xkcd #2863: Space Typigraphy

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• qaz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Planet	Pixel offset	Relative Distance in Comic	Actual Distance in AU
  Mercury	93	0.3907	0.39
  Venus	169	0.7101	0.72
  Earth	238	1	1
  Mars	362	1.5210	1.52
  Jupiter	1229	5.1639	5.2

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  • Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And it’s probably actually a typi since the letters are next to each other on qwerty.

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  • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not that I should have doubted Burlew but that’s incredible.

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where tf does the xkcd author get all these comic ideas from. Like jfc, I haven’t had a single good thought in the past 10 years and counting.

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  • teejay@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He’s super smart. To me they’ve always seemed like the idea for a comic starts as part of a funny and/or interesting conversation he was having with friends or colleagues. Then later he remembers some of them and makes comics out of them.

    That’s how I imagine it, anyway.

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  • SteveTech@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And he’s making YouTube videos now!

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• randomaccount43543@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  explainxkcd.com/2863

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  • Risus_Nex@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apparently it’s actually very accurate

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    • palordrolap@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If the planets remained in conjunction as they went around the Sun, yes. The planets don't wander as though they're attached to the spoke of a wheel though... and as I click through the explainxkcd link, it seems that someone else has pointed that out, albeit in other words.

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• DmMacniel@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Inyalowda eat your heart out.

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• MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mission Control: where are you?
  Astronaut: At the ‘a’ for aliens.
  Earth: Aliens?!?!!!

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• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Would it still work with Free Serif or Liberation Serif etc, or is this part of an evil plot to get spaceship-owning Linux users lost in space?

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  • authorinthedark@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It works with Liberation Serif

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