Comment on xkcd #2865: The Wrong Stuff

• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Trojan Horse - A mythological, giant wooden horse, supposedly used by the Greeks to invade the city of Troy. Actual horses are composed, like any other animal, out of meat, bone, and other tissues and bodily fluids.[citation needed] In addition, the interior of the Trojan Horse was composed of Greek warriors rather than horse innards.

  Lmao

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I love the variety of places explainxkcd editors find to slip in a “citation needed”.

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    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can find those in the what if series too.

      “Outer space is a lot higher up than Niagara Falls,[citation needed] so the plunge down into the atmosphere at the bottom of Earth’s gravity well adds a lot more than 0.1 degrees worth of heat.”

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• threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think explainxkcd is unofficial and crowdsourced?

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  • Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Correct. I won’t say that Randall has no input, but we can check the version history to see all the different people that made edits.

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• kbal@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I guess the idea is that if a competent engineer had been in charge of the Trojan Horse project, the ancient Greeks would've used an aluminum frame with a mylar fabric covering.

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• Aatube@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What's wrong with it?

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• pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That was the same expansion I came up with.

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