Title Text:Actual quote from The Demo: ‘… an advantage of being online is that it keeps track of who you are and what you’re doing all the time…'< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1234/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1234:_Douglas_Engelbart_(1925-2013) 道格拉斯·恩格爾巴特 (1925-2013) 引用 Demo 中的實際發言：「…連上線的其中一個好處，是網路可以追蹤你是誰，以及你做了什麼…」 https://xkcd.tw/12… Read more
Title Text:It’s commonly believed that Lorentz contraction makes objects appear flatter along the direction of travel. However, this ignores light travel times. In fact, a fast-moving butt would appear rotated toward the observer but not substantially distorted. Shakira was right.<…
Title Text:I’m leaning toward fifteen. There are a lot of them.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1232/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1232:_Realistic_Criteria 實際條件 我猜要十五年，要解決的問題真的滿多的 https://xkcd.tw/1232 许多人反对太空探索。虽然与卫生，教育，社会服务和军队等高消费者相比，美国宇航局的整体预算并不是很大，但个别太空任务似乎对公众来说非常昂贵（通常为数亿美元），并且实际带来的好处从它们看起来似乎是无形的。简而言之，许多人认为这些钱可以更好地花在地球上，那里有真正的，严重的问题需要解决。 关于如何最好地分… Read more
Title Text:They have a telescope pointed RIGHT AT US!< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1231/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1231:_Habitable_Zone 適居帶 https://sites.google.com/site/bbraintranslator/home/xkcd/1231 在寻找太阳系外行星时，这个容易上当的天文学家非常兴奋，因为他相信他已经在恒星的可居住区域找到了一颗行星，海洋和可见的天气。从这些观察中，他已经确定它很可能有生命，这将是一个重大的开创性发现。 然而，标题解释说，有人用镜子作恶作剧来愚弄天文学家，所以他实际上是在看地球的反射。 标题文字说明天文学… Read more
Title Text:Protip: Any two-axis graph can be re-labeled ‘coordinates of the ants crawling across my screen as a function of time’.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1230/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1230:_Polar/Cartesian https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ 这部漫画讲述了阅读极坐标图和更常见的笛卡尔坐标图之间的区别。 该图表旨在显示观众心中的确定性，它是一个顺时针极坐标图，作为时间的函数。 如果被视为笛卡尔图，则y（垂直）轴表示“确定性”，而x（水平）轴表… Read more
Title Text:I’m entering my 24th year of spending eight hours a day firing the Duck Hunt gun at the flying toasters. I’m sure I’ll hit one soon.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1229/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1229:_Screensaver 螢幕保護程式 這是我第二十四年每晚花八小時用獵鴨的光束槍去打那些會飛的烤麵包機，總有一天我會打下一台。 https://xkcd.tw/1229 这部漫画以“Starfield”屏幕保护程序为特色，这是20世纪90年代流行的Windows屏幕保护程序… Read more
Title Text:’I’m here to return what Prometheus stole.’ would be a good thing to say if you were a fighter pilot in a Michael Bay movie where for some reason the world’s militaries had to team up to defeat every…
Title Text:’Unfortunately, the notion of marriage which prevails … at the present time … regards the institution as simply a convenient arrangement or formal contract … This disregard of the sanctity of marriage and contempt for its restrictions is one…
Title Text:I run a business selling rural internet access. My infrastructure consists of a bunch of Verizon wifi hotspots that I sign up for and then cancel at the end of the 14-day return period.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1226/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1226:_Balloon_Internet 热气球上网服务 https://www.douban.com/photos/photo/2017812588/ 这部漫画引用了谷歌新推出的Project…
Title Text:Data adapted from ‘The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum’ by A.S. Dyke et. al., which was way better than the sequels ‘The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum: The Meltdown’…
