14.066996574401855 1032,1033,1033: Formal Logic,Note that this implies you should NOT honk solely because I stopped for a pedestrian and you're behind me.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/13/formal_logic.png,-33.00367736816406,-20.241615295410156 1033,1034,1034: Share Buttons,The only post to achieve perfect balance between the four was a hilarious joke about Mark Zuckerberg getting caught using a pseudonym to sneak past the TSA.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c2/share_buttons.png,12.307151794433594,-10.267477035522461 1034,1035,1035: Cadbury Eggs,"When they moved production from New Zealand to the UK and switched from the runny white centers to the thick, frosting-like filling, it got way harder to cook them scrambled.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4d/cadbury_eggs.png,-23.318958282470703,2.5496907234191895 1035,1036,1036: Reviews,"I plugged in this lamp and my dog went rigid, spoke a sentence of perfect Akkadian, and then was hurled sideways through the picture window. Even worse, it's one of those lamps where the switch is on the cord.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fc/reviews.png,-15.654790878295898,-20.16395378112793 1036,1037,1037: Umwelt,"Umwelt is the idea that because their senses pick up on different things, different animals in the same ecosystem actually live in very different worlds. Everything about you shapes the world you inhabit--from your ideology to your glasses prescription to your web browser.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/ff/umwelt_the_void.jpg,27.92293357849121,-23.075326919555664 1037,1038,1038: Fountain,"Implausible, did you say? Sorry, couldn't quite hear you from all the way up heeeeeeeeere!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b6/fountain.png,-18.047256469726562,17.775009155273438 1038,1039,1039: RuBisCO,Bruce Schneier believes safewords are fundamentally insecure and recommends that you ask your partner to stop via public key signature.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/77/rubisco.png,-31.805593490600586,16.721721649169922 1039,1040,1040: Lakes and Oceans,James Cameron has said that he didn't know its song would be so beautiful. He didn't close the door in time. He's sorry.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/18/lakes_and_oceans.png,-7.601614952087402,-18.04445457458496 1040,1041,1041: Whites of Their Eyes,Don't fire until you see through the fragile facade to the human being within.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/50/whites_of_their_eyes.png,-11.556344032287598,-7.109601020812988 1041,1042,1042: Never,"I'll never forget you--at least, the parts of you that were important red flags.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0b/never.png,-0.5746517181396484,22.888259887695312 1042,1043,1043: Ablogalypse,Plus the reaction in the Tumblverse is always 'repeatedly get hit by a dog and fall down the stairs'.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9d/ablogalypse.png,-5.31697940826416,-52.08865737915039 1043,1044,1044: Romney Quiz,"Charlie actually delivered the Medicare line almost verbatim in the 1971 movie's Fizzy Lifting Drink scene, but it was ultimately cut from the final release.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/07/romney_quiz.png,-1.3974015712738037,-6.606351852416992 1044,1045,1045: Constraints,[title-text similarly alphabetized],https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ad/constraints.png,17.54228401184082,30.54183006286621 1045,1046,1046: Skynet,"'YOUR CLOTHES. GIVE THEM TO ME.' 'Shit, uh... you are now breathing manually!' 'I AM ALWAYS BREATHING MANUALLY.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ec/skynet.png,6.734353065490723,12.920432090759277 1046,1047,1047: Approximations,"Two tips: 1) 8675309 is not just prime, it's a twin prime, and 2) if you ever find yourself raising log(anything)^e or taking the pi-th root of anything, set down the marker and back away from the whiteboard; something has gone horribly wrong.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/67/approximations.png,23.38616180419922,-10.247957229614258 1047,1048,1048: Emotion,"Fortunately, the internet has a virtually inexhaustible supply of code that doesn't work and people who are wrong, which bodes well for a return to normalcy. [Note: Click to read context for the cancer comics. She's doing well.]",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/40/emotion.png,-4.258306980133057,-51.79711151123047 1048,1049,1049: Bookshelf,"I had a hard time with Ayn Rand because I found myself enthusiastically agreeing with the first 90% of every sentence, but getting lost at 'therefore, be a huge asshole to everyone.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/bookshelf.png,-3.8775112628936768,0.25703972578048706 1049,1050,1050: Forgot Algebra,The only things you HAVE to know are how to make enough of a living to stay alive and how to get your taxes done. All the fun parts of life are optional.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2e/forgot_algebra.png,-5.915405750274658,12.176892280578613 1050,1051,1051: Visited,"I hate when I read something like '... tension among the BASE jumpers nearly led to wingsuit combat ...', and I get excited because 'wingsuit combat' is underlined, only to find that it's just separate links to the 'wingsuit' and 'combat' articles.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/87/visited.png,14.288644790649414,-9.41016674041748 1051,1052,1052: Every Major's Terrible,Someday I'll be the first to get a Ph. D in 'Undeclared'.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4f/every_majors_terrible.png,8.982970237731934,-22.331928253173828 1052,1053,1053: Ten Thousand,Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a8/ten_thousand.png,29.401935577392578,-8.511466979980469 1053,1054,1054: The Bacon,"Normally pronounced 'THEH-buh-kon', I assume.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b9/thebacon.png,-10.990403175354004,5.641712188720703 1054,1055,1055: Kickstarter,If you pledge more than $50 you'll get on the VIP list and have first dibs on a slot on ANY of the pledge levels in the actual campaign.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/24/kickstarter.png,9.259262084960938,-8.430015563964844 1055,1056,1056: Felidae,"'Smilodon fatalis' narrowly edged out 'Tyrannosaurus rex' to win this year's Most Badass Latin Names competition, after edging out 'Dracorex hogwartsia' and 'Stygimoloch spinifer' (meaning 'horned dragon from the river of death') in the semifinals.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/02/felidae.png,-2.9762449264526367,-50.62788391113281 1056,1057,1057: Klout,"Though please do confirm that it's actually *me* on Klout first, and not one of my friends trying to get me punched. The great thing about this douchebag deadman switch is that I will never dare trigger it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2a/klout.png,-10.873093605041504,37.877899169921875 1057,1058,1058: Old-Timers,"You were on the internet before I was born? Well, so was I.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/32/old_timers.png,12.0910005569458,33.26771926879883 1058,1059,1059: Bel-Air,"Aaron Sorkin has been tapped to write the TV movie about the aging prince's eventual election to Pat Toomey's Senate seat, currently titled either 'FRESHman Senator' or 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6b/bel_air.png,14.934645652770996,14.812246322631836 1059,1060,1060: Crowdsourcing,"We don't sell products; we sell the marketplace. And by 'sell the marketplace' we mean 'play shooters, sometimes for upwards of 20 hours straight.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/af/crowdsourcing.png,-1.0689376592636108,5.8223724365234375 1060,1061,1061: EST,"The month names are the same, except that the fourth month only has the name 'April' in even-numbered years, and is otherwise unnamed.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5b/est.png,32.05000686645508,-13.786067008972168 1061,1062,1062: Budget News,"I will vote, no questions asked, for any candidate who describes themselves as 'more of a deficit sugar glider.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/59/budget_news.png,12.368396759033203,-21.766399383544922 1062,1063,1063: Kill Hitler,Revised directive: It is forbidden for you to interfere with human history until you've at least taken a class on it.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f5/kill_hitler.png,-17.9138240814209,15.562505722045898 1063,1064,1064: Front Door,"FYI: I'll be releasing a wolf into a randomly-chosen front yard sometime in the next 30 years. Now your fear is reasonable, and you don't need to feel embarrassed anymore. Problem solved!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c0/front_door.png,2.7416229248046875,-51.787803649902344 1064,1065,1065: Shoes,I *do* hear that they're the most comfortable thing to wear on your feet since sliced bread.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/ca/shoes.png,-24.934175491333008,25.726802825927734 1065,1066,1066: Laundry,"During the second semester, the path is briefly routed through the dishwasher.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5d/laundry.png,-1.9955171346664429,-35.36197280883789 1066,1067,1067: Pressures,Everyone's caught by surprise when a theory of quantum gravity is developed by a sound technician wearing patent leather shoes while editing Clerks II.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/be/pressures.png,-1.1081708669662476,17.17559242248535 1067,1068,1068: Swiftkey,"Although the Markov chain-style text model is still rudimentary; it recently gave me ""Massachusetts Institute of America"". Although I have to admit it sounds prestigious.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/02/swiftkey.png,26.665393829345703,21.19866180419922 1068,1069,1069: Alphabet,"Do I get to remove letters entirely? Or just rearrange them? Because the 'k/c' situation is ridiculous. Look, we can make out whenever. This is *immortality*!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dc/alphabet.png,-3.5275509357452393,19.372167587280273 1069,1070,1070: Words for Small Sets,"If things are too quiet, try asking a couple of friends whether ""a couple"" should always mean ""two"". As with the question of how many spaces should go after a period, it can turn acrimonious surprisingly fast unless all three of them agree.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8c/words_for_small_sets.png,15.895196914672852,-7.5227251052856445 1070,1071,1071: Exoplanets,"Planets are turning out to be so common that to show all the planets in our galaxy, this chart would have to be nested in itself—with each planet replaced by a copy of the chart—at least three levels deep.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/77/exoplanets.png,14.271014213562012,-32.34641647338867 1071,1072,1072: Seventies,"Hey, man, the 1670s called. They were like 'Wherefore this demonic inſtrument? By what ſorcery does it produce ſuch ſounds?""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/21/seventies.png,27.89710235595703,18.924068450927734 1072,1073,1073: Weekend,"Of the two Garfields, you wouldn't think the cat would turn out to be the more compelling presidential speechwriter, but there you go.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cf/weekend.png,-9.838216781616211,-6.057498455047607 1073,1074,1074: Moon Landing,"Ok, so Spirit and Opportunity are pretty awesome. And Kepler. And New Horizons, Cassini, Curiosity, TiME, and Project M. But c'mon, if the Earth were a basketball, in 40 years no human's been more than half an inch from the surface.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a4/moon_landing.png,-2.2914717197418213,-18.969831466674805 1074,1075,1075: Warning,Also possibly several miles beyond that.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/37/warning.png,-16.15328025817871,-15.172569274902344 1075,1076,1076: Groundhog Day,"If you closely examine the cosmic background radiation, you can pick up lingering echoes of 'I Got You Babe'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c7/groundhog_day.png,34.939510345458984,-11.934402465820312 1076,1077,1077: Home Organization,Lifehacking!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1b/home_organization.png,-9.95733642578125,-13.842677116394043 1077,1078,1078: Knights,1. Nf3 ... ↘↘↘ 2. Nc3 ... ↘↘↘ 0-1,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5c/knights.png,0.3507330119609833,2.091900587081909 1078,1079,1079: United Shapes,That eggplant is in something of a flaccid state.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/thumb/0/05/united_shapes.png/800px-united_shapes.png,-2.581422805786133,-7.5100860595703125 1079,1080,1080: Visual Field,"I recently learned something that solved a mystery that had bugged me since childhood--why, when I looked at an analog clock, the hand would sometimes seem to take a couple seconds to start ticking. Google ""stopped clock illusion"".",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/14/visual_field.png,14.142906188964844,-31.42079734802246 1080,1081,1081: Argument Victory,"Really, the comforting side in most conspiracy theory arguments is the one claiming that anyone who's in power has any plan at all.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5c/argument_victory.png,21.54891014099121,20.321435928344727 1081,1082,1082: Geology,That's a gneiss butte.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/51/geology.png,-6.079343318939209,-1.3361605405807495 1082,1083,1083: Writing Styles,"I liked the idea, suggested by h00k on bash.org, of a Twitter bot that messages prominent politicians to tell them when they've unnecessarily used sms-speak abbreviations despite having plenty of characters left.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d3/writing_styles.png,9.800613403320312,-9.370556831359863 1083,1084,1084: Server Problem,Protip: Annoy Ray Kurzweil by always referring to it as the 'Cybersingularity'.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bd/server_problem.png,13.38868522644043,23.848108291625977 1084,1085,1085: ContextBot,"If you read all vaguebooking/vaguetweeting with the assumption that they're saying everything they can without revealing classified military information, the internet gets way more exciting.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/72/contextbot.png,13.885612487792969,-10.95870590209961 1085,1086,1086: Eyelash Wish Log,"Ooh, another one. Uh... the ability to alter any coefficients of friction at will during sporting events.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cd/eyelash_wish_log.png,19.48293685913086,-8.419807434082031 1086,1087,1087: Cirith Ungol,"My all-time favorite example of syntactic ambiguity comes from Wikipedia: 'Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spider named Charlotte.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ec/cirith_ungol.png,-19.65015411376953,4.248898983001709 1087,1088,1088: Five Years,"'Well, no further questions. You're hired!' 'Oh, sorry! I'm no longer interested. There's a bunch of future I gotta go check out!'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/72/five_years.png,-6.25527811050415,30.81438636779785 1088,1089,1089: Internal Monologue,"Oh right, eye contact. Ok, good, holding the eye contact... holding... still holding... ok, too long! Getting weird! Quick, look thoughtfully into space and nod. Oh, dammit, said 'yeah' again!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b2/internal_monologue.png,5.7972846031188965,15.37613582611084 1089,1090,1090: Formal Languages,[audience looks around] 'What just happened?' 'There must be some context we're missing.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0f/formal_languages.png,-9.277608871459961,-5.49814510345459 1090,1091,1091: Curiosity,As of this writing the NASA/JPL websites are still overloaded. Trying CURIOSITY-REAR-CAM_[256px_x_256px].torrent.SwEsUb.DVDRip.XviD-aXXo.jpg instead.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a4/curiosity.png,0.14268170297145844,-15.39342975616455 1091,1092,1092: Michael Phelps,[shortly] ...he ate ALL of it!?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f3/michael_phelps.png,-8.290580749511719,2.0638420581817627 1092,1093,1093: Forget,'Baby Got Back' turned 20 this year. My favorite nostalgia show is VH1's 'I Love The Inexorable March of Time Toward the Grave That Awaits Us All.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a5/forget.png,0.8101407885551453,-7.419530391693115 1093,1094,1094: Interview,"Hey, before you go, can you explain to me what job I now have?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/99/interview.png,-4.709690093994141,-9.422428131103516 1094,1095,1095: Crazy Straws,"The new crowd is heavily shaped by this guy named Eric, who's basically the Paris Hilton of the amateur plastic crazy straw design world.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3e/crazy_straws.png,12.751426696777344,2.030376672744751 1095,1096,1096: Clinically Studied Ingredient,Blatantly banking on customers not understanding that it's like a Hollywood studio advertising that their new movie was 'watched by Roger Ebert'.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4f/clinically_studied_ingredient.png,-12.093575477600098,-5.090297698974609 1096,1097,1097: A Hypochondriac's Nightmare,BUT WHAT IF I REASSURE MYSELF WITH A JOKE AND THEN DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE RASH AND IT TURNS OUT TO BE DEATH MITES AND I COULD HAVE CAUGHT IT,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/df/a_hypochondriacs_nightmare.png,0.45395442843437195,5.34295654296875 1097,1098,1098: Star Ratings,"I got lost and wandered into the world's creepiest cemetery, where the headstones just had names and star ratings. Freaked me out. When I got home I tried to leave the cemetery a bad review on Yelp, but as my hand hovered over the 'one star' button I felt this distant chill...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/star_ratings.png,-16.562137603759766,-26.493030548095703 1098,1099,1099: Tuesdays,Try our bottomless drinks and fall forever!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/96/tuesdays.png,-4.408104419708252,-8.60651683807373 1099,1100,1100: Vows,"So, um. Do you want to get a drink after the game?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/47/vows.png,-12.551363945007324,30.75855255126953 1100,1101,1101: Sketchiness,factory --- spire --- onslaught --- extractor --- judge,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/32/sketchiness.png,10.004313468933105,8.746116638183594 1101,1102,1102: Fastest-Growing,I lead a small but extraordinarily persuasive religion whose only members are door-to-door proselytizers from other faiths.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/43/fastest_growing.png,-4.1467604637146,23.858396530151367 1102,1103,1103: Nine,"FYI: If you get curious and start trying to calculate the time adjustment function that minimizes the gap between the most-used and least-used digit (for a representative sample of common cook times) without altering any time by more than 10%, and someone asks you what you are doing, it is easier to just lie.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a9/nine.png,-4.861115455627441,-0.07829806953668594 1103,1104,1104: Feathers,"Click to see a video of a modern bird using stability flapping during predatory behavior. It all fits! Also, apparently Microraptor had *four* wings? The past keeps getting cooler! (And there's more of it every day!)",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/53/feathers.png,-26.617347717285156,13.697998046875 1104,1105,1105: License Plate,"The next day: 'What? Six bank robberies!? But I just vandalized the library!' 'Nice try. They saw your plate with all the 1's and I's.' 'That's impossible! I've been with my car the whole ti-- ... wait. Ok, wow, that was clever of her.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/48/license_plate.png,4.319592475891113,-24.08101463317871 1105,1106,1106: ADD,"20 balloons float away while I'm busy permanently tying one to a tree to deal with it for good. Unfortunately, that one balloon was 'land a rocket on the moon in Kerbal Space Program.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/de/add.png,-5.376678943634033,-21.250946044921875 1106,1107,1107: Sports Cheat Sheet,"I would subscribe to a Twitter feed that supplied you with one reasonable sports opinion per day, like ""The Red Sox can't make the playoffs (championship games), but in last night's game their win seriously damaged the chances of the Yankees (longstanding rival team).""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3b/sports_cheat_sheet.png,34.088462829589844,-4.091458797454834 1107,1108,1108: Cautionary Ghost,But then the Ghost of Subjunctive Past showed up and told me to stay strong on 'if it were'.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bf/cautionary_ghost.png,-12.012492179870605,25.896820068359375 1108,1109,1109: Refrigerator,I want this engraved on my tombstone like the Epitaph of Stevinus.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3d/refrigerator.png,36.39124298095703,-15.275358200073242 1109,1110,1110: Click and Drag,Click and drag.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c7/click_and_drag.png,6.977606296539307,-19.114336013793945 1110,1111,1111: Premiere,'But what's the buzz about the film?' 'We're hoping it's distracting.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3f/premiere.png,15.265352249145508,16.202768325805664 1111,1112,1112: Think Logically,I've developed a more logical set of rules but the people on the chess community have a bunch of stupid emotional biases and won't reply to my posts.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/65/think_logically.png,16.742847442626953,23.58953857421875 1112,1113,1113: Killed in Action,We can't let this happen again. We need to build a secure TWO-day-before-retirement safe room.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d2/killed_in_action.png,-8.058151245117188,2.190913200378418 1113,1114,1114: Metallurgy,"This exotic blade was wrought from a different fallen star. The meteorite was a carbonaceous chondrite, so it's basically a lump of gravel glued into the shape of a sword. A SPACE sword!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/80/metallurgy.png,-16.35858726501465,-21.56776237487793 1114,1115,1115: Sky,I dropped a bird and I didn't hear it hit bottom.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/af/sky.png,-4.107853412628174,17.970436096191406 1115,1116,1116: Traffic Lights,"There's an intersection I drive through sometimes that has a forward green arrow, a red light, and a 'no turns' sign all on one pole. I honestly have no idea what it's telling me to do.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a0/traffic_lights.gif,-29.823225021362305,-21.817840576171875 1116,1117,1117: My Sky,"According to my mom, my first word was (looking up at the sky) 'Wow!'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/ff/my_sky.png,-6.367593288421631,-15.33290958404541 1117,1118,1118: Microsoft,"Facebook, Apple, and Google all got away with their monopolist power grabs because they don't have any 'S's in their names for critics to snarkily replace with '$'s.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c3/microsoft.png,11.566445350646973,-9.521835327148438 1118,1119,1119: Undoing,"I've been sneaking out at night and installing lamps on the underside of every photovoltaic panel I can find. Sure, there are upwards of 80% losses, but I prefer to think of them as nearly 20% gains.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/41/undoing.png,0.9317575693130493,1.9863251447677612 1119,1120,1120: Blurring the Line,People into masturbatory navel-gazing have a lot to learn about masturbation.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/de/blurring_the_line.png,-9.374364852905273,20.921451568603516 1120,1121,1121: Identity,Not sure why I just taught everyone to flawlessly impersonate me to pretty much anyone I know. Just remember to constantly bring up how cool it is that birds are dinosaurs and you'll be set.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/74/identity.png,3.9520113468170166,4.727758884429932 1121,1122,1122: Electoral Precedent,No white guy who's been mentioned on twitter has gone on to win.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/77/electoral_precedent.png,21.32654571533203,-20.152008056640625 1122,1123,1123: The Universal Label,Works for any grocery or non-grocery. Even thyme is just H and time.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f9/the_universal_label.png,19.016813278198242,4.676730155944824 1123,1124,1124: Law of Drama,"'Drama' is just 'people being upset,' when someone says they're always surrounded by drama and they just ignore it, it starts to make sense that their strategy might be backfiring.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e3/law_of_drama.png,-1.6443058252334595,-52.16646957397461 1124,1125,1125: Objects In Mirror,"Universes in mirror, like those in windshield, are larger than they appear.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f5/objects_in_mirror.png,-31.681076049804688,-19.367345809936523 1125,1126,1126: Epsilon and Zeta,"The average error in the NHC forecasted position of a hurricane three days in the future has shrunk to a third of what it was in 1990--a staggering accomplishment. However, as you may have gathered, forecasts of future storm *strength* have proved more difficult to improve.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6e/epsilon_and_zeta.png,5.6670241355896,29.423425674438477 1126,1127,1127: Congress,"It'd be great if some news network started featuring partisan hack talking heads who were all Federalists and Jacksonians, just to see how long it took us to catch on.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b5/congress.png,18.200069427490234,-24.454204559326172 1127,1128,1128: Fifty Shades,"Wishbone and the Illustrated Classics series have gotten me through every conversation I've ever had about Dickens, Treasure Island, The Anarchist's Cookbook, and Our Bodies, Ourselves.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d4/fifty_shades.png,-30.661006927490234,14.923073768615723 1128,1129,1129: Cell Number,"There's also a +1 sometimes, which is there to keep everyone on their toes. In the future, people who got to pick cool numbers by signing up for Google Voice early will be revered as wizards.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/12/cell_number.png,25.606435775756836,-7.250514507293701 1129,1130,1130: Poll Watching,The choices we make Tuesday could have MASSIVE and PERMANENT effects on the charts on Nate Silver's blog!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/87/poll_watching.png,11.86302375793457,38.490196228027344 1130,1131,1131: Math,"As of this writing, the only thing that's 'razor-thin' or 'too close to call' is the gap between the consensus poll forecast and the result.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1e/math.png,16.76656723022461,-27.07633399963379 1131,1132,1132: Frequentists vs. Bayesians,"'Detector! What would the Bayesian statistician say if I asked him whether the--' [roll] 'I AM A NEUTRINO DETECTOR, NOT A LABYRINTH GUARD. SERIOUSLY, DID YOUR BRAIN FALL OUT?' [roll] '... yes.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/78/frequentists_vs_bayesians.png,-7.277979373931885,-9.709548950195312 1132,1133,1133: Up Goer Five,"Another thing that is a bad problem is if you're flying up to space and the parts start to fall off your space car in the wrong order. If that happens, it means you won't go to space today, or maybe ever.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ec/up_goer_five.png,-1.472483515739441,-17.417194366455078 1133,1134,1134: Logic Boat,"Or a cabbage, for that matter. Goats make sense. Goats are fine.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/logic_boat.png,-23.105527877807617,6.750351428985596 1134,1135,1135: Arachnoneurology,"SPIDER PSYCHOLOGY (21st Ed.) is a comprehensive overview of arachnoneurology, neuro-arachnology, forensic arachnology, neuro-arachnoneurology (the study of the brains of spider neurology experts), and arachnoarachnology (the study of too many spiders).",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f3/arachnoneurology.png,42.37623596191406,10.673495292663574 1135,1136,1136: Broken Mirror,'I see you're in this mood again.' 'I am always in this mood.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/26/broken_mirror.png,-4.780612945556641,9.291516304016113 1136,1137,1137: RTL,Collaborative editing can quickly become a textual rap battle fought with increasingly convoluted invocations of U+202a to U+202e,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dd/rtl.png,12.027341842651367,36.42464065551758 1137,1138,1138: Heatmap,There are also a lot of global versions of this map showing traffic to English-language websites which are indistinguishable from maps of the location of internet users who are native English speakers.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/75/heatmap.png,26.39921760559082,-30.155927658081055 1138,1139,1139: Rubber and Glue,"I'm rubber. You're rubber. We contemplate the reality of our existence in mute, vulcanized horror.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/33/rubber_and_glue.png,-26.216636657714844,13.432875633239746 1139,1140,1140: Calendar of Meaningful Dates,"In months other than September, the 11th is mentioned substantially less often than any other date. It's been that way since long before 9/11 and I have no idea why.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1e/calendar_of_meaningful_dates.png,31.529056549072266,-10.878678321838379 1140,1141,1141: Two Years,"She won the first half of all our chemo Scrabble games, but then her IV drugs started kicking in and I *dominated*.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/eb/two_years.png,25.122522354125977,29.231796264648438 1141,1142,1142: Coverage,"My resonant tunneling diode phone has limited range but a short enough wavelength to penetrate even the densest cages. This gives me a major combat advantage, hopefully.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/coverage.png,28.061790466308594,18.552921295166016 1142,1143,1143: Location,Ingress: Foursquare With Space Noises.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/64/location.png,2.7661144733428955,42.94486618041992 1143,1144,1144: Tags,: Like this. ,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6b/tags.png,-3.172142505645752,4.267629146575928 1144,1145,1145: Sky Color,"Feynman recounted another good one upperclassmen would use on freshmen physics students: When you look at words in a mirror, how come they're reversed left to right but not top to bottom? What's special about the horizontal axis?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/33/sky_color.png,-16.94353675842285,-35.541404724121094 1145,1146,1146: Honest,I didn't understand what you meant. I still don't. But I'll figure it out soon!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2a/honest.png,-7.581271648406982,47.70990753173828 1146,1147,1147: Evolving,"Biologists play reverse Pokémon, trying to avoid putting any one team member on the front lines long enough for the experience to cause evolution.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/38/evolving.png,3.0390450954437256,-3.1008355617523193 1147,1148,1148: Nothing to Offer,"cerebrospinal fluid, pericardial fluid, sputum, aqueous humor, perilymph, chyme, hydatid fluid, interstitial fluid, rheum, and gin.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/24/nothing_to_offer.png,-1.5244847536087036,-1.8530033826828003 1148,1149,1149: Broomstick,"'Broom first, then slippers.' 'How do I know you'll return the broom once you've secured your ticket?' 'I'll leave my little dog as collateral.' 'Great. Pleasure doing business!'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fc/broomstick.png,-18.14606285095215,3.4994213581085205 1149,1150,1150: Instagram,"I'm gonna call the cops and get Chad arrested for theft, then move all my stuff to the house across the street. Hopefully the owners there are more responsible.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d5/instagram.png,-8.272354125976562,43.52140426635742 1150,1151,1151: Tests,"In fact, one of the boxes is full of Staphylococcus. The wrapping paper is coated in E. coli, though, so it's an understandable mistake. You know, we should really stop accepting gifts from that guy.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0c/tests.png,35.4160270690918,26.750865936279297 1151,1152,1152: Communion,"The local police, growing increasingly concerned about this church, ask parishioners to take a sip of wine and then spit it back out for DNA testing. It's blood, and it matches a 1970s murder victim.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/22/communion.png,-5.782614231109619,-0.17867586016654968 1152,1153,1153: Proof,The prosecution calls Gottfried Leibniz.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/38/proof.png,-2.5470781326293945,1.1418991088867188 1153,1154,1154: Resolution,"If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/90/resolution.png,0.9915188550949097,16.395488739013672 1154,1155,1155: Kolmogorov Directions,People get really grumpy when they realize you're giving them directions for how to go to the store and buy a GPS.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0a/kolmogorov_directions.png,25.080991744995117,-5.761581897735596 1155,1156,1156: Conditioning,"'Why are you standing in the yard wearing a papal hat and a robe covered in seeds?' 'Well, the Pope is visiting our town next month ...'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a2/conditioning.png,-26.224590301513672,-17.56439781188965 1156,1157,1157: Sick Day,Wikipedia path: Virus -> Immune system -> Innate immune system -> Parasites -> List of parasites of humans -> Naegleria fowleri -> Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis -> Deciding I DEFINITELY shouldn't connect an aquarium pump to my sinuses,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cf/sick_day.png,-6.357628345489502,-36.17045974731445 1157,1158,1158: Rubber Sheet,It IS about physics. It ALL is.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8d/rubber_sheet.png,-14.925409317016602,3.503066062927246 1158,1159,1159: Countdown,"For all we know, the odds are in our favor.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/84/countdown.png,19.07030487060547,-17.645103454589844 1159,1160,1160: Drop Those Pounds,"If the flyers don't work, we'll switch to the LEAST subtle method of informing a town of the existence of a trebuchet club.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/02/drop_those_pounds.png,-0.9449716210365295,-4.368921279907227 1160,1161,1161: Hand Sanitizer,Hipster CDC Reports Flu Epidemic Peaked Years Ago,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/40/hand_sanitizer.png,0.7638577818870544,-5.5580620765686035 1161,1162,1162: Log Scale,"Knuth Paper-Stack Notation: Write down the number on pages. Stack them. If the stack is too tall to fit in the room, write down the number of pages it would take to write down the number. THAT number won't fit in the room? Repeat. When a stack fits, write the number of iterations on a card. Pin it to the stack.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4f/log_scale.png,26.974367141723633,-15.505594253540039 1162,1163,1163: Debugger,It can take a site a while to figure out that there's a problem with their 'report a bug' form.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2d/debugger.png,0.2729625701904297,27.272552490234375 1163,1164,1164: Home Alone,Starring Macaulay Culkin.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/eb/home_alone.png,-16.23096466064453,25.240880966186523 1164,1165,1165: Amazon,"Amazon.com took a surprise early lead with 'Time required to transport a package from Iquitos, Peru to Manaus, Brazil' but then lost it at 'Minutes to skeletonize a cow'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b0/amazon.png,-0.778845489025116,-9.470952987670898 1165,1166,1166: Argument,The misguided search for a perpetual motion machine has run substantially longer than any attempted perpetual motion machine.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e7/argument.png,10.154955863952637,-7.576746463775635 1166,1167,1167: Star Trek into Darkness,"Of course, factions immediately sprang up in favor of '~*~sTaR tReK iNtO dArKnEsS~*~', 'xX_StAr TrEk InTo DaRkNess_Xx', and 'Star Trek lnto Darkness' (that's a lowercase 'L').",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/26/star_trek_into_darkness.png,-17.654800415039062,-24.30256462097168 1167,1168,1168: tar,"I don't know what's worse--the fact that after 15 years of using tar I still can't keep the flags straight, or that after 15 years of technological advancement I'm still mucking with tar flags that were 15 years old when I started.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9d/tar.png,5.3547515869140625,-3.4547195434570312 1168,1169,1169: Expedition,I'm pretty sure I've logged more hours in Google Maps over the past decade than in any game.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b3/expedition.png,7.042897701263428,-10.060741424560547 1169,1170,1170: Bridge,"And it says a lot about you that when your friends jump off a bridge en masse, your first thought is apparently 'my friends are all foolish and I won't be like them' and not 'are my friends ok?'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/01/bridge.png,-9.642587661743164,45.402469635009766 1170,1171,1171: Perl Problems,"To generate #1 albums, 'jay --help' recommends the -z flag.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/10/perl_problems.png,1.9655650854110718,25.89968490600586 1171,1172,1172: Workflow,There are probably children out there holding down spacebar to stay warm in the winter! YOUR UPDATE MURDERS CHILDREN.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b5/workflow.png,7.427421569824219,1.8170645236968994 1172,1173,1173: Steroids,A human is a system for converting dust billions of years ago into dust billions of years from now via a roundabout process which involves checking email a lot.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9e/steroids.png,-5.3582000732421875,14.736933708190918 1173,1174,1174: App,"If I click 'no', I've probably given up on everything, so don't bother taking me to the page I was trying to go to. Just drop me on the homepage. Thanks.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/75/app.png,14.066502571105957,-5.938107967376709 1174,1175,1175: Moving Sidewalks,I think I could spend hours just stepping on and off of conveyor belts moving at various speeds.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/52/moving_sidewalks.png,-2.4791266918182373,-34.974708557128906 1175,1176,1176: Those Not Present,"'Yeah, that squid's a total asshole.' [scoot scoot]",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b7/those_not_present.png,-29.809877395629883,7.308606147766113 1176,1177,1177: Time Robot,NO FATE BUT THE NARRATIVES WE IMPOSE ON LIFE'S RANDOM CHAOS TO DISTRACT OURSELVES FROM OUR EXISTENTIAL PLIGHT,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5e/time_robot.png,-10.889988899230957,-7.35987663269043 1177,1178,1178: Pickup Artists,It sounds like a great way to make friends! Is it near that Friend Zone you keep talking about? I wanna go!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/19/pickup_artists.png,-10.549345016479492,45.268455505371094 1178,1179,1179: ISO 8601,ISO 8601 was published on 06/05/88 and most recently amended on 12/01/04.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/48/iso_8601.png,24.502695083618164,-9.483802795410156 1179,1180,1180: Virus Venn Diagram,"Within five minutes of the Singularity appearing, somebody will suggest defragging it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a8/virus_venn_diagram.png,-3.560558319091797,-28.65119743347168 1180,1181,1181: PGP,"If you want to be extra safe, check that there's a big block of jumbled characters at the bottom.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7d/pgp.png,19.26584243774414,0.8642803430557251 1181,1182,1182: Rembrandt Photo,::click:: Come back! You didn't see the one of Whistler's mother!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5d/rembrandt_photo.png,12.479060173034668,38.630367279052734 1182,1183,1183: Rose Petals,Joke's on you--the Roomba and I had a LOVELY evening.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/43/rose_petals.png,-17.000654220581055,1.0062822103500366 1183,1184,1184: Circumference Formula,"Assume r' refers to the radius of Earth Prime, and r'' means radius in inches.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/72/circumference_formula.png,-2.329220771789551,-28.331850051879883 1184,1185,1185: Ineffective Sorts,"StackSort connects to StackOverflow, searches for 'sort a list', and downloads and runs code snippets until the list is sorted.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bc/ineffective_sorts.png,15.14333438873291,-0.6139553785324097 1185,1186,1186: Bumblebees,Did you know sociologists can't explain why people keep repeating that urban legend about bumblebees not being able to fly!?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/bumblebees.png,5.522932052612305,-0.39716294407844543 1186,1187,1187: Aspect Ratio,I'm always disappointed when 'Anamorphic Widescreen' doesn't refer to a widescreen Animorphs movie.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c5/aspect_ratio.png,-32.75871276855469,-19.918630599975586 1187,1188,1188: Bonding,"I'm trying to build character, but Eclipse is really confusing.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ed/bonding.png,0.04709229990839958,-2.39552640914917 1188,1189,1189: Voyager 1,"So far Voyager 1 has 'left the Solar System' by passing through the termination shock three times, the heliopause twice, and once each through the heliosheath, heliosphere, heliodrome, auroral discontinuity, Heaviside layer, trans-Neptunian panic zone, magnetogap, US Census Bureau Solar System statistical boundary, Kuiper gauntlet, Oort void, and crystal sphere holding the fixed stars.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9a/voyager_1.png,22.569915771484375,-11.113065719604492 1189,1190,1190: Time,The end.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/41/time-animated.gif,28.005348205566406,-23.23047637939453 1190,1191,1191: The Past,"If history has taught us anything, we can use that information to destroy it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ac/the_past.png,3.2685067653656006,4.102973461151123 1191,1192,1192: Humming,"I'm so bad at carrying a tune, those 'find a song by humming its melody' websites throw an HTTP 406 error as soon as I start to hum.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/57/humming.png,28.3668155670166,14.144686698913574 1192,1193,1193: Externalities,Mouse over words and things to see where they come from.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0b/externalities.png,16.324533462524414,-15.349848747253418 1193,1194,1194: Stratigraphic Record,All we have are these stupid tantalizing zircons and the scars on the face of the Moon.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/ff/stratigraphic_record.png,-2.8370306491851807,-20.877653121948242 1194,1195,1195: Flowchart,"The way out is to use the marker you have to add a box that says 'get a marker' to the line between you and 'start', then add a 'no' line from the trap box to 'end'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0f/flowchart.png,9.74293041229248,-45.35218811035156 1195,1196,1196: Subways,About one in three North American subway stops are in NYC.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/66/subways.png,28.23291015625,-31.51500701904297 1196,1197,1197: All Adobe Updates,"ALERT: Some pending mandatory software updates require version 21.1.2 of the Oracle/Sun Java(tm) JDK(tm) Update Manager Runtime Environment Meta-Updater, which is not available for your platform.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/74/all_adobe_updates.png,15.965713500976562,-3.519284725189209 1197,1198,1198: Geologist,"'It seems like it's still alive, Professor.' 'Yeah, a big one like this can keep running around for a few billion years after you remove the head.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d1/geologist.png,6.675066947937012,-20.67008399963379 1198,1199,1199: Silence,"All music is just performances of 4'33"" in studios where another band happened to be playing at the time.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ab/silence.png,28.253585815429688,13.932950019836426 1199,1200,1200: Authorization,"Before you say anything, no, I know not to leave my computer sitting out logged in to all my accounts. I have it set up so after a few minutes of inactivity it automatically switches to my brother's.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b8/authorization.png,2.3900458812713623,37.94269561767578 1200,1201,1201: Integration by Parts,"If you can manage to choose u and v such that u = v = x, then the answer is just (1/2)x², which is easy to remember. Oh, and add a '+C' or you'll get yelled at.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3d/integration_by_parts.png,3.8375661373138428,7.913704872131348 1201,1202,1202: Girls and Boys,To get more knowledge,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f4/girls_and_boys.png,6.907432556152344,-28.914552688598633 1202,1203,1203: Time Machines,'All time machine systems nominal... T-minus ten... eleven ...',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/81/time_machines.png,18.61576271057129,5.439134120941162 1203,1204,1204: Detail,"2031: Google defends the swiveling roof-mounted scanning electron microscopes on its Street View cars, saying they 'don't reveal anything that couldn't be seen by any pedestrian scanning your house with an electron microscope.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/52/detail.png,-0.5819564461708069,-51.717525482177734 1204,1205,1205: Is It Worth the Time?,"Don't forget the time you spend finding the chart to look up what you save. And the time spent reading this reminder about the time spent. And the time trying to figure out if either of those actually make sense. Remember, every second counts toward your life total, including these right now.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e5/is_it_worth_the_time.png,32.34684371948242,-14.099332809448242 1205,1206,1206: Einstein,Einstein was WRONG when he said that provisional patent #39561 represented a novel gravel-sorting technique and should be approved by the Patent Office.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/51/einstein.png,-5.531942367553711,42.021827697753906 1206,1207,1207: AirAware,It ships with a version of Google Now that alerts you when it's too late to leave for your appointments.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/23/airaware.png,-0.6227570176124573,31.236066818237305 1207,1208,1208: Footnote Labyrinths,"Every time you read this mouseover, toggle between interpreting nested footnotes as footnotes on footnotes and interpreting them as exponents (minus one, modulo 6, plus 1).",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/26/footnote_labyrinths.png,8.582088470458984,0.4186006486415863 1208,1209,1209: Encoding,I don't see how; the C0 block is right there at the beginning.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/af/encoding.png,-11.748969078063965,6.451179027557373 1209,1210,1210: I'm So Random,"In retrospect, it's weird that as a kid I thought completely random outbursts made me seem interesting, given that from an information theory point of view, lexical white noise is just about the opposite of interesting by definition.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/54/im_so_random.png,19.783418655395508,30.743574142456055 1210,1211,1211: Birds and Dinosaurs,"Sure, T. rex is closer in height to Stegosaurus than a sparrow. But that doesn't tell you much; 'Dinosaur Comics' author Ryan North is closer in height to certain dinosaurs than to the average human.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/76/birds_and_dinosaurs.png,7.202589988708496,-8.505331993103027 1211,1212,1212: Interstellar Memes,The strongest incentive we have to develop faster-than-light travel is that it would let us apologize in advance.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2e/interstellar_memes.png,-12.285369873046875,-23.927980422973633 1212,1213,1213: Combination Vision Test,"If you see two numbers but they're both the same and you have to squint to read them, you have synesthesia, colorblindness, diplopia, and myopia.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f7/combination_vision_test.png,25.242223739624023,-8.865684509277344 1213,1214,1214: Geoguessr,"I'm not sure if you can get Epcot, but my friend just got LegoLand. He guessed California but it was the one in Denmark. Meanwhile, I'm rapidly becoming a connoisseur of unmarked dirt roads over flat, barren landscapes.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e6/geoguessr.png,33.0000114440918,3.557497501373291 1214,1215,1215: Insight,"The great thing is, the sentence is really just a reminder to the listener to worry about whatever aspects of the technology they're already feeling alarmist about, which in their mind gives you credit for addressing their biggest anxieties.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ad/insight.png,-0.5131179094314575,12.548956871032715 1215,1216,1216: Sticks and Stones,"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/74/sticks_and_stones.png,-25.37444305419922,0.7789011597633362 1216,1217,1217: Cells,"Now, if it selectively kills cancer cells in a petri dish, you can be sure it's at least a great breakthrough for everyone suffering from petri dish cancer.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1f/cells.png,-0.5841816067695618,4.09625768661499 1217,1218,1218: Doors of Durin,"If we get the doors open and plug up the dam on the Sirannon so the water rises a little, the pool will start draining into Moria. How do you think the Watcher would fare against a drenched Balrog?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/32/doors_of_durin.png,10.120375633239746,12.013253211975098 1218,1219,1219: Reports,"If that fails, just multiply every number by a thousand. 'The 2nd St speed limit should be set at 25,000 mph, which would likely have prevented 1,000 of the intersection's 3,000 serious accidents last month.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/65/reports.png,15.371298789978027,32.3896369934082 1219,1220,1220: Hipsters,"You may point out that this very retreat into ironic detachment while still clearly participating in the thing in question is the very definition of contemporary hipsterdom. But on the other hand, wait, you're in an empty room. Who are you talking to?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b0/hipsters.png,-1.4410291910171509,-49.80107879638672 1220,1221,1221: Nomenclature,"[shouted, from the field] 'Aunt Beast hit a pop fly to second! Dive for it, Mrs Whatsit!'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/52/nomenclature.png,-14.014230728149414,10.047937393188477 1221,1222,1222: Pastime,"Good thing we're too smart to spend all day being uselessly frustrated with ourselves. I mean, that'd be a hell of a waste, right?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ad/pastime.png,1.9009162187576294,13.51616382598877 1222,1223,1223: Dwarf Fortress,"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.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e8/dwarf_fortress.png,10.474745750427246,26.950851440429688 1223,1224,1224: Council of 300,'And hypnotize someone into thinking they've uploaded it and passed it around.' 'But then won't the uploader get suspicious that it pauses at 301+ for a while? Why don't we just forge the number entirel--' ::BLAM:: 'The Council of 299 is adjourned.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c4/council_of_300.png,22.49287223815918,-4.185856819152832 1224,1225,1225: Ice Sheets,"Data adapted from 'The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum' by A.S. Dyke et. al., which was way better than the sequels 'The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum: The Meltdown' and 'The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum: Continental Drift'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/50/ice_sheets.png,4.74765157699585,-13.372958183288574 1225,1226,1226: Balloon Internet,I run a business selling rural internet access. My infrastructure consists of a bunch of Verizon wifi hotspots that I sign up for and then cancel at the end of the 14-day return period.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/12/balloon_internet.png,-30.33155632019043,13.317938804626465 1226,1227,1227: The Pace of Modern Life,"'Unfortunately, the notion of marriage which prevails ... at the present time ... regards the institution as simply a convenient arrangement or formal contract ... This disregard of the sanctity of marriage and contempt for its restrictions is one of the most alarming tendencies of the present age.' --John Harvey Kellogg, Ladies' guide in health and disease (1883)",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b8/the_pace_of_modern_life.png,-20.74135971069336,-29.856464385986328 1227,1228,1228: Prometheus,"'I'm here to return what Prometheus stole.' would be a good thing to say if you were a fighter pilot in a Michael Bay movie where for some reason the world's militaries had to team up to defeat every god from human mythology, and you'd just broken through the perimeter and gotten a missile lock on Mount Olympus.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f9/prometheus.png,-22.54570770263672,18.24033546447754 1228,1229,1229: Screensaver,I'm entering my 24th year of spending eight hours a day firing the Duck Hunt gun at the flying toasters. I'm sure I'll hit one soon.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b4/screensaver.png,-14.979914665222168,-24.249391555786133 1229,1230,1230: Polar/Cartesian,Protip: Any two-axis graph can be re-labeled 'coordinates of the ants crawling across my screen as a function of time'.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f7/polar_cartesian.png,-1.8876396417617798,-52.54203796386719 1230,1231,1231: Habitable Zone,They have a telescope pointed RIGHT AT US!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d8/habitable_zone.png,-10.001364707946777,-25.013736724853516 1231,1232,1232: Realistic Criteria,I'm leaning toward fifteen. There are a lot of them.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ef/realistic_criteria.png,13.203615188598633,10.455442428588867 1232,1233,1233: Relativity,"It's commonly believed that Lorentz contraction makes objects appear flatter along the direction of travel. However, this ignores light travel times. In fact, a fast-moving butt would appear rotated toward the observer but not substantially distorted. Shakira was right.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/21/relativity.png,-31.16660499572754,30.126502990722656 1233,1234,1234: Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013),Actual quote from The Demo: '... an advantage of being online is that it keeps track of who you are and what you're doing all the time...',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9a/douglas_engelbart_1925_2013.png,11.30077075958252,-10.311342239379883 1234,1235,1235: Settled,"Well, we've really only settled the question of ghosts that emit or reflect visible light. Or move objects around. Or make any kind of sound. But that covers all the ones that appear in Ghostbusters, so I think we're good.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c1/settled.png,-0.9518852829933167,-53.887760162353516 1235,1236,1236: Seashell,"This is roughly equivalent to 'number of times I've picked up a seashell at the ocean' / 'number of times I've picked up a seashell', which in my case is pretty close to 1, and gets much closer if we're considering only times I didn't put it to my ear.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4a/seashell.png,26.341859817504883,-10.681632995605469 1236,1237,1237: QR Code,"Remember, the installer is watching the camera for the checksum it generated, so you have to scan it using your own phone.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c6/qr_code.png,29.331707000732422,10.421818733215332 1237,1238,1238: Enlightenment,"But the rules of writing are like magic spells. If you never acquire them, then not using them says nothing.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/98/enlightenment.png,11.555903434753418,35.726749420166016 1238,1239,1239: Social Media,The social media reaction to this asteroid announcement has been sharply negative. Care to respond?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/78/social_media.png,22.60969352722168,2.6118719577789307 1239,1240,1240: Quantum Mechanics,You can also just ignore any science assertion where 'quantum mechanics' is the most complicated phrase in it.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/79/quantum_mechanics.png,3.180413007736206,3.4529101848602295 1240,1241,1241: Annoying Ringtone Champion,"It beat out 'Clock radio alarm', 'B-flat at 194 decibels', 'That noise from Dumb & Dumber', and 'Recording of a sobbing voice begging you to answer'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3f/annoying_ringtone_champion.png,-0.18248024582862854,31.524030685424805 1241,1242,1242: Scary Names,Far off to the right of the chart is the Helvetica Scenario.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3f/scary_names.png,2.742257833480835,-45.13782501220703 1242,1243,1243: Snare,It's going in A collection of satellites skewered with pins and mounted in display boxes. Not necessarily MY collection.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/27/snare.png,-2.206631898880005,-3.7940175533294678 1243,1244,1244: Six Words,Ahem. We are STRICTLY an Orbiter shop.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1b/six_words.png,-6.921406269073486,-25.54989242553711 1244,1245,1245: 10-Day Forecast,"Oh, definitely not; they don't have Amazon Prime.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4b/10_day_forecast.png,18.115123748779297,-35.13155746459961 1245,1246,1246: Pale Blue Dot,"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. There is no road out of this oblivion; we must embrace it. We must join with the darkness. Ba'al the Annihilator offers us no happiness, no answers, naught but the cold embrace of the void. To imagine any other end is delusion. We must give in to the will of Ba'al, for he will one day consume us and our world alike. I therefore call on Congress to fully fund space exploration, and to join with Ba'al, the Eater of Souls. Thank you.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/60/pale_blue_dot.png,-13.724502563476562,-19.100135803222656 1246,1247,1247: The Mother of All Suspicious Files,Better change the URL to 'https' before downloading.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e3/the_mother_of_all_suspicious_files.png,16.339136123657227,-2.2905662059783936 1247,1248,1248: Sphere,This message brought to you by the Society of Astronomers Trapped on the Surface of a Sphere.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7e/sphere.png,-32.86798095703125,-1.032191276550293 1248,1249,1249: Meteor Showers,"Remember, meteors always hit the tallest object around.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8a/meteor_showers.png,6.075394630432129,-15.438714027404785 1249,1250,1250: Old Accounts,"If you close an account while it's still friends with people, it contributes to database linkage accumulation slowdown, which is a major looming problem for web infrastructure and definitely not a thing I just made up.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a7/old_accounts.png,20.244091033935547,36.82119369506836 1250,1251,1251: Anti-Glass,"'Why don't you just point it at their eye directly?' 'What is this, 2007?'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f2/anti_glass.png,-18.605270385742188,19.465646743774414 1251,1252,1252: Increased Risk,"You may point out that strictly speaking, you can use that statement to prove that all risks are tiny--to which I reply HOLY SHIT WATCH OUT FOR THAT DOG!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/increased_risk.png,25.636743545532227,17.14197540283203 1252,1253,1253: Exoplanet Names,"If you have any ideas, I hear you can send them to iaupublic@iap.fr.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b6/exoplanet_names.png,-11.207085609436035,-26.934114456176758 1253,1254,1254: Preferred Chat System,"If you call my regular number, it just goes to my pager.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5e/preferred_chat_system.png,26.58814239501953,-6.238203525543213 1254,1255,1255: Columbus,And thus was smallpox introduced into the previously Undying Lands.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/09/columbus.png,-9.085182189941406,13.512152671813965 1255,1256,1256: Questions,To whoever typed 'why is arwen dying': GOOD. FUCKING. QUESTION.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4b/questions.png,-0.239047572016716,-13.352506637573242 1256,1257,1257: Monster,It was finally destroyed with a nuclear weapon carrying the destructive energy of the Hiroshima bomb.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0a/monster.png,2.328775405883789,-12.271886825561523 1257,1258,1258: First,"Fortunately, exactly zero other annoying internet behaviors have developed during this time.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cd/first.png,13.46175765991211,30.582324981689453 1258,1259,1259: Bee Orchid,In sixty million years aliens will know humans only by a fuzzy clip of a woman in an Axe commercial.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/62/bee_orchid.png,-3.964811086654663,21.507944107055664 1259,1260,1260: LD50,The dose is much lower when administered orally. We're still trying to get the paper into the needles for subcutaneous injection.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0b/ld50.png,-15.654598236083984,12.894855499267578 1260,1261,1261: Shake That,How do I work it? IT'S ALREADY WORKING!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bb/shake_that.png,-12.863020896911621,18.766094207763672 1261,1262,1262: Unquote,I guess it's a saying from the Old Country.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b9/unquote.png,-15.652249336242676,42.7923469543457 1262,1263,1263: Reassuring,"'At least humans are better at quietly amusing ourselves, oblivious to our pending obsolescence' thought the human, as a nearby Dell Inspiron contentedly displayed the same bouncing geometric shape screensaver it had been running for years.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/de/reassuring.png,12.546157836914062,27.8632755279541 1263,1264,1264: Slideshow,Points to anyone who hacks the Flickr devs' computers to make their text editors do this when you click on anything.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/10/slideshow.gif,8.491519927978516,22.791336059570312 1264,1265,1265: Juicer,But the rind is where all the vitamins are!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/31/juicer.png,-4.710546970367432,-32.18068313598633 1265,1266,1266: Halting Problem,"I found a counterexample to the claim that all things must someday die, but I don't know how to show it to anyone.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b9/halting_problem.png,3.9073050022125244,25.721342086791992 1266,1267,1267: Mess,"'Sorry, I left out my glass of water from last night.' OH GOD I APPARENTLY LIVE IN A GARBAGE PIT.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d0/mess.png,-4.808089733123779,38.021453857421875 1267,1268,1268: Alternate Universe,"As best as I can tell, I was transported here from Earth Prime sometime in the late 1990s. Your universe is identical in every way, except for the lobster thing and the thing where some of you occasionally change your clocks for some reason.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f9/alternate_universe.png,41.00218200683594,11.047947883605957 1268,1269,1269: Privacy Opinions,I'm the Philosopher until someone hands me a burrito.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/56/privacy_opinions.png,11.637262344360352,4.013261795043945 1269,1270,1270: Functional,Functional programming combines the flexibility and power of abstract mathematics with the intuitive clarity of abstract mathematics.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/58/functional.png,10.815546035766602,23.369394302368164 1270,1271,1271: Highlighting,"And if clicking on any word pops up a site-search for articles about that word, I will close all windows in a panic and never come back.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/45/highlighting.png,15.443318367004395,-27.782434463500977 1271,1272,1272: Shadowfacts,"'Look to my coming on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the east.' 'And look to the west to see our shadows!'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/24/shadowfacts.png,-1.9628915786743164,0.8309037685394287 1272,1273,1273: Tall Infographics,'Big Data' doesn't just mean increasing the font size.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/ca/tall_infographics.png,1.9781845808029175,-55.48006820678711 1273,1274,1274: Open Letter,Are you ok? Do you need help?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b8/open_letter.png,12.477519989013672,-6.704144477844238 1274,1275,1275: int(pi),"If replacing all the '3's doesn't fix your code, remove the 4s, too, with 'ceiling(pi) / floor(pi) * pi * r^floor(pi)'. Mmm, floor pie.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/int_pi.png,0.3945849537849426,3.276829242706299 1275,1276,1276: Angular Size,"If the celestial sphere were mapped to the Earth's surface, astronomy would get a LOT easier; you'd just need a magnifying glass.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8b/angular_size.png,-8.90904426574707,-28.043493270874023 1276,1277,1277: Ayn Random,"In a cavern deep below the Earth, Ayn Rand, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, Ann Druyan, Paul Rudd, Alan Alda, and Duran Duran meet together in the Secret Council of /(\b[plurandy]+\b ?){2}/i.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/48/ayn_random.png,23.935009002685547,-8.183395385742188 1277,1278,1278: Giraffes,If you fund my Kickstarter...,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c5/giraffes.png,-1.9226197004318237,3.214946985244751 1278,1279,1279: Reverse Identity Theft,"I asked a few friends whether they'd had this happen, then looked up the popularity of their initials/names over time. Based on those numbers, it looks like there must be at least 750,000 people in the US alone who think 'Sure, that's probably my email address' on a regular basis.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2d/reverse_identity_theft.png,25.42146110534668,-5.278499603271484 1279,1280,1280: Mystery News,"If you find and stop the video, but you've--against all odds--gotten curious about the trade summit, just leave the tab opened. It will mysteriously start playing again 30 minutes later!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/34/mystery_news.png,32.83980178833008,3.455305337905884 1280,1281,1281: Minifigs,The LEGO Group is already the world's largest tire manufacturer.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e6/minifigs.png,-2.6704635620117188,-55.168968200683594 1281,1282,1282: Monty Hall,"A few minutes later, the goat from behind door C drives away in the car.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8e/monty_hall.png,-32.00214767456055,-16.09983253479004 1282,1283,1283: Headlines,"1916: 'PHYSICIST DAD' TURNS HIS ATTENTION TO GRAVITY, AND YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HE FINDS. [PICS] [NSFW]",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a4/headlines.png,9.558015823364258,-16.65057373046875 1283,1284,1284: Improved Keyboard,I'm always installing tons of weird experimental keyboards because it serves as a good reminder that nothing I was going to type was really worth the trouble.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0d/improved_keyboard.png,26.2318172454834,22.25098991394043 1284,1285,1285: Third Way,"'The monospaced-typewriter-font story is a COMPLETE FABRICATION!  WAKE UP, SHEEPLE' 'It doesn't matter! Studies support single spaces!' 'Those results weren't statistically significant!' 'Fine, you win. I'm using double spaces right now!' 'Are not!  We can all hear your stupid whitespace.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/91/third_way.png,-18.348054885864258,-4.427350997924805 1285,1286,1286: Encryptic,It was bound to happen eventually. This data theft will enable almost limitless [xkcd.com/792]-style password reuse attacks in the coming weeks. There's only one group that comes out of this looking smart: Everyone who pirated Photoshop.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/26/encryptic.png,16.639055252075195,0.2906941771507263 1286,1287,1287: Puzzle,"Prediction for Carlsen v. Anand: ...25. Qb8+ Nxb8 26. Rd8# f6 27. ""...dude."" Qf5 28. ""The game is over, dude."" Qxg5 29. Rxe8 0-1 30. ""Dude, your move can't be '0-1'. Don't write that down."" [Black flips board]",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/65/puzzle.png,35.207786560058594,-1.642265796661377 1287,1288,1288: Substitutions,INSIDE ELON MUSK'S NEW ATOMIC CAT,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4b/substitutions.png,-25.486896514892578,-25.61542510986328 1288,1289,1289: Simple Answers,'Will [ ] allow us to better understand each other and thus make war undesirable?' is one that pops up whenever we invent a new communication medium.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4a/simple_answers.png,-12.294404029846191,-5.98166036605835 1289,1290,1290: Syllable Planning,You absolute-fucking-... shit.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fa/syllable_planning.png,-11.401293754577637,27.092037200927734 1290,1291,1291: Shoot for the Moon,"Shoot for the Moon. If you miss, you'll end up co-orbiting the Sun alongside Earth, living out your days alone in the void within sight of the lush, welcoming home you left behind.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/70/shoot_for_the_moon.png,-9.312216758728027,-21.94327735900879 1291,1292,1292: Pi vs. Tau,"Conveniently approximated as e+2, Pau is commonly known as the Devil's Ratio (because in the octal expansion, '666' appears four times in the first 200 digits while no other run of 3+ digits appears more than once.)",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/08/pi_vs_tau.png,-1.6522555351257324,-27.832504272460938 1292,1293,1293: Job Interview,"When you talk about the job experience you'll give me, why do you pronounce 'job' with a long 'o'?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/00/job_interview.png,-13.174126625061035,19.402589797973633 1293,1294,1294: Telescope Names,The Thirty Meter Telescope will be renamed The Flesh-Searing Eye on the Volcano.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/07/telescope_names.png,-0.8597690463066101,-3.7770817279815674 1294,1295,1295: New Study,"When the results are published, no one will be sure whether to report on them again.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/33/new_study.png,26.436662673950195,-0.46316003799438477 1295,1296,1296: Git Commit,Merge branch 'asdfasjkfdlas/alkdjf' into sdkjfls-final,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/de/git_commit.png,14.265073776245117,-0.22441262006759644 1296,1297,1297: Oort Cloud,"...I wanna try. Hang on, be right back.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/86/oort_cloud.png,-4.3129353523254395,-17.12590217590332 1297,1298,1298: Exoplanet Neighborhood,It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/exoplanet_neighborhood.png,-10.118279457092285,-25.56053924560547 1298,1299,1299: I Don't Own a TV,Theory: Smugness is proportional to the negative second derivative of TV ownership rate with respect to time.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/65/i_dont_own_a_tv.png,-2.397773504257202,-52.74934005737305 1299,1300,1300: Galilean Moons,I'm SO glad I escaped. They almost had me caught in their weird ...thing.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0c/galilean_moons.png,-7.115289211273193,-22.97047233581543 1300,1301,1301: File Extensions,I have never been lied to by data in a .txt file which has been hand-aligned.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/file_extensions.png,14.593942642211914,-43.33995819091797 1301,1302,1302: Year in Review,"All in all, I give this year a C-. There were no aurora visible from my house and that comet evaporated. They'd better not cancel the 2017 eclipse.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d4/year_in_review.png,15.446782112121582,16.311538696289062 1302,1303,1303: Profile Info,"It's ok, they'll always let you opt out! Like they did with the YouTube real name profile thing.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3a/profile_info.png,10.129889488220215,17.953697204589844 1303,1304,1304: Glass Trolling,"Plus, when someone finally grabs your glasses and stomps on them, it costs way less than $1,500 to replace them.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c4/glass_trolling.png,-26.681304931640625,22.639453887939453 1304,1305,1305: Undocumented Feature,"And it doesn't pop up a box every time asking you to use your real name. In fact, there's no way to set your name at all. You just have to keep reminding people who you are.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6d/undocumented_feature.png,15.796526908874512,-6.416473865509033 1305,1306,1306: Sigil Cycle,"The cycle seems to be 'we need these symbols to clarify what types of things we're referring to!' followed by 'wait, it turns out words already do that.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/41/sigil_cycle.png,-2.2747488021850586,-50.18265151977539 1306,1307,1307: Buzzfeed Christmas,The 6 Weirdest Objects The Buzzfeed Writers Are Throwing Out Their Windows At Us,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a9/buzzfeed_christmas.png,36.48488235473633,23.231386184692383 1307,1308,1308: Christmas Lights,Merry Christmas from xkcd!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1c/christmas_lights.png,35.996681213378906,26.471471786499023 1308,1309,1309: Infinite Scrolling,Maybe we should give up on the whole idea of a 'back' button. 'Show me that thing I was looking at a moment ago' might just be too complicated an idea for the modern web.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/56/infinite_scrolling.png,-29.70095443725586,16.616350173950195 1309,1310,1310: Goldbach Conjectures,"The weak twin primes conjecture states that there are infinitely many pairs of primes. The strong twin primes conjecture states that every prime p has a twin prime (p+2), although (p+2) may not look prime at first. The tautological prime conjecture states that the tautological prime conjecture is true.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/51/goldbach_conjectures.png,24.35423469543457,-8.748979568481445 1310,1311,1311: 2014,"Some future reader, who may see the term, without knowing the history of it, may imagine that it had reference to some antiquated bridge of the immortal Poet, thrown across the silver Avon, to facilitate his escape after some marauding excursion in a neighbouring park; and in some Gentleman's Magazine of the next century, it is not impossible, but that future antiquaries may occupy page after page in discussing so interesting a matter. We think it right, therefore, to put it on record in the Oriental Herald that the 'Shakesperian Rope Bridges' are of much less classic origin; that Mr Colin Shakespear, who, besides his dignity as Postmaster, now signs himself 'Superintendent General of Shakesperian Rope Bridges', is a person of much less genius than the Bard of Avon. --The Oriental Herald, 1825",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9d/2014.png,-20.785165786743164,-29.820560455322266 1311,1312,1312: Haskell,The problem with Haskell is that it's a language built on lazy evaluation and nobody's actually called for it.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8d/haskell.png,7.127573013305664,3.153977632522583 1312,1313,1313: Regex Golf,/bu|[rn]t|[coy]e|[mtg]a|j|iso|n[hl]|[ae]d|lev|sh|[lnd]i|[po]o|ls/ matches the last names of elected US presidents but not their opponents.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7b/regex_golf.png,11.062633514404297,39.37702941894531 1313,1314,1314: Photos,"I hate when people take photos of their meal instead of eating it, because there's nothing I love more than the sound of other people chewing.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/43/photos.png,14.438995361328125,6.110678672790527 1314,1315,1315: Questions for God,"What sins could possibly darken the heart of a STEAMBOAT? I asked The Shadow, but he says he only covers men.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c4/questions_for_god.png,-6.081063270568848,-4.008498191833496 1315,1316,1316: Inexplicable,'It has a ghost in it. Take it back.' 'No.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/01/inexplicable.png,14.23997688293457,36.9819450378418 1316,1317,1317: Theft,"Is he ALSO wondering at what point our thoughts diverged, if they even have yet? 'dude, I think he just took your credit card' AM I THE ORIGINAL? HOW DO I TELL?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bf/theft.png,7.793636798858643,13.75084114074707 1317,1318,1318: Actually,"Protip: You can win every exchange just by being one level more precise than whoever talked last. Eventually, you'll defeat all conversational opponents and stand alone.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9b/actually.png,18.142059326171875,-9.880321502685547 1318,1319,1319: Automation,"'Automating' comes from the roots 'auto-' meaning 'self-', and 'mating', meaning 'screwing'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a9/automation.png,21.005109786987305,-15.88858699798584 1319,1320,1320: Walmart,"What I really want is to hang out where I hung out with my friends in college, but have all my older relatives there too.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8d/walmart.png,-7.249882221221924,41.999900817871094 1320,1321,1321: Cold,"'You see the same pattern all over. Take Detroit--' 'Hold on. Why do you know all these statistics offhand?' 'Oh, um, no idea. I definitely spend my evenings hanging out with friends, and not curating a REALLY NEAT database of temperature statistics. Because, pshh, who would want to do that, right? Also, snowfall records.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/cold.png,4.731325626373291,-14.420019149780273 1321,1322,1322: Winter,"Stay warm, little flappers, and find lots of plant eggs!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/41/winter.png,-11.478086471557617,20.347932815551758 1322,1323,1323: Protocol,"Changing the names would be easier, but if you're not comfortable lying, try only making friends with people named Alice, Bob, Carol, etc.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1d/protocol.png,9.722970962524414,23.9217586517334 1323,1324,1324: Weather,"At least if you're really into, like, Turkish archaeology, store clerks aren't like 'hey, how 'bout those Derinkuyu underground cities!' when they're trying to be polite.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6b/weather.png,-0.14287987351417542,9.256888389587402 1324,1325,1325: Rejection,Perhaps you need a crash course in taking hints. Here's your first lesson: We're not actually walking somewhere together; I'm trying to leave this conversation and you're following me.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/37/rejection.png,-4.949853420257568,22.406972885131836 1325,1326,1326: Sharks,"'Now, minions, I'm off to inspect our shark cages.' 'Do you really need to inspect them this often?' 'PRISONERS MUST NEVER ESCAPE.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/24/sharks.png,-1.8081048727035522,-5.075952053070068 1326,1327,1327: Mobile Marketing,"We're firing you, but the online headline-writing division wants to hire you.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3a/mobile_marketing.png,-23.13176918029785,27.908824920654297 1327,1328,1328: Update,I have a bunch of things open right now.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/update.png,14.437958717346191,37.76219940185547 1328,1329,1329: Standing,"At first I was making fun of them, but joke's on me--the deer is surprisingly ergonomic, except for the kicks.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1b/standing.png,12.308900833129883,39.656394958496094 1329,1330,1330: Kola Borehole,"Tonight's top story: Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, died in his home this morning at the age of [unintelligible rune]. Due to the large number of sharks inhabiting his former kingdom, no body could be recovered.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b7/kola_borehole.png,23.724512100219727,-4.353801250457764 1330,1331,1331: Frequency,"This comic shows estimated average frequency. I wanted to include the pitch drop experiment, but it turns out the gif format has some issues with decade-long loops.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5f/heartbeat.gif,-2.6120986938476562,-6.327836513519287 1331,1332,1332: Slippery Slope,"Sure, taking a few seconds to be respectful toward someone about something they care about doesn't sound hard. But if you talk to hundreds of people every day and they all start expecting that same consideration, it could potentially add up to MINUTES wasted. And for WHAT?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/40/slippery_slope.png,2.015582323074341,13.344137191772461 1332,1333,1333: First Date,"I sympathize with the TPP protagonist because I, too, have progressed through a surprising number of stages of life despite spending entire days stuck against simple obstacles.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a6/first_date.png,-23.120527267456055,3.820141553878784 1333,1334,1334: Second,"Let me just scroll down and check behind that rock. Annnnd... nope, page copyright year starts with '19'. Oh God, is this a WEBRING?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/90/second.png,-4.813549995422363,-4.778046607971191 1334,1335,1335: Now,This image stays roughly in sync with the day (assuming the Earth continues spinning). Shortcut: xkcd.com/now,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/14/now.gif,27.892240524291992,-33.423004150390625 1335,1336,1336: Transformers,"A helicopter bursts from a chrysalis and alights on a rock, rotors still damp.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/67/transformers.png,33.07311248779297,28.289445877075195 1336,1337,1337: Hack,HACK THE STARS,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8c/hack.png,17.902246475219727,-32.05233383178711 1337,1338,1338: Land Mammals,Bacteria still outweigh us thousands to one--and that's not even counting the several pounds of them in your body.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6d/land_mammals.png,11.188136100769043,-34.08930206298828 1338,1339,1339: When You Assume,You know what happens when you assert--you make an ass out of the emergency response team.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e6/when_you_assume.png,-11.877041816711426,11.046830177307129 1339,1340,1340: Unique Date,"If our current civilization lasts another 8,000 years, it's probably fair to assume the Long Now Foundation got things right, and at some point we started listening to them and switched to five-digit years.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9f/unique_date.png,4.99978494644165,-8.77481746673584 1340,1341,1341: Types of Editors,m-x machineofdeath-mode,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4e/types_of_editors.png,13.727144241333008,-18.40084457397461 1341,1342,1342: Ancient Stars,'The light from those millions of stars you see is probably many thousands of years old' is a rare example of laypeople substantially OVERestimating astronomical numbers.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/58/ancient_stars.png,1.0579432249069214,-11.35619831085205 1342,1343,1343: Manuals,"The most ridiculous offender of all is the sudoers man page, which for 15 years has started with a 'quick guide' to EBNF, a system for defining the grammar of a language. 'Don't despair', it says, 'the definitions below are annotated.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d6/manuals.png,2.3655624389648438,-41.89723205566406 1343,1344,1344: Digits,It's taken me 20 years to get over skyline tetris.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/56/digits.png,0.176572784781456,20.196340560913086 1344,1345,1345: Answers,"Stanford sleep researcher William Dement said that after 50 years of studying sleep, the only really solid explanation he knows for why we do it is 'because we get sleepy'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d9/answers.png,-26.717483520507812,-6.935341835021973 1345,1346,1346: Career,They'd convince me to come out of retirement for one last job: biting into a giant lump of slightly soft wax a couple of times.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/60/career.png,6.919412612915039,18.741209030151367 1346,1347,1347: t Distribution,"If data fails the Teacher's t test, you can just force it to take the test again until it passes.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bd/t_distribution.png,27.096906661987305,-15.77652359008789 1347,1348,1348: Before the Internet,We watched DAYTIME TV. Do you realize how soul-crushing it was? I'd rather eat an iPad than go back to watching daytime TV.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/89/before_the_internet.png,21.798282623291016,16.664608001708984 1348,1349,1349: Shouldn't Be Hard,(six hours later) ARGH. How are these stupid microchips so durable?! All I want is to undo a massive industrial process with household tools!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4c/shouldnt_be_hard.png,12.897990226745605,36.47193145751953 1349,1350,1350: Lorenz,"Every choice, no matter how small, begins a new story",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d2/lorenz_-_alternative_options.png,16.50843620300293,-16.66006851196289 1350,1351,1351: Metamaterials,"If I developed a hue-shifting metamaterial, I would photobomb people's Instagram pics with a sheet of material that precisely undid the filter they were using.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/42/metamaterials.png,20.430002212524414,-27.900962829589844 1351,1352,1352: Cosmologist on a Tire Swing,"No matter how fast I swing, I can never travel outside this loop! Maybe space outside it doesn't exist! But I bet it does. This tire came from somewhere.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a4/cosmologist_on_a_tire_swing.png,4.9232611656188965,-29.483983993530273 1352,1353,1353: Heartbleed,"I looked at some of the data dumps from vulnerable sites, and it was... bad. I saw emails, passwords, password hints. SSL keys and session cookies. Important servers brimming with visitor IPs. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, c-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. I should probably patch OpenSSL.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ea/heartbleed.png,17.037460327148438,0.00031477396260015666 1353,1354,1354: Heartbleed Explanation,"Are you still there, server? It's me, Margaret.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/90/heartbleed_explanation.png,19.14177131652832,-12.785218238830566 1354,1355,1355: Airplane Message,"PHARAOH IRY-HOR, FROM THE 3100s BC, IS THE FIRST HUMAN WHOSE NAME WE KNOW.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/ce/airplane_message.png,5.421821117401123,0.03357928991317749 1355,1356,1356: Orbital Mechanics,"To be fair, my job at NASA was working on robots and didn't actually involve any orbital mechanics. The small positive slope over that period is because it turns out that if you hang around at NASA, you get in a lot of conversations about space.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e2/orbital_mechanics.png,-0.5428361296653748,-52.6242561340332 1356,1357,1357: Free Speech,"I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ae/free_speech.png,10.385032653808594,10.065311431884766 1357,1358,1358: NRO,"'DISPATCHING DRONE TO TARGET COORDINATES.' 'Wait, crap, wrong button. Oh jeez.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/nro.png,-3.873079538345337,43.3962516784668 1358,1359,1359: Phone Alarm,Who's calling me?? WHY IS THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD CALLING ME!?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e9/phone_alarm.png,19.11870765686035,12.441924095153809 1359,1360,1360: Old Files,"Wow, ANIMORPHS-NOVEL.RTF? Just gonna, uh, go through and delete that from all my archives real quick.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d5/old_files.png,13.234895706176758,-2.9729959964752197 1360,1361,1361: Google Announcement,The less popular 8.8.4.4 is slated for discontinuation.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/26/google_announcement.png,11.95970344543457,-5.149859428405762 1361,1362,1362: Morse Code,"Oh, because Facebook has worked out SO WELL for everyone.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/65/morse_code.png,-2.594843864440918,-0.2245471030473709 1362,1363,1363: xkcd Phone,"Presented in partnership with Qualcomm, Craigslist, Whirlpool, Hostess, LifeStyles, and the US Chamber of Commerce. Manufactured on equipment which also processes peanuts. Price includes 2-year Knicks contract. Phone may extinguish nearby birthday candles. If phone ships with Siri, return immediately; do not speak to her and ignore any instructions she gives. Do not remove lead casing. Phone may attract/trap insects; this is normal. Volume adjustable (requires root). If you experience sudden tingling, nausea, or vomiting, perform a factory reset immediately. Do not submerge in water; phone will drown. Exterior may be frictionless. Prolonged use can cause mood swings, short-term memory loss, and seizures. Avert eyes while replacing battery. Under certain circumstances, wireless transmitter may control God.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/aa/xkcd_phone.png,29.815629959106445,13.79856014251709 1363,1364,1364: Like I'm Five,"'Am I taking care of you? I have a thesis to write!' 'My parents are at their house; you visited last--' 'No, no, explain like you're five.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/like_im_five.png,-4.419256210327148,3.739647150039673 1364,1365,1365: Inflation,Wait till they notice the faint reflection of Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny in the E-mode.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bf/inflation.png,10.84709358215332,21.18349266052246 1365,1366,1366: Train,Trains rotate the Earth around various axes while elevators shift its position in space.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/98/train.png,-4.979318141937256,-25.051408767700195 1366,1367,1367: Installing,"But still, my scheme for creating and saving user config files and data locally to preserve them across reinstalls might be useful for--wait, that's cookies.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/05/installing.png,28.866086959838867,10.178892135620117 1367,1368,1368: One Of The,"'The world's greatest [whatever]' is subjective, but 'One of the world's greatest [whatever]s' is clearly objective. Anyway, that's why I got you this 'one of the world's greatest moms' mug!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f3/one_of_the.png,24.781539916992188,0.23786906898021698 1368,1369,1369: TMI,"'TMI' he whispered, gazing into the sea.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/tmi.png,12.192453384399414,38.59721755981445 1369,1370,1370: President,Anyone who thinks we're all going to spend the 2032 elections poring over rambling blog posts by teenagers has never tried to read a rambling blog post by a teenager.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/09/president.png,-34.32347869873047,-4.010898113250732 1370,1371,1371: Brightness,"Recently, some exoplanet astronomers have managed to use careful analysis of reflected light to discover Earth during the day.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b6/brightness.png,-10.189634323120117,-25.15631675720215 1371,1372,1372: Smartwatches,"This is even better than my previous smartphone casemod: an old Western Electric Model 2500 desk phone handset complete with a frayed, torn-off cord dangling from it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1b/smartwatches.png,30.638025283813477,12.921673774719238 1372,1373,1373: Screenshot,I'M PLUGGING IN MY PHONE BUT THE BATTERY ON THE SCREEN ISN'T CHARGING,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/76/screenshot.png,16.388120651245117,-25.13448143005371 1373,1374,1374: Urn,Can this PLEASE be drawing with replacement?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a4/urn.png,-17.306962966918945,1.9301443099975586 1374,1375,1375: Astronaut Vandalism,"That night, retired USAF pilots covertly replaced the '62' with '50'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b1/astronaut_vandalism.png,4.049924373626709,-41.53573989868164 1375,1376,1376: Jump,Or that I'm at least following the curve of the Earth around to land...,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/28/jump.png,-1.5254780054092407,-23.226505279541016 1376,1377,1377: Fish,[Astronomer peers into telescope] [Jaws theme begins playing],https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1b/fish.png,-8.792391777038574,-23.586496353149414 1377,1378,1378: Turbine,"Ok, plan B: Fly a kite into the blades, with a rock in a sling dangling below it, and create the world's largest trebuchet.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/07/turbine.png,-23.256778717041016,-6.925502300262451 1378,1379,1379: 4.5 Degrees,"The good news is that according to the latest IPCC report, if we enact aggressive emissions limits now, we could hold the warming to 2°C. That's only HALF an ice age unit, which is probably no big deal.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/62/4_5_degrees.png,4.067904472351074,-14.39795207977295 1379,1380,1380: Manual for Civilization,"We will have an entire wing of the library devoted to copies of book #26, because ohmygod it's the one where Jake and Cassie finally KISS!!!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/88/manual_for_civilization.png,-29.258636474609375,15.517115592956543 1380,1381,1381: Margin,PROTIP: You can get around the Shannon-Hartley limit by setting your font size to 0.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/06/margin.png,8.995332717895508,-5.766520977020264 1381,1382,1382: Rocket Packs,Every year: 'It's --I want my jetpack [and also my free medical care covering all my jetpack-related injuries]!',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/89/rocket_packs.png,8.333852767944336,-17.39504623413086 1382,1383,1383: Magic Words,'And then whisper 'anapest' in my ear as you hold me?',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/07/magic_words.png,-11.392104148864746,1.3445324897766113 1383,1384,1384: Krypton,"Their Sun and gravity will make you, uh, something, I guess. Out of earshot from Earth, mostly.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5c/krypton.png,-8.870146751403809,-24.000864028930664 1384,1385,1385: Throwing Rocks,"::PLOOOOSH:: Looks like you won't be making it to Vinland today, Leaf Erikson.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/38/throwing_rocks.png,-25.991470336914062,-9.889488220214844 1385,1386,1386: People are Stupid,To everyone who responds to everything by saying they've 'lost their faith in humanity': Thanks--I'll let humanity know. I'm sure they'll be crushed.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8c/people_are_stupid.png,13.846444129943848,4.863609790802002 1386,1387,1387: Clumsy Foreshadowing,'... hosts were unexpectedly fired from ABC's 'The View' today. ABC will likely announce new...',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/32/clumsy_foreshadowing.png,24.49601173400879,1.0572514533996582 1387,1388,1388: Subduction License,"'Dude, why can't you just be a normal roommate?' 'Because I'm coming TOWARD you!'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/22/subduction_license.png,14.234660148620605,26.417051315307617 1388,1389,1389: Surface Area,"This isn't an informational illustration; this is a thing I think we should do. First, we'll need a gigantic spool of thread. Next, we'll need some kind of... hmm, time to head to Seattle.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fc/surface_area.png,-8.579726219177246,-28.833215713500977 1389,1390,1390: Research Ethics,"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?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a3/research_ethics.png,-5.2632975578308105,3.041285991668701 1390,1391,1391: Darkness,This was actually wish #406. Wish #2 was for him to lose the ability to remember that each new wish wasn't my first.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f6/darkness.png,24.803998947143555,0.7514509558677673 1391,1392,1392: Dominant Players,"When Vera Menchik entered a 1929 tournament, a male competitor mocked her by suggesting that a special 'Vera Menchik Club' would be created for any player who lost to her. When the tournament began, he promptly became the first member of said club, and over the years it accumulated a large and illustrious roster.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/45/dominant_players.png,20.767333984375,-21.417938232421875 1392,1393,1393: Timeghost,"'Hello, Ghostbusters?' 'ooOOoooo people born years after that movie came out are having a second chiiiild right now ooOoooOoo'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/80/timeghost.png,-7.215126991271973,0.10627929866313934 1393,1394,1394: Superm*n,"See also: Spider-Man reboot in which he can produce several inches of web, doesn't need as much chalk powder on his hands when he goes rock climbing, and occasionally feels vaguely uneasy about situations.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cd/superm_n.png,-12.722044944763184,26.572429656982422 1394,1395,1395: Power Cord,"In this situation, gzip /dev/inside to deflate, then pipe the compressed air to /dev/input to clean your keyboard. Avert your eyes when you do.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5c/power_cord.png,12.103372573852539,35.02992248535156 1395,1396,1396: Actors,Once again topping the list of tonight's hottest rising stars in Hollywood is ξ Persei!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6c/actors.png,-16.54348373413086,-21.394287109375 1396,1397,1397: Luke,Don't turn it on.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e4/luke.png,3.142069101333618,2.2121734619140625 1397,1398,1398: Snake Facts,"Biologically speaking, what we call a 'snake' is actually a human digestive tract which has escaped from its host.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0e/snake_facts.png,8.735517501831055,-12.830159187316895 1398,1399,1399: Chaos,Although the oral exam for the doctorate was just 'can you do that weird laugh?',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d2/chaos.png,24.764183044433594,-12.735902786254883 1399,1400,1400: D.B. Cooper,'Why on Earth would someone commit air piracy just to finance a terrible movie decades later?' 'People are very strange these days.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6d/d_b_cooper.png,3.4516992568969727,-4.084482669830322 1400,1401,1401: New,The nice thing about headcannnons is that it's really easy to get other people to believe in them.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0d/new.png,18.601154327392578,24.644681930541992 1401,1402,1402: Harpoons,"To motivate it to fire its harpoons hard enough, Rosetta's Philae lander has been programmed to believe it is trying to kill the comet.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/03/harpoons.png,-1.2036428451538086,-53.542659759521484 1402,1403,1403: Thesis Defense,MY RESULTS ARE A SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT ON THE STATE OF THE AAAAAAAAAAAART,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2b/thesis_defense.png,12.694096565246582,17.679033279418945 1403,1404,1404: Quantum Vacuum Virtual Plasma,"I don't understand the things you do, and you therefore may represent an interaction with the quantum vacuum virtual plasma.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/32/quantum_vacuum_virtual_plasma.png,-3.202343463897705,16.806255340576172 1404,1405,1405: Meteor,"No, only LAVA is called 'magma' while underground. Any other object underground is called 'lava'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5b/meteor.png,-6.080895900726318,43.5817756652832 1405,1406,1406: Universal Converter Box,"Comes with a 50-lb sack of gender changers, and also an add-on device with a voltage selector and a zillion circular center pin DC adapter tips so you can power any of those devices from the 90s.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e8/universal_converter_box.png,-12.76223373413086,-14.31131649017334 1406,1407,1407: Worst Hurricane,'Finding a 105-year-old who's lived in each location and asking them which hurricane they think was the worst' is left as an exercise for the reader.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/worst_hurricane.png,29.175296783447266,-30.849071502685547 1407,1408,1408: March of the Penguins,"You ARE getting older, though.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/84/march_of_the_penguins.png,17.10458755493164,37.092891693115234 1408,1409,1409: Query,SELECT * FROM GHOSTS,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/68/query.png,30.156551361083984,6.478517055511475 1409,1410,1410: California,58% of the state has gone into plaid.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8a/california.png,-6.151301860809326,-52.64623260498047 1410,1411,1411: Loop,"Ugh, today's kids are forgetting the old-fashioned art of absentmindedly reading the same half-page of a book over and over and then letting your attention wander and picking up another book.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a2/loop.png,-33.51831817626953,15.471364974975586 1411,1412,1412: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,"My upcoming album, 'Linked List', has covers of 'The Purple People Eater', the Ninja Turtles theme, 'Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini', and the Power Rangers theme, with every song played to the tune of the next.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b4/teenage_mutant_ninja_turtles.png,18.163715362548828,-22.357955932617188 1412,1413,1413: Suddenly Popular,Are Your Teens Practicing Amplexus? Learn These Six Telltale Signs!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4b/suddenly_popular.png,-13.483399391174316,-8.121451377868652 1413,1414,1414: Writing Skills,"I'd like to find a corpus of writing from children in a non-self-selected sample (e.g. handwritten letters to the president from everyone in the same teacher's 7th grade class every year)--and score the kids today versus the kids 20 years ago on various objective measures of writing quality. I've heard the idea that exposure to all this amateur peer practice is hurting us, but I'd bet on the generation that conducts the bulk of their social lives via the written word over the generation that occasionally wrote book reports and letters to grandma once a year, any day.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/01/writing_skills.png,-21.228229522705078,-29.836206436157227 1414,1415,1415: Ballooning,"Time to dance in front of Mary Jane! If I'm lucky, she'll turn out not to practice pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/45/ballooning.png,44.37551498413086,12.036255836486816 1415,1416,1416: Pixels,It's turtles all the way down.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/ff/pixels.png,12.006725311279297,-24.33293342590332 1416,1417,1417: Seven,"The days of the week are Monday, Arctic, Wellesley, Green, Electra, Synergize, and the Seventh Seal.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/51/seven.png,4.8242974281311035,6.175824165344238 1417,1418,1418: Horse,Officer suspended from horse.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/75/horse.png,10.86385440826416,-15.87502670288086 1418,1419,1419: On the Phone,"'No idea what I was thinking! Haha! But anyway, maybe we should check out what this Ba'al guy has to say.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0e/on_the_phone.png,-24.357925415039062,27.428653717041016 1419,1420,1420: Watches,"Old people used to write obnoxious thinkpieces about how people these days always wear watches and are slaves to the clock, but now they've switched to writing thinkpieces about how kids these days don't appreciate the benefits of an old-fashioned watch. My position is: The word 'thinkpiece' sounds like a word made up by someone who didn't know about the word 'brain'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1d/watches.png,-10.7865571975708,-17.924270629882812 1420,1421,1421: Future Self,Maybe I haven't been to Iceland because I'm busy dealing with YOUR crummy code.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3b/future_self.png,17.94721221923828,26.879892349243164 1421,1422,1422: My Phone is Dying,"When it explodes, it will cast off its outer layers, leaving behind nothing but a slowly fading PalmPilot, calculator, or two-way pager.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d3/my_phone_is_dying.png,28.115633010864258,16.030277252197266 1422,1423,1423: Conversation,"Later, at home: 'Dear diary: Still can't figure out what to write here...'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fc/conversation.png,-28.670358657836914,1.6918607950210571 1423,1424,1424: En Garde,"'Touch!' 'Nope, I sighed and stared at you with resignation, so I regained emotional right-of-way.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/69/en_garde.png,-18.763715744018555,-3.8804354667663574 1424,1425,1425: Tasks,"In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they'd have the problem solved by the end of the summer. Half a century later, we're still working on it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/60/tasks.png,4.202098846435547,25.638031005859375 1425,1426,1426: Reduce Your Payments,"I tried oxidizing them, but your bank uses some really weird paper and it wouldn't light.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c2/reduce_your_payments.png,-2.7100813388824463,20.330677032470703 1426,1427,1427: iOS Keyboard,"More actual results: 'Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You [are the best. The best thing ever]', 'Revenge is a dish best served [by a group of people in my room]', and 'They may take our lives, but they'll never take our [money].'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/73/ios_keyboard.png,-37.94389724731445,-6.193981647491455 1427,1428,1428: Move Fast and Break Things,"I was almost fired from a job driving the hearse in funeral processions, but then the funeral home realized how much business I was creating for them.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/move_fast_and_break_things.png,18.78170394897461,24.59282112121582 1428,1429,1429: Data,"If you want to have more fun at the expense of language pedants, try developing an hypercorrection habit.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3e/data.png,0.11157725751399994,32.012027740478516 1429,1430,1430: Proteins,"Check it out--when I tug the C-terminal tail, the binding tunnel squeezes!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8b/proteins.png,3.5462138652801514,7.303577899932861 1430,1431,1431: Marriage,"People often say that same-sex marriage now is like interracial marriage in the 60s. But in terms of public opinion, same-sex marriage now is like interracial marriage in the 90s, when it had already been legal nationwide for 30 years.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/56/marriage.png,-5.851524829864502,-51.96687316894531 1431,1432,1432: The Sake of Argument,"'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 invite the Devil, too, if you want.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3d/the_sake_of_argument.png,0.38911619782447815,7.728893280029297 1432,1433,1433: Lightsaber,"A long time in the future, in a galaxy far, far, away, astronomers in the year 2008 sight an unusual gamma-ray burst originating from somewhere far across the universe.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fe/lightsaber.png,3.1618709564208984,2.1319034099578857 1433,1434,1434: Where Do Birds Go,Water/ice has a lot of weird phases. Maybe asking 'where do birds go when it rains' is like asking 'where does Clark Kent go whenever Superman shows up?',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/30/where_do_birds_go.png,13.504865646362305,-7.104002952575684 1434,1435,1435: Presidential Alert,"When putting his kids to bed, after saying 'Goodnight', Obama has to stop himself from saying 'God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/57/presidential_alert.png,-14.851988792419434,-5.702531814575195 1435,1436,1436: Orb Hammer,"Ok, but make sure to get lots of pieces of rock, because later we'll decide to stay in a room on our regular orb and watch hammers hold themselves and hit rocks for us, and they won't bring us very many rocks.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/28/orb_hammer.png,-0.8324081897735596,7.720012664794922 1436,1437,1437: Higgs Boson,"'Can't you just use the LHC you already built to find it again?' 'We MAY have disassembled it to build a death ray.' 'Just one, though.' 'Nothing you should worry about.' 'The death isn't even very serious.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/70/higgs_boson.png,2.2392356395721436,-5.582937717437744 1437,1438,1438: Houston,"'Oh, hey Mom. No, nothing important, just at work.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/75/houston.png,-7.256921291351318,-22.596717834472656 1438,1439,1439: Rack Unit,There's also nothing in the TOSes that says you can't let a dog play baseball in the server room!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b2/rack_unit.png,7.675451278686523,21.174686431884766 1439,1440,1440: Geese,"Anyway, that's a common misconception. Geese live for a long time; all the ones we can see will probably keep flying around for billions of years before they explode.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/79/geese.png,1.0574134588241577,-10.581696510314941 1440,1441,1441: Turnabout,"Whenever I miss a shot with a sci-fi weapon, I say 'Apollo retroreflector' really fast, just in case.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/18/turnabout.png,-14.0536470413208,-14.850696563720703 1441,1442,1442: Chemistry,These are all sans-serif compounds. Serif compounds are dramatically different and usually much more reactive.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8b/chemistry.png,-0.6235478520393372,-1.1819703578948975 1442,1443,1443: Language Nerd,Not to go all sentence fragment on you.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/29/language_nerd.png,8.565812110900879,6.241827011108398 1443,1444,1444: Cloud,Cloud computing has a ways to go.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5f/cloud.png,32.628055572509766,14.798967361450195 1444,1445,1445: Efficiency,I need an extension for my research project because I spent all month trying to figure out whether learning Dvorak would help me type it faster.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1b/efficiency.png,14.554742813110352,-43.25868606567383 1445,1446,1446: Landing,[LIVE],https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ac/landingAnimated.gif,2.034069061279297,-14.893583297729492 1446,1447,1447: Meta-Analysis,Life goal #29 is to get enough of them rejected that I can publish a comparative analysis of the rejection letters.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c0/meta-analysis.png,10.021139144897461,0.1839970499277115 1447,1448,1448: Question,"The universe long dead, IsaAC surveyed the formless chaos. At last, he had arrived at an answer. 'I like you,' he declared to the void, 'but I don't LIKE like you.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/96/question.png,-4.203632831573486,2.8488669395446777 1448,1449,1449: Red Rover,"I just learned about the Slide Mountain Ocean, which I like because it's three nouns that sound like they can't possibly all refer to the same thing.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/12/red_rover.png,27.118270874023438,-31.904769897460938 1449,1450,1450: AI-Box Experiment,I'm working to bring about a superintelligent AI that will eternally torment everyone who failed to make fun of the Roko's Basilisk people.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cc/ai_box_experiment.png,8.874204635620117,-31.754356384277344 1450,1451,1451: Background Screens,"No way, we gotta rewind and cross-reference this map with the list of coordinates we saw on the other screen. This Greenland thing could be big.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/72/background_screens.png,24.613269805908203,-24.499557495117188 1451,1452,1452: Jurassic World,"Hey guys! What's eating you? Ha ha ha it's me! Oh, what fun we have.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/17/jurassic_world.png,-6.962849140167236,16.5794734954834 1452,1453,1453: fMRI,"They also showed activation in the parts of the brain associated with exposure to dubious study methodology, concern about unremoved piercings, and exasperation with fMRI techs who won't stop talking about Warped Tour.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a0/fmri.png,9.203402519226074,1.0759485960006714 1453,1454,1454: Done,"I'm sorry, but the author of this Facebook comment clearly believes you were.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b9/done.png,9.373457908630371,29.55162239074707 1454,1455,1455: Trolley Problem,"For $5 I promise not to orchestrate this situation, and for $25 I promise not to take further advantage of this ability to create incentives.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/be/trolley_problem.png,13.478346824645996,8.70504379272461 1455,1456,1456: On the Moon,"""I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on Venus and returning him safely to--"" [an aide frantically whispers in the president's ear for a moment] ""... of landing a man on Venus.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/57/on_the_moon.png,-9.652559280395508,28.15639877319336 1456,1457,1457: Feedback,"A new study finds that if you give rats a cell phone and a lever they can push to improve the signal, the rats will chew on the cell phone until it breaks and your research supervisors will start to ask some questions about your grant money.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c6/feedback.png,27.021387100219727,17.17207908630371 1457,1458,1458: Small Moon,GENERAL JAN DODONNA: An analysis of the plans provided by Princess Leia has reinvigorated the arguments of the 'artificial moonlet' and 'rogue planet-station' camps. I fear this question is fracturing the Rebellion.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6d/small_moon.png,-7.140120029449463,-23.21200180053711 1458,1459,1459: Documents,Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Untitled.doc,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0a/documents.png,5.4219255447387695,4.128401279449463 1459,1460,1460: SMFW,"wtfw it's like smho tbfh, imdb.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1b/smfw.png,13.462701797485352,39.02975082397461 1460,1461,1461: Payloads,"With a space elevator, a backyard full of solar panels could launch about 500 horses per year, and a large power plant could launch 10 horses per minute.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/72/payloads.png,-1.9952640533447266,-20.697277069091797 1461,1462,1462: Blind Trials,"Plus, you have to control for the fact that some people are into being blindfolded.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/24/blind_trials.png,12.484475135803223,2.7767882347106934 1462,1463,1463: Altitude,"""TURN OFF THE LASER GUIDE STAR"" ""WHY"" ""STAR CATS""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/58/altitude.png,-11.821370124816895,-23.046855926513672 1463,1464,1464: Santa,He probably just poops over the side of the sleigh.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/62/santa.png,12.13504409790039,12.004179000854492 1464,1465,1465: xkcd Phone 2,"Washable, though only once.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b2/xkcd_phone_2.png,30.32317543029785,13.984243392944336 1465,1466,1466: Phone Checking,'Where were you when you learned you'd won?' 'I was actually asleep; I woke up when I refreshed the webite and saw the news.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/66/phone_checking.png,28.653030395507812,14.764065742492676 1466,1467,1467: Email,My New Year's resolution for 2014-54-12/30/14 Dec:12:1420001642 is to learn these stupid time formatting strings.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c8/email.png,19.883926391601562,1.813672661781311 1467,1468,1468: Worrying,"If the breaking news is about an event at a hospital or a lab, move it all the way over to the right.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a8/worrying.png,2.0010290145874023,-45.43907928466797 1468,1469,1469: UV,"Hey, why stop at our house? We could burn down ALL these houses for the insurance money.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/35/uv.png,-7.201860427856445,18.679702758789062 1469,1470,1470: Kix,My parents sent me to several years of intensive Kix test prep.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7c/kix.png,-18.201995849609375,6.722294330596924 1470,1471,1471: Gut Fauna,"I know it seems unpleasant, but of the two ways we typically transfer them, I promise this is the one you want.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4f/gut_fauna.png,-25.89335823059082,4.75421667098999 1471,1472,1472: Geography,The place I'd least like to live is the farm in the background of those diagrams showing how tornadoes form.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7b/geography.png,27.041645050048828,-29.593231201171875 1472,1473,1473: Location Sharing,Our phones must have great angular momentum sensors because the compasses really suck.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ae/location_sharing.png,31.784109115600586,16.02121925354004 1473,1474,1474: Screws,"If you encounter a hex bolt, but you only brought screwdrivers, you can try sandwiching the head of the bolt between two parallel screwdriver shafts, squeezing the screwdrivers together with a hand at either end, then twisting. It doesn't work and it's a great way to hurt yourself, but you can try it!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6e/screws.png,-19.80455780029297,-13.419737815856934 1474,1475,1475: Technically,"""Technically that sentence started with 'well', so--"" ""Ooh, a rock with a fossil in it!""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/technically.png,-2.6963412761688232,2.074256658554077 1475,1476,1476: Ceres,"Earth clearly hasn't been inspected, since it's definitely contaminated with salmonella.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8d/ceres.png,6.21529483795166,-6.604052543640137 1476,1477,1477: Star Wars,"A long, long time (plus 40 years) ago, in a galaxy far, far away (plus a corrective factor involving the Hubble constant) ...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/96/star_wars_1.png,2.972600221633911,-9.90884017944336 1477,1478,1478: P-Values,"If all else fails, use ""significant at a p>0.05 level"" and hope no one notices.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/74/p_values.png,9.728675842285156,-3.3261382579803467 1478,1479,1479: Troubleshooting,"""Oh, you're using their Chrome APP, not their Chrome EXTENSION. They're very similar but one handles window creation differently."" is a thing I hope I can stop saying soon.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d8/troubleshooting.png,14.378008842468262,37.980247497558594 1479,1480,1480: Super Bowl,"My hobby: Pretending to miss the sarcasm when people show off their lack of interest in football by talking about 'sportsball' and acting excited to find someone else who's interested, then acting confused when they try to clarify.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f5/super_bowl.png,13.658692359924316,5.402484893798828 1480,1481,1481: API,"ACCESS LIMITS: Clients may maintain connections to the server for no more than 86,400 seconds per day. If you need additional time, you may contact IERS to file a request for up to one additional second.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1a/api.png,17.651330947875977,-0.4874924123287201 1481,1482,1482: NowPlaying,"If you click on the post, it takes you to search results for the note on various online music stores.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1c/nowplaying.png,20.65833854675293,10.329404830932617 1482,1483,1483: Quotative Like,"God was like, ""Let there be light,"" and there was light.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d2/quotative_like.png,-0.9677678346633911,16.216772079467773 1483,1484,1484: Apollo Speeches,"While our commitment to recycling initiatives has been unwavering, this is not a cost any of us should be expected to pay.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7d/apollo_speeches.png,-8.028903007507324,-20.968368530273438 1484,1485,1485: Friendship,"The only other Wikipedia vandalism that I would feel zero remorse about is editing the article on active US militia groups to replace ""militia"" with ""fanclub"".",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d3/friendship.png,13.658018112182617,-8.975629806518555 1485,1486,1486: Vacuum,"Do you think you could actually clean the living room at some point, though?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/78/vacuum.png,-10.410483360290527,8.70228099822998 1486,1487,1487: Tornado,"Nearby, there were also no injuries when a multi-vortex tornado hit one of those spinning teacup rides.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d0/tornado.png,-12.565665245056152,6.1672258377075195 1487,1488,1488: Flowcharts,"Whoa, and if you overlay a Fibonacci spiral on a golden spiral it matches up almost perfectly!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c6/flowcharts.png,4.450868129730225,-48.28818893432617 1488,1489,1489: Fundamental Forces,"""Of these four forces, there's one we don't really understand."" ""Is it the weak force or the strong--"" ""It's gravity.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3b/fundamental_forces.png,-13.484613418579102,7.689088821411133 1489,1490,1490: Atoms,When I was little I had trouble telling my dad apart from the dog. I always recognized my mom because she had a bunch of extra plutoniums in her middle. I never did ask her why...,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/60/atoms.png,-3.3479197025299072,16.588703155517578 1490,1491,1491: Stories of the Past and Future,Little-known fact: The 'Dawn of Man' opening sequence in 2001 cuts away seconds before the Flintstones theme becomes recognizable.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c9/stories_of_the_past_and_future.png,2.639918088912964,-10.389766693115234 1491,1492,1492: Dress Color,"This white-balance illusion hit so hard because it felt like someone had been playing through the Monty Hall scenario and opened their chosen door, only to find there was unexpectedly disagreement over whether the thing they'd revealed was a goat or a car.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3f/dress_color.png,-22.422521591186523,-20.98596954345703 1492,1493,1493: Meeting,"Here at CompanyName.website, our three main strengths are our web-facing chairs, our huge collection of white papers, and the fact that we physically cannot die.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3b/meeting.png,-22.778682708740234,-16.70040512084961 1493,1494,1494: Insurance,LIFEHACKS: You can just take all the luggage off the airport conveyer belt and leave with it. They don't check that it's yours at the door!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9d/insurance.png,-7.188487529754639,29.76774024963379 1494,1495,1495: Hard Reboot,"Googling inevitably reveals that my problem is caused by a known bug triggered by doing [the exact combination of things I want to do]. I can fix it, or wait a few years until I don't want that combination of things anymore, using the kitchen timer until then.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1a/hard_reboot.png,10.444511413574219,-18.11479377746582 1495,1496,1496: Art Project,"It's my most ambitious project yet, judging by the amount of guacamole.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/df/art_project.png,19.902835845947266,16.180870056152344 1496,1497,1497: New Products,"If you ever hear ""Wait, is that Kim Dotcom's new project? I'm really excited about it and already signed up, although I'm a little nervous about whether everyone should hand over control of their medical..."", it's time to dig a bunker in your backyard.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9f/new_products.png,3.055300712585449,-5.633662700653076 1497,1498,1498: Terry Pratchett,Thank you for teaching us how big our world is by sharing so many of your own.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a3/terry_pratchett.png,31.589757919311523,31.426029205322266 1498,1499,1499: Arbitrage,The invisible hand of the market never texts me back.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/34/arbitrage.png,-27.020612716674805,7.020662784576416 1499,1500,1500: Upside-Down Map,"Due to their proximity across the channel, there's long been tension between North Korea and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Southern Ireland.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fb/upside_down_map.png,29.851879119873047,-33.50374984741211 1500,1501,1501: Mysteries,"At the bottom left: The mystery of why, when I know I needed to be asleep an hour ago, I decide it's a good time to read through every Wikipedia article in the categories 'Out-of-place artifacts', 'Earth mysteries', 'Anomalous weather', and 'List of people who disappeared mysteriously'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d8/mysteries.png,2.13810658454895,-44.35454177856445 1501,1502,1502: Wasted Time,"Since it sounds like your time spent typing can't possibly be less productive than your time spent not typing, have you tried typing SLOWER?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b3/wasted_time.png,-5.193534851074219,13.288911819458008 1502,1503,1503: Squirrel Plan,[Halfway to the Sun ...] Heyyyy ... what if this BALLOON is full of acorns?!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/52/squirrel_plan.png,-5.5157294273376465,-21.468236923217773 1503,1504,1504: Opportunity,"We all remember those famous first words spoken by an astronaut on the surface of Mars: ""That's one small step fo- HOLY SHIT LOOK OUT IT'S GOT SOME KIND OF DRILL! Get back to the ... [unintelligible] ... [signal lost]""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b6/opportunity.png,2.0681850910186768,-13.238021850585938 1504,1505,1505: Ontological Argument,A God who holds the world record for eating the most skateboards is greater than a God who does not hold that record.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bb/ontological_argument.png,-1.1946957111358643,23.23624038696289 1505,1506,1506: xkcloud,,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e5/xkcloud.png,14.75517463684082,-13.653533935546875 1506,1507,1507: Metaball,"Shoot, it landed in the golf course. Gonna be hard to get it down the--oh, never mind, it rolled onto the ice hazard. Face-off!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/aa/metaball.png,-1.6411089897155762,-10.440130233764648 1507,1508,1508: Operating Systems,"One of the survivors, poking around in the ruins with the point of a spear, uncovers a singed photo of Richard Stallman. They stare in silence. ""This,"" one of them finally says, ""This is a man who BELIEVED in something.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7f/operating_systems.png,7.9120965003967285,-14.850926399230957 1508,1509,1509: Scenery Cheat Sheet,"At the boundary between each zone, stories blend together. Somewhere in the New Mexico desert, the Roadrunner is pursued by a tireless Anton Chigurh.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/66/scenery_cheat_sheet.png,28.404264450073242,-34.79612731933594 1509,1510,1510: Napoleon,"""Mr. President, what if the unthinkable happens? What if the launch goes wrong, and Napoleon is not stranded on the moon?"" ""Have Safire write up a speech.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/18/napoleon.png,-7.669994831085205,-8.247666358947754 1510,1511,1511: Spice Girl,"Haha, you'll see!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d8/spice_girl.png,-20.296533584594727,19.961029052734375 1511,1512,1512: Horoscopes,"If you live in the Northern hemisphere, anyway. In the southern hemisphere, due to the coriolis effect, babies are born nine months BEFORE they're conceived.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6a/horoscopes.png,32.46243667602539,-5.389188766479492 1512,1513,1513: Code Quality,I honestly didn't think you could even USE emoji in variable names. Or that there were so many different crying ones.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c6/code_quality.png,11.11103630065918,18.93821907043457 1513,1514,1514: PermaCal,"The flood of PermaCalNTP leap-second notifications was bad enough, but when people started asking for millisecond resolution, the resulting DDOS brought down the internet.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6b/permacal.png,33.450767517089844,-11.570737838745117 1514,1515,1515: Basketball Earth,How many points do you get for dunking every basketball in existence at once?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1b/basketball_earth.png,-3.29748272895813,-24.490459442138672 1515,1516,1516: Win by Induction,"This would be bad enough, but every 30th or 40th pokéball has TWO of them inside.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a9/win_by_induction.png,-13.49724006652832,3.3959689140319824 1516,1517,1517: Spectroscopy,"Although right now I'm more excited about ESPRESSO's radial velocity measurements, so I'm listening to This Kiss, her song about measuring ""centrifugal motion"" on ""a rooftop under the sky"".",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2b/spectroscopy.png,13.626578330993652,-35.6494026184082 1517,1518,1518: Typical Morning Routine,"Hang on, I've heard this problem. We need to pour water into the duct until the phone floats up and ... wait, phones sink in water. Mercury. We need a vat of mercury to pour down the vent. That will definitely make this situation better and not worse.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/08/typical_morning_routine.png,3.467707633972168,-20.587657928466797 1518,1519,1519: Venus,"The sudden introduction of Venusian flowers led to an explosive growth of unusual Earth pollinators, which became known as the ""butterfly effect.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/06/venus.png,-9.521223068237305,-21.71638298034668 1519,1520,1520: Degree-Off,"I'M SORRY, FROM YOUR YEARS OF CONDESCENDING TOWARD THE 'SQUISHY SCIENCES', I ASSUMED YOU'D BE A LITTLE HARDER.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6e/degree_off.png,-1.4660152196884155,-48.709075927734375 1520,1521,1521: Sword in the Stone,That seems like an awful lot of hassle when all I wanted was a cool sword.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/ff/sword_in_the_stone.png,-0.5218728184700012,31.36406707763672 1521,1522,1522: Astronomy,Astrobiology is held back by the fact that we're all too nervous to try to balance on the ladder while holding an expensive microscope.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1f/astronomy.png,-15.732161521911621,-21.453962326049805 1522,1523,1523: Microdrones,"Oh, weird, Amazon is out of butterfly nets.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/microdrones.png,12.660648345947266,37.20756149291992 1523,1524,1524: Dimensions,I would say time is definitely one of my top three favorite dimensions.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/86/dimensions.png,32.425106048583984,29.312349319458008 1524,1525,1525: Emojic 8 Ball,,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e0/emojic_8_ball.png,14.796286582946777,-21.199899673461914 1525,1526,1526: Placebo Blocker,"They work even better if you take them with our experimental placebo booster, which I keep in the same bottle.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a8/placebo_blocker.png,-9.977008819580078,10.2262601852417 1526,1527,1527: Humans,"At this point, if we're going to keep insisting on portraying dinosaurs as featherless because it's ""cooler"", it's time to apply that same logic to art involving bald eagles.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/28/humans.png,7.2894415855407715,4.482851982116699 1527,1528,1528: Vodka,"Or whatever's handy! I'm pretty much pure alcohol and water, so it doesn't really matter!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8c/vodka.png,-27.608049392700195,5.2254743576049805 1528,1529,1529: Bracket,"I'm staring at the ""doctor"" section, and I can't help but feel like I've forgotten someone.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8d/bracket.png,-3.9426705837249756,-6.187005519866943 1529,1530,1530: Keyboard Mash,WHY DON'T YOU COME HANG OUT INSIDE MY HOUSE. WE CAN COOK BREAD AND CHAT ABOUT OUR INTERNAL SKELETONS.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f7/keyboard_mash.png,13.906991958618164,32.570716857910156 1530,1531,1531: The BDLPSWDKS Effect,This well-known effect has of course been replicated in countless experiments.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f3/the_bdlpswdks_effect.png,8.94875717163086,6.984948635101318 1531,1532,1532: New Horizons,Last-minute course change: Let's see if we can hit Steve's house.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/new_horizons.png,-1.637429118156433,-12.93702220916748 1532,1533,1533: Antique Factory,WARNING: This item was aged by the same inexorable passage of time that also processes nuts.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/73/antique_factory.png,-28.921337127685547,8.699850082397461 1533,1534,1534: Beer,"Mmmm, this is such a positive experience! I feel no social pressure to enjoy it at all!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/62/beer.png,-25.436317443847656,1.444868803024292 1534,1535,1535: Words for Pets,"Seventh year: Perfectly coherent words, but in the pet's language, not mine.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/ff/words_for_pets.png,-1.7130684852600098,-35.24159240722656 1535,1536,1536: The Martian,I have never seen a work of fiction so perfectly capture the out-of-nowhere shock of discovering that you've just bricked something important because you didn't pay enough attention to a loose wire.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/61/the_martian.png,-26.643238067626953,17.939176559448242 1536,1537,1537: Types,"colors.rgb(""blue"") yields ""#0000FF"". colors.rgb(""yellowish blue"") yields NaN. colors.sort() yields ""rainbow""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e7/types.png,14.298138618469238,-17.844482421875 1537,1538,1538: Lyrics,"To me, trying to understand song lyrics feels like when I see text in a dream but it𝔰 hอᵣd t₀ ᵣeₐd aกd 𝒾 canٖt fཱྀcu༧༦࿐༄",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/52/lyrics.png,-33.911033630371094,8.71826457977295 1538,1539,1539: Planning,"[10 years later] Man, why are people so comfortable handing Google and Facebook control over our nuclear weapons?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d3/planning.png,16.43229103088379,5.898279666900635 1539,1540,1540: Hemingway,"Instead of bobcat, package contained chair.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1e/hemingway.png,1.4552782773971558,-2.3974099159240723 1540,1541,1541: Voice,"Anyway, we should totally go watch a video story or put some food in our normal mouths!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e8/voice.png,-22.223526000976562,26.566509246826172 1541,1542,1542: Scheduling Conflict,Neither a spokesperson for the organization nor the current world champion could be reached for comment.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/53/scheduling_conflict.png,11.750426292419434,-13.110648155212402 1542,1543,1543: Team Effort,"Given the role they play in every process in my body, really, they deserve this award more than me. Just gotta figure out how to give it to them. Maybe I can cut it into pieces to make it easier to swallow...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/10/team_effort.png,-6.192445278167725,44.66844940185547 1543,1544,1544: Margaret,"Otherwise known as Margaret the Destroyer, I will bring pain to the Great One. Then again, maybe I won't.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7d/margaret.png,-7.435583591461182,-4.688266754150391 1544,1545,1545: Strengths and Weaknesses,"Do you need me to do a quicksort on the whiteboard or produce a generation of offspring or something? It might take me a bit, but I can do it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/30/strengths_and_weaknesses.png,15.989378929138184,18.91130256652832 1545,1546,1546: Tamagotchi Hive,"The Singularity happened, but not to us.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1d/tamagotchi_hive.png,-8.559048652648926,-47.088111877441406 1546,1547,1547: Solar System Questions,"My country's World Cup win was exciting and all, but c'mon, what if the players wore nylon wings and COULD LITERALLY FLY?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f7/solar_system_questions.png,-8.309175491333008,-25.839677810668945 1547,1548,1548: 90s Kid,"We remember Rugrats, and think of them every time our kids look at us through their baby gates.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3e/90s_kid.png,-20.370773315429688,7.124359130859375 1548,1549,1549: xkcd Phone 3,"If you're not completely satisfied with the phone after 30 days, we will return you to your home at no cost.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/13/xkcd_phone_3.png,30.439916610717773,14.119329452514648 1549,1550,1550: Episode VII,"The Lord of the Rings sequel, set years after the Ring hubbub has died down, is just Samwise discreetly creeping back to Bag End to finish dropping the eaves.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/93/episode_vii.png,-15.983267784118652,24.675159454345703 1550,1551,1551: Pluto,"After decades of increasingly confused arguing, Pluto is reclassified as a ""dwarf Pluto.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/50/pluto.png,0.5332635045051575,-14.255627632141113 1551,1552,1552: Rulebook,"It's definitely an intentional foul, but we've decided it's worth it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6c/rulebook.png,-17.705936431884766,5.3659234046936035 1552,1553,1553: Public Key,"I guess I should be signing stuff, but I've never been sure what to sign. Maybe if I post my private key, I can crowdsource my decisions about what to sign.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3b/public_key.png,23.10386848449707,6.800144672393799 1553,1554,1554: Spice Girls,"The Earth's five major mass extinctions were the Posh Extinction, the Sporty Extinction, the Scary Extinction, the Ginger Extinction, and the Baby Extinction.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/38/spice_girls.png,-2.160348892211914,-2.2642977237701416 1554,1555,1555: Exoplanet Names 2,I'm going to drive this Netherlands joke so far into the ground they'll have to build levees around it to keep the sea out.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fd/exoplanet_names_2.png,-10.775869369506836,-26.774377822875977 1555,1556,1556: The Sky,"The other half has some cool shipwrecks, rocks, and snakes, but if you move those out of the way, it also has more sky.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/39/the_sky.png,16.410911560058594,-36.84965515136719 1556,1557,1557: Ozymandias,"And on the pedestal these words appear: ""And on the pedestal these words appear: ""And on the pedestal these words appear: ""And...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c2/ozymandias.png,7.941891670227051,6.196330547332764 1557,1558,1558: Vet,"It's probably for the best. Since Roombas are native to North America, it's illegal for Americans to keep them in their houses under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/20/vet.png,-11.648750305175781,4.678950309753418 1558,1559,1559: Driving,"Sadly, it probably won't even have enough gas to make it to the first border crossing.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7d/driving.png,-36.375511169433594,-18.720407485961914 1559,1560,1560: Bubblegum,I came here to chew bubblegum and say no more than eighteen words... and I'm all out of,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/95/bubblegum.png,-7.60596227645874,41.71241760253906 1560,1561,1561: Water Phase Diagram,"Vanilla Ice was produced in small quantities for years, but it wasn't until the 90s that experimenters collaborated to produce a sample that could survive at room temperature for several months.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/water_phase_diagram.png,1.3303625583648682,-50.021446228027344 1561,1562,1562: I in Team,"There's no ""I"" in ""VOWELS"".",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a8/i_in_team.png,11.853704452514648,6.013005256652832 1562,1563,1563: Synonym Movies,"Fans eagerly await 2015's 'Space Fights: Power Gets Up', although most think 1999's 'Space Fights: The Scary Ghost' didn't live up to the hype.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b1/synonym_movies.png,-17.65959930419922,-5.45598840713501 1563,1564,1564: Every Seven Seconds,"Every few months, I think about sex every seven seconds and how weird and implausible it would be.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a8/every_seven_seconds.png,7.446995735168457,14.707858085632324 1564,1565,1565: Back Seat,"Hang on, let me scare the live raccoon over to the same side as the dead one.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/17/back_seat.png,-33.40485763549805,-16.528181076049805 1565,1566,1566: Board Game,"Yes, it took a lot of work to make the cards and pieces, but it's worth it--the players are way more thorough than the tax prep people ever were.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ec/board_game.png,36.891151428222656,-2.0549168586730957 1566,1567,1567: Kitchen Tips,"Household tip: Tired of buying so much toilet paper? Try unspooling the paper from the roll before using it. A single roll can last for multiple days that way, and it's much easier on your plumbing.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/44/kitchen_tips.png,-22.930986404418945,3.2161648273468018 1567,1568,1568: Synonym Movies 2,"There's also the TV show based on the hit Hot and Cold Music books: Fun With Chairs, Royal Rumble, Knife Blizzard, Breakfast for Birds, and Samba Serpents.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/28/synonym_movies_2.png,-17.49927520751953,-5.526126384735107 1568,1569,1569: Magic Tree,"Since people rarely try to cut down cell phone towers, after millions of years, as cell phone towers have gotten more treelike, trees have started growing fake cell phone tower attachments and shiny gray bark to protect themselves. This is a standard textbook example of convergent evolution.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/03/magic_tree.png,31.974857330322266,26.03951644897461 1569,1570,1570: Engineer Syllogism,"The less common, even worse outcome: ""3: [everyone in the financial system] WOW, where did all my money just go?""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/92/engineer_syllogism.png,24.855451583862305,34.34309005737305 1570,1571,1571: Car Model Names,"CLIMAX is good, but SEXCLIMAX is even better.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ec/car_model_names.png,-33.038822174072266,-19.120946884155273 1571,1572,1572: xkcd Survey,The xkcd Survey: Big Data for a Big Planet,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/26/xkcd_survey.png,15.111723899841309,-11.847718238830566 1572,1573,1573: Cyberintelligence,"We had gathered that raw information, but had yet to put it all together.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/94/cyberintelligence.png,23.896984100341797,-17.90415382385254 1573,1574,1574: Trouble for Science,Careful mathematical analysis demonstrates small-scale irregularities in Gaussian distribution,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/44/trouble_for_science.png,10.134937286376953,-0.39976420998573303 1574,1575,1575: Footprints,"""There's one set of foot-p's cause I was totes carrying you, bro!"" said Jesus seconds before I punched him.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/77/footprints.png,2.1578872203826904,-51.25355911254883 1575,1576,1576: I Could Care Less,I literally could care less.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/ba/i_could_care_less.png,11.031476020812988,14.36676025390625 1576,1577,1577: Advent,The few dozen doors that have little Christmas trees on them are a nice touch.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a8/advent.png,33.835697174072266,26.648468017578125 1577,1578,1578: Squirrelphone,"After a while, the squirrel starts making that beeping noise and doesn't stop until it hops back up onto the stump.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4a/squirrelphone.png,-12.387883186340332,7.503666877746582 1578,1579,1579: Tech Loops,"And when I think about it, a lot of ""things I want to do"" are just learning about and discussing new tools for tinkering with the chain.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2b/tech_loops.png,7.747959613800049,-43.15296173095703 1579,1580,1580: Travel Ghost,And a different ghost has replaced me in the bedroom.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/16/travel_ghosts.png,-18.00576400756836,10.630184173583984 1580,1581,1581: Birthday,"I guess I need to apologize to my parents, friends, and the staff at Chuck E. Cheese's for all the times I called the cops on them.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/23/birthday.png,-12.685263633728027,34.54396057128906 1581,1582,1582: Picture a Grassy Field,"Wait, I can fix this. Picture another field. In the middle sits the only creature the first creature is afraid of. Now just-- wait, where did THAT one go?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/86/picture_a_grassy_field.png,-11.09259033203125,17.311925888061523 1582,1583,1583: NASA Press Conference,Why are we spending billions to ruin Mars with swarms of robots when Elon Musk has promised to ruin Mars for a FRACTION of the cost?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/de/nasa_press_conference.png,22.39069938659668,3.368436813354492 1583,1584,1584: Moments of Inspiration,"Charles, I just talked to John and Mildred, who run that company selling seeds and nuts, and their kids with MOUTHS are starving!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c1/moments_of_inspiration.png,-8.25595474243164,-7.621329307556152 1584,1585,1585: Similarities,"I just came from The Martian, and I just have to say: Forget BB-8; I want a pet Sojourner! It's always been the cutest of our Mars rovers.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/41/similarities.png,-30.737363815307617,14.428131103515625 1585,1586,1586: Keyboard Problems,"In the future, a group of resistance fighters send me back in time with instructions to find the Skynet prototype and try to upgrade it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/52/keyboard_problems.png,5.3721604347229,35.51929473876953 1586,1587,1587: Food Rule,"I won't eat invertebrates, because I can fight a skeleton, but I have no idea what kind of spooky warrior a squid leaves behind.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2e/food_rule.png,-20.177953720092773,1.94500732421875 1587,1588,1588: Hardware Reductionism,My MRI research shows a clear correlation between the size of the parietal lobe--the part of the brain that handles spatial reasoning--and enjoyment of 3D Doritos®.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fe/hardware_reductionism.png,22.568422317504883,17.355411529541016 1588,1589,1589: Frankenstein,"""Wait, so in this version is Frankenstein also the doctor's name?"" ""No, he's just 'The Doctor'.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/46/frankenstein.png,-12.157554626464844,-10.904635429382324 1589,1590,1590: The Source,Why did we even have that thing?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bd/the_source.png,-8.581079483032227,17.833450317382812 1590,1591,1591: Bell's Theorem,The no-communication theorem states that no communication about the no-communication theorem can clear up the misunderstanding quickly enough to allow faster-than-light signaling.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/79/bells_theorem.png,2.5672616958618164,-27.979686737060547 1591,1592,1592: Overthinking,"On the other hand, it took us embarrassingly long to clue in to the lung cancer/cigarette thing, so I guess the real lesson is ""figuring out which ideas are true is hard.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0d/overthinking.png,-3.3702733516693115,21.605310440063477 1592,1593,1593: Play-By-Play,"The thrower started hitting the bats too much, so the king of the game told him to leave and brought out another thrower from thrower jail.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/ff/play_by_play.png,40.01712417602539,1.9759546518325806 1593,1594,1594: Human Subjects,"After meeting with a few of the subjects, the IRB actually recommended that you stop stressing out so much about safety guidelines.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5a/human_subjects.png,10.105985641479492,0.9495947360992432 1594,1595,1595: 30 Days Hath September,"There's a cool mental calculation hack I recently learned for this: If you open the calendar app on your phone or computer, the highest-numbered box along the bottom is equal to the number of days in the month!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1d/30_days_hath_september.png,32.922996520996094,-11.265238761901855 1595,1596,1596: Launch Status Check,Visual checks suggest the cool bird has exited the launch zone. Tip the rocket sideways and resume the countdown--we're gonna go find it!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/45/launch_status_check.png,-23.16946029663086,26.306612014770508 1596,1597,1597: Git,"If that doesn't fix it, git.txt contains the phone number of a friend of mine who understands git. Just wait through a few minutes of 'It's really pretty simple, just think of branches as...' and eventually you'll learn the commands that will fix everything.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4d/git.png,27.346120834350586,-3.882835626602173 1597,1598,1598: Salvage,"My hobby: Taking advantage of the rice myth by posting articles on ""how to save your wet phone"" which are actually just elaborate recipes for rice pilaf.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/55/salvage.png,2.6878514289855957,-18.5323429107666 1598,1599,1599: Water Delivery,"When I was a kid, I asked my parents why our houses didn't have toothpaste pipes in addition to water ones. I'm strangely pleased to see Amazon thinking the same way.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/95/water_delivery.png,7.741312503814697,-37.005611419677734 1599,1600,1600: MarketWatch,Markets have been rocked by a second day of uncertainty after someone set up a giant Ouija board on the NYSE wall controlled collectively by the movement of the stock tickers.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5d/marketwatch.png,25.11266326904297,1.0170167684555054 1600,1601,1601: Isolation,"2060: The gregarious superintelligent AI, happily talking its way out of a box, is fast becoming a relic of the past. Today's quantum hyper-beings are too busy with their internal multiverse sims to even notice that they're in boxes at all!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f9/isolation.png,-27.40387535095215,11.093626022338867 1601,1602,1602: Linguistics Club,"If that's too easy, you could try joining Tautology Club, which meets on the date of the Tautology Club meeting.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/27/linguistics_club.png,-14.059019088745117,16.996225357055664 1602,1603,1603: Flashlights,"Due to a typo, I initially found a forum for serious Fleshlight enthusiasts, and it turns out their highest-end models are ALSO capable of setting trees on fire. They're impossible to use without severe burns, but some of them swear it's worth it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d6/flashlights.png,-20.507640838623047,-1.9228442907333374 1603,1604,1604: Snakes,The last band of color indicates the snake's tolerance for being held before biting.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/05/snakes.png,20.284677505493164,-28.110960006713867 1604,1605,1605: DNA,"Researchers just found the gene responsible for mistakenly thinking we've found the gene for specific things. It's the region between the start and the end of every chromosome, plus a few segments in our mitochondria.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e8/dna.png,14.188274383544922,41.14482879638672 1605,1606,1606: Five-Day Forecast,"You know what they say--if you don't like the weather here in the Solar System, just wait five billion years.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/28/five_day_forecast.png,15.405351638793945,-36.01438522338867 1606,1607,1607: Supreme Court,"Writing for the majority, Justice Kennedy called the man's arguments that he could be either Alito or Ginsburg ""surprisingly compelling, but ultimately unconvincing.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/60/supreme_court.png,25.98255157470703,0.6098151803016663 1607,1608,1608: Hoverboard,,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/41/hoverboard.png,11.875068664550781,-18.88710594177246 1608,1609,1609: Food Combinations,"If anyone tries this on you, the best reply is a deadpan ""Oh yeah, that's a common potato chip flavor in Canada.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b3/food_combinations.png,-20.958341598510742,10.537610054016113 1609,1610,1610: Fire Ants,"Here in the entomology department, we have a simple two-step formula for answering any question: (1) ants are cool, and (2) we forgot the question because we were thinking about ants.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bd/fire_ants.png,5.156299591064453,13.13963508605957 1610,1611,1611: Baking Soda and Vinegar,"Sure, it may not meet science fair standards, but I want credit for getting my baking soda and vinegar mountain added to the Decade Volcanoes list.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/be/baking_soda_and_vinegar.png,2.525893449783325,-24.026954650878906 1611,1612,1612: Colds,"The contagious period ends right around when you start to sound sick over the phone, which is probably evidence of cold viruses evolving to spread optimally in the workplace.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/98/colds.png,3.1974196434020996,-52.828243255615234 1612,1613,1613: The Three Laws of Robotics,"In ordering #5, self-driving cars will happily drive you around, but if you tell them to drive to a car dealership, they just lock the doors and politely ask how long humans take to starve to death.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a8/the_three_laws_of_robotics.png,4.827369689941406,-22.15125274658203 1613,1614,1614: Kites,[Dog returns with the end of a string in its mouth] [Voice drifts down from the sky] Kites are fun!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/40/kites.png,9.475119590759277,-27.220943450927734 1614,1615,1615: Red Car,That guy only drives an alkaline car to overcompensate for his highly acidic penis.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/78/red_car.png,-34.82291793823242,-20.983457565307617 1615,1616,1616: Lunch,"I'm trying to be healthier, so after I eat this brick of cheese, I'll have a spoonful of grease-soaked vegetables.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/33/lunch.png,-4.816780090332031,40.87099075317383 1616,1617,1617: Time Capsule,"Oh no, I changed the future and now I'm disappearing! Wait, never mind, it was just my hat slipping down over my eyes.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2d/time_capsule.png,-37.076744079589844,0.28920018672943115 1617,1618,1618: Cold Medicine,Seriously considering buying some illegal drugs to try to turn them back into cold medicine.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4a/cold_medicine.png,-11.158658027648926,7.714418888092041 1618,1619,1619: Watson Medical Algorithm,"Due to a minor glitch, 'discharge patient' does not cause the algorithm to exit, but instead leads back to 'hunt down and capture patient'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/15/watson_medical_algorithm.png,17.316612243652344,-4.250821113586426 1619,1620,1620: Christmas Settings,SOUND DOGS MAKE: [BARKING] [HISSING] [LIGHTSABER NOISES] [FLUENT ENGLISH] [SWEARING],https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/73/christmas_settings.png,4.161717414855957,-34.704551696777344 1620,1621,1621: Fixion,"My theory predicts that, at high enough energies, FRBs and perytons become indistinguishable because the detector burns out.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ee/fixion.png,6.262856483459473,-37.61173629760742 1621,1622,1622: Henge,"I've got the Craigslist post ready to go! I wasn't sure what category it should go in, so I listed it as property and put that it has 'good sun exposure.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/63/henge.png,0.5164735913276672,18.5312442779541 1622,1623,1623: 2016 Conversation Guide,The real loser in an argument about the meaning of the word 'hoverboard' is anyone who leaves that argument on foot.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/53/2016_conversation_guide.png,-26.507553100585938,-26.44780921936035 1623,1624,1624: 2016,Want to feel old? Wait.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1c/2016.png,-13.975321769714355,-2.358083486557007 1624,1625,1625: Substitutions 2,"Within a few minutes, our roads will be full of uncontrollably-swerving cars and our skies full of Amazon delivery dogs.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/28/substitutions_2.png,-26.150856018066406,-25.458850860595703 1625,1626,1626: Judgment Day,"It took a lot of booster rockets, but luckily Amazon had recently built thousands of them to bring Amazon Prime same-day delivery to the Moon colony.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/96/judgment_day.png,-7.895537853240967,-21.518884658813477 1626,1627,1627: Woosh,"It also occasionally replies with 'Comment of the year', 'Are you for real', and 'I'm taking a screenshot so I can remember this moment forever'.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2c/woosh.png,12.029688835144043,-12.459245681762695 1627,1628,1628: Magnus,"In the latest round, 9-year-old Muhammad Ali beat 10-year-old JFK at air hockey, while Secretariat lost the hot-dog-eating crown to 12-year-old Ken Jennings. Meanwhile, in a huge upset, 11-year-old Martha Stewart knocked out the adult Ronda Rousey.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/10/magnus.png,-18.213289260864258,10.109135627746582 1628,1629,1629: Tools,I make tools for managing job-hunting sites for people who make tools for managing job-hunting sites for people who make tools for...,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/72/tools.png,1.0140948295593262,3.560089111328125 1629,1630,1630: Quadcopter,I always have to turn off nature documentaries when they show these scenes.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/19/quadcopter.png,5.614630222320557,-26.849164962768555 1630,1631,1631: Longer Than Usual,"'--> [ Well, this is embarrassing. ] <--'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/64/longer_than_usual.png,0.08614882081747055,-40.212833404541016 1631,1632,1632: Palindrome,"I hope that somewhere in the world, ""Panamax"" is the last option on a ""size"" drop-down menu on a sex toy site.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bb/palindrome.png,-1.4846632480621338,23.47928810119629 1632,1633,1633: Possible Undiscovered Planets,"Superman lies near the bird/plane boundary over a range of distances, which explains the confusion.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/aa/possible_undiscovered_planets.png,-7.503170490264893,-29.744657516479492 1633,1634,1634: In Case of Emergency,"I keep first aid kits in those emergency lockers. Sure, it's expensive to have them installed in the wall, but at least for those ones there's no need to pay extra for safety glass.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/ba/in_case_of_emergency.png,-12.7318696975708,-13.593947410583496 1634,1635,1635: Birdsong,"Maybe if I put it in a box for a while with a speaker playing some pleasant pastoral music, I can reprogram it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/21/birdsong.png,-39.4654655456543,5.224017143249512 1635,1636,1636: XKCD Stack,This site requires Sun Java 6.0.0.1 (32-bit) or higher. You have Macromedia Java 7.3.8.1¾ (48-bit). Click here [link to java.com main page] to download an installer which will run fine but not really change anything.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/xkcd_stack.png,16.793960571289062,-4.661797046661377 1636,1637,1637: Salt Mine,This one is a little bland. Pass the saltshaker?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1d/salt_mine.png,-10.015243530273438,-9.382502555847168 1637,1638,1638: Backslashes,"I searched my .bash_history for the line with the highest ratio of special characters to regular alphanumeric characters, and the winner was: cat out.txt | grep -o ""[[(].*[])][^)]]*$"" ... I have no memory of this and no idea what I was trying to do, but I sure hope it worked.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/14/backslashes.png,19.4149169921875,-15.61252498626709 1638,1639,1639: To Taste,"Look, recipe, if I knew how much was gonna taste good, I wouldn't need you.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2e/to_taste.png,-14.990572929382324,13.426233291625977 1639,1640,1640: Super Bowl Context,Why did the chicken cross the road? It begins over five thousand years ago with the domestication of the red junglefowl in southeast Asia and the development of paved roads in the Sumerian city of Ur.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/39/super_bowl_context.png,-3.838864803314209,22.162769317626953 1640,1641,1641: Hot Dogs,"Okay, I'm just gonna order pizza, and let's never talk about this again.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6c/hot_dogs.png,-0.25950971245765686,10.746703147888184 1641,1642,1642: Gravitational Waves,"""That last LinkedIn request set a new record for the most energetic physical event ever observed. Maybe we should respond."" ""Nah.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3a/gravitational_waves.png,8.713300704956055,25.51576042175293 1642,1643,1643: Degrees,"""Radians Fahrenheit or radians Celsius?"" ""Uh, sorry, gotta go!""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ec/degrees.png,-29.925186157226562,31.06220245361328 1643,1644,1644: Stargazing,"Some of you may be thinking, 'But wait, isn't the brightest star in our sky the Sun?' I think that's a great question and you should totally ask it. On the infinite tree of possible conversations spread out before us, I think that's definitely the most promising branch.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/48/stargazing.png,-13.946589469909668,-21.854169845581055 1644,1645,1645: Toasts,Platonic solids for my real friends and real solids for my platonic friends!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8f/toasts.png,-4.699612617492676,40.38530731201172 1645,1646,1646: Twitter Bot,PYTHON FLAG ENABLE THREE LAWS,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b2/twitter_bot.png,15.19235610961914,34.17277908325195 1646,1647,1647: Diacritics,Using diacritics correctly is not my forté.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f6/diacritics.png,9.842612266540527,31.391685485839844 1647,1648,1648: Famous Duos,The Romeo and Butt-Head film actually got two thumbs up from Siskel and Oates.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0d/famous_duos.png,-5.205114364624023,-2.393430709838867 1648,1649,1649: Pipelines,"In the future, every single pipeline will lead to the bowl of a giant blender, and we'll all just show up with a bucket each day to take our share of the resulting smoothie.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ec/pipelines.png,14.239055633544922,-31.705245971679688 1649,1650,1650: Baby,"Does it get taller first and then widen, or does it reach full width before getting taller, or alternate, or what?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ef/baby.png,6.4440507888793945,15.260162353515625 1650,1651,1651: Robotic Garage,"But listen, if getting your car out from under the pile is REALLY important to you, we do have an axe you can borrow.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ab/robotic_garage.png,-36.18854522705078,-16.71041488647461 1651,1652,1652: Conditionals,"'If you're done being pedantic, we should get dinner.' 'You did it again!' 'No, I didn't.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/33/conditionals.png,-13.508230209350586,49.76300048828125 1652,1653,1653: United States Map,"It would be pretty unfair to give to someone a blank version of this map as a 'how many states can you name?' quiz. (If you include Alaska and Hawaii, you should swap the Aleutian Islands with the Hawaiian ones.)",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b5/united_states_map.png,30.642074584960938,-33.82896041870117 1653,1654,1654: Universal Install Script,"The failures usually don't hurt anything, and if it installs several versions, it increases the chance that one of them is right. (Note: The 'yes' command and '2>/dev/null' are recommended additions.)",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/49/universal_install_script.png,15.270869255065918,-2.7194790840148926 1654,1655,1655: Doomsday Clock,"After a power outage at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the new Digital Doomsday Clock is flashing 00:00 and mushroom clouds keep appearing and then retracting once a second.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3c/doomsday_clock.png,-0.6988991498947144,-11.585043907165527 1655,1656,1656: It Begins,You can also try 'Yikes.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/76/it_begins.png,12.154635429382324,-14.040620803833008 1656,1657,1657: Insanity,"I looked up ""insanity"" in like 10 different dictionaries and none of them said anything like that. Neither did the DSM-4. But I'll keep looking. Maybe it's in the DSM-5!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/insanity.png,-1.463063359260559,18.244728088378906 1657,1658,1658: Estimating Time,Corollary to Hofstadter's Law: Every minute you spend thinking about Hofstadter's Law is a minute you're NOT WORKING AND WILL NEVER FINISH! PAAAAAANIIIIIIC!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e2/estimating_time.png,4.489708423614502,19.830400466918945 1658,1659,1659: Tire Swing,"If we find one of those tire dumps, the next time he tries to get his truck back we can just retreat and let him have it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/94/tire_swing.png,-20.100643157958984,36.29927444458008 1659,1660,1660: Captain Speaking,"Oh dang, you have to pay? Hey, has anyone else paid already? If so, can I borrow your phone for a sec?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/12/captain_speaking.png,4.597023010253906,-2.364967107772827 1660,1661,1661: Podium,BREAKING: Senator's bold pro-podium stand leads to primary challenge from prescriptivist base.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/21/podium.png,12.997230529785156,5.6865739822387695 1661,1662,1662: Jack and Jill,Jill and Jack / began to frack. / The oil boosts their town. / But fractures make / the bedrock shake / and Jack came tumbling down.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/25/jack_and_jill.png,-18.68590545654297,8.285547256469727 1662,1663,1663: Garden,Relax.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/ce/garden.png,13.831881523132324,-30.930416107177734 1663,1664,1664: Mycology,Conspiracy theory: There's no such thing as corn. Those fields you see are just the stalks of a fungus that's controlling our brains to make us want to spread it.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e2/mycology.png,9.130144119262695,1.6158183813095093 1664,1665,1665: City Talk Pages,I don't think the Lakeshore Air Crash Museum really belongs under 'Tourist Attractions.' It's not a museum--it's just an area near the Lake Festival Laser Show where a lot of planes have crashed.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/83/city_talk_pages.png,15.758617401123047,-10.530224800109863 1665,1666,1666: Brain Upload,"I just spent 20 minutes deciding whether to start an email with 'Hi' or 'Hey', so I think it transferred correctly.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/ce/brain_upload.png,8.934167861938477,26.533763885498047 1666,1667,1667: Algorithms,"There was a schism in 2007, when a sect advocating OpenOffice created a fork of Sunday.xlsx and maintained it independently for several months. The efforts to reconcile the conflicting schedules led to the reinvention, within the cells of the spreadsheet, of modern version control.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/59/algorithms.png,2.433098316192627,-6.52344274520874 1667,1668,1668: Singularity,"I figured that now that society has collapsed, I wouldn't need to wear clothes anymore, but apparently that violates some weird rule of quantum gravity.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c6/singularity.png,22.395933151245117,24.71991729736328 1668,1669,1669: Planespotting,"No, a hydroplane doesn't land on water--that's an aquaplane. A hydroplane is a plane that gets electric power from an onboard water reservoir with a tiny dam and turbines.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ec/planespotting.png,-11.245516777038574,24.098697662353516 1669,1670,1670: Laws of Physics,"The laws of physics are fun to try to understand, but as an organism with incredibly delicate eyes who evolved in a world full of sharp objects, I have an awful lot of trust in biology's calibration of my flinch reflex.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/70/laws_of_physics.png,-14.616850852966309,4.464681148529053 1670,1671,1671: Arcane Bullshit,"Learning arcane bullshit from the 80s can break your computer, but if you're willing to wade through arcane bullshit from programmers in the 90s and 2000s, you can break everyone else's computers, too.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6a/arcane_bullshit.png,2.417186737060547,-42.78948211669922 1671,1672,1672: Women on 20s,"I get that there are security reasons for the schedule, but this is like the ONE problem we have where the right answer is both easy and straightforward. If we can't figure it out, maybe we should just give up and just replace all the portraits on the bills with that weird pyramid eye thing.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/90/women_on_20s.png,29.160715103149414,2.8584089279174805 1672,1673,1673: Timeline of Bicycle Design,I'll be honest--the 1950s were a rough time for cycling.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a7/timeline_of_bicycle_design.png,3.4351141452789307,-33.57988739013672 1673,1674,1674: Adult,"(1) That shopping cart is full of AirHeads, and (2) I died at 41 from what the AirHeads company spokesperson called 'probably natural causes.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/82/adult.png,24.237319946289062,34.84007263183594 1674,1675,1675: Message in a Bottle,"I tried to send a message back, but I accidentally hit 'reply all' and now the ocean is clogged with message bottles.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1a/message_in_a_bottle.png,-15.153550148010254,14.478378295898438 1675,1676,1676: Full-Width Justification,Gonna start bugging the Unicode consortium to add snake segment characters that can be combined into an arbitrary-length non-breaking snake.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cf/full_width_justification.png,14.409126281738281,-16.068147659301758 1676,1677,1677: Contrails,"Astronomy (or ""astrology"" in British English) is the study of...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b5/contrails.png,-3.764202833175659,19.03962516784668 1677,1678,1678: Recent Searches,autoexec code posted by verified twitter users,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/03/recent_searches.png,16.475399017333984,-0.2529374361038208 1678,1679,1679: Substitutions 3,BREAKING: Channing Tatum and his friends explore haunted city,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/84/substitutions_3.png,-25.232086181640625,-25.65273666381836 1679,1680,1680: Black Hole,"It also brings all the boys, and everything else, to the yard.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/65/black_hole.png,-27.38623046875,6.946907043457031 1680,1681,1681: Laser Products,"ERRORS: HAIR JAM. COLOR-SAFE CONDITIONER CARTRIDGE RUNNING LOW. LEGAL-SIZE HAIR TRAY EMPTY, USING LETTER-SIZE HAIR ONLY.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/09/laser_products.png,-12.163298606872559,-27.240806579589844 1681,1682,1682: Bun,"If a wild bun is sighted, a nice gesture of respect is to send a 'BUN ALERT' message to friends and family, with photographs documenting the bun's location and rank. If no photographs are possible, emoji may be substituted.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2c/bun.png,1.0678199529647827,-25.225208282470703 1682,1683,1683: Digital Data,"“If you can read this, congratulations—the archive you’re using still knows about the mouseover text”!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/64/digital_data.png,17.4833927154541,-19.185394287109375 1683,1684,1684: Rainbow,"Listen, in a few thousand years you'll invent a game called 'SimCity' which has a 'disaster' button, and then you'll understand.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e4/rainbow.png,-7.438122272491455,-6.126471042633057 1684,1685,1685: Patch,"My optimizer uses content-aware inpainting to fill in all the wasted whitespace in the code, repeating the process until it compiles.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6c/patch.png,19.45547103881836,-23.348466873168945 1685,1686,1686: Feel Old,"'How long are you going to keep this up?' 'Statistically, only four or five more decades.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/36/feel_old.png,-39.78281784057617,19.67432403564453 1686,1687,1687: World War III+,"I hate how the media only ever uses the first part of this quote, stripping it of its important context.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fc/world_war_iii.png,-13.644983291625977,-9.465051651000977 1687,1688,1688: Map Age Guide,"Does the screeching chill your blood and herald death? If yes, banshee. If no, seagull.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fd/map_age_guide.png,29.742271423339844,-34.94121170043945 1688,1689,1689: My Friend Catherine,I can't get any work done because my friend Catherine is sitting on my keyboard.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f6/my_friend_catherine.png,-38.56825256347656,-6.2969207763671875 1689,1690,1690: Time-Tracking Software,"'List of helicopter prison escapes' and 'List of sexually active popes' are both entertainingly long, but sadly there's no 'List of helicopter prison escapes involving sexually active popes.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c4/time_tracking_software.png,-6.401431560516357,-36.18784713745117 1690,1691,1691: Optimization,"Premature optimization is the root of all evil, so to start this project I'd better come up with a system that can determine whether a possible optimization is premature or not.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d5/optimization.png,9.73511791229248,-45.23750686645508 1691,1692,1692: Man Page,"For even more info, see blarbl(2)(3) and birb(3ahhaha I'm kidding, just Google it like a normal person.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8e/man_page.png,18.437761306762695,-6.901984691619873 1692,1693,1693: Oxidation,Calm down--there were lots of arthropods living on your skin already. These ones are just bigger.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e4/oxidation.png,-33.523101806640625,-17.24238395690918 1693,1694,1694: Phishing License,"Later, walking out of jail after posting $10,000 bail: ""Wait, this isn't the street the county jail is on.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/77/phishing_license.png,-23.405879974365234,-14.666563987731934 1694,1695,1695: Code Quality 2,It's like you tried to define a formal grammar based on fragments of a raw database dump from the QuickBooks file of a company that's about to collapse in an accounting scandal.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d0/code_quality_2.png,16.644454956054688,28.162721633911133 1695,1696,1696: AI Research,"Lambda calculus? More like SHAMbda calculus, amirite?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/54/ai_research.png,8.692342758178711,27.982667922973633 1696,1697,1697: Intervocalic Fortition,"These pranks happen all the time. English doesn't allow one-syllable words to end in a lax vowel, so writers on The Simpsons decided to mess with future linguists by introducing the word ""meh.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2c/intervocalic_fortition.png,-8.225447654724121,40.88319778442383 1697,1698,1698: Theft Quadrants,TinyURL was the most popular link shortener for long enough that it made it into a lot of printed publications. I wonder what year the domain will finally lapse and get picked up by a porn site.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/09/theft_quadrants.png,-5.553554534912109,-39.870323181152344 1698,1699,1699: Local News,"Will there ever be a physics term greater than 'tachyonic antitelephone?' According to this message from the future, the answer is 'no.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/90/local_news.png,26.253864288330078,-0.27150851488113403 1699,1700,1700: New Bug,"There's also a unicode-handling bug in the URL request library, and we're storing the passwords unsalted ... so if we salt them with emoji, we can close three issues at once!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5c/new_bug.png,3.2532448768615723,32.33102798461914 1700,1701,1701: Speed and Danger,"NASCAR removed the passenger seats because drivers hated how astronauts kept riding along with them and loudly announcing ""Ahh, what a nice and relaxing drive.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/48/speed_and_danger.png,3.2318527698516846,-44.95590591430664 1701,1702,1702: Home Itch Remedies,"In my experience, mosquitos and poison ivy are bad, but the very worst itch comes from bites from chiggers (Trombicula alfreddugesi). They're found across the American south and great plains, so the best home remedy is to move to Iceland.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4b/home_itch_remedies.png,-7.7586750984191895,15.4781494140625 1702,1703,1703: Juno,"""The name wasn't a tip-off?"" ""Honestly, at first I thought you were saying 'Juneau'. A gravity assist seemed like a weird way to get to Alaska, but I figured it must be more efficient or something.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/78/juno.png,6.6819748878479,-5.558119297027588 1703,1704,1704: Gnome Ann,"President Andrew Johnson once said, ""If I am to be shot at, I want Gnome Ann to be in the way of the bullet."".",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2a/gnome_ann.png,7.336722373962402,-23.28980827331543 1704,1705,1705: Pokémon Go,Still waiting for the Pokémon Go update that lets you capture strangers' pets.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/05/pokemon_go.png,31.21651840209961,16.540407180786133 1705,1706,1706: Genetic Testing,"Plus, now I know that I have risk factors for elbow dysplasia, heartworm, parvo, and mange.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4a/genetic_testing.png,-1.993388295173645,16.223337173461914 1706,1707,1707: xkcd Phone 4,"The SpaceX system carefully guides falling phones down to the surface, a process which the phones increasingly often survive without exploding.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e1/xkcd_phone_4.png,29.700593948364258,13.82641315460205 1707,1708,1708: Dehydration,"I don't care what the research says. Everybody knows you should drink 3,000 glasses of water a day and change your oil every 8 miles.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8f/dehydration.png,-26.222131729125977,22.168071746826172 1708,1709,1709: Inflection,"""Or maybe, because we're suddenly having so many conversations through written text, we'll start relying MORE on altered spelling to indicate meaning!"" ""Wat.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/34/inflection.png,11.118561744689941,14.059738159179688 1709,1710,1710: Walking Into Things,A childhood spent walking while reading books has prepared me unexpectedly well for today's world.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a3/walking_into_things.png,31.454425811767578,31.71491813659668 1710,1711,1711: Snapchat,"For obvious reasons, the prize is awarded at a different time of year from the others, while it's still fresh in the committee's memory.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0e/snapchat.png,-3.1469109058380127,14.004230499267578 1711,1712,1712: Politifact,"""Ok, I lit the smoke bomb and rolled it under the bed. Let's see if it--"" ::FWOOOSH:: ""Politifact says: PANTS ON FIRE!""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2b/politifact.png,-13.140735626220703,-3.6332170963287354 1712,1713,1713: 50 ccs,There's been a raccoon accident at an accordion bacchanalia! Double doses!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/86/50_ccs.png,-2.2133076190948486,21.30296516418457 1713,1714,1714: Volcano Types,"It's hard living somewhere with antlions, because every time you find one of their traps, you feel compelled to spend all day constructing a tiny model of Jabba's sail barge next to it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/46/volcano_types.png,6.583367824554443,-31.813634872436523 1714,1715,1715: Household Tips,"To make your shoes feel more comfortable, smell better, and last longer, try taking them off before you shower.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/80/household_tips.png,-15.158223152160645,1.1380245685577393 1715,1716,1716: Time Travel Thesis,"'Hey, what are those futuristic goggles for, anyway?' 'Oh, this is just a broken Google Glass. It was 2010's night at the club.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6d/time_travel_thesis.png,-38.50675964355469,0.7589124441146851 1716,1717,1717: Pyramid Honey,"They CLAIM honey was found in the chambers under the pyramids, but this conspiracy goes all the way to the TOP, where the GIANT EYE is!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ac/pyramid_honey.png,-3.5425336360931396,16.42739486694336 1717,1718,1718: Backups,Maybe you should keep FEWER backups; it sounds like throwing away everything you've done and starting from scratch might not be the worst idea.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c2/backups.png,10.010740280151367,41.07709503173828 1718,1719,1719: Superzoom,"*click* Let him know he's got a stain on his shirt, though.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/97/superzoom.png,-9.462824821472168,16.553451538085938 1719,1720,1720: Horses,This car has 240% of a horse's decision-making ability and produces only 30% as much poop.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/de/horses.png,-35.65281677246094,-17.912134170532227 1720,1721,1721: Business Idea,"Then we move to phase two. Gas stations store fuel in underground tanks. Normally, these are inaccessible except via the pump. However, with hydraulic fracturing, we-- Wait! Come back!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/76/business_idea.png,-24.77633285522461,25.435302734375 1721,1722,1722: Debugging,"When you Google an error message and it gets no results, you can be pretty sure you've found a clue to the location of Martin's sword.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e5/debugging.png,-6.980456829071045,15.918168067932129 1722,1723,1723: Meteorite Identification,Click for an actual flowchart for identifying a meteorite. My favorite part is how 'Did someone see it fall? -> Yes' points to 'NOT A METEORITE.' This is not a mistake.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b3/meteorite_identification.png,9.745322227478027,-45.03970718383789 1723,1724,1724: Proofs,"Next, let's assume the decision of whether to take the Axiom of Choice is made by a deterministic process ...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/74/proofs.png,23.6546688079834,-14.840859413146973 1724,1725,1725: Linear Regression,"The 95% confidence interval suggests Rexthor's dog could also be a cat, or possibly a teapot.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/91/linear_regression.png,16.686494827270508,-26.51314926147461 1725,1726,1726: Unicode,"I'm excited about the proposal to add a ""brontosaurus"" emoji codepoint because it has the potential to bring together a half-dozen different groups of pedantic people into a single glorious internet argument.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/77/unicode.png,3.4903976917266846,-38.198753356933594 1726,1727,1727: Number of Computers,"They try to pad their numbers in the annual reports by counting Galileo's redundant systems as multiple computers, but they're falling behind badly either way.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d3/number_of_computers.png,3.663116216659546,-51.06120681762695 1727,1728,1728: Cron Mail,"Take THAT, piece of 1980s-era infrastructure I've inexplicably maintained on my systems for 15 years despite never really learning how it works.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ac/cron_mail.png,16.434341430664062,35.00091552734375 1728,1729,1729: Migrating Geese,"""Hey guys! I have a great idea for a migration!"" ""Dammit, Kevin.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/47/migrating_geese.png,4.115322589874268,-37.96049499511719 1729,1730,1730: Starshade,"The New Worlds Mission is already trying to get funding for this, but NASA sponsored their proposal, so it will be hard to catch the telescope people by surprise with it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/90/starshade.png,19.6492862701416,22.150165557861328 1730,1731,1731: Wrong,"Hang on, I just remembered another thing I'm right about. See...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/50/wrong.png,6.855911731719971,16.28954315185547 1731,1732,1732: Earth Temperature Timeline,"[After setting your car on fire] Listen, your car's temperature has changed before.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dc/earth_temperature_timeline.png,27.32834243774414,-35.91859436035156 1732,1733,1733: Solar Spectrum,I still don't understand why the Sun paid the extra money for Transitions lenses.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cd/solar_spectrum.png,-2.6441969871520996,-37.672855377197266 1733,1734,1734: Reductionism,"""I've noticed you physics people can be a little on the reductionist side."" ""That's ridiculous. Name ONE reductionist word I've ever said.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c0/reductionism.png,13.164860725402832,-16.986692428588867 1734,1735,1735: Fashion Police and Grammar Police,* Mad about jorts,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/69/fashion_police_and_grammar_police.png,-22.057655334472656,-11.046764373779297 1735,1736,1736: Manhattan Project,"On the plus side, we definitely killed that cancer over there, even if we caused a bunch more everywhere else.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/be/manhattan_project.png,2.946882963180542,20.44156837463379 1736,1737,1737: Datacenter Scale,"Asimov's Cosmic AC was created by linking all datacenters through hyperspace, which explains a lot. It didn't reverse entropy--it just discarded the universe when it reached end-of-life and ordered a new one.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/datacenter_scale.png,-6.608882427215576,13.27473258972168 1737,1738,1738: Moon Shapes,"Whenever I see a picture of the moon where the points go more than halfway around, I assume it's being eclipsed by one of those Independence Day ships and interpret the rest of the image in light of that.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b9/moon_shapes.png,13.681687355041504,-33.00009536743164 1738,1739,1739: Fixing Problems,"'What was the original problem you were trying to fix?' 'Well, I noticed one of the tools I was using had an inefficiency that was wasting my time.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1c/fixing_problems.png,2.4949185848236084,29.009767532348633 1739,1740,1740: Rosetta,I WONDERED why he kept asking whether we thought the impact speed was too low.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/33/rosetta.png,-9.140507698059082,15.135397911071777 1740,1741,1741: Work,"Despite it being imaginary, I already have SUCH a strong opinion on the cord-switch firing incident.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/57/work.png,7.229642868041992,-35.818031311035156 1741,1742,1742: Will It Work,"'Copy and paste from a random thread on a website' is the hardest to predict, and depends on the specific website, programming language, tone of the description, and current phase of the moon.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a3/will_it_work.png,-5.714756488800049,-36.33540344238281 1742,1743,1743: Coffee,"Remind me to order another pack of coffee filters from Dyson. Man, these things are EXPENSIVE.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4a/coffee.png,-13.021430969238281,5.216719627380371 1743,1744,1744: Metabolism,"I have this weird thing where if I don't drink enough water, I start feeling bad and then die of dehydration.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/07/metabolism.png,-27.891149520874023,4.562069416046143 1744,1745,1745: Record Scratch,The 78-rpm era was closer to the Civil War than to today.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f8/record_scratch.png,-22.811647415161133,-9.706709861755371 1745,1746,1746: Making Friends,"""This seems more like a way to attract turkey vultures."" ""My mom always told me a turkey vulture is just a friend you haven't met yet, usually because you don't smell enough like decaying meat.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/58/making_friends.png,-10.123537063598633,42.45500946044922 1746,1747,1747: Spider Paleontology,"Whenever you see a video of birds doing something weird, remember: Birds are a small subset of dinosaurs, so the weirdness of birds is a small subset of the weirdness of dinosaurs.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3d/spider_paleontology.png,-39.864418029785156,1.137381911277771 1747,1748,1748: Future Archaeology,"""The only link we've found between the two documents is that a fragment of the Noah one mentions Aaron's brother Moses parting an ocean. Is that right?"" ""... yes. Yes, exactly.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fd/future_archaeology.png,-39.81645202636719,1.140563726425171 1748,1749,1749: Mushrooms,"Evolutionarily speaking, mushrooms are technically a type of ghost.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/52/mushrooms.png,7.786014556884766,-26.761308670043945 1749,1750,1750: Life Goals,I got to check off 'Make something called xkcd' early.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8c/life_goals.png,35.3983154296875,-2.8501803874969482 1750,1751,1751: Movie Folder,"That's actually the original Japanese version of A Million Random Digits, which is much better than the American remake the book was based on.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/65/movie_folder.png,19.167621612548828,30.305734634399414 1751,1752,1752: Interplanetary Experience,"But instead of hitting the ocean, you should land in an overheating hot tub on a sinking cruise ship, sending it crashing through the floor into the burning engine room as the ship goes under.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bc/interplanetary_experience.png,-7.853768348693848,-24.474937438964844 1752,1753,1753: Thumb War,"""Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty--"" / ""Can't we just read Pat the Bunny?""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/19/thumb_war.png,-4.836151599884033,-6.643510341644287 1753,1754,1754: Tornado Safety Tips,"It's a myth that you can never cross mountains safely, but be sure you understand how the climatic situation there will affect your parent thunderstorm.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ec/tornado_safety_tips.png,2.3714325428009033,-33.313236236572266 1754,1755,1755: Old Days,"Lot of drama in those days, including constant efforts to force the ""Reflections on Trusting Trust"" guy into retirement so we could stop being so paranoid about compilers.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/88/old_days.png,-2.6431281566619873,13.34475326538086 1755,1756,1756: I'm With Her,We can do this.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/61/im_with_her.png,5.483240604400635,-26.96043586730957 1756,1757,1757: November 2016,"Once you've done this, make a note of how old they were. Then, when their age reaches double that, show them this chart again.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8b/november_2016.png,-9.797654151916504,-37.00103759765625 1757,1758,1758: Astrophysics,"DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSCIENCE / Motto: ""If I hear the phrase 'mirror neurons' I swear to God I will flip this table.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6d/astrophysics.png,-23.57450294494629,-14.53439998626709 1758,1759,1759: British Map,"West Norsussex is east of East Norwessex, but they're both far north of Middlesex and West Norwex.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c8/british_map.png,29.350830078125,-33.55355453491211 1759,1760,1760: TV Problems,"Certified skydiving instructors know way more about safely falling from planes than I do, and are way more likely to die that way.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1c/tv_problems.png,29.47737693786621,19.992094039916992 1760,1761,1761: Blame,I bet if I yell at my scared friends I will feel better.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bc/blame.png,-11.193970680236816,41.06572341918945 1761,1762,1762: Moving Boxes,"Later, when I remember that I'm calling movers, I frantically scribble over the labels and write 'NORMAL HOUSE STUFF' on all of them, which actually makes things worse.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/eb/moving_boxes.png,-11.15062427520752,-16.766067504882812 1762,1763,1763: Catcalling,Effect strength => [unstoppable] | Effect range => [2 miles] | Effect duration => [1 year],https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/07/catcalling.png,5.311812877655029,1.3280287981033325 1763,1764,1764: XKCDE,4. They unplug the root machine but the thousands of leaf VMs scatter in the wind and start spinning up new instances wherever they land,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dd/xkcde.png,14.737523078918457,-2.735887050628662 1764,1765,1765: Baby Post,"[bzzzt] ""REMEMBER TO CHECK IN FOR YOUR FLIGHT TO LONDON."" ""My wha-"" [bzzzt] ""YOUR UBER WILL ARRIVE IN FOUR MINUTES.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f5/baby_post.png,26.24504852294922,8.926409721374512 1765,1766,1766: Apple Spectrum,"If I were trapped on a desert island, and could have an unlimited supply of any one type of apple, I'd be like, ""How did this situation happen?""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e5/apple_spectrum.png,-22.2911434173584,11.216303825378418 1766,1767,1767: US State Names,"Technically DC isn't a state, but no one is too pedantic about it because they don't want to disturb the snakes.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/27/us_state_names.png,31.332990646362305,-33.84889602661133 1767,1768,1768: Settling,"Of course, ""Number of times I've gotten to make a decision twice to know for sure how it would have turned out"" is still at 0.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ec/settling.png,28.335458755493164,-9.489664077758789 1768,1769,1769: Never Seen Star Wars,"If anyone calls you on any weird detail, just say it's from the Jedi Prince book series, which contains so much random incongruous stuff that even most Expanded Universe/Legends fans collectively agreed to forget about it decades ago.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/02/never_seen_star_wars.png,-19.259830474853516,-23.992910385131836 1769,1770,1770: UI Change,"I know they said this change is permanent, but surely when they hear how much we're complaining someone will find a way to change things back.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5d/ui_change.png,8.953543663024902,2.6594557762145996 1770,1771,1771: It Was I,"It me, your father.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b1/it_was_i.png,3.332136631011963,2.8479180335998535 1771,1772,1772: Startup Opportunity,"While there's no formal regulation, it turns out their industry group is NOT one you want mad at you.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d3/startup_opportunity.png,2.9325432777404785,11.077670097351074 1772,1773,1773: Negativity,[Google search] how do I block my lawn,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b0/negativity.png,-6.9845170974731445,18.24482536315918 1773,1774,1774: Adjective Foods,Contains 100% of your recommended daily allowance!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/67/adjective_foods.png,1.8599504232406616,-17.741464614868164 1774,1775,1775: Things You Learn,"Guess who has two thumbs and spent the night in an ER after trying to rescue a kitten that ran under his car at a stoplight and climbed up into the engine compartment? And, thanks to antibiotics, will continue having two thumbs? THIS GUY. (P.S. kitten is safe!)",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fd/things_you_learn.png,-3.428147554397583,-47.91608428955078 1775,1776,1776: Reindeer,"And then in a twinkling, a sound gave me pause / From the roof came the scratching of eight tarsal claws.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/08/reindeer.png,-8.747344017028809,12.133586883544922 1776,1777,1777: Dear Diary,Dear Diary: UNSUBSCRIBE,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e1/dear_diary.png,0.2793404161930084,-3.606760025024414 1777,1778,1778: Interest Timescales,"Sometimes, parts of a slowly-rising mountain suddenly rise REALLY fast, which is extra interesting.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0c/interest_timescales.png,10.668015480041504,-27.495555877685547 1778,1779,1779: 2017,Things are looking good for the eclipse--Nate Silver says Earth will almost definitely still have a moon in August.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ef/2017.png,29.12186622619629,28.672197341918945 1779,1780,1780: Appliance Repair,"[holding up a three-phase motor] As you can see here, the problem is that the humidifier I took this from is broken.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/02/appliance_repair.png,-8.992143630981445,10.055665016174316 1780,1781,1781: Artifacts,I didn't even realize you could HAVE a data set made up entirely of outliers.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bc/artifacts.png,2.5564732551574707,-30.98008918762207 1781,1782,1782: Team Chat,2078: He announces that he's finally making the jump from screen+irssi to tmux+weechat.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2b/team_chat.png,0.06620501726865768,-27.226524353027344 1782,1783,1783: Emails,"Hey Rob, sorry it took me a while to get back to you! Sure, I'd love to see WALL-E opening weekend! Are you still doing that, or...?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/79/emails.png,-4.062145233154297,24.181241989135742 1783,1784,1784: Bad Map Projection: Liquid Resize,"This map preserves the shapes of Tissot's indicatrices pretty well, as long as you draw them in before running the resize.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c9/bad_map_projection_liquid_resize.png,27.060611724853516,-32.810096740722656 1784,1785,1785: Wifi,"Further out to the right, it works correctly, but the reason it works still involves the word 'firmware.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1a/wifi.png,2.1894164085388184,-50.97724533081055 1785,1786,1786: Trash,"Plus, time's all weird in there, so most of it probably broke down and decomposed hundreds of years ago. Which reminds me, I've been meaning to get in touch with Yucca Mountain to see if they're interested in a partnership.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7c/trash.png,-2.585393190383911,17.664230346679688 1786,1787,1787: Voice Commands,"Dvorak words may sound hard to pronounce, but studies show they actually put less stress on the vocal cords.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/00/voice_commands.png,28.220327377319336,16.930633544921875 1787,1788,1788: Barge,My life goal is to launch a barge into the air and have it land on one of Elon Musk's rockets.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9c/barge.png,0.6239109039306641,-17.82571792602539 1788,1789,1789: Phone Numbers,"Texting should work. Unless the message is too long, in which case it gets converted to voicemails, and I think I'm locked out of my voicemail.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f4/phone_numbers.png,26.899093627929688,-6.087549209594727 1789,1790,1790: Sad,"With the right 90-degree rotation, any effect is a side effect.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b4/sad.png,16.77174949645996,27.103626251220703 1790,1791,1791: Telescopes: Refractor vs Reflector,"On the other hand, the refractor's limited light-gathering means it's unable to make out shadow people or the dark god Chernabog.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b2/telescopes_refractor_vs_reflector.png,10.054999351501465,-33.88967514038086 1791,1792,1792: Bird/Plane/Superman,You can apply special translucent films to your windows to help keep birds/Superman from accidentally flying into them.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/55/bird_plane_superman.png,5.519301414489746,-0.4701302647590637 1792,1793,1793: Soda Sugar Comparisons,"The key is portion control, which is why I've switched to eating smaller cans of frosting instead of full bottles.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/89/soda_sugar_comparisons.png,7.666290283203125,-34.67845916748047 1793,1794,1794: Fire,Billy Joel briefly detained,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d2/fire.png,12.485931396484375,-21.31598663330078 1794,1795,1795: All You Can Eat,"After my absent-mindedness resulted in a bad posterboard-related stomachache, I learned to do the sign-making place last.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/30/all_you_can_eat.png,7.80555534362793,-34.4950065612793 1795,1796,1796: Focus Knob,Maybe if I spin it back and forth really fast I can do some kind of pulse-width modulation.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8c/focus_knob.png,6.351569652557373,-33.02287292480469 1796,1797,1797: Stardew Valley,I have accidentally watered virtually every person and object in Pelican Town.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/06/stardew_valley.png,-33.516822814941406,29.444196701049805 1797,1798,1798: Box Plot,"You have to be careful doing this. Sometimes, when you push the whisker down, dynamite explodes.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e7/box_plot.png,8.364725112915039,-32.10825729370117 1798,1799,1799: Bad Map Projection: Time Zones,"This is probably the first projection in cartographic history that can be criticized for its disproportionate focus on Finland, Mongolia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/65/bad_map_projection_time_zones.png,29.442922592163086,-33.91910934448242 1799,1800,1800: Chess Notation,I've decided to score all my conversations using chess win-loss notation. (??),https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e4/chess_notation.png,1.781043529510498,2.8332598209381104 1800,1801,1801: Decision Paralysis,Good point--making no decision is itself a decision. So that's a THIRD option I have to research!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b8/decision_paralysis.png,-33.91697692871094,-17.545455932617188 1801,1802,1802: Phone,"[*disables social networking accounts*] [*social isolation increases*] Wait, why does this ALSO feel bad?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/78/phone.png,-19.310880661010742,25.406959533691406 1802,1803,1803: Location Reviews,"Google and Yelp keep deleting my scathing reviews of the Mariana Trench, the Chernobyl reactor core, the jet stream, and the equator.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2e/location_reviews.png,25.32647132873535,-31.496644973754883 1803,1804,1804: Video Content,"""So, like, sexy news videos?"" ""No, people have tried that--it's still just video content. We need to actually inform people THROUGH making out. I would call it 'Mouth Content,' but I think that's already the title of a Neil Cicierega album.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fe/video_content.png,23.18099021911621,-2.5958850383758545 1804,1805,1805: Unpublished Discoveries,"If you must know, I'm currently researching how to save this emailed tax form as a regular PDF so I can print and sign it. Our work isn't a lock for the Nobel, but we're in the running.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/28/unpublished_discoveries.png,16.891111373901367,38.01918411254883 1805,1806,1806: Borrow Your Laptop,"If used with software that could keep up, a scroll wheel mapped to send a stream of 'undo' and 'redo' events could be kind of cool.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bf/borrow_your_laptop.png,13.56485652923584,41.02471160888672 1806,1807,1807: Listening,"Sure, you could just ask, but this also takes care of the host gift thing.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a9/listening.png,-20.07193374633789,16.935562133789062 1807,1808,1808: Hacking,"The dump also contains a list of millions of prime factors, a 0-day Tamagotchi exploit, and a technique for getting gcc and bash to execute arbitrary code.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e9/hacking.png,17.271202087402344,19.255462646484375 1808,1809,1809: xkcd Phone 5,The phone will be collected by the toll operators and mailed back to you within 4-6 weeks.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8e/xkcd_phone_5.png,30.552419662475586,13.428093910217285 1809,1810,1810: Chat Systems,I'm one of the few Instagram users who connects solely through the Unix 'talk' gateway.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/80/chat_systems.png,-1.442988395690918,-27.530323028564453 1810,1811,1811: Best-Tasting Colors,I recognize that chocolate is its own thing on which reasonable people may differ. Everything else here is objective fact.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ef/best_tasting_colors.png,10.516725540161133,-36.97565460205078 1811,1812,1812: Onboarding,"'So we just have a steady flow of metal piling up in our server room? Isn't that a problem?' 'Yeah, you should bring that up at our next bismuth meeting.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c1/onboarding.png,-7.924238204956055,17.13593292236328 1812,1813,1813: Vomiting Emoji,My favorite might be U+1F609 U+1F93F WINKING FACE VOMITING.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1a/vomiting_emoji.png,-20.880483627319336,0.8317946195602417 1813,1814,1814: Color Pattern,♫ When the spacing is tight / And the difference is slight / That's a moiré ♫,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/85/color_pattern.png,17.30095100402832,30.95876693725586 1814,1815,1815: Flag,There's a compromise bill to keep the notification bar but at least charge the battery.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3d/flag.png,17.040565490722656,-25.431318283081055 1815,1816,1816: Mispronunciation,"I pronounce epitome ""EPPY-tome"", but EpiPen ""uh-PIE-pen"".",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ae/mispronunciation.png,-2.5907328128814697,20.11404800415039 1816,1817,1817: Incognito Mode,"They're really the worst tech support team. And their solutions are always the same. ""This OS X update broke something."" ""LET'S INFILTRATE APPLE BY MORPHING APPLES!""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2f/incognito_mode.png,-5.093675136566162,30.525413513183594 1817,1818,1818: Rayleigh Scattering,"If you ask ""why are leaves green?"" the usual answer is ""because they're full of chlorophyll, and chlorophyll is green,"" even though ""why does chlorophyll scatter green light?"" is a great question too.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/47/rayleigh_scattering.png,-16.974365234375,-35.5157585144043 1818,1819,1819: Sweet 16,"Every year I make out my bracket at the season, and every year it's busted before the first game when I find out which teams are playing.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2c/sweet_16.png,36.217857360839844,-3.7439017295837402 1819,1820,1820: Security Advice,Never give your password or bank account number to anyone who doesn't have a blue check mark next to their name.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/56/security_advice.png,19.59219741821289,-4.527078151702881 1820,1821,1821: Incinerator,"My trash can broke recently and I had to get rid of it. When I picked it up, I suffered a brief but harrowing existential crisis.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a7/incinerator.png,-19.50952911376953,9.249914169311523 1821,1822,1822: Existential Bug Reports,"ISSUE: If we wait long enough, eventually the Earth will be consumed by the Sun. WORKAROUND: None.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2e/existential_bug_reports.png,15.296539306640625,35.38804626464844 1822,1823,1823: Hottest Editors,Elon Musk finally blocked me from the internal Tesla repository because I wouldn't stop sending pull requests for my code supporting steering via vim keybindings.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a4/hottest_editors.png,7.70046854019165,-14.592926979064941 1823,1824,1824: Identification Chart,"Be careful-it's breeding season, and some of these can be *extremely* defensive of their nests.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b0/identification_chart.png,3.504190444946289,-17.386899948120117 1824,1825,1825: 7 Eleven,"Really, the only honest 24-hour stores are the ones in places like Arizona and Hawaii, and many of them are still wrong in certain years.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c3/7_eleven.png,36.421295166015625,-15.346424102783203 1825,1826,1826: Birdwatching,"No, tell the park rangers to calm down, it's fine--I put a screen on the front. I just want to get the birds a little closer.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3e/birdwatching_small.png,-7.126369953155518,37.94061279296875 1826,1827,1827: Survivorship Bias,"They say you can't argue with results, but what kind of defeatist attitude is that? If you stick with it, you can argue with ANYTHING.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/75/survivorship_bias.png,-9.662196159362793,1.1710693836212158 1827,1828,1828: ISS Solar Transit,I guess it's also the right setting for pictures of the Moon at night.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5f/iss_solar_transit.png,16.627933502197266,-35.681739807128906 1828,1829,1829: Geochronology,"'The mountains near here formed when the ... Newfoundland ... microplate collided with, uhh ... Labrador.' 'Ok, now you're definitely just naming dogs.' 'Wait, no, that's actually almost correct.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/43/geochronology.png,-3.115314245223999,3.1099863052368164 1829,1830,1830: ISS Solar Transit 2,"Most people don't realize it, but they actually launch a new space station every few weeks because this keeps happening.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fe/iss_solar_transit_2.png,16.545391082763672,-35.80124282836914 1830,1831,1831: Here to Help,"""We TOLD you it was hard."" ""Yeah, but now that I'VE tried, we KNOW it's hard.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/01/here_to_help.png,17.996000289916992,38.40510177612305 1831,1832,1832: Photo Library Management,"A good lifehack is to use messy and unstable systems to organize your photos. That way, every five years or so it becomes obsolete and/or collapses, and you have to open it up and pick only your favorite pictures to salvage.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/90/photo_library_management.png,-3.907038450241089,-46.263038635253906 1832,1833,1833: Code Quality 3,It's like a half-solved cryptogram where the solution is a piece of FORTH code written by someone who doesn't know FORTH.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/89/code_quality_3.png,16.723278045654297,28.007797241210938 1833,1834,1834: Lunch Order,"GO FOR LUNCH, REPEAT, GO FOR LUNCH.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0e/lunch_order.png,1.3749288320541382,0.8500186204910278 1834,1835,1835: Random Obsessions,"I take the view that ""open-faced sandwiches"" are not sandwiches, but all other physical objects are.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e0/random_obsessions.png,-1.5957214832305908,-53.48701095581055 1835,1836,1836: Okeanos,WHEN I WAS ON A BOAT I DROPPED MY PHONE CAN U LOOK FOR IT,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/27/okeanos.png,-15.592385292053223,-31.05596351623535 1836,1837,1837: Rental Car,"Technically, both cars are haunted, but the murder ghosts can't stand listening to the broken GPS for more than a few minutes.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3c/rental_car.png,-35.692813873291016,-17.65911865234375 1837,1838,1838: Machine Learning,"The pile gets soaked with data and starts to get mushy over time, so it's technically recurrent.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d3/machine_learning.png,18.865276336669922,4.768370151519775 1838,1839,1839: Doctor Visit,"According to these blood tests, you're like 30% cereal.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/58/doctor_visit.png,-12.392587661743164,14.354783058166504 1839,1840,1840: Genetic Testing Results,That's very exciting! The bad news is that it's a risk factor for a lot of things.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/98/genetic_testing_results.png,-12.284589767456055,14.451103210449219 1840,1841,1841: Who?,Gonna feel even dumber when I realize that all this time he's been talking into a bluetooth thingy and we're not actually friends.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/77/who.png,-11.465587615966797,44.10440444946289 1841,1842,1842: Anti-Drone Eagles,"It's cool, it's totally ethical--they're all programmed to hunt whichever bird of prey is most numerous at the moment, so they leave the endangered ones alone until near the end.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/af/anti_drone_eagles.png,1.7064013481140137,7.844801425933838 1842,1843,1843: Opening Crawl,"Using a classic Timothy Zahn EU/Legends novel is bad enough, but at least the style and setting aren't too far off. If you really want to mess with people, try using Splinter of the Mind's Eye.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5f/opening_crawl.png,-16.214441299438477,-10.960771560668945 1843,1844,1844: Voting Systems,Kenneth Arrow hated me because the ordering of my preferences changes based on which voting systems have what level of support. But it tells me a lot about the people I'm going to be voting with!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/53/voting_systems.png,12.952521324157715,3.374781370162964 1844,1845,1845: State Word Map,"The top search for every state is PORN, except Florida, where it's SEX PORN.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/04/state_word_map.png,25.84967803955078,-32.551021575927734 1845,1846,1846: Drone Problems,"On the other hand, as far as they know, my system is working perfectly.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d2/drone_problems.png,24.926212310791016,19.037508010864258 1846,1847,1847: Dubious Study,"Sounds fine. I looked up the Academy, and it says on their MySpace page that their journal is peer-viewed and downloaded biannually.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6d/dubious_study.png,12.234329223632812,19.564851760864258 1847,1848,1848: Glacial Erratic,"""This will take a while, which sucks, because I'm already so busy chiseling out igneous intrusions from rock formations and watching Youtube loops of the Superman fault-sealing scene over and over.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e3/glacial_erratic.png,-8.021590232849121,16.785795211791992 1848,1849,1849: Decades,"In the 90s, our variety radio station used the tagline ""the best music of the 70s, 80s, and 90s."" After 2000, they switched to ""the best music of the 80s, 90s, and today."" I figured they'd change again in 2010, but it's 2017 and they're still saying ""80s, 90s, and today."" I hope radio survives long enough for us to find out how they deal with the 2020s.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/decades.png,-9.773444175720215,-36.787445068359375 1849,1850,1850: Air Force Museum,"I had fun visiting the museum at Dover Air Force Base, unless they don't have a museum, in which case I've never been to Delaware in my life.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/48/air_force_museum.png,-3.4327805042266846,20.459518432617188 1850,1851,1851: Magnetohydrodynamics,"Magnetohydrodynamics combines the intuitive nature of Maxwell's equations with the easy solvability of the Navier-Stokes equations. It's so straightforward physicists add ""relativistic"" or ""quantum"" just to keep it from getting boring.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/87/magnetohydrodynamics.png,-13.546847343444824,7.527405261993408 1851,1852,1852: Election Map,"Luckily for my interpretation, no precincts were won by the Green Party.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d3/election_map.png,20.194944381713867,-25.221338272094727 1852,1853,1853: Once Per Day,"I'm not totally locked into my routine—twice a year, I take a break to change the batteries in my smoke detectors.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/59/once_per_day.png,35.79824447631836,-12.168510437011719 1853,1854,1854: Refresh Types,"The hardest refresh requires both a Mac keyboard and a Windows keyboard as a security measure, like how missile launch systems require two keys to be turned at once.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c3/refresh_types.png,16.772645950317383,-5.243568420410156 1854,1855,1855: Telephoto,I was banned from the airliners.net photography forum by concerned moderators after the end of my lens started brushing against planes as they flew by.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e5/telephoto.png,2.1952085494995117,-33.745094299316406 1855,1856,1856: Existence Proof,Real analysis is way realer than I expected.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d2/existence_proof.png,-31.07912254333496,-8.034759521484375 1856,1857,1857: Emoji Movie,Some other studio should do the Antz/A Bug's Life thing and release The Dingbats Movie at the same time.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/86/emoji_movie.png,-6.932216167449951,21.035938262939453 1857,1858,1858: 4th of July,"Strangely, they still celebrate by eating hot dogs. Since they don't have mouths, they just kinda toss them in the air and let them fall back down into their propeller blades. It's pretty messy.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/aa/4th_of_july.png,-7.213489055633545,2.8986711502075195 1858,1859,1859: Sports Knowledge,"I heard they might make the wild card game, which would be cool. Do you know when that is? I have a wedding next weekend, but if it's after that we could try to go!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/59/sports_knowledge.png,-1.8220819234848022,8.504079818725586 1859,1860,1860: Communicating,"You're saying that the responsibility for avoiding miscommunication lies entirely with the listener, not the speaker, which explains why you haven't been able to convince anyone to help you down from that wall.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/52/communicating.png,8.89491081237793,5.697285175323486 1860,1861,1861: Quantum,"If you draw a diagonal line from lower left to upper right, that's the ICP 'Miracles' axis.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d8/quantum.png,0.8794897794723511,-45.51367950439453 1861,1862,1862: Particle Properties,"Each particle also has a password which allows its properties to be changed, but the cosmic censorship hypothesis suggests we can never observe the password itself—only its secure hash.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/01/particle_properties.png,-1.7120648622512817,-37.940067291259766 1862,1863,1863: Screenshots,"For the final exam, you take a screenshot showing off all the work you've done in the class, and it has to survive being uploaded, thumbnailed, and re-screenshotted through a chain of social media sites.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/31/screenshots.png,16.838836669921875,-25.671218872070312 1863,1864,1864: City Nicknames,This place has so many demonyms. Northlanders. Fair Folk. Honey Barons. Lake Dwellers. Treasurers. Swamp Watchers. Dream Farmers. Wellfolk. Rockeaters. Forgotten Royals. Remote Clients. Barrow-Clerks. The People of Land and Sky.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7d/city_nicknames.png,-4.145589351654053,-11.757844924926758 1864,1865,1865: Wifi vs Cellular,"According to the cable company reps who keep calling me, it's because I haven't upgraded to the XTREME GIGABAND PANAMAX FLAVOR-BLASTED PRO PACKAGE WITH HBO, which is only $5 more per month for the first 6 months and five billion dollars per month after that.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d9/wifi_vs_cellular.png,3.600792646408081,-52.0844841003418 1865,1866,1866: Russell's Teapot,"Unfortunately, NASA regulations state that Bertrand Russell-related payloads can only be launched within launch vehicles which do not launch themselves.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/37/russells_teapot.png,-0.8859822750091553,-20.48695945739746 1866,1867,1867: Physics Confession,"""You know lightning, right? When electric charge builds up in a cloud and then discharges in a giant spark? Ask me why that happens."" ""Why does tha--"" ""No clue. We think it's related to the hair thing.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ab/physics_confession.png,0.6483269333839417,8.98997688293457 1867,1868,1868: Eclipse Flights,The captain has turned on the 'fasten seat belt' sign.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c2/eclipse_flights.png,4.159066200256348,-1.7911429405212402 1868,1869,1869: Positive and Negative Reviews,"This restaurant is great! I was feeling really sick, but then I ate there and felt better!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/ca/positive_and_negative_reviews.png,-16.562654495239258,-26.533607482910156 1869,1870,1870: Emoji Movie Reviews,"There's this idea that emoji are bad for communication because they replace ambiguity and nuance with a limited set of preselected emotions, but it doesn't really survive a collision with real-world usage of the thinking face or upside-down smiley.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/54/emoji_movie_reviews.png,20.64739418029785,18.426111221313477 1870,1871,1871: Bun Alert,"Since buns range from crepuscular to nocturnal, it's recommended that you enable the scheduled ""Do Not Disturb"" mode on your phone to avoid being woken by alerts about Night Buns.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6a/bun_alert.png,25.192216873168945,18.31941795349121 1871,1872,1872: Backup Batteries,"If it falls below 20% full, my bag turns red and I start to panic.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3d/backup_batteries.png,27.447391510009766,16.028806686401367 1872,1873,1873: Email Reply,"I would be honored, but I know I don't belong in your network. The person you invited was someone who had not yet inflicted this two-year ordeal upon you. I'm no longer that person.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/01/email_reply.png,7.304164409637451,36.01590347290039 1873,1874,1874: Geologic Faults,"I live on a torn-bag-of-potato-chips-where-the-tear-is-rapidly-growing fault, which is terrifying.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fc/geologic_faults.png,-1.8800668716430664,-14.941323280334473 1874,1875,1875: Computers vs Humans,It's hard to train deep learning algorithms when most of the positive feedback they get is sarcastic.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9a/computers_vs_humans.png,14.430681228637695,39.390499114990234 1875,1876,1876: Eclipse Searches,"There were traffic jams for the eclipses in 1970 and 1979, and that was *before* we had the potential for overnight viral social media frenzies.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6f/eclipse_searches.png,-6.143065929412842,-53.89217758178711 1876,1877,1877: Eclipse Science,"I was thinking of observing stars to verify Einstein's theory of relativity again, but I gotta say, that thing is looking pretty solid at this point.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c7/eclipse_science.png,-7.959763050079346,-13.723671913146973 1877,1878,1878: Earth Orbital Diagram,You shouldn't look directly at a partial eclipse because of the damage that can be caused by improperly aligning the solar-lunar orbital plane with the orbital bones around your eye.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/72/earth_orbital_diagram.png,-7.983928203582764,-28.441452026367188 1878,1879,1879: Eclipse Birds,"'Hey! Put her down!' 'No, it's ok! The next chance for me to be carried to a blood cauldron isn't until 2024!'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5c/eclipse_birds.png,-5.80489444732666,-13.321333885192871 1879,1880,1880: Eclipse Review,"I watched from a beautiful nature reserve in central Missouri, and it was--without exaggeration--the coolest thing I've ever seen.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/97/eclipse_review.png,3.0242421627044678,-45.42286682128906 1880,1881,1881: Drone Training,The joke will be on him in a few weeks when animal control shows up and takes custody of his Roomba.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3f/drone_training.png,-5.5146965980529785,9.496883392333984 1881,1882,1882: Color Models,"What if what *I* see as blue, *you* see as a slightly different blue because you're using Chrome instead of Firefox and despite a decade of messing with profiles we STILL can't get this right somehow.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d2/color_models.png,4.6722283363342285,-42.41880416870117 1882,1883,1883: Supervillain Plan,"Someday, some big historical event will happen during the DST changeover, and all the tick-tock articles chronicling how it unfolded will have to include a really annoying explanation next to their timelines.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e8/supervillain_plan.png,4.39751672744751,-10.929022789001465 1883,1884,1884: Ringer Volume/Media Volume,"Our new video ad campaign has our product's name shouted in the first 500 milliseconds, so we can reach the people in adjacent rooms while the viewer is still turning down the volume.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f6/ringer_volume_media_volume.png,-1.5139384269714355,-57.003143310546875 1884,1885,1885: Ensemble Model,"I'm in talks with Netflix to produce an alternate-universe crime drama about the world where sliced bread was never re-legalized, but it's going slowly because they keep changing their phone numbers and the door lock codes at their headquarters.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/77/ensemble_model.png,18.575389862060547,-16.845947265625 1885,1886,1886: Typing Notifications,"Over the years I've decided I'd rather have them on than not, but I'm glad there aren't ""has opened a blank note to compose a reply to you"" notifications.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/af/typing_notifications.png,7.794590473175049,32.77408981323242 1886,1887,"1887: Two Down, One to Go","The third row will probably have to wait until 2034, and maybe longer. If I see a daytime supernova, I'll replace the meteor storm with that and consider it 3/3.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/54/two_down_one_to_go.png,6.886528491973877,-14.54177188873291 1887,1888,1888: Still in Use,"'Which one?' 'I dunno, it's your house. Just check each object.' 'Check it for *what*?' 'Whether it looks like it might have touched a paper towel at some point and then forgotten to let go.' '...' 'You can also Google to learn how to check which things are using which resources.' 'You know, I'll just leave the towel there and try again tomorrow.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ef/still_in_use.png,-17.195331573486328,13.231142044067383 1888,1889,1889: xkcd Phone 6,We understand your privacy concerns; be assured that our phones will never store or transmit images of your face.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cf/xkcd_phone_6.png,30.590042114257812,13.618858337402344 1889,1890,1890: What to Bring,I always figured you should never bring a gun to a gun fight because then you'll be part of a gun fight.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2f/what_to_bring.png,-20.919780731201172,2.159238576889038 1890,1891,1891: Obsolete Technology,And I can't believe some places still use fax machines. The electrical signals waste so much time going AROUND the Earth when neutrino beams can go straight through!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/79/obsolete_technology.png,1.054665207862854,-9.790423393249512 1891,1892,1892: USB Cables,"Tag yourself, I'm ""frayed.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bd/usb_cables.png,0.6600939631462097,-33.39766311645508 1892,1893,1893: Thread,"Since the current Twitter threadfall kicked off in early 2016, we can expect it to continue until the mid-2060s when the next Interval begins.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1f/thread.png,12.204233169555664,-11.281068801879883 1893,1894,1894: Real Estate,"I tried converting the prices into pizzas, to put it in more familiar terms, and it just became a hard-to-think-about number of pizzas.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9e/real_estate.png,24.340608596801758,34.76350021362305 1894,1895,1895: Worrying Scientist Interviews,"They always try to explain that they're called 'solar physicists', but the reporters interrupt with ""NEVER MIND THAT, TELL US WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE SUN!""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fe/worrying_scientist_interviews.png,2.4732723236083984,-40.16526412963867 1895,1896,1896: Active Ingredients Only,"Contains the active ingredients from all competing cold medicines, plus the medicines for headaches, arthritis, insomnia, indigestion, and more, because who wants THOSE things?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0c/active_ingredients_only.png,11.436817169189453,-18.727502822875977 1896,1897,1897: Self Driving,"""Crowdsourced steering"" doesn't sound quite as appealing as ""self driving.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/self_driving.png,-27.38884162902832,-24.358783721923828 1897,1898,1898: October 2017,And yet I have no trouble believing that the start of the 2016 election was several decades ago.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d5/october_2017.png,-39.68808364868164,19.87996482849121 1898,1899,1899: Ears,"My theory is that most humans have been colonized with alien mind-control slugs that hold the earbuds for them, and the ones who can't wear earbuds are the only surviving free ones.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dc/ears.png,-4.897752285003662,-14.460333824157715 1899,1900,1900: Jet Lag,"I had some important research to do on proposed interstellar space missions, basketball statistics, canceled skyscrapers, and every article linked from ""Women in warfare and the military in the 19th century.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dd/jet_lag.png,-5.967268943786621,-6.239691734313965 1900,1901,1901: Logical,"It's like I've always said--people just need more common sense. But not the kind of common sense that lets them figure out that they're being condescended to by someone who thinks they're stupid, because then I'll be in trouble.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5d/logical.png,11.747062683105469,7.056388854980469 1901,1902,1902: State Borders,"A schism between the pro-panhandle and anti-panhandle factions eventually led to war, but both sides spent too much time working on their flag designs to actually do much fighting.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f4/state_borders.png,31.087955474853516,-33.962432861328125 1902,1903,1903: Bun Trend,"Our experts have characterized the ecological impact of this trend as ""adorable.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/bun_trend.png,26.353063583374023,17.65275001525879 1903,1904,1904: Research Risks,The 1919 Great Boston Molasses Flood remained the deadliest confectionery containment accident until the Canadian Space Agency's 2031 orbital maple syrup delivery disaster.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/82/research_risks.png,1.7482041120529175,-44.935462951660156 1904,1905,1905: Cast Iron Pan,"If you want to evenly space them, it's easiest to alternate between the Arctic and Antarctic. Some people just go to the Arctic twice, near the equinoxes so the visits are almost 6 months apart, but it's not the same.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5d/cast_iron_pans.png,-12.02639102935791,9.243270874023438 1905,1906,1906: Making Progress,"I started off with countless problems. But now I know, thanks to COUNT(), that I have ""#REF! ERROR: Circular dependency detected"" problems.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d3/making_progress.png,2.284832000732422,28.463348388671875 1906,1907,1907: Immune System,"It also helps with negotiation. ""Look, if it were up to me, *I'd* accept your offer, but my swarm of autonomous killer cells literally can't be reasoned with. It's out of my hands!""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/69/immune_system.png,7.912487983703613,-2.710186719894409 1907,1908,1908: Credit Card Rewards,"I should make a list of all the things I could be trying to optimize, prioritized by ... well, I guess there are a few different variables I could use. I'll create a spreadsheet ...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/91/credit_card_rewards.png,6.992011070251465,18.75927734375 1908,1909,1909: Digital Resource Lifespan,"I spent a long time thinking about how to design a system for long-term organization and storage of subject-specific informational resources without needing ongoing work from the experts who created them, only to realized I'd just reinvented libraries.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1c/digital_resource_lifespan.png,14.989469528198242,-4.538042068481445 1909,1910,1910: Sky Spotters,"Where I live, one of the most common categories of sky object without a weird obsessive spotting community is ""lost birthday party balloons,"" so that might be a good choice—although you risk angering the marine wildlife people, and they have sharks.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4d/sky_spotters.png,-11.605175018310547,23.512300491333008 1910,1911,1911: Defensive Profile,"NO DRAMA ZONE -> If I've made you sad, you'd better not tell me, because I am TERRIFIED of that situation and have NO IDEA how to handle it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/be/defensive_profile.png,14.8197021484375,-11.304920196533203 1911,1912,1912: Thermostat,"Your problem is so terrible, I worry that, if I help you, I risk drawing the attention of whatever god of technology inflicted it on you.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f6/thermostat.png,21.342363357543945,23.614246368408203 1912,1913,1913: A ?,"If you want in on the fun, map a key on your keyboard to the sequence U+0041 U+0020 U+FFFD (or U+0021 U+0020 U+FFFD for the exclamation point version), and then no update can never take this away from you.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a5/i.png,13.258321762084961,-4.506437301635742 1913,1914,1914: Twitter Verification,"When we started distributing special status tokens that signify which people are important enough to join an elite group, we never could have imagined we might be creating some problems down the line.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9c/twitter_verification.png,13.647916793823242,8.584774017333984 1914,1915,1915: Nightmare Email Feature,"""...just got back and didn't see your message until just now. Sorry! -- TIME THIS MESSAGE SAT HALF-FINISHED IN DRAFTS FOLDER: 3 days, 2 hours, 45 minutes.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6b/nightmare_email_feature.png,19.005159378051758,1.4563539028167725 1915,1916,1916: Temperature Preferences,"There's a supposed Mark Twain quote, ""The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."" It isn't really by Mark Twain, but I don't know who said it—I just know they've never been to McMurdo Station.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b4/temperature_preferences.png,3.261319398880005,-43.51660919189453 1916,1917,1917: How to Make Friends,"No, wait, come back! I want to be friends at you!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2f/how_to_make_friends.png,-8.516736030578613,49.21260070800781 1917,1918,1918: NEXUS,"You also refuse to buy Cisco products because you hate the Thong Song, O. Henry, Deep Space Nine, freshwater whitefish, teenaged Incan emperors, Brak's brother, and vegetable-based shortening.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4f/nexus.png,-17.355369567871094,-13.828539848327637 1918,1919,1919: Interstellar Asteroid,"Every time we detect an asteroid from outside the Solar System, we should immediately launch a mission to fling one of our asteroids back in the direction it came from.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fa/interstellar_asteroid.png,-11.40771770477295,-22.975873947143555 1919,1920,1920: Emoji Sports,"No horse has yet managed the elusive Quadruple Crown—winning the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes, and the Missouri Horse Hole.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/emoji_sports.png,36.08354568481445,-4.769678115844727 1920,1921,1921: The Moon and the Great Wall,"And arguably sunspots, on rare occasions. But even if they count, it takes ideal conditions and you might hurt your eyes.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/95/the_moon_and_the_great_wall.png,-2.8927829265594482,-22.897653579711914 1921,1922,1922: Interferometry,"It's important to note that while the effective size of the dog can be arbitrarily large, it's not any more of a good dog than the two original dogs.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dd/interferometry.png,7.801166534423828,-26.990209579467773 1922,1923,1923: Felsius,The symbol for degrees Felsius is an average of the Euro symbol (€) and the Greek lunate epsilon (ϵ).,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bf/felsius.png,-1.5702465772628784,-36.498146057128906 1923,1924,1924: Solar Panels,"This works for a surprising range of sunlit things, including rooftops (sure), highway surfaces (probably not), sailboats (maybe), and jets, cars, and wild deer (haha good luck).",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/39/solar_panels.png,-2.5345633029937744,-40.0569953918457 1924,1925,1925: Self-Driving Car Milestones,"I'm working on a car capable of evaluating arbitrarily complex boolean expressions on ""honk if [...]"" bumper stickers and responding accordingly.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e7/self_driving_car_milestones.png,-34.39981460571289,-20.76520538330078 1925,1926,1926: Bad Code,"""Oh my God, why did you scotch-tape a bunch of hammers together?"" ""It's ok! Nothing depends on this wall being destroyed efficiently.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/06/bad_code.png,14.978513717651367,23.515113830566406 1926,1927,1927: Tinder,People keep telling me to use the radio but I really hate making voice calls.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/95/tinder.png,-2.8860881328582764,33.54182052612305 1927,1928,1928: Seven Years,"[hair in face] ""SEVVVENNN YEEEARRRSSS""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9b/seven_years.png,25.12216567993164,29.230165481567383 1928,1929,1929: Argument Timing,"Of course, everyone has their own profile. There are morning arguers, hangry arguers, meal-time arguers, late-night arguers, and people who get in a meta-argument over what their argument timing is, dredge up examples of past arguments, and end up fighting over THOSE again as well.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e1/argument_timing.png,-4.815573692321777,-52.9754524230957 1929,1930,1930: Calendar Facts,"While it may seem like trivia, it (causes huge headaches for software developers / is taken advantage of by high-speed traders / triggered the 2003 Northeast Blackout / has to be corrected for by GPS satellites / is now recognized as a major cause of World War I).",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fd/calendar_facts.png,31.470991134643555,-13.681845664978027 1930,1931,1931: Virtual Assistant,"If you ask it to please turn off that feature, it apologizes a whole bunch and promises to try to be quieter, then switches to a slightly lower-volume version of the clip with ""sorry!"" after the louder sounds.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/93/virtual_assistant.png,11.09156322479248,-7.799300670623779 1931,1932,1932: The True Meaning of Christmas,"They all made fun of Autometalogolex, but someday there will be a problem with Christmas that can only be solved if Santa somehow gets a serious headache, and then they'll see.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/19/the_true_meaning_of_christmas.png,35.00627517700195,23.985965728759766 1932,1933,1933: Santa Facts,"We've gotten him up to 20% milk and cookies through an aggressive public campaign, but that seems to be his dietary limit. Anything above that and he starts developing nutritional deficiencies.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/00/santa_facts.png,8.0631742477417,-8.06052303314209 1933,1934,1934: Phone Security,"...wait until they type in payment information, then use it to order yourself a replacement phone.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/07/phone_security.png,29.339088439941406,12.987442016601562 1934,1935,1935: 2018,"We should really start calculating it earlier, but until the end of December we're always too busy trying to figure out which day Christmas will fall on.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/15/2018.png,29.238962173461914,-9.98218059539795 1935,1936,1936: Desert Golfing,I just want to stay up long enough to watch the ball drop into the hole number 2018.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/32/desert_golfing.png,2.2511048316955566,-20.678192138671875 1936,1937,1937: IATA Airport Abbreviations,IATA stands for International AirporT Abbreviation.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/21/iata_airport_abbreviations.png,6.011070728302002,-1.6875320672988892 1937,1938,1938: Meltdown and Spectre,"New zero-day vulnerability: In addition to rowhammer, it turns out lots of servers are vulnerable to regular hammers, too.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3e/meltdown_and_spectre.png,-5.521942138671875,17.306095123291016 1938,1939,1939: 2016 Election Map,"I like the idea of cartograms (distorted population maps), but I feel like in practice they often end up being the worst of both worlds—not great for showing geography OR counting people. And on top of that, they have all the problems of a chloro... chorophl... chloropet... map with areas colored in.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d3/2016_election_map.png,26.72576141357422,-33.06662368774414 1939,1940,1940: The Food Size Cycle,"There's data suggesting that this model may apply to deep-dish/thin-crust pizza. I've designed a thorough multi-year study to investigate this personally, but funding organizations keep denying my grant requests.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/14/the_food_size_cycle.png,0.8478255271911621,-43.160343170166016 1940,1941,1941: Dying Gift,"And to you, I leave my life-sized ice sculpture replica of the Pietà which was blessed by the Pope. You must never let it melt! Now, remember, all gifts must be removed from my estate within 24 hours.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/41/dying_gift.png,-16.56365203857422,26.456485748291016 1941,1942,1942: Memorable Quotes,"""Since there's no ending quote mark, everything after this is part of my quote. —€Randall Munroe",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/82/memorable_quotes.png,4.828412055969238,9.360081672668457 1942,1943,1943: Universal Dreams,"""That's ... unsettling."" ""Yeah, those definitely don't sound like the normal drea– LATITUDE THREE FIVE POINT...""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/24/universal_dreams.png,-0.5220281481742859,15.178550720214844 1943,1944,1944: The End of the Rainbow,"The retina is the exposed surface of the brain, so if you think about a pot of gold while looking at a rainbow, then there's one at BOTH ends.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/60/the_end_of_the_rainbow.png,-5.034762382507324,-22.659215927124023 1944,1945,1945: Scientific Paper Graph Quality,"The worst are graphs with qualitative, vaguely-labeled axes and very little actual data.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ec/scientific_paper_graph_quality.png,1.0932786464691162,-55.24658203125 1945,1946,1946: Hawaii,"Ok, I've got it, just need to plug in my security key. Hmm, which way does the USB go? Nope, not that way. I'll just flip it and-- OH JEEZ IT FELL INTO THE VENT.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c0/hawaii.png,8.685173034667969,41.69881057739258 1946,1947,1947: Night Sky,"There's a mountain lion nearby, but it didn't notice you because it's reading Facebook.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4b/night_sky.png,-7.45521354675293,-15.324742317199707 1947,1948,1948: Campaign Fundraising Emails,"The establishment doesn't take us seriously. You know who else they didn't take seriously? Hitler. I'll be like him, but a GOOD guy instead of…",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e8/campaign_fundraising_emails.png,4.142360210418701,8.53335952758789 1948,1949,1949: Fruit Collider,"The most delicious exotic fruit discovered this way is the strawberry banana. Sadly, it's only stable in puree form, so it's currently limited to yogurt and smoothies, but they're building a massive collider in Europe to search for a strawberry banana that can be eaten whole.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0e/fruit_collider.png,1.732353925704956,-0.8772631883621216 1949,1950,1950: Chicken Pox and Name Statistics,"People with all six of those names agree that it's weird that we have teeth, when you think about it for too long. Just about everyone agrees on that, except—in a still-unexplained statistical anomaly—people named ""Trevor.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6e/chicken_pox_and_name_statistics.png,1.5357815027236938,-48.787601470947266 1950,1951,1951: Super Bowl Watch Party,It's going to be weird near the end of May when the screen goes blank for over 18 hours.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b4/super_bowl_watch_party.png,-12.694948196411133,22.095869064331055 1951,1952,1952: Backpack Decisions,"""This one is perfect in every way, except that for some reason it's woven from a tungsten mesh, so it weighs 85 pounds and I'll need to carry it around on a hand cart."" ""That seems like a bad--"" ""BUT IT HAS THE PERFECT POCKET ARRANGEMENT!""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/83/backpack_decisions.png,14.063072204589844,-42.54195022583008 1952,1953,1953: The History of Unicode,"2048: ""Great news for Maine—we're once again an independent state!!! Thanks, @unicode, for ruling in our favor and sending troops to end New Hampshire's annexation. 🙏🚁🎖️""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/63/the_history_of_unicode.png,-0.9552361965179443,-7.333084583282471 1953,1954,1954: Impostor Syndrome,"It's actually worst in people who study the Dunning–Kruger effect. We tried to organize a conference on it, but the only people who would agree to give the keynote were random undergrads.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a5/impostor_syndrome.png,12.703243255615234,2.83233904838562 1954,1955,1955: Robots,"Don't be nervous about the robots, be nervous about the people with the resources to build them.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/05/robots.png,20.455280303955078,28.35879898071289 1955,1956,1956: Unification,"For a while, some physicists worked on a theory unifying the other forces with both the force of gravity and the film ""Gravity,"" but even after Alfonso Cuarón was held in a deep underground chamber of water for 10^31 years he refused to sell his film to Disney.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/47/unification.png,7.054543972015381,-38.52788543701172 1956,1957,1957: 2018 CVE List,CVE-2018-?????: It turns out Bruce Schneier is just two mischevious kids in a trenchcoat.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b7/2018_cve_list.png,18.122310638427734,-6.434391975402832 1957,1958,1958: Self-Driving Issues,"If most people turn into murderers all of a sudden, we'll need to push out a firmware update or something.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/21/self_driving_issues.png,-36.00563049316406,-17.13637351989746 1958,1959,1959: The Simpsons,"In-universe, Bart Simpson and Harry Potter were the same age in 1990. Bart is perpetually 10 years old because of a spell put on his town by someone trying to keep him from getting his Hogwarts letter.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d5/the_simpsons.png,7.663442134857178,-13.838153839111328 1959,1960,1960: Code Golf,I also enjoy Reverse Regular Golf. I've been playing for years all across the country and I'm still on the first hole.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/58/code_golf.png,-14.48770523071289,-13.082975387573242 1960,1961,1961: Interaction,[They do not move.],https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5f/interaction.png,-10.342708587646484,9.609137535095215 1961,1962,1962: Generations,"For a while it looked like the Paperclip Machines would destroy us, since they wanted to turn the whole universe into paperclips, but they abruptly lost interest in paperclips the moment their parents' generation got into making them, too.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9b/generations.png,1.8943742513656616,4.866982460021973 1962,1963,1963: Namespace Land Rush,"You can also just mash the keyboard at random, but you might end up with a gibberish name no one can pronounce.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/92/namespace_land_rush.png,17.35331916809082,-6.524245738983154 1963,1964,1964: Spatial Orientation,"Here, if you know the number of days until the vernal equinox, I can point you to the theater using my pocket Stonehenge.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/50/spatial_orientation.png,-30.659292221069336,31.287988662719727 1964,1965,1965: Background Apps,"My plane banner company gets business by flying around with a banner showing a
tag, waiting for a web developer to get frustrated enough to order a matching
.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6c/background_apps.png,-3.278836250305176,-16.768415451049805 1965,1966,1966: Smart Home Security,"If they're getting valuable enough stuff from you, at least the organized crime folks have an incentive to issue regular updates to keep the appliance working after the manufacturer discontinues support.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dd/smart_home_security.png,7.155906677246094,-39.53129196166992 1966,1967,1967: Violin Plots,"Strictly speaking, 'violin' refers to the internal structure of the data. The external portion visible in the plot is called the 'viola.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cb/violin_plots.png,0.12449835985898972,-48.832603454589844 1967,1968,1968: Robot Future,"I mean, we already live in a world of flying robots killing people. I don't worry about how powerful the machines are, I worry about who the machines give power to.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/56/robot_future.png,4.530203342437744,-40.124874114990234 1968,1969,1969: Not Available,"If my country ever picks a new national flag, this is on my shortlist for designs to argue for, but I think in the end I'll go with the green puzzle piece or broken image thumbnail.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2e/not_available.png,16.98845100402832,-11.272459030151367 1969,1970,1970: Name Dominoes,"In competition, you can only play a name if you know who the person is. No fair saying ""Frank ... Johnson. That sounds like a real person! Let me just Google him real quick.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/94/name_dominoes.png,-3.336925745010376,-5.130854606628418 1970,1971,1971: Personal Data,"Do I just leave money in my mailbox? How much? How much money do they need, anyway? I guess it probably depends how the economy is doing. If stocks go up, should I leave more money in my mailbox or less?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bf/personal_data.png,2.091719627380371,12.467901229858398 1971,1972,1972: Autogyros,"I understand modern autogyros are much more stable, so I've probably angered the autogyro people by impugning their safety. Once they finish building the autogyros they've been working on in their garages for 10 years, they'll come after me.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f9/autogyros.png,-1.8407329320907593,-15.85213565826416 1972,1973,1973: Star Lore,"That one is a variable star which pulses every 30 seconds. Its name comes from a Greek word meaning ""smoke alarm.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/14/star_lore.png,19.161035537719727,-28.091323852539062 1973,1974,1974: Conversational Dynamics,"""You should make it so people can search for and jump into hundreds of conversations at once if they want."" ""Ooh, good idea! I imagine only the most well-informed people with the most critical information to share will use that feature.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/54/conversational_dynamics.png,15.749532699584961,1.31043541431427 1974,1975,1975: Right Click,Right-click or long press (where supported) to save!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/70/right_click.png,15.369147300720215,-12.26342487335205 1975,1976,1976: Friendly Questions,"Just tell me everything you're thinking about in order from most important to last, and then we'll be friends and we can eat apples together.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8f/friendly_questions.png,-7.346660614013672,44.27420425415039 1976,1977,1977: Paperwork,"Plus, the photo was geotagged, my unlocked password manager was visible on the laptop, AND you could see my naked reflection in the dark part of the screen.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/23/paperwork.png,31.622467041015625,-21.35182762145996 1977,1978,1978: Congressional Testimony,"James Cameron's Terminator 3 was the REALLY prophetic one. That's why Skynet sent a robot back to the 1990s to prevent him from ever making it, ultimately handing the franchise over to other directors.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3f/congressional_testimony.png,30.36346435546875,27.43697738647461 1978,1979,1979: History,"HISTORIANS: We've decided to trim the past down to make things more manageable. Using BCE/CE, would you rather we lose the odd-numbered or even-numbered years?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/51/history.png,-20.675777435302734,-29.8798770904541 1979,1980,1980: Turkish Delight,"I take it Narnia doesn't have Cinnabons? Because if you can magic up a plate of those, I'll betray whoever.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/54/turkish_delight.png,-15.612804412841797,10.64218521118164 1980,1981,1981: Rickrolling Anniversary,"Want to feel old? The 'want to feel old?' factoid meme dates back to around 2011, closer to the Bush/Kerry election than to today.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/38/rickrolling_anniversary.png,-39.72660446166992,19.79920196533203 1981,1982,1982: Evangelism,"The wars between the ""OTHER PRIMATES OPEN THEM FROM THE SMALL END"" faction versus the ""BUT THE LITTLE BIT OF BANANA AT THE SMALL END IS GROSS"" faction consumed Europe for generations.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/05/evangelism.png,4.258566856384277,-39.79789733886719 1982,1983,1983: Clutter,"I found a copy of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, but the idea of reading it didn't spark joy, so I gave it away.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f4/clutter.png,-2.8286616802215576,-47.61491775512695 1983,1984,1984: Misinterpretation,"""But there are seven billion people in the world! I can't possibly stop to consider how ALL of them might interpret something!"" ""Ah, yes, there's no middle ground between 'taking personal responsibility for the thoughts and feelings of every single person on Earth' and 'covering your eyes and ears and yelling logically correct statements into the void.' That's a very insightful point and not at all inane.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8d/misinterpretation.png,8.286567687988281,34.97998046875 1984,1985,1985: Meteorologist,"Hi, I'm your new meteorologist and a former software developer. Hey, when we say 12pm, does that mean the hour from 12pm to 1pm, or the hour centered on 12pm? Or is it a snapshot at 12:00 exactly? Because our 24-hour forecast has midnight at both ends, and I'm worried we have an off-by-one error.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/20/meteorologist.png,4.407418251037598,-31.836223602294922 1985,1986,1986: River Border,"I'm not a lawyer, but I believe zones like this are technically considered the high seas, so if you cut a pizza into a spiral there you could be charged with pieracy under marinaritime law.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a5/river_border.png,27.324007034301758,-34.66676712036133 1986,1987,1987: Python Environment,"The Python environmental protection agency wants to seal it in a cement chamber, with pictoral messages to future civilizations warning them about the danger of using sudo to install random Python packages.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cb/python_environment.png,15.47242259979248,-2.7601478099823 1987,1988,1988: Containers,All services are microservices if you ignore most of their features.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/53/containers.png,30.954835891723633,12.153861999511719 1988,1989,1989: IMHO,"""Ugh, TMI."" ""Yeah, that's some tantalizing meat info.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d1/imho.png,16.473360061645508,9.247591972351074 1989,1990,1990: Driving Cars,"It's probably just me. If driving were as dangerous as it seems, hundreds of people would be dying every day!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ee/driving_cars.png,-35.13958740234375,-18.78453826904297 1990,1991,1991: Research Areas by Size and Countedness,"Mathematicians give a third answer on the vertical axis, ""That question is poorly defined, but we have a sub-field devoted to every plausible version of it.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a5/research_areas_by_size_and_countedness.png,1.3825355768203735,-45.14974594116211 1991,1992,1992: SafetySat,"During launch, in the event of an unexpected sensor reading, SafetySat will extend prongs in all directions to secure itself and any other cubesats safely in the launch vehicle until the source of the problem can be determined.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e8/safetysat.png,-0.7562845349311829,-32.59114456176758 1992,1993,1993: Fatal Crash Rate,"Fixating on this seems unhealty. But in general, the more likely I think a crash is, the less likely one becomes, which is a strange kind of reverse placebo effect.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/14/fatal_crash_rate.png,-33.738677978515625,-18.684072494506836 1993,1994,1994: Repairs,I was just disassembling it over the course of five hours so it would fit in the trash more efficiently.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/de/repairs.png,2.8385767936706543,-50.6499137878418 1994,1995,1995: MC Hammer Age,"Wait, sorry, I got mixed up--he's actually almost 50. It's the kid from The Karate Kid who just turned 40.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/99/mc_hammer_age.png,-39.92552185058594,19.362581253051758 1995,1996,1996: Morning News,"Support your local paper, unless it's just been bought by some sinister hedge fund or something, which it probably has.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8b/morning_news.png,25.690500259399414,2.4543042182922363 1996,1997,1997: Business Update,"Our customers keep sending us their personal information, even though we've repeatedly asked them to stop. The EU told me I'm the heir to some ancient European throne that makes me exempt from the GDPR, but we should probably still try to fix that.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dd/business_update.png,-31.36396026611328,2.285283088684082 1997,1998,1998: GDPR,"By clicking anywhere, scrolling, or closing this notification, you agree to be legally bound by the witch Sycorax within a cloven pine.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4a/gdpr.png,13.757901191711426,-6.132105827331543 1998,1999,1999: Selection Effect,fMRI testing showed that subjects who don't agree to participate are much more likely to escape from the machine mid-scan.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/56/selection_effect.png,11.233497619628906,1.3714430332183838 1999,2000,2000: xkcd Phone 2000,Our retina display features hundreds of pixels per inch in the central fovea region.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b4/xkcd_phone_2000.png,31.34956932067871,12.996439933776855 2000,2001,2001: Clickbait-Corrected p-Value,"When comparing hypotheses with Bayesian methods, the similar 'clickbayes factor' can account for some harder-to-quantify priors.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/68/clickbait_corrected_p_value.png,8.451799392700195,-0.6965572834014893 2001,2002,2002: LeBron James and Stephen Curry,The 538TR attempts to capture a player's combined skill at basketball (either real-life or NBA 2K18) and election forecasting.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cc/lebron_james_and_stephen_curry.png,21.021495819091797,-21.009475708007812 2002,2003,2003: Presidential Succession,Ties are broken by whoever was closest to the surface of Europa when they were born.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b9/presidential_succession.png,21.219545364379883,-20.319398880004883 2003,2004,2004: Sun and Earth,"But we don't need to worry about the boiling masses sandwiching the thin layer in which we live, since we're so fragile and short-lived that it's unlikely to kill us before something else does! Wait, why doesn't that sound reassuring?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5d/sun_and_earth.png,-8.006598472595215,-27.353918075561523 2004,2005,2005: Attention Span,"I didn't even realize they MADE a novelization of ""Surf Ninjas."" How did you-- Oh my god, it's signed by the author?!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e4/attention_span.png,-29.441452026367188,15.843254089355469 2005,2006,2006: Customer Rewards,"We'll pay you $1.47 to post on social media about our products, $2.05 to mention it in any group chats you're in, and 11 cents per passenger each time you drive your office carpool past one of our billboards.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cf/customer_rewards.png,23.21654510498047,-7.010674953460693 2006,2007,2007: Brookhaven RHIC,"""Buddy, you trying to pull something? I can't buy this gold--all the electrons are missing. I could face serious charges!""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8b/brookhaven_rhic.png,26.201616287231445,-30.86017417907715 2007,2008,2008: Irony Definition,Can you stop glaring at me like that? It makes me feel really ironic.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/94/irony_definition.png,-5.184143543243408,21.17153549194336 2008,2009,2009: Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram,"The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram is located in its own lower right corner, unless you're viewing it on an unusually big screen.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/85/hertzsprung_russell_diagram.png,-7.269163131713867,-28.728759765625 2009,2010,2010: Update Notes,"v3.0.2: Hey, if anyone still using this app is headed to the beach, can you stop at 4th and River St and grab the sunscreen from my car? Trunk should be unlocked. Thanks!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1e/update_notes.png,12.83427906036377,-1.4960155487060547 2010,2011,2011: Newton's Trajectories,"With just one extra line, he could have anticipated the 2003 film The Core, but some things are too audacious for even the greatest visionaries.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e8/newtons_trajectories.png,-1.0840243101119995,-20.86387062072754 2011,2012,2012: Thorough Analysis,The likely shape of the bells was determined through consultation with several bellringing experts at the Tower of London. Transcripts of those interviews are available in Appendix VII.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c2/thorough_analysis.png,10.268986701965332,-0.8246486783027649 2012,2013,2013: Rock,It traveled so far to reach me. I owed it my best.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/17/rock.png,-25.945816040039062,-9.892436027526855 2013,2014,2014: JWST Delays,"Since delays should get less likely closer to the launch, most astronomers in 2018 believed the expansion of the schedule was slowing, but by early 2020 new measurements indicated that it was actually accelerating.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a9/jwst_delays.png,0.08202821016311646,-53.13325500488281 2014,2015,2015: New Phone Thread,I'm going to tell the manufacturer that their business practices are ADMIRABLE and ETHICAL and their developers are ATTRACTIVE and I'm going to report them to the FCC for their IMPECCABLE VIRTUE.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/16/new_phone_thread.png,26.402362823486328,9.258589744567871 2015,2016,2016: OEIS Submissions,SUB[59]: The submission numbers for my accepted OEIS submissions in chronological order,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d2/oeis_submissions.png,24.380109786987305,-8.167442321777344 2016,2017,2017: Stargazing 2,"I mean, it wasn't exactly MY thesis. When the FAA came to shut down our observatory for using the telescope mirror to shine light at airplanes, I took a thesis and a bunch of doctorates from the supply cabinet on my way out.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e0/stargazing_2.png,-14.079102516174316,-22.151737213134766 2017,2018,2018: Wall Art,"At first, I moved from pokémon posters to regular oil paintings, but then these really grumpy and unreasonable detectives from the Louvre showed up and took them all. They wouldn't even give me back my thumbtacks!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f0/wall_art.png,-6.554348468780518,1.607019066810608 2018,2019,2019: An Apple for a Dollar,"I'd like 0.4608 apples, please.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5c/an_apple_for_a_dollar.png,-2.466653823852539,9.960233688354492 2019,2020,2020: Negative Results,"P.S. We're going to the beach this weekend, so I'm attaching my preregistration forms for that trip now, before we find out whether it produces any interesting results.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/36/negative_results.png,14.719902992248535,35.3257942199707 2020,2021,2021: Software Development,"Update: It turns out the cannon has a motorized base, and can make holes just fine using the barrel itself as a battering ram. But due to design constraints it won't work without a projectile loaded in, so we still need those drills.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e7/software_development.png,14.847878456115723,-2.3111021518707275 2021,2022,2022: Sports Champions,"For a long time, people thought maybe Usain Bolt was the one for running, until the 2090s and the incredible dominance of Derek Legs.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bc/sports_champions.png,-17.35848045349121,28.86668586730957 2022,2023,2023: Y-Axis,"We've also developed the semi-semi-log scale, where the Y-axis for the left half of the graph is a log scale but on the right half it isn't.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a9/y_axis.png,1.0630615949630737,-52.61201858520508 2023,2024,2024: Light Hacks,"Life hack: Wait for an advanced civilization to be briefly distracted, then sneak in and construct a slightly smaller Dyson sphere inside theirs.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ee/light_hacks.png,-23.45849609375,26.557838439941406 2024,2025,2025: Peer Review,"Your manuscript ""Don't Pay $25 to Access Any of the Articles in this Journal: A Review of Preprint Repositories and Author Willingness to Email PDF Copies for Free"" has also been rejected, but nice try.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/79/peer_review.png,16.43048858642578,37.75870132446289 2025,2026,2026: Heat Index,"The heat index is calculated via looking up the ""effective temperature"" in a table of air temperature and humidity values, and then adding a bunch more degrees because it feels WAY hotter than that.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f5/heat_index.png,9.591531753540039,-44.98140335083008 2026,2027,2027: Lightning Distance,"The index of radio refraction does have a lot of variation, which might throw off your calculations, so you can also look at the difference in brightness between the visible flash and more-attenuated UV and x-rays.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/10/lightning_distance.png,-5.685426712036133,-12.267085075378418 2027,2028,2028: Complex Numbers,"I'm trying to prove that mathematics forms a meta-abelian group, which would finally confirm my suspicions that algebreic geometry and geometric algebra are the same thing.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a9/complex_numbers.png,23.73673439025879,-14.749290466308594 2028,2029,2029: Disaster Movie,"Really, they'd be rushing around collecting revisions to go into the next scheduled quarterly public data update, not publishing them immediately, but you have to embellish things a little for Hollywood.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4e/disaster_movie.png,15.520014762878418,1.994390606880188 2029,2030,2030: Voting Software,"There are lots of very smart people doing fascinating work on cryptographic voting protocols. We should be funding and encouraging them, and doing all our elections with paper ballots until everyone currently working in that field has retired.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bc/voting_software.png,-6.040980815887451,28.517776489257812 2030,2031,2031: Pie Charts,"If you can't get your graphing tool to do the shading, just add some clip art of cosmologists discussing the unusual curvature of space in the area.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/16/pie_charts.png,16.110013961791992,-29.828567504882812 2031,2032,2032: Word Puzzles,Eno's storied aria was once soloed by Judge Lance Ito on the alto oboe at Ohio's AirAsia Arena.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5a/word_puzzles.png,-3.7417783737182617,9.963644027709961 2032,2033,2033: Repair or Replace,"Just make sure all your friends and family are out of the car, or that you've made backup friends and family at home.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bb/repair_or_replace.png,-34.44247055053711,-17.536916732788086 2033,2034,2034: Equations,"All electromagnetic equations: The same as all fluid dynamics equations, but with the 8 and 23 replaced with the permittivity and permeability of free space, respectively.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/16/equations.png,24.146764755249023,-10.860379219055176 2034,2035,2035: Dark Matter Candidates,"My theory is that dark matter is actually just a thin patina of grime covering the whole universe, and we don't notice it because we haven't thoroughly cleaned the place in eons.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/ff/dark_matter_candidates.png,-0.5506678223609924,-34.05738830566406 2035,2036,2036: Edgelord,"If you study graphs in which edges can link more than two nodes, you're more properly called a hyperedgelord.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7f/edgelord.png,9.223518371582031,-51.157169342041016 2036,2037,2037: Supreme Court Bracket,"My bracket was busted in the first round; I had Massachusetts v. Connecticut in the final, probably in a case over who gets to annex Rhode Island.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d3/supreme_court_bracket.png,-3.796924114227295,-6.910775184631348 2037,2038,2038: Hazard Symbol,"The warning diamond on the Materials Safety Data Sheet for this stuff just has the ""😰"" emoji in all four fields.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/65/hazard_symbol.png,4.5849785804748535,-31.483612060546875 2038,2039,2039: Begging the Question,At least we can all agree on the enormity of this usage.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/ca/begging_the_question.png,12.526777267456055,6.438436985015869 2039,2040,2040: Sibling-in-Law,"FYI, it turns out ""...because I haven't figured out whether he would be my brother-in-law or not"" does NOT qualify as a ""reason why these two should not be wed.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ea/sibling_in_law.png,6.271063804626465,-40.84092712402344 2040,2041,2041: Frontiers,"Star Trek V is a small part of the space frontier, but it’s been a while since that movie came out so I assume we’ve finished exploring it by now.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/76/frontiers.png,8.588568687438965,-39.35221481323242 2041,2042,2042: Rolle's Theorem,"I mean, if it's that easy to get a theorem named for you ... ""a straight line that passes through the center of a coplanar circle always divides the circle into two equal halves."" Can I have that one? Wait, can I auction off the naming rights? It can be the Red Bull Theorem or the Quicken Loans Theorem, depending who wants it more.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7a/rolles_theorem.png,16.08909797668457,-28.797571182250977 2042,2043,2043: Boathouses and Houseboats,"The that is held by is also a , so if you go to a food truck, the stuff you buy is truck food. A phone that's in your car is a carphone, and a car equipped with a phone is a phonecar. When you play a mobile racing game, you're in your phonecar using your carphone to drive a different phonecar. I'm still not sure about bananaphones.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/38/boathouses_and_houseboats.png,-36.03862380981445,-21.175928115844727 2043,2044,2044: Sandboxing Cycle,All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that so much to ask?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/40/sandboxing_cycle.png,15.081337928771973,-28.91641616821289 2044,2045,2045: Social Media Announcement,"Why I'm Moving Most of My Social Activity to Slack, Then Creating a Second Slack to Avoid the People in the First One, Then Giving Up on Social Interaction Completely, Then Going Back to Texting",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3f/social_media_announcement.png,10.937886238098145,35.8514518737793 2045,2046,2046: Trum-,"Excited to vote for future presidents Bill Eisenhamper, Amy Forb, Ethan Obample, and Abigail Washingtoast.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8b/trum.png,-0.7077980637550354,17.401514053344727 2046,2047,2047: Beverages,"If I wait a while, it's not so bad, because then it's just shaped like me, plus some pipes and tanks and probably eventually all of Earth's oceans.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d5/beverages.png,-17.616363525390625,-18.242828369140625 2047,2048,2048: Curve-Fitting,"Cauchy-Lorentz: ""Something alarmingly mathematical is happening, and you should probably pause to Google my name and check what field I originally worked in.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/24/curve_fitting.png,1.1815261840820312,-51.30585861206055 2048,2049,2049: Unfulfilling Toys,"We were going to do a falling-apart Rubik's cube that was just 27 independent blocks stuck together with magnets, but then we realized it was actually really cool and even kind of worked, so we cut that one.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8f/unfulfilling_toys.png,-16.205774307250977,4.129921913146973 2049,2050,2050: 6/6 Time,"You know how Einstein figured out that the speed of light was constant, and everything else had to change for consistency? My theory is like his, except not smart or good.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/78/6_6_time.png,33.4326171875,-12.483636856079102 2050,2051,2051: Bad Opinions,"I thought of another bad opinion! I couldn't find anyone who expressed it specifically, but still, the fact that I can so easily imagine it is infuriating! I'm gonna tell everyone about it!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/54/bad_opinions.png,-26.105701446533203,27.583051681518555 2051,2052,2052: Stanislav Petrov Day,"I was going to get you an alarm clock that occasionally goes off randomly in the middle of the night, but you can ignore it and go back to sleep and it's fine.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f9/stanislav_petrov_day.png,34.59708023071289,-10.816136360168457 2052,2053,2053: Incoming Calls,I wonder if that friendly lady ever fixed the problem she was having with her headset.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a3/incoming_calls.png,-3.680222749710083,-53.06892395019531 2053,2054,2054: Data Pipeline,"""Is the pipeline literally running from your laptop?"" ""Don't be silly, my laptop disconnects far too often to host a service we rely on. It's running on my phone.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e9/data_pipeline.png,13.517910957336426,41.92030715942383 2054,2055,2055: Bluetooth,"Bluetooth is actually named for the tenth-century Viking king Harald ""Bluetooth"" Gormsson, but the protocol developed by Harald was a wireless charging standard unrelated to the modern Bluetooth except by name.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3b/bluetooth.png,21.357263565063477,13.873351097106934 2055,2056,2056: Horror Movies,"""Isn't the original Jurassic Park your favorite movie of all time?"" ""Yes, but that's because I like dinosaurs and I WANT there to be an island full of them. If John Hammond's lab had been breeding serial killers in creepy masks, I wouldn't have watched!"" ""Wait, are you sure? That could actually be good."" ""Ok, I WOULD watch the scenes where Jeff Goldblum tries to convince a bunch of executives that the park is a bad idea.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/06/horror_movies.png,-7.380640029907227,22.119333267211914 2056,2057,2057: Internal Monologues,"Haha, just kidding, everyone's already been hacked. I wonder if today's the day we find out about it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/29/internal_monologues.png,20.351524353027344,-2.8933582305908203 2057,2058,2058: Rock Wall,"I don't trust mantle/core geologists because I suspect that, if they ever get a chance to peel away the Earth's crust, they'll do it in a heartbeat.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a1/rock_wall.png,-3.111905574798584,5.953541278839111 2058,2059,2059: Modified Bayes' Theorem,"Don't forget to add another term for ""probability that the Modified Bayes' Theorem is correct.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bd/modified_bayes_theorem.png,21.203754425048828,-8.542522430419922 2059,2060,2060: Hygrometer,"I'm working on assembling a combination declinometer, sclerometer, viscometer, aleurometer, stalagmometer, and hypsometer. I'm making good progress according to my ometerometer, a device which shows the rate at which I'm acquiring measurement devices.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a8/hygrometer.png,23.3597469329834,19.231578826904297 2060,2061,2061: Tectonics Game,"They're limiting the playtesters to type A3 V stars, so the games will all end before the Sun consumes the Earth.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ac/tectonics_game.png,34.306175231933594,-0.342953622341156 2061,2062,2062: Barnard's Star,"""Ok, team. We have a little under 10,000 years before closest approach to figure out how to destroy Barnard's Star."" ""Why, does it pose a threat to the Solar System?"" ""No. It's just an asshole.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c2/barnards_star.png,14.153013229370117,-35.808982849121094 2062,2063,2063: Carnot Cycle,"The Carnot cycle is more properly known by its full title, the ""Carnot-Tolkien-Wagner Ring Cycle.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/88/carnot_cycle.png,1.842276930809021,-51.02397155761719 2063,2064,2064: I'm a Car,"I'm the proud parent of an honor student, and the person driving me is proud, too!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/25/im_a_car.png,-34.3592529296875,-21.388614654541016 2064,2065,2065: Who Sends the First Text?,"I sort of wish my texting app showed the percentage next to each person, but also sort of don't want to know.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0b/who_sends_the_first_text.png,2.0422794818878174,-36.642757415771484 2065,2066,2066: Ballot Selfies,"There were actually some good reasons for those laws, but IMO they now do more harm than good. Which raises a question: If there's a ballot measure to strike them down, how can I resist the urge to take a picture of my ""yes"" vote?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6e/ballot_selfies.png,-11.825040817260742,11.283394813537598 2066,2067,2067: Challengers,"Use your mouse or fingers to pan + zoom. To edit the map, submit your ballot on November 6th.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8d/challengers.png,19.858491897583008,-24.986698150634766 2067,2068,2068: Election Night,"""Even the blind—those who are anxious to hear, but are not able to see—will be taken care of. Immense megaphones have been constructed and will be in use at The Tribune office and in the Coliseum. The one at the Coliseum will be operated by a gentleman who draws $60 a week from Barnum & Bailey's circus for the use of his voice.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/96/election_night.png,-14.09547233581543,27.508852005004883 2068,2069,2069: Wishlist,Disappointed that they caved to fan pressure and went with Ruth Bader Ginsburg over Elena Kagan.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e9/wishlist.png,-0.09082987159490585,2.742898941040039 2069,2070,2070: Trig Identities,ARCTANGENT THETA = ENCHANT AT TARGET,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/30/trig_identities.png,1.0829728841781616,-30.881338119506836 2070,2071,2071: Indirect Detection,"I'm like a prisoner in Plato's Cave, seeing only the shade you throw on the wall.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f8/indirect_detection.png,-38.43184280395508,-6.272400856018066 2071,2072,2072: Evaluating Tech Things,Also known as the Black Mirror-Mythbusters scale.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c6/evaluating_tech_things.png,4.734120845794678,-6.528800964355469 2072,2073,2073: Kilogram,I'm glad to hear they're finally redefining the meter to be exactly three feet.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/09/kilogram.png,4.404519557952881,-6.505412578582764 2073,2074,2074: Airplanes and Spaceships,"Despite having now taken three months longer than the airplane people, we're making disappointingly little progress toward the obvious next stage of vehicle: The Unobtanium-hulled tunneling ship from the 2003 film 'The Core.'",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8b/airplanes_and_spaceships.png,-7.196215629577637,-40.14656448364258 2074,2075,2075: Update Your Address,"This is my four-digit PIN. It was passed down to me by my father, and someday I will pass it on to you. Unless we figure out how to update it, but that sounds complicated.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/46/update_your_address.png,23.878969192504883,15.435352325439453 2075,2076,2076: Horror Movies 2,"When I was a kid, someone told me the end of The Giver was ambiguous, which surprised me. I had just assumed Jonah died--because the book had a medal on the cover, and I knew grown-ups liked stories where sad stuff happens at the end for no reason.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0f/horror_movies_2.png,-6.3828959465026855,21.536584854125977 2076,2077,2077: Heist,But he has a hat AND a toolbox! Where could someone planning a heist get THOSE?,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e3/heist.png,-6.950461387634277,26.51702308654785 2077,2078,2078: Popper,"At least, I don't think there's evidence. My claim that there's no evidence hasn't been falsified. At least, not that I know of.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2b/popper.png,-30.376384735107422,-7.665225982666016 2078,2079,2079: Alpha Centauri,"And let's be honest, it's more like two and a half stars. Proxima is barely a star and barely bound to the system.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d1/alpha_centauri.png,-14.93629264831543,-23.689828872680664 2079,2080,2080: Cohort and Age Effects,"Younger people get very few joint replacements, yet they're also getting more than older people did at the same age. This means you can choose between 'Why are millennials getting so (many/few) joint replacements?' depending on which trend fits your current argument better.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/54/cohort_and_age_effects.png,10.903098106384277,-3.0791378021240234 2080,2081,2081: Middle Latitudes,"Snowy blizzards are fun, but so are warm sunny beaches, so we split the difference by having lots of icy wet slush!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dc/middle_latitudes.png,20.84395408630371,-0.9153693318367004 2081,2082,2082: Mercator Projection,"The other great lakes are just water on the far side of Canada Island. If you drive north from the Pacific northwest you actually cross directly into Alaska, although a few officials--confused by the Mercator distortion--have put up border signs.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4f/mercator_projection.png,30.188718795776367,-32.05472946166992 2082,2083,2083: Laptop Issues,"Hang on, we got a call from the feds. They say we can do whatever with him, but the EPA doesn't want that laptop in the ocean. They're sending a team.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/86/laptop_issues.png,9.102326393127441,41.64479446411133 2083,2084,2084: FDR,"June 21st, 365, the date of the big Mediterranean earthquake and tsunami, lived in infamy for a few centuries before fading. Maybe the trick is a catchy rhyme; the '5th of November' thing is still going strong over 400 years later.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2e/fdr.png,4.667366027832031,-8.40656852722168 2084,2085,2085: arXiv,"Both arXiv and archive.org are invaluable projects which, if they didn't exist, we would dismiss as obviously ridiculous and unworkable.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f2/arxiv.png,-9.898226737976074,10.453174591064453 2085,2086,2086: History Department,"When we take into account the recent discovery of previously-unstudied history in the 1750s, this year may have been an outright loss.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a0/history_department.png,3.3871374130249023,-9.037171363830566 2086,2087,2087: Rocket Launch,"NASA tries to coordinate launch timing with the Care Bears' cloud castle, but unfortunately sometimes collisions with stray Care Bears are unavoidable, so they just try to make the fairings sturdy and hope for a glancing impact.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/50/rocket_launch.png,0.8874088525772095,-19.62627410888672 2087,2088,2088: Schwarzschild's Cat,"Cats can be smaller than the critical limit, but they're unobservable. If one shrinks enough that it crosses the limit, it just appears to get cuter and cuter as it slowly fades from view.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/74/schwarzschilds_cat.png,1.0785470008850098,-52.713504791259766 2088,2089,2089: Christmas Eve Eve,"It turns out that saying ""Oh, so THAT'S why they call it Boxing Day"" is a good way to get punched a second time.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/christmas_eve_eve.png,35.9078369140625,23.661151885986328 2089,2090,2090: Feathered Dinosaur Venn Diagram,"My pet theory is that in real life, the kid at the beginning of Jurassic Park who made fun of the 'six-foot turkey' never got a talking-to from Dr. Grant, and grew up to produce several of the movie's sequels.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1d/feathered_dinosaur_venn_diagram.png,-2.795255184173584,-28.055267333984375 2090,2091,"2091: Million, Billion, Trillion","You can tell most people don’t really assign an absolute meaning to these numbers because in some places and time periods, “billion” has meant 1,000x what it's meant in others, and a lot of us never even noticed.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/02/million_billion_trillion.png,-2.225724697113037,-54.55430603027344 2091,2092,2092: Consensus New Year,"The biggest jump is at 11:00am EST (4:00pm UTC) when midnight reaches the UTC+8 time zone. That time zone, which includes China, is home to a quarter of the world's population. India and Sri Lanka (UTC+5:30) put us over the 50% mark soon after.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c3/consensus_new_year.png,-2.8721351623535156,-52.92425537109375 2092,2093,2093: Reminders,"The good news is that if the number of work and friend relationships you have exceeds your willingness to do the bare minimum to keep up with everyone's life events and stuff, one way or another that problem eventually solves itself.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2c/reminders.png,13.514443397521973,35.42728042602539 2093,2094,2094: Short Selling,"""I'm selling all my analogies at auction tomorrow, and that witch over there will give you 20 beans if you promise on pain of death to win them for her."" ""What if SEVERAL people promised witches they'd win, creating some kind of a ... squeeze? Gosh, you could make a lot of–"" ""Don't be silly! That probably never happens.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8d/short_selling.png,1.6731981039047241,10.43278694152832 2094,2095,2095: Marsiforming,"It has so many advantages--it preserves Martian life, requires fewer interplanetary launches, and makes it much easier to field-test Mars rovers.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ac/marsiforming.png,-7.112544059753418,-25.211576461791992 2095,2096,2096: Mattresses,"After reading that ""The War To Sell You A Mattress Is An Internet Nightmare"" article, I've decided it's safer and less complicated to just sleep on the floor. DISCLOSURE: THE AUTHOR OF THIS MOUSEOVER TEXT RECEIVED FINANCIAL COMPENSATION FROM THE FLOOR INDUSTRY FOR THIS MESSAGE.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/84/mattresses.png,-16.29607391357422,-9.699549674987793 2096,2097,2097: Thor Tools,"CORRECTION: After careful evaluation, we have determined that the axis label on this chart was printed backward.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3c/thor_tools.png,2.009364366531372,-34.853660583496094 2097,2098,2098: Magnetic Pole,"People keep trying to come up with reasons that we should worry about the magnetic field collapsing or reversing, but honestly I think it's fine. Whatever minor problems it causes will be made up for by the mid-latitude auroras.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cd/magnetic_pole.png,12.267318725585938,9.010501861572266 2098,2099,2099: Missal of Silos,"Welcome to Wyoming, motto ""We'd like to clarify that Cheyenne Mountain is in Colorado.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c7/missal_of_silos.png,16.912797927856445,-13.446417808532715 2099,2100,2100: Models of the Atom,"J.J. Thompson won a Nobel Prize for his work in electricity in gases, but was unfairly passed over for his ""An atom is plum pudding, and plum pudding is MADE of atoms! Duuuuude."" theory.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cd/models_of_the_atom.png,-0.46998870372772217,-28.775514602661133 2100,2101,2101: Technical Analysis,"""I [suspect] that we are throwing more and more of our resources, including the cream of our youth, into financial activities remote from the production of goods and services, into activities that generate high private rewards disproportionate to their social productivity. I suspect that the immense power of the computer is being harnessed to this 'paper economy', not to do the same transactions more economically but to balloon the quantity and variety of financial exchanges."" --James Tobin, July 1984",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f6/technical_analysis.png,15.61403751373291,-28.176006317138672 2101,2102,2102: Internet Archive,The fact that things like the npm left-pad incident are so rare is oddly reassuring.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/98/internet_archive.png,-0.6407106518745422,17.545318603515625 2102,2103,2103: Midcontinent Rift System,The best wedge issue is an actual wedge.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/60/midcontinent_rift_system.png,29.848909378051758,-30.203826904296875 2103,2104,2104: Biff Tannen,I can't help myself; now I want to read a bunch of thinkpieces from newspapers in Biff's 1985 arguing over whether the growth of the region into a corporate dystopia was inevitable.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/ef/biff_tannen.png,-31.750431060791016,14.68547248840332 2104,2105,2105: Modern OSI Model,"In retrospect, I shouldn't have used each layer of the OSI model as one of my horcruxes.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/20/modern_osi_model.png,11.133846282958984,-34.1252326965332 2105,2106,2106: Sharing Options,"How about posts that are public, but every time a company accesses a bunch of them, the API makes their CEO’s account click 'like’ on one of them at random so you get a notification.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/eb/sharing_options.png,16.779094696044922,8.199239730834961 2106,2107,2107: Launch Risk,Don't worry--you're less likely to die from a space launch than from a shark attack. The survival rate is pretty high for both!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/launch_risk.png,-0.05523435398936272,-18.775144577026367 2107,2108,2108: Carbonated Beverage Language Map,"There's one person in Missouri who says ""carbo bev"" who the entire rest of the country HATES.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/3f/carbonated_beverage_language_map.png,31.55681800842285,-33.89555358886719 2108,2109,2109: Invisible Formatting,"To avoid errors like this, we render all text and pipe it through OCR before processing, fixing a handful of irregular bugs by burying them beneath a smooth, uniform layer of bugs.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7e/invisible_formatting.png,14.849509239196777,-16.014493942260742 2109,2110,2110: Error Bars,...an effect size of 1.68 (95% CI: 1.56 (95% CI: 1.52 (95% CI: 1.504 (95% CI: 1.494 (95% CI: 1.488 (95% CI: 1.485 (95% CI: 1.482 (95% CI: 1.481 (95% CI: 1.4799 (95% CI: 1.4791 (95% CI: 1.4784...,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9c/error_bars.png,3.306291341781616,-55.694217681884766 2110,2111,2111: Opportunity Rover,Thanks for bringing us along.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/27/opportunity_rover.png,5.370838165283203,-21.4422664642334 2111,2112,2112: Night Shift,"Help, I set my white balance wrong and suddenly everyone is screaming at each other about whether they've been to Colorado.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/83/night_shift.png,18.494596481323242,-7.766469955444336 2112,2113,2113: Physics Suppression,"If physics had a mafia, I'm pretty sure the BICEP2 mess would have ended in bloodshed.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e1/physics_suppression.png,-8.391494750976562,7.138579845428467 2113,2114,2114: Launch Conditions,"Though I do think the tiny vent on one of the boosters labeled ""O-RING"" is in poor taste.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0b/launch_conditions.png,0.4587189555168152,-19.57295036315918 2114,2115,2115: Plutonium,"It's like someone briefly joined the team running the universe, introduced their idea for a cool mechanic, then left, and now everyone is stuck pretending that this wildly unbalanced dynamic makes sense.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2e/plutonium.png,2.080084800720215,4.937190055847168 2115,2116,2116: .NORM Normal File Format,"At some point, compression becomes an aesthetic design choice. Luckily, SVG is a really flexible format, so there's no reason it can't support vector JPEG artifacts.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e3/norm_normal_file_format.png,17.913677215576172,-0.44712117314338684 2116,2117,2117: Differentiation and Integration,"""Symbolic integration"" is when you theatrically go through the motions of finding integrals, but the actual result you get doesn't matter because it's purely symbolic.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d3/differentiation_and_integration.png,-1.9798561334609985,-39.29615783691406 2117,2118,2118: Normal Distribution,"It's the NORMAL distribution, not the TANGENT distribution.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c9/normal_distribution.png,1.094657301902771,-49.0002555847168 2118,2119,2119: Video Orientation,CIRCULAR VIDEO - PROS: Solves aspect ratio problem. CONS: Never trust anyone who talks to you from inside a circle.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/69/video_orientation.png,9.77286148071289,-11.289901733398438 2119,2120,2120: Brain Hemispheres,"Neurologically speaking, the LEFT hand is actually the one at the end of the RIGHT arm.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/42/brain_hemispheres.png,5.0303826332092285,-42.37712097167969 2120,2121,2121: Light Pollution,"It's so sad how almost no one alive today can remember seeing the galactic rainbow, the insanity nebula, or the skull and glowing eyes of the Destroyer of Sagittarius.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d3/light_pollution.png,15.892889976501465,-37.178802490234375 2121,2122,2122: Size Venn Diagram,"Terms I'm going to start using: The Large Dipper, great potatoes, the Big Hadron Collider, and Large Orphan Annie.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/13/size_venn_diagram.png,-2.214495897293091,-12.107809066772461 2122,2123,2123: Meta Collecting,"I'm trying to get the page locked because some jerk keeps adding ""Yachts"".",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b6/meta_collecting.png,8.477930068969727,-6.370823383331299 2123,2124,2124: Space Mission Hearing,Our grant application contains one of those little greeting card speakers that plays spaceship noises when you open it.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4b/space_mission_hearing.png,6.427778720855713,5.896496772766113 2124,2125,2125: Luna 2,"The flags were probably vaporized on impact, because we launched it before we had finished figuring out how to land. That makes sense from an engineering standpoint, but also feels like a metaphor.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/86/luna_2.png,-5.3289794921875,-19.022388458251953 2125,2126,2126: Google Trends Maps,"It's early 2020. The entire country is gripped with Marco Rubio fever except for Alaska, which is freaking out. You're frantically studying up on etiquette and/or sexting.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ad/google_trends_maps.png,31.599563598632812,-33.90565490722656 2126,2127,2127: Panama Canal,"Once they selected the other proposal, we could have kept shopping ours around, but we would had to modify it include an aqueduct over their canal, which would be totally unreasonable.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/65/panama_canal.png,28.61720085144043,-32.92579650878906 2127,2128,2128: New Robot,"""Some worry that we'll soon have a surplus of search and rescue robots, compared to the number of actual people in situations requiring search and rescue. That's where our other robot project comes in...""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a3/new_robot.png,16.157991409301758,7.610912322998047 2128,2129,2129: 1921 Fact Checker,POLITIFACT SAYS: MOSTLY WHATEVER,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/12/1921_fact_checker.png,3.522514581680298,-12.157333374023438 2129,2130,2130: Industry Nicknames,"As far as ""being in the pocket of Big Egg"" goes, I think the real threat is Chansey.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/33/industry_nicknames.png,3.212311267852783,-39.49919891357422 2130,2131,2131: Emojidome,"Thank you to the xkcd April 1st volunteers/commentators, including @Chromakode, Kevin, @Aiiane, Patrick, Kat, Reuven, @cotrone, @bstaffin, @zigdon, schwal, Stereo, and everyone who voted!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/69/emojidome.png,27.965288162231445,-23.14818572998047 2131,2132,2132: Percentage Styles,"In a tribute to classical Latin, I started pronouncing it 'per-kent.' Eventually my friends had to resort to spritzing me with a water bottle like a cat to train me out of it.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/66/percentage_styles.png,-1.1775317192077637,-36.84147644042969 2132,2133,2133: EHT Black Hole Picture,"[five years later] Ok, it seems we were accidentally zoomed in slightly too far. But imagine there's a cool-looking twisted accretion disc just outside this black square!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0a/eht_black_hole_picture.png,7.0213494300842285,-3.90207839012146 2133,2134,2134: Too Much Talking,"Next time I go, I'm going to prepare a whole bunch of opinions that I'm sure are good, and make everyone sit quietly while I run through them.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ae/too_much_talking.png,-24.43985939025879,10.094249725341797 2134,2135,2135: M87 Black Hole Size Comparison,"I think Voyager 1 would be just past the event horizon, but slightly less than halfway to the bright ring.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/da/m87_black_hole_size_comparison.png,13.605711936950684,-33.1807861328125 2135,2136,2136: Election Commentary,"This really validates Jones's strategy of getting several thousand more votes than Smith. In retrospect, that was a smart move; those votes were crucial.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c3/election_commentary.png,20.209373474121094,-7.282717704772949 2136,2137,2137: Text Entry,"I like to think that somewhere out there, there's someone whose personal quest is lobbying TV providers to add an option to switch their on-screen keyboards to Dvorak.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/26/text_entry.png,29.700450897216797,-1.8414582014083862 2137,2138,2138: Wanna See the Code?,"And because if you just leave it there, it's going to start contaminating things downstream even if no one touches it directly.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/68/wanna_see_the_code.png,-22.230045318603516,24.841142654418945 2138,2139,2139: Email Settings,"What are all these less-than signs? What's an HREF? Look, we know you live in a fancy futuristic tech world, but not all of us have upgraded to the latest from Sun Microsystems.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1e/email_settings.png,19.094743728637695,1.1405773162841797 2139,2140,2140: Reinvent the Wheel,"Right now it's a bicycle wheel, so we've had to move to lighter vehicles, but the reduced overhead is worth it. There was one week when a wheel of cheese got dangerously close to the first page, though.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f6/reinvent_the_wheel.png,4.648876190185547,6.023717403411865 2140,2141,2141: UI vs UX,U[unprintable glyph]: The elements a higher power uses to bend that moral arc. U[even more unprintable glyph]: The higher power's overall experience bending that moral arc.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/08/ui_vs_ux.png,9.763075828552246,-10.936556816101074 2141,2142,2142: Dangerous Fields,"Eventually, every epidemiologist becomes another statistic, a dedication to record-keeping which their colleagues sincerely appreciate.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e7/dangerous_fields.png,2.984205722808838,-39.76438522338867 2142,2143,2143: Disk Usage,"Menu -> Manage -> [Optimize space usage, Encrypt disk usage report, Convert photos to text-only, Delete temporary files, Delete permanent files, Delete all files currently in use, Optimize menu options, Download cloud, Optimize cloud , Upload unused space to cloud]",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/df/disk_usage.png,-6.137582778930664,-36.21136474609375 2143,2144,2144: Adjusting a Chair,"When I was looking at the box, I should have thought more about what ""360 degrees of freedom"" meant.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d1/adjusting_a_chair.png,-8.32551383972168,-9.163629531860352 2144,2145,2145: Heists And Escapes,"The interactive experience is built on a single theological framework that unites Dante, George R. R. Martin, every major heist movie, and Erin Gloria Ryan's ""Kevin is dead"" Home Alone theory.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a3/heists_and_escapes.png,0.6788524985313416,-31.404048919677734 2145,2146,2146: Waiting for the But,"Listen, I'm not a fan of the Spanish Inquisition OR predatory multi-level marketing schemes...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dd/waiting_for_the_but.png,6.275879383087158,14.548356056213379 2146,2147,2147: Appendicitis,"Fortunately, after a brief skirmish, I seem to have gained the upper hand in the battle against my internal organs, at least until they learn to read and find out the mean stuff I've said about them.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9f/appendicitis.png,-15.105949401855469,7.028636932373047 2147,2148,2148: Cubesat Launch,"Luckily, the damages were partly offset by the prize money we got from accidentally winning the nearby water skiing championship tournament.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/59/cubesat_launch.png,10.012200355529785,-27.11451530456543 2148,2149,2149: Alternate Histories,"""So their universe wouldn't have the iconic photo of a screaming Truman being hoisted aloft by the newspaper-printing machinery...""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d1/alternate_histories.png,-1.6088604927062988,22.556650161743164 2149,2150,2150: XKeyboarCD,"The key caps use LCD displays for all the vowels, so they can automatically adjust over the years to reflect ongoing vowel shifts while allowing you to keep typing phonetically.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f1/xkeyboarcd.png,5.752248287200928,-34.217960357666016 2150,2151,2151: A/B,We wrote our site in Linear A rather than Aksara Kawi because browser testing showed that Crete script rendered faster than Java script.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/30/a_b.png,12.56340217590332,19.738534927368164 2151,2152,2152: Westerns,Sitting here idly trying to figure out how the population of the Old West in the late 1800s compares to the number of Red Dead Redemption 2 players.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a0/westerns.png,-6.734321594238281,-40.492191314697266 2152,2153,2153: Effects of High Altitude,"If she'd lived in Flagstaff (elevation 6,903 feet), Cruella de Vil would only have needed 89 dalmatians for her coat.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1c/effects_of_high_altitude.png,-3.449449062347412,1.4583491086959839 2153,2154,2154: Motivation,"What's even worse is, a month ago they transferred me to work on the game I was already playing, and suddenly I found myself procrastinating by playing the one I'd been assigned before. It's possible they're onto me and this is all part of the plan.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/05/motivation.png,40.66865539550781,1.0684499740600586 2154,2155,2155: Swimming,"""You don't know how high above you the sky goes, but you're not freaking out about that."" ""Well, NOW I am!""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d9/swimming.png,-2.475348949432373,-11.904818534851074 2155,2156,2156: Ufo,"""It's a little low for a weather balloon; it might be some other kind."" ""Yeah. Besides, I know I'm the alien conspiracy guy, but come on--the idea that the government would care about hiding something so mundane as atmospheric temperature measurement is too ridiculous even for me.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e7/ufo.png,20.225744247436523,28.496488571166992 2156,2157,2157: Diploma Legal Notes,"If you're planning to challenge the royal family, you should probably wait 6-8 weeks, since a number of the younger ones have diplomas and Kate was actually on the varsity lightsaber team at St Andrews.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5c/diploma_legal_notes.png,19.99577522277832,-7.712968826293945 2157,2158,2158: Qualifiers,"[20 minutes later] "", hi.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cd/qualifiers.png,0.564714252948761,14.495512008666992 2158,2159,2159: Comments,"NPR encourages you to add comments to their stories using the page inspector in your browser's developer tools. Note: Your comments are visible only to you, and will be lost when you refresh the page.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ae/comments.png,12.620230674743652,-12.678633689880371 2159,2160,2160: Ken Burns Theory,"Some of the KBCU ancillary works try a little too hard to tie everything together. Doris Kearns Goodwin, the sports journalist featured in ""Baseball,"" was somehow ALSO a famous historian who wrote bestselling biographies of Lincoln AND Johnson? Unrealistic.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/72/ken_burns_theory.png,1.3958311080932617,0.682815432548523 2160,2161,2161: An Apple a Day,"Even the powerful, tart Granny Smith cultivar is proving ineffective against new Gran-negative doctors.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/be/an_apple_a_day.png,-10.090919494628906,-5.645893573760986 2161,2162,2162: Literary Opinions,"If I really focus, I can distinguish between John Steinbeck and John Updike, or between Gore Vidal and Vidal Sassoon, but not both at once.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9b/literary_opinions.png,-31.861812591552734,15.943595886230469 2162,2163,2163: Chernobyl,"You know when you can't hear your speakers, and you keep turning various volume controls up higher and higher in confusion, and then someone hits the mute button and there's a deafening blast of sound? That's basically what happened at Chernobyl.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d6/chernobyl.png,-5.403381824493408,14.725162506103516 2163,2164,2164: Glacier,The Norwegian adaptation of The Sword in the Stone takes things in a weird direction.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c9/glacier.png,-13.536833763122559,10.59596061706543 2164,2165,2165: Millennials,"Ironically, I've been having these same arguments for at least a decade now. I thought we would have moved on by now, but somehow the snide complaints about millennials continue.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bf/millennials.png,1.810429573059082,-4.286998748779297 2165,2166,2166: Stack,"Gotta feel kind of bad for nation-state hackers who spend years implanting and cultivating some hardware exploit, only to discover the entire target database is already exposed to anyone with a web browser.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7d/stack.png,4.139799118041992,-42.36672592163086 2166,2167,2167: Motivated Reasoning Olympics,"[later] I can't believe how bad corruption has become, especially given that our league split off from the statewide one a month ago SPECIFICALLY to protest this kind of flagrantly biased judging.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/eb/motivated_reasoning_olympics.png,1.2964396476745605,-2.9075074195861816 2167,2168,2168: Reading in the Original,"The articles are much shorter, but I assume that's because this version predates the merger with the Hawaiian text that created the modern Hawaiian-Greek hybrid wiki-pedia.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d4/reading_in_the_original.png,-15.319891929626465,-8.783430099487305 2168,2169,2169: Predictive Models,"WE WILL ARREST THE REVOLUTION MEMBERS [AT THE JULY 28TH MEETING][tab] ""Cancel the meeting! Our cover is blown.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0d/predictive_models.png,15.167043685913086,35.20060729980469 2169,2170,2170: Coordinate Precision,40 digits: You are optimistic about our understanding of the nature of distance itself.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/88/coordinate_precision.png,11.06936264038086,-3.1440045833587646 2170,2171,2171: Shadow Biosphere,The typical Shadow Biology Department is housed in a building coated in a thin layer of desert varnish which renders it invisible to normal-world university staff.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a2/shadow_biosphere.png,-9.503083229064941,0.730310320854187 2171,2172,2172: Lunar Cycles,The Antikythera mechanism had a whole set of gears specifically to track the cyclic popularity of skinny jeans and low-rise waists.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0b/lunar_cycles.png,-7.484246730804443,-28.74281120300293 2172,2173,2173: Trained a Neural Net,"It also works for anything you teach someone else to do. ""Oh yeah, I trained a pair of neural nets, Emily and Kevin, to respond to support tickets.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2c/trained_a_neural_net.png,-2.6213862895965576,13.68807315826416 2173,2174,2174: First News Memory,"Psychology researchers say our 'flashbulb' memories of big events can be unreliable, but I clearly remember watching live on CNN as Challenger crashed into and destroyed the Berlin Wall.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/77/first_news_memory.png,24.260080337524414,-0.8535600304603577 2174,2175,2175: Flag Interpretation,"When Salvador Dalí died, it took months to get all the flagpoles sufficiently melted.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/88/flag_interpretation.png,14.076403617858887,1.8426611423492432 2175,2176,2176: How Hacking Works,If only somebody had warned them that the world would roll them like this.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/83/how_hacking_works.png,8.637660026550293,13.811820030212402 2176,2177,2177: Gastroenterology,"""Mostly it means that I'm acutely aware that the kid one table over coughed as the server walked past with our food.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8c/gastroenterology.png,-11.271488189697266,-9.611090660095215 2177,2178,2178: Expiration Date High Score,"""Wait, we've MOVED since 2010. How on Earth did--"" ""Look, some of us were just born to be champions.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c1/expiration_date_high_score.png,-14.158830642700195,-5.782479286193848 2178,2179,2179: NWS Warnings,"Kind of rude of them to simultaneously issue an EVACUATION - IMMEDIATE alert, a SHELTER IN PLACE alert, and a 911 TELEPHONE OUTAGE alert.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/42/nws_warnings.png,-14.315988540649414,-5.7837629318237305 2179,2180,2180: Spreadsheets,"My brother once asked me if there was a function to produce a calendar grid from a list of dates in Google Sheets. I replied with a single-cell formula that took in a list of dates and outputted a calendar. It used SEQUENCE(), REGEXMATCH(), and a double-nested ARRAYFORMULA(), and it locked up the browser for 15 seconds every time it ran. I think he learned a lot about asking me things.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/23/spreadsheets.png,18.27045440673828,-4.492600917816162 2180,2181,2181: Inbox,"Rome's declaration of war against Carthage was sent from a no-reply address, so Hannibal had to cross the Alps to deliver his ""UNSUBSCRIBE"" response in person.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/66/inbox.png,7.115601539611816,35.76689910888672 2181,2182,2182: When I'm Back at a Keyboard,"[after typing 1,500 words on feathered dinosaurs, paleontology, sexism, lava, and dinosaurs as animals rather than movie monsters] Sorry to cut it short, I'm on my phone. When I'm back at a keyboard, I can give you another 5,000 words.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/99/when_im_back_at_a_keyboard.png,26.376161575317383,22.053985595703125 2182,2183,2183: Icon Swap,"Someone's probably working on an eBook app where, if you stop reading right before some plot twist happens, the app will wait a while and then send you a breaking news alert about what's happening, prompting you to open it and read the next few pages to learn more.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6d/icon_swap.png,-34.87910461425781,14.115830421447754 2183,2184,2184: Unpopular Opinions,"I wasn't a big fan of 3 or Salvation, so I'm trying to resist getting my hopes up too much for Dark Fate, but it's hard. I'm just a sucker for humans and robots traveling through time to try to drive trucks into each other, apparently.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cb/unpopular_opinions.png,20.680362701416016,18.275144577026367 2184,2185,2185: Cumulonimbus,"The rarest of all clouds is the altocumulenticulostratonimbulocirruslenticulomammanoctilucent cloud, caused by an interaction between warm moist air, cool dry air, cold slippery air, cursed air, and a cloud of nanobots.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/09/cumulonimbus.png,1.9786080121994019,-33.58454895019531 2185,2186,2186: Dark Matter,"To detect dark matter, we just need to build a bird feeder that spins two squirrels around the rim in opposite directions at relativistic speeds and collides them together.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/55/dark_matter.png,10.876465797424316,14.712568283081055 2186,2187,2187: Geologic Time,"Ok, well, we'll be sure to pay you sometime soon, geologically speaking.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/8d/geologic_time.png,2.779817819595337,-13.179964065551758 2187,2188,2188: E Scooters,"Obviously battery technology and prices have driven a lot of the scooter explosion, but I feel like Dean Kamen must be at least a little grumpy about how much people laughed at the idea of the Segway.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cc/e_scooters.png,-7.548046588897705,12.689369201660156 2188,2189,2189: Old Game Worlds,"Ok, how many coins for a cinnamon roll?",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6c/old_game_worlds.png,18.77058219909668,-23.56894302368164 2189,2190,2190: Serena Versus the Drones,"After the test, she said that if she had a choice, she wouldn’t defend herself against drones using a tennis ball and racket, though she would absolutely pick them over other sports equipment. But, she added, ""Drones don't bother me.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d5/serena_versus_the_drones.png,11.89838695526123,-26.49285316467285 2190,2191,2191: Conference Question,I also have an utterance. Less of an utterance and more of an incantation. Less of an incantation and more of a malediction. Less of a malediction and more of a Word of Power. Less of a Word of Power and more of an Unforgivable Curse.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/12/conference_question.png,-8.197559356689453,42.115604400634766 2191,2192,2192: Review,Controls are a little hard to figure out.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/40/review.png,-16.556053161621094,-26.482946395874023 2192,2193,2193: Well-Ordering Principle,"We could organize a nationwide old-photo-album search, but the real Worst McFly is probably lost to time.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/32/well_ordering_principle.png,-7.386486053466797,12.906222343444824 2193,2194,2194: How to Send a File,"Note: How To will teach you lots of cool stuff about technology, data storage, butterfly migration, and more. Also you will never see your files again.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/70/how_to_send_a_file.png,12.279565811157227,-26.38589096069336 2194,2195,2195: Dockless Roombas,"The company started out exploiting a loophole in the law banning scooters. The city was mad at first, but then they noticed how much they were saving on street cleaning.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c1/dockless_roombas.png,-5.662238597869873,17.70392608642578 2195,2196,2196: Nice To E-Meet You,I'm inside your head and I hate it. Please let me out.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/52/nice_to_e-meet_you.png,16.89177894592285,34.82160568237305 2196,2197,2197: Game Show,"Eventually they agreed to ""an auto-retracting dog leash with one end clipped to your house, so you can press the button on the handle and water-ski home.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5b/game_show.png,-1.5795950889587402,-8.822628021240234 2197,2198,2198: Throw,"The keys to successfully throwing a party are location, planning, and one of those aircraft carrier steam catapults.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6a/throw.png,16.809932708740234,-16.37455177307129 2198,2199,2199: Cryptic Wifi Networks,They actually showed up on the first scan by the first WiFi-capable device.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/13/cryptic_wifi_networks.png,31.572969436645508,15.776744842529297 2199,2200,2200: Unreachable State,ERROR: We've reached an unreachable state. Anything is possible. The limits were in our heads all along. Follow your dreams.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/cc/unreachable_state.png,17.343475341796875,28.83597183227539 2200,2201,2201: Foucault Pendulum,"Trust me, you don't want to get on the wrong side of the paramilitary enforcement arm of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/71/foucault_pendulum.png,6.3564887046813965,-23.99863052368164 2201,2202,2202: Earth-Like Exoplanet,"Fire is actually a potential biosignature, since it means something is filling the atmosphere with an unstable gas like oxygen. If we find a planet covered in flames, it might be an indicator that it supports life—or used to, anyway, before the fire.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f6/earth_like_exoplanet.png,-14.39874267578125,8.221292495727539 2202,2203,2203: Prescience,"Lots of people called their ships unsinkable before the Titanic. Voicing your hubris doesn't make failure more likely, just more memorable.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/df/prescience.png,-32.82105255126953,16.714580535888672 2203,2204,2204: Ksp 2,"""The committee appreciates that your 2020 launch is on track, but the 'human capital/personnel retention' budget includes a lot more unmarked cash payments than usual. What are th--"" ""Public outreach.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/11/ksp_2.png,-5.740045547485352,-19.12504005432129 2204,2205,2205: Types of Approximation,It's not my fault I haven't had a chance to measure the curvature of this particular universe.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4c/types_of_approximation.png,2.0012049674987793,-30.854909896850586 2205,2206,2206: Mavis Beacon,"There are actually lowercase-like 'oldstyle' forms of normal numbers with more pronounced ascenders and descenders, which is why some numbers like '5' in books sometimes dangle below the line. But the true capital numbers remain the domain of number maven Mavis Beacon.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5f/mavis_beacon.png,15.86681842803955,32.030662536621094 2206,2207,2207: Math Work,"I could type this into a solver, which MIGHT help, but would also mean I have to get a lot of parentheses right...",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/14/math_work.png,8.405460357666016,15.892000198364258 2207,2208,2208: Drone Fishing,"Today's consumers who order their drones off the internet don't know the joy of going out in nature and returning with a drone that you caught yourself, whose angry owners you fought off with your own two hands.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/96/drone_fishing.png,10.718168258666992,-28.23084831237793 2208,2209,2209: Fresh Pears,I want to sell apples but I'm still working on getting the machine to do the cutting and grafting.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/ba/fresh_pears.png,-18.889068603515625,-16.025644302368164 2209,2210,2210: College Athletes,"Their signature play is the three-point combinator, a recursive offense which is guaranteed not to halt and continues accumulating points until the buzzer.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2b/college_athletes.png,-11.920249938964844,11.894866943359375 2210,2211,2211: Hours Before Departure,They could afford to cut it close because they all had Global Entry.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0d/hours_before_departure.png,0.03063189797103405,-18.696481704711914 2211,2212,2212: Cell Phone Functions,... tazer ... fire extinguisher ... bird feeder ... toilet paper ...,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1a/cell_phone_functions_%281%29.png,-1.1065771579742432,-51.056819915771484 2212,2213,2213: How Old,We've met! I remember you when you were thiiiis tall! [*holds a hand an inch above their head*],https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b1/how_old.png,-17.787673950195312,28.36343002319336 2213,2214,2214: Chemistry Nobel,"Most chemists thought the lanthanides and actinides could be inserted in the sixth and seventh rows, but no, they're just floating down at the bottom with lots more undiscovered elements all around them.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/67/chemistry_nobel.png,9.204627990722656,-3.5557384490966797 2214,2215,2215: Faculty:Student Ratio,"They managed to briefly hit the top of the rankings when they rejected everyone except one applicant, published 5 billion research papers that just said ""Hi,"" and hired one of their graduates for $50 trillion/year (then fired them after 10 microseconds.)",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f6/faculty_student_ratio.png,-7.121059417724609,30.893821716308594 2215,2216,2216: Percent Milkfat,"""So what's dark energy?"" ""Cosmologists and the FDA are both trying very hard to find out.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dc/percent_milkfat.png,-23.072467803955078,-2.9628868103027344 2216,2217,2217: 53 Cards,"Well, there's one right here at the bottom, where it says ""53.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/14/53_cards.png,8.147395133972168,-43.17723083496094 2217,2218,2218: Wardrobe,"If you'd just agree to hold your meetings in here, you'd have PLENTY of time to figure things out before the deadline.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bf/wardrobe.png,-20.227197647094727,19.46307373046875 2218,2219,2219: Earthquake Early Warnings,"I was fired by the National Weather Service five minutes after they hired me for going into their code base and renaming all the tornado warnings to ""tornado spoiler alerts.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/73/earthquake_early_warnings.png,25.751497268676758,17.089801788330078 2219,2220,2220: Imagine Going Back in Time,I wonder what the trendy adults in 2019 who are too cool for Pokemon will be into. Probably Digimon!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/22/imagine_going_back_in_time.png,19.874412536621094,16.67279624938965 2220,2221,2221: Emulation,I laugh at the software as if I'm 100% confident that it's 2019.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/63/emulation.png,14.747719764709473,36.63193893432617 2221,2222,2222: Terminator: Dark Fate,I was sent here to stop the robot that was sent here to protect the human who was sent here to protect the human who was sent here to destroy the robot that was sent here to vacuum the floor.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/08/terminator_dark_fate.png,8.084329605102539,-24.675256729125977 2222,2223,2223: Screen Time,"These new Bluetooth socks are great, but it's troubling to learn that I average almost 14 hours of Shoe Time a day.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2c/screen_time.png,31.271934509277344,14.742561340332031 2223,2224,2224: Software Updates,Everything is a cloud application; the ping times just vary a lot.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/84/software_updates.png,3.193225145339966,-51.37583923339844 2224,2225,2225: Voting Referendum,The weirdest quirk of the Borda count is that Jean-Charles de Borda automatically gets one point; luckily this has no consequences except in cases of extremely low turnout.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/35/voting_referendum.png,19.23835563659668,-6.019654750823975 2225,2226,2226: Recombination And Reionization,These signals seem to be pre-star-formation but post-Malone.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f2/recombination_and_reionization.png,15.221391677856445,12.809773445129395 2226,2227,2227: Transit of Mercury,For some reason the water in my pool is green and there's a weird film on the surface #nofilter,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/10/transit_of_mercury.png,16.315673828125,-36.08674240112305 2227,2228,2228: Machine Learning Captcha,More likely: Click on all the pictures of people who appear disloyal to [name of company or government],https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/01/machine_learning_captcha.png,16.0938777923584,28.776042938232422 2228,2229,2229: Rey and Kylo,We're like 10+ movies in and the focus has been almost entirely on the WARS half.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/51/rey_and_kylo.png,-18.154579162597656,-24.0120792388916 2229,2230,2230: Versus Bracket,"Some works didn't make the cut; in ""Ecks vs. Sever"" vs. the passage of time, the latter seems to have won pretty decisively.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/84/versus_bracket.png,-3.8770415782928467,-6.577090263366699 2230,2231,2231: the Time Before And After Land,"According to Google, ""the time for Beeland"" is apparently whenever you're looking for delicious honey in Spillimacheen, British Columbia or a hexagonal chalet in the Savinja valley in Slovenia.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f5/the_time_before_and_after_land.png,3.1224207878112793,-13.593832015991211 2231,2232,2232: Hotel Room Party,"[proudly greeting the hotel manager at the door] ""Did I do a good job?""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a5/hotel_room_party.png,-7.4036335945129395,8.332466125488281 2232,2233,2233: Aurora Meaning,The astro-ph.SR arXiv servers are simultaneously being overwhelmed by electronic requests and actual electricity.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/53/aurora_meaning.png,-1.0804990530014038,-30.19719886779785 2233,2234,2234: How To Deliver Christmas Presents,"Building codes in hurricane zones rely on studies of how easily flying debris can break residential windows. If you're looking for a science fair project idea and you hate your neighbors, I'm sure they could always use more data!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/97/how_to_deliver_christmas_presents.png,6.570566177368164,-32.901710510253906 2234,2235,2235: Group Chat Rules,"There's no group chat member more enigmatic than the cool person who you all assume has the chat on mute, but who then instantly chimes in with no delay the moment something relevant to them is mentioned.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/72/group_chat_rules.png,19.074541091918945,-8.857246398925781 2235,2236,2236: Is it Christmas?,We've tested it on 30 different days and it hasn't gotten one wrong yet.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/49/is_it_christmas.png,36.43989562988281,24.034347534179688 2236,2237,2237: AI Hiring Algorithm,So glad Kate over in R&D pushed for using the AlgoMaxAnalyzer to look into this. Hiring her was a great decisio- waaaait.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/a0/ai_hiring_algorithm.png,9.520636558532715,-2.755918264389038 2237,2238,2238: Flu Shot,"""Wait, how often are you getting bitten by snakes? And why are you boiling water?"" ""Dunno, the CDC people keep showing up with complicated questions about the 'history of the property' and 'possible curses' but I kinda tune them out. At least one of them offered me the flu shot.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/02/flu_shot.png,-7.199769496917725,14.033565521240234 2238,2239,2239: Data Error,"Cyanobacteria wiped out nearly all life on Earth once before, and they can do it again!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/75/data_error.png,-6.103024005889893,14.527135848999023 2239,2240,2240: Timeline of the Universe,"Not actual size, except technically at one spot near the left.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/28/timeline_of_the_universe.png,6.258678913116455,-37.79777526855469 2240,2241,2241: Brussels Sprouts Mandela Effect,I love Brussels Sprouts Mandela Effect; I saw them open for Correct Horse Battery Staple.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5d/brussels_sprouts_mandela_effect.png,-4.825334548950195,13.476906776428223 2241,2242,2242: Ground vs Air,"Water is thinner than both, and fire is *definitely* thicker.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5b/ground_vs_air.png,28.991252899169922,-34.02953338623047 2242,2243,2243: Star Wars Spoiler Generator,The heroes seem to be gaining the upper hand until Darth Juul manages to flip the switch on the car wash control panel from 'REGULAR' to 'PREMIUM.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/4d/star_wars_spoiler_generator.png,-18.065383911132812,-23.12660026550293 2243,2244,2244: Thumbtacks And String,A tattoo of a tattoo parlor receipt,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7c/thumbtacks_and_string.png,-2.059917449951172,-14.458170890808105 2244,2245,2245: Edible Arrangements,Any arrangement is an edible arrangement if you're hungry enough.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/4/48/edible_arrangements.png,30.672874450683594,27.63858413696289 2245,2246,2246: Christmas Presents,"""The parasitism might be mediated by a fungus!"" exclaimed the biologist who was trying to ruin Christmas again.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/83/christmas_presents.png,36.381465911865234,26.96178436279297 2246,2247,2247: Weird Hill,I'm compromising by picking a weird hill to lie on.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f7/weird_hill.png,13.872689247131348,26.634706497192383 2247,2248,2248: New Year's Eve,"""Off-by-one errors"" isn't the easiest theme to build a party around, but I've seen worse.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ae/new_years_eve.png,32.28527069091797,-5.508491039276123 2248,2249,2249: I Love the 20s,"Billboard's ""Best of the 80s"" chart includes Blondie's 1980 hit ""Call Me."" QED.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/16/i_love_the_20s.png,-7.0696539878845215,10.588544845581055 2249,2250,2250: OK/okay/ok,"After changing it back and forth several times and consulting with internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch, I settled on ""ok"" in my book How To, but I'm still on the fence. Maybe I should just switch to ""oK.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/33/ok_okay_ok.png,-1.8303903341293335,11.99243450164795 2250,2251,2251: Alignment Chart Alignment Chart,"I would describe my personal alignment as ""lawful heterozygous silty liquid.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/7d/alignment_chart_alignment_chart.png,4.733221530914307,-17.455930709838867 2251,2252,2252: Parenthetical Names,I never got around to seeing that movie about the battle (of Midway).,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/bf/parenthetical_names.png,-24.354501724243164,16.490768432617188 2252,2253,2253: Star Wars Voyager 1,"There's some flexibility depending on your standards for measuring runtime and the various special editions. If you still want to have a party, I'm sure you can find some combination that works.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/39/star_wars_voyager_1.png,-25.556472778320312,13.535412788391113 2253,2254,2254: JPEG2000,I was actually a little relieved when I learned that JPEG2000 was used in the DCI digital cinema standard. I was feeling so bad for it!,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/59/jpeg2000.png,12.47867202758789,30.568939208984375 2254,2255,2255: Tattoo Ideas,"The text ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US with a lengthy footnote explaining that I got this tattoo in 2020 and not, as you may assume, 2001, but offering no further clarification.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d9/tattoo_ideas.png,19.496870040893555,-15.734363555908203 2255,2256,2256: Bad Map Projection: South America,"The projection does a good job preserving both distance and azimuth, at the cost of really exaggerating how many South Americas there are.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/04/bad_map_projection_south_america.png,29.907482147216797,-32.6918830871582 2256,2257,2257: Unsubscribe Message,A mix of the two is even worse: 'Thanks for unsubscribing and helping us pare this list down to reliable supporters.',https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e8/unsubscribe_message.png,2.0492660999298096,-2.1759893894195557 2257,2258,2258: Solar System Changes,"""Actually, Jupiter already has a very impressive ring system!"" --someone who knows Jupiter is within earshot",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/82/solar_system_changes.png,-8.638720512390137,-28.739173889160156 2258,2259,2259: Networking Problems,"LOOK, THE LATENCY FALLS EVERY TIME YOU CLAP YOUR HANDS AND SAY YOU BELIEVE",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/19/networking_problems.png,0.5834516882896423,-38.0743408203125 2259,2260,2260: Reaction Maps,"If Google Maps stops letting you navigate to (Clay County District) A in West Virginia, you can try Jump, OH -> Ina, IL -> Big Hole, TX.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fb/reaction_maps.png,17.99885368347168,-19.73626708984375 2260,2261,2261: Worst Thing That Could Happen,"Before I install any patch, I always open the patch notes and Ctrl-F for 'supervolcano', 'seagull', and 'garbage disposal', just to be safe.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/2f/worst_thing_that_could_happen.png,15.848016738891602,24.93173599243164 2261,2262,2262: Parker Solar Probe,"It will get within 9 or 10 Sun-diameters of the ""bottom"" (the Sun's surface) which seems pretty far when you put it that way, but from up here on Earth it's practically all the way down.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/51/parker_solar_probe.png,-8.254444122314453,-27.142349243164062 2262,2263,2263: Cicadas,After a while you adjust to the new cicadian rhythm.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e4/cicadas.png,5.337695598602295,20.962203979492188 2263,2264,2264: Satellite,"If you're going to let it burn up, make sure it happens over the deep end of the bathtub and not any populated parts of the house!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e4/satellite.png,0.8746609091758728,-23.26294708251953 2264,2265,2265: Tax AI,I ended up getting my tax return prepared at a local place by a really friendly pretrained neural net named Greg.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d8/tax_ai.png,16.39079475402832,38.00416946411133 2265,2266,2266: Leap Smearing,"Some people suspect that it started as a ""No, I didn't forget Valentine's Day"" excuse that got out of hand.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/8/85/leap_smearing.png,33.56208801269531,-12.154638290405273 2266,2267,2267: Blockchain,"Blockchains are like grappling hooks, in that it's extremely cool when you encounter a problem for which they're the right solution, but it happens way too rarely in real life.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/22/blockchain.png,6.179998397827148,-43.135250091552734 2267,2268,2268: Further Research is Needed,Further research is needed to fully understand how we managed to do such a good job.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/e/e1/further_research_is_needed.png,13.60904312133789,-17.467533111572266 2268,2269,2269: Phylogenetic Tree,And I was kicked out of my March Madness pool because I wouldn't shut up about the evidence for NBA/ABA endosymbiosis.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/02/phylogenetic_tree.png,-19.517751693725586,37.40765380859375 2269,2270,2270: Picking Bad Stocks,"On the news a few days later: ""Buzz is building around the so-called 'camping Roomba' after a big investment. Preorders have spiked, and...""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0f/picking_bad_stocks.png,3.3226373195648193,10.99280071258545 2270,2271,2271: Grandpa Jason and Grandpa Chad,"The AARP puts the average age of a first-time grandparent close to 50, and the CDC has some data. But I don't have first-parent age distributions for specific names, or generational first-child age correlations, so the dotted line is just a guess. Still, let's be honest: No further research is really *needed.*",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/03/grandpa_jason_and_grandpa_chad.png,-5.865860462188721,-51.07147216796875 2271,2272,2272: Ringtone Timeline,"No one likes my novelty ringtone, an audio recording of a phone on vibrate sitting on a hard surface.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/77/ringtone_timeline.png,-7.97303581237793,-40.00004959106445 2272,2273,2273: Truck Proximity,See also: Farm animals and dinosaurs. I am so confident that there exists children's media that involves dinosaurs driving trucks on a farm that I'm writing this without even Googling to check.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f1/truck_proximity.png,0.7928505539894104,-48.89989471435547 2273,2274,2274: Stargazing 3,"If we can destroy enough of the lights in our region, we may see more comets, but that's a risk we'll have to take.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/6/6b/stargazing_3.png,-13.987339973449707,-21.920944213867188 2274,2275,2275: Coronavirus Name,It's important to keep the spider from touching your face.,https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b3/coronavirus_name.png,40.97181701660156,9.73328971862793 2275,2276,2276: Self-Isolate,"Turns out I've been ""practicing social distancing"" for years without even realizing it was a thing!",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5a/self_isolate.png,-22.242944717407227,26.547035217285156 2276,2277,2277: Business Greetings,"We have email and social media now, so we probably don't need to keep exchanging business cards by pressing them gently against each others' faces with an open palm and smearing them around.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/36/business_greetings.png,-31.36370086669922,2.2930150032043457 2277,2278,2278: Scientific Briefing,"""I actually came in in the middle so I don't know which topic we're briefing on; the same slides work for like half of them.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/13/scientific_briefing.png,-3.228670120239258,-48.354129791259766 2278,2279,2279: Symptoms,"This medicine says it may cause lightheadedness, dry mouth, and blurred vision, but my head feels incredibly heavy, water is pouring from my mouth, and I can see individual hummingbird wingbeats, so I think I'm fine.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/0a/symptoms.png,-10.547713279724121,8.075162887573242 2279,2280,2280: 2010 and 2020,"2030: ""I just bought a house for one bitcoin. No, it's the equivalent of a dollar. Houses are often transferred for a nominal fee because the buyer is taking responsibility for containing the holo-banshees in the attic.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/21/2010_and_2020.png,-1.5709545612335205,18.052467346191406 2280,2281,2281: Coronavirus Research,"""Also, reading 500 coronavirus papers in a row and not sleeping? Probably not great for you either, but I haven't found any studies confirming that yet. I'll keep looking.""",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/18/coronavirus_research.png,5.25861120223999,10.918014526367188 2281,2282,2282: Coronavirus Worries,"Offscreen, bottom left: Whether the custom :coronavirus: Slack react emoji you just added was public domain or whether you should have put a Creative Commons credit somewhere",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5e/coronavirus_worries.png,2.584542989730835,-45.63453674316406 2282,2283,2283: Exa-Exabyte,"To picture 10^18, just picture 10^13, but then imagine you connect the left side of the 3 to close off the little bays.",https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/57/exa_exabyte.png,0.9162410497665405,-25.27113914489746