[1456] On the Moon

Title Text:”I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on Venus and returning him safely to–” [an aide frantically whispers in the president’s ear for a moment]…

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[1445] Efficiency

Title Text:I need an extension for my research project because I spent all month trying to figure out whether learning Dvorak would help me type it faster.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1445/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1445:_Efficiency 效率 我的研究計畫延期,是因為我花了一個月研究 Dvorak 鍵盤會不會讓我打字比較快。 https://xkcd.tw/1445 通常有多种方式来处理问题或任务。可能存在最有效的方法,尽管有时方法之间的效率差异很小。人们经常试图通过首先确定哪种是“最佳”方法来保存不… Read more

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[1441] Turnabout

Title Text:Whenever I miss a shot with a sci-fi weapon, I say ‘Apollo retroreflector’ really fast, just in case.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1441/ 不管我射的是不是科幻武器,我都會很快地說出「阿波羅復歸反射器」,以防萬一。 https://xkcd.tw/1441 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1441:_Turnabout 在漫画中,两个人正在与激光枪进行战斗。当他跳上障碍物时,一个人似乎占了上风,因为另一个人的射门很宽。他提供了经典的“任何遗言?”并用令人困惑的短语“Apollo retroreflectors”… Read more

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[1438] Houston

Title Text:’Oh, hey Mom. No, nothing important, just at work.'< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1438/ 「喔,老媽。沒,那沒什麼重要的,只是工作。」 https://xkcd.tw/1438 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1438:_Houston 这个漫画提出了一个笑话:一个Cueball在Mission Control,但是没有帮助太空船,事实上,它实际上是无益的,完全无视它们。这与人们期望在爆炸事件中任务控制行为的方式相反[引证需要]。 或者,这可能是某种类型的评论: 呼叫中心的外包降低了质量。 呼叫中心无视关键呼叫。 技术精明的人嘲笑技术理解有限的人。 美国宇航局近几… Read more

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[1437] Higgs Boson

Title Text:’Can’t you just use the LHC you already built to find it again?’ ‘We MAY have disassembled it to build a death ray.’ ‘Just one, though.’ ‘Nothing you should worry about.’ ‘The death isn’t even very serious.'< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1437/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1437:_Higgs_Boson…

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[1434] Where Do Birds Go

Title Text:Water/ice has a lot of weird phases. Maybe asking ‘where do birds go when it rains’ is like asking ‘where does Clark Kent go whenever Superman shows up?'< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1434/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1434:_Where_Do_Birds_Go 鸟儿往哪躲 水/冰有很多奇怪的阶段。也许会问“下雨的时候鸟儿会去哪里”就像问“超人出现的时候克拉克·肯特(原作中超人本体)会去哪里?” https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/uKdP… Read more

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[1431] Marriage

Title Text:People often say that same-sex marriage now is like interracial marriage in the 60s. But in terms of public opinion, same-sex marriage now is like interracial marriage in the 90s, when it had already been legal nationwide for 30…

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[1430] Proteins

Title Text:Check it out–when I tug the C-terminal tail, the binding tunnel squeezes!< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1430/ 看喔,如果我拉C端的尾巴,結合通道就會縮起來! https://xkcd.tw/1430 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1430:_Proteins 在这部漫画中,Cueball向Megan询问她做了什么,她回答说她在软件上工作以预测蛋白质折叠。有许多折叠预测软件程序。一些最着名的是[电子邮件保护],[电子邮件保护]和FoldIt。 蛋白质折叠是一种过程,通过该过程,蛋白质在最初在细胞中合成时是松散的,非结构化的氨基酸链,呈现… Read more

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[1428] Move Fast and Break Things

Title Text:I was almost fired from a job driving the hearse in funeral processions, but then the funeral home realized how much business I was creating for them.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1428/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1428:_Move_Fast_and_Break_Things 快速行动,引起破坏 https://www.douban.com/photos/photo/2203487096/ Cueball似乎正在面试,自豪地向面试官Ponytail陈述他的座右铭。 “快速行动,破坏事物”在科学和… Read more

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[1425] Tasks

Title Text:In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they’d have the problem solved by the end of the…

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