[1610] Fire Ants

Title Text:Here in the entomology department, we have a simple two-step formula for answering any question: (1) ants are cool, and (2) we forgot the question because we were thinking about ants.

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[1608] Hoverboard

Title Text: Origin:https://xkcd.com/1608/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1608:_Hoverboard 此说明可能不完整或不正确:仍有几个表需要填写请勿过早删除此标记如果您可以解决此问题,请编辑该页面!谢谢。 “漫画”实际上是一个浏览器游戏,用于庆祝兰德尔的新书Thing Explainer的发行,该书于2015年11月24日星期二与该漫画同一天发布。漫画因此出现在星期二,取代了本周的正常的周三发布,以配合发布日。 标题是指一个悬浮滑板(类似于一个没有轮子的悬停滑板),这部电影在未来发生的电影“回到未来”第二部分中最为突出,直到这部漫画发布前一个多月。 。 Marty McFly在第二部分中走向未来,更确切地说是… Read more

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[1607] Supreme Court

Title Text:Writing for the majority, Justice Kennedy called the man’s arguments that he could be either Alito or Ginsburg “surprisingly compelling, but ultimately unconvincing.”< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1607/ 甘迺迪法官解釋,此人宣稱自己可能是阿利托或金斯堡,此一說法「十分有力,但終究難以採信」。 https://xkcd.tw/1607 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1607:_Supreme_Court 在这个漫画中,作为新闻主播的金发女郎呈… Read more

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[1606] Five-Day Forecast

Title Text:You know what they say–if you don’t like the weather here in the Solar System, just wait five billion years.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1606/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1606:_Five-Day_Forecast 五日天氣預報 有句話是這樣說的:如果你不喜歡太陽系這裡的天氣,等個五十億年就好了。 https://xkcd.tw/1606 天气预报是一项极其困难的任务,即使它只有五天。在数值模型中,对于诸如温度和风速等变量,初始值中的极小误差大约每五天加倍。因此,大多数气象学家只向我们提供了为期五… Read more

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[1605] DNA

Title Text:Researchers just found the gene responsible for mistakenly thinking we’ve found the gene for specific things. It’s the region between the start and the end of every chromosome, plus a few segments in our mitochondria.

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[1604] Snakes

Title Text:The last band of color indicates the snake’s tolerance for being held before biting.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1604/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1604:_Snakes 蛇 最後一條色環用來標示這條蛇被人抓起來之後能容忍到什麼程度而不咬人 https://xkcd.tw/1604 在漫画中,梅根混淆了一种流行的识别危险的北美珊瑚蛇的方法,红色,黄色和黑色条纹,以及用于表示电阻器阻力的颜色编码系统。 珊瑚蛇的黄色条纹旁边有红色条纹。然而,珊瑚蛇被具有相似着色的非毒物种模仿,例如牛奶蛇,其红色带不与其黄色带相邻。这导致了各种各… Read more

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[1603] Flashlights

Title Text:Due to a typo, I initially found a forum for serious Fleshlight enthusiasts, and it turns out their highest-end models are ALSO capable of setting trees on fire. They’re impossible to use without severe burns, but some of them…

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[1601] Isolation

Title Text:2060: The gregarious superintelligent AI, happily talking its way out of a box, is fast becoming a relic of the past. Today’s quantum hyper-beings are too busy with their internal multiverse sims to even notice that they’re in boxes…

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