[2874] Iceland

Title Text:The HVAC bill for installing the Gulf Stream was enormous. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2874/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2874:_Iceland 冰岛 墨西哥湾暖流加热的空调费用十分可观。 https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2874 这幅漫画参考了冰岛奇特的地理特征,由于在如此小的区域内有大量显著的地理特征,Randall得出结论,冰岛一定是由一组不同的行星科学家组成的委员会创建的,他们都在争着将自己的想法实现到他们的“项目”中,而这个项目就是冰岛。 漫画描绘了一个Cueball在一个桌子周围给一些成员做演示的场景,这些成员… Read more

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[2873] Supersymmetry

Title Text:High-speed collisions at the Baby Park track may support the hypothesis that Daisy is her own evil twin, a theory first suggested by Nintendo in the game Majorana’s Mask. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2873/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2873:_Supersymmetry 超对称原理 宝宝公园赛道上的高速碰撞可能支持黛西公主是她自己的邪恶孪生姐妹这一假设,该理论最初由任天堂在游戏《塞尔达传说:马约拉纳的面具》中提出。 https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&a… Read more

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[2872] Hydrothermal Vents

Title Text:Benthic Santas weren’t even discovered until the 1970s, but many scientists now believe Christmas may have originally developed around hydrothermal vents and only later migrated to the surface. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2872/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2872:_Hydrothermal_Vents 热液喷口 底栖圣诞老人直到 20 世纪 70 年代才被发现,但许多科学家现在认为,圣诞节最初可能是在热液喷口周围发展起来的,后来才迁移到海面上。 https… Read more

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[2871] Definitely

Title Text:A really mean prank you can play on someone who’s picky about words is to add a ‘definitely->definitively’ autocorrect rule to their keyboard. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2871/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2871:_Definitely Definitely 你可以对那些对单词挑剔的人玩一个非常卑鄙的恶作剧,就是在他们的键盘上添加一个“definitely(绝对)->definitively(明确)”的自动更正规则。 https://xkcd.in/co… Read more

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[2870] Love Songs

Title Text:The Pi帽a Colada song carves a trajectory across the chart over the course of the song. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2870/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2870:_Love_Songs 情歌 The Pina Colada Song 这首歌的故事在整个图表上留下了一条抛物线。 https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2870 这幅漫画展示了各种爱情歌曲的xy图,根据歌曲主题的感情进行图示。x轴表示叙述者/歌手对于他们所唱的对象的感受,从“No!!”到“Yes!!”,而y轴则表示另一个人对歌手的感受。 这些歌曲可以在Spotify… Read more

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[2869] Puzzles

Title Text:Why couldn’t the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms? Origin:https://xkcd.com/2869/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2869:_Puzzles 谜题 为什么藏项链的人不能是懂现代密钥交换算法的艾丽丝(Alice)阿姨? https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2869 许多儿童书籍,特别是兰德尔那一代所阅读的书籍,包含了故事中的谜题。其中一些在几十年后依然表现不错,比如艾伦·拉斯金为孩子们创作的获奖神秘小说。然而,其他的一些则显得差劲得多… Read more

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[2868] Label the States

Title Text:Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2868/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2868:_Label_the_States 标记美国各州 就算对着手上的一张空白地图,大部分美国人也只能从64州里叫出45到50个州。 https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2868 带有额外州高亮的地图。 真实的美国地图以便比较。 这是美国的空白地图。初看之下,它看起来是正确的,因为所有大型州的轮廓都得到了正确的呈现,但一些州被添加了。例如: 在西海岸,华盛顿州、俄勒冈州和加利福尼亚州都有其… Read more

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[2867] DateTime

Title Text:It’s not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 – T1 =…

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[2866] Snow

Title Text:For someone who has ostensibly outgrown staying up late waiting for Santa, I do spend an awful lot of time refreshing websites to see if packages are here yet. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2866/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2866:_Snow 雪 虽然我早就不会为了等待圣诞老人而熬夜,但依然会没事刷新下快递信息,看看我新买的快递到哪儿了。 https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2866 这部漫画讲述了人们因雪而感到兴奋,这种兴奋可能会引发一些被视为“幼稚”或不那么成熟… Read more

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[2865] The Wrong Stuff

Title Text: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. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2865/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2865:_The_Wrong_Stuff 错误的材料 幽灵过早地找到了找到了爱德华·埃弗雷特·希尔,以至于到卫星发明的时候,希尔的“砖月亮”设想只被当成了科幻小说。 注: 1.休斯H-4大力神,别称“云杉之鹅(Spruce Goo… Read more

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