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The subject matter of the comic varies from statements on life and love to mathematical , programming , and scientific in-jokes. Some strips feature simple humor or pop-culture references. It has a cast of stick figures , [3] [4] and the comic occasionally features landscapes, graphs, charts , and intricate mathematical patterns such as fractals. Munroe has released five spinoff books from the comic. The first book, published in and entitled xkcd: volume 0 , was a series of select comics from his website. His book What If? His book Thing Explainer explains scientific concepts using only the one thousand most commonly used words in English.

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Welcome to the explain xkcd wiki! Help us finish them! Go to this comic explanation. The comic features a character identifiable as a minstrel , bard or folk singer , performing a narrative song on a jetty. The words appear to recount the fate of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald , a famously wrecked vessel and thus seemingly an ideal subject for a musical retelling in a traditional way that is often found in the form of a sea shanty and tells of events familiar to those who associate with ships. The words of the song start off very much in the manner of such a nostalgic recounting, but soon becomes a direct reference to the art of songwriting itself. Rather than describing in song how a disaster occured, it turns out to be a description of how a disaster occured for the sake of a song. The reason for sinking is still unknown, but it's speculated that her hull broke up in the rough waters of the Great Lakes. This xkcd is implying that the real reason for her sinking is that a songwriter bribed a mechanic to intentionally engineer her sinking and give him sufficient material for a new song. As a punchline, the verse goes on to reveal that another even greater maritime disaster had already occured for the sake of a film.

As a xkcd, Munroe often drew charts, maps, and "stick figure battles" in the margins of his school notebooks, besides solving mathematical problems unrelated to his classes.

The subject matter of the comic varies from statements on life and love to mathematical , programming , and scientific in-jokes. Some strips feature simple humor or pop-culture references. It has a cast of stick figures , [3] [4] and the comic occasionally features landscapes, graphs, charts , and intricate mathematical patterns such as fractals. Munroe has released five spinoff books from the comic. The first book, published in and entitled xkcd: volume 0 , was a series of select comics from his website. His book What If? His book Thing Explainer explains scientific concepts using only the one thousand most commonly used words in English.

The seventh What If? In fact, it's honestly sort of impressive to find a solution that would actively make the problem worse in so many different ways. Dropping a comet into the ocean to cool the planet, famously suggested by the Futurama episode None Like It Hot , [1] I'm used to stuff making me feel old, but the fact that this episode aired 20 years ago is distressing in multiple ways. One is that dropping things from space creates heat. When water—or anything else—falls, it gains kinetic energy.

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Go to this comic explanation. Archived from the original on October 1, Retrieved January 6, Retrieved September 30, Retrieved September 25, Magic Title text: 'At the stroke of midnight, your brother will be hurtling sideways at an altitude of meters' is a regular physics prediction about your nonmagical trebuchet, whereas 'you are cursed to build a brother-launching trebuchet' falls out of the Lagrangian. The Verge. In addition, a number of researchers have acknowledged particular xkcd comics as the source of inspiration for their scientific articles. She gives an example of a magical curse that causes the recipient to slay their brother by midnight or possibly noon; it's not science because it doesn't say what will cause them to take this action. Machine of Death Munroe Geohashing. Retrieved August 7, Archived from the original on March 3, Archived from the original on October 6, The Yale Daily News.

The seventh What If? No matter how fast you push something, it will never quite get up to light speed.

Booth Newspapers. Retrieved October 21, The path of movement is shown as a dashed line that first heads directly to the right but starts increasingly curving downward. Article Talk. Archived from the original on December 17, Archived from the original on February 15, It was released on September 3, Geographical maps, their various different formats and creation methods are a frequently recurring theme in the comic. Archived from the original on November 16, Retrieved April 23, Promise ' The joke is that these basic physical laws have been discovered empirically, but we don't know why they're true.