Title Text: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.'<
Origin:https://xkcd.com/1219/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1219:_Reports
報告
https://sites.google.com/site/bbraintranslator/home/xkcd/1219
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Title Text: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?<
Origin:https://xkcd.com/1218/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1218:_Doors_of_Durin
Title Text: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.<
Origin:https://xkcd.com/1217/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1217:_Cells
由于高死亡率，兰德尔在过去的漫画中访问过一个话题，癌症是最令人恐惧的疾病之一。
每当一项研究发现一种治愈方法的… Read more
Title Text:Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.<
Origin:https://xkcd.com/1216/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1216:_Sticks_and_Stones
棍棒和石頭
https://sites.google.com/site/bbraintranslator/home/xkcd/1216
棍棒和石头，如下：
棍棒和石头可能会打破我的骨头
但言语永远不会伤害我。
是一种童谣，通常由父母和一些变异，说服一个人，通常是一个孩子，忽略任何名字或称为他人说的试图伤害个人感情的嘲讽。
当孩子回应时，漫画挑战了这种情绪，虽然言… Read more
Title Text: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.<
Origin:https://xkcd.com/1215/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1215:_Insight
White Hat正在深入了解＆lt; Google Glass＆gt;。然而，对于任何其他新技术而言… Read more
提问：
我听说如果地球缩小到保龄球那么大，那么它的表面会比保龄球更加光滑。我的问题是，如果把一个保龄球吹到地球那么大，那么它看起来会是什么样子的？
—— Seth C.
回答：
一个质量过硬的专业级别的保龄球是比地球要更加光滑的。
Bad Astronomy专栏的菲尔·普莱特（Phil Plait）曾经研究过”地球比桌球更光滑”这一说法，他的结论是地球确实相比来说更加光滑，但不如桌球圆。他的这一结论是基于发表的桌球圆度公差之上的。不过，他找不到任何关于桌球表面起伏大小或形状的数据。
幸运的是，曾有人对保龄球表面进行了
Title Text: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.<
Origin:https://xkcd.com/1214/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1214:_Geoguessr
Geoguessr是一款游戏，玩家可以在Google街景中获得一个位置，并根据街景视图中的360度视图点击世界地图，要… Read more
Title Text: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.<
Origin:https://xkcd.com/1213/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1213:_Combination_Vision_Test
混合的视觉测试
https://www.douban.com/photos/photo/1979182520/
联觉是一种情境，其中一种感觉或认知途径中的感知导致第二感觉或认知途径中的自动，非自愿体验。常见的例子是在阅读… Read more
Title Text:The strongest incentive we have to develop faster-than-light travel is that it would let us apologize in advance.<
Origin:https://xkcd.com/1212/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1212:_Interstellar_Memes
兰德尔突出了流行文化中的各种模因。模因是一种现象，通常在这种情况下以电影引用，音乐参考，流行语或其他值得注意的说法通过口口传播迅速传播。模因变得流行，因为人们听到它们并将它们重复给别人。兰德尔指出，如果假设来自其他恒星系统的智能生命正在倾听我们所说的事情，那么他们现在就会听到并推广几年前在地球上… Read more
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