xkcd #2865: The Wrong Stuff

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨randomaccount43543@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨xkcd@lemmy.world⁩

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The phantom found Edward Everett Hale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his ‘brick moon’ proposal were dismissed as science fiction.

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teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
So that’s how we got the Weinermobile.

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randomaccount43543@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
explainxkcd.com/2865

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- bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Does Randall also work on explainxkcd? Because the explanation for the Trojan Horse seems to be pretty far fetched. Although I can’t think of a better explanation either.
  
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  - 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 think explainxkcd is unofficial and crowdsourced?
    
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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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Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Why the Trojan horse? It was made out of what they had available.

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- ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s what I came in here to know about. Like, wasn’t it wood? Didn’t it do a great job?
  
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- WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The Trojan horse wasn't made of Trojans, like the Spruce Goose wasn't made of Spruce. The name is misleading.
  
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- Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Usually horses aren’t giant, nor are they made out of wood and Greeks.
  
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caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Edward Everett Hale has been taken by a fey mood!

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