[991] Phantom Menace

Title Text:We could go to the theater across town and see if it’s opened THERE yet, but we don’t want to lose our place in line. Origin:https://xkcd.com/991/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/991:_Phantom_Menace 在这里,我们有Cueball和另一个身份不明的角色,身着Darth Maul。 Darth Maul是“星球大战:幻影威胁”中的西斯学徒。西斯是星球大战宇宙中的一群人物,他们拥抱原力的黑暗面,是整个系列中的敌人。 Cueball正拿着一把廉价的光剑复制品,这是绝地武士和西斯使用的武器。 Cuebal… Read more

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[990] Plastic Bags

Title Text:The high I feel when I actually remember to bring my reusable bags to the store–and take them inside rather than leaving them in the parked car–can last for days. Origin:https://xkcd.com/990/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/990:_Plastic_Bags 在美国,大多数杂货店免费提供塑料袋,以及“袋子”,其唯一的工作是装杂货 – 虽然有时这种功能由收银员执行。此规则的一个例外可能是“极端折扣”商店,例如Aldi。即使他们携带可重复使用的袋子,顾客也很少(如果… Read more

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[989] Cryogenics

Title Text:’Welcome to the future! Nothing’s changed.’ was the slogan of my astonishingly short-lived tech startup. Origin:https://xkcd.com/989/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/989:_Cryogenics 人体冷冻技术 其实开发延寿技术才是王道。这样你不但能发明未来,还能活在自己发明的未来之中。 https://songshuhui.net/archives/62833 拿着智能手机的梅根告诉白帽,现在每个人都带着一台电脑放在口袋里,并指出它是如何在线(连接)并充满传感器(如方向,振动和GPS等)。… Read more

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[988] Tradition

Title Text:An ‘American tradition’ is anything that happened to a baby boomer twice. Origin:https://xkcd.com/988/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/988:_Tradition 这部漫画使用美国作曲家,作家和出版商协会的消息来源说,2000年至2009年期间在美国播放的20首最受欢迎的圣诞歌曲都是在20世纪30年代到70年代之间发行的。它显然排除了一些似乎无处不在的现代歌曲,但这是因为这些歌曲没有出现在ASCAP列表中。 在这种情况下,“流行版”意味着向大众发布,而不是最受欢迎的歌曲版本。 婴儿潮一代出生在第二次世界大战后的一段时间后,部… Read more

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[987] Potential

Title Text:The bunch of disadvantaged kids I was tutoring became too good at writing, and their essays were forcing me to confront painful existential questions, so I started trying to turn them on to drugs and crime instead. Origin:https://xkcd.com/987/ 我去訪問過的弱勢兒童變得太過擅長寫作,他們的隨筆文章強迫我面對痛苦的存在危機問題,所以我轉為嘗試把他們變成藥頭與罪犯。…

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[986] Drinking Fountains

Title Text:I’ve always wondered whether you could drink slowly enough, and eliminate fast enough, that you just sort of peed continuously. But I’m afraid to try because I worry someone might call while I’m doing it and ask what I’m…

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[985] Percentage Points

Title Text:Grayton also proposed making college scholarships available exclusively to sexually active teens, amnesty for illegal immigrants who create room for themselves by killing a citizen, and a graduated income tax based on penis size. He has been endorsed by…

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[984] Space Launch System

Title Text:The SLS head engineer plans to invite Shania Twain to stand under the completed prototype, then tell her, ‘I don’t expect you to date me just because I’m a rocket scientist, but you’ve gotta admit–this is pretty fucking impressive.’…

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[983] Privacy

Title Text:Eventual headline: ‘University Researchers Create Life in Lab! Darkness, Faulty Condoms Blamed.’ Origin:https://xkcd.com/983/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/983:_Privacy 这部漫画是关于Cueball和Megan试图找到一些隐私来“挂钩”,这是一种从事性活动的俚语。 他们从宿舍开始,这将提供一些隐私[需要引证]。不幸的是,门被锁上了。他们去到另一个宿舍,但它是由一个人玩MMORPG占据,是“在突袭”,这意味着玩家的联手与他人“突袭”的东西,可能是一个敌人,掠夺他们的物品。这也引发了一些事实… Read more

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[982] Set Theory

Title Text:Proof of Zermelo’s well-ordering theorem given the Axiom of Choice: 1: Take S to be any set. 2: When I reach step three, if S hasn’t managed to find a well-ordering relation for itself, I’ll feed it into this…

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