[2074] Airplanes and Spaceships

Title Text:Despite having now taken three months longer than the airplane people, we’re making disappointingly little progress toward the obvious next stage of vehicle: The Unobtanium-hulled tunneling ship from the 2003 film ‘The Core.'< Origin:https://xkcd.com/2074/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2074:_Airplanes_and_Spaceships 飛機與太空船 雖然比飛機時代的人多花了三個月,但是建造地心毀… Read more

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[2073] Kilogram

Title Text:I’m glad to hear they’re finally redefining the meter to be exactly three feet.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/2073/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2073:_Kilogram 公斤 我很開心他們終於把公尺的定義改成剛好三英尺。 https://xkcd.tw/2073 随着测量技术的改进,标准单位如千克,米和秒被重新定义。通常进行这些重新定义以提高可以知道或再现各种单元的精度,而不改变它们的实际值。这里的笑话是,将千克重新定义为等于一磅听起来对于从不使用千克的美国人来说是一个不可思议的想法。它不仅不能提高其精确度,而且还… Read more

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[2071] Indirect Detection

Title Text:I’m like a prisoner in Plato’s Cave, seeing only the shade you throw on the wall.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/2071/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2071:_Indirect_Detection 間接判斷 我就像柏拉圖的地洞裡的囚犯,只能看到你在牆上的影子。 https://xkcd.tw/2071 这部漫画展示了一个愤怒的社交媒体帖子,一个兰德尔的尖头朋友,反对未知的第三方的观点,这似乎是一个卡通和不切实际的邪恶对待被遗弃的动物。这可能部分是对2051年的回调:Bad Opinions,其中Cueball希望发布对目前在… Read more

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[2070] Trig Identities

Title Text:ARCTANGENT THETA = ENCHANT AT TARGET< Origin:https://xkcd.com/2070/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2070:_Trig_Identities 三角恆等式 ARCTANGENT THETA = ENCHANT AT TARGET https://xkcd.tw/2070 这个漫画在前两行显示了几个真正的三角恒等式,并且通过将代数方法应用于三角函数名称中的字母而进一步低于某些身份“派生”,这显然是无意义的。 第一行是已知的三角函数:正弦,余弦和正切,第二行包含第一行的三角函数的倒数:cosecant,secant和cotangent。 以下身份构成并且越来越荒谬。漫画反映了当我们更加… Read more

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[2068] Election Night

Title Text:”Even the blind鈥攖hose who are anxious to hear, but are not able to see鈥攚ill be taken care of. Immense megaphones have been constructed and will be in use at The Tribune office and in the Coliseum. The one at…

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[2059] Modified Bayes’ Theorem

Title Text:Don’t forget to add another term for “probability that the Modified Bayes’ Theorem is correct.” Origin:https://xkcd.com/2059/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2059:_Modified_Bayes%27_Theorem 不要忘记为“修正贝叶斯定理正确的概率”添加另一个术语。” http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2059 贝叶斯定理是统计学中的一个等式,它给出了给定假设的概率,不仅可以用于单个实验或观察,还可以用于您对该假设的现有知识,即… Read more

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[2058] Rock Wall

Title Text:I don’t trust mantle/core geologists because I suspect that, if they ever get a chance to peel away the Earth’s crust, they’ll do it in a heartbeat.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/2058/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2058:_Rock_Wall 石牆 我不相信地函/地心地質學家,因為只要有任何機會把地殼剝開,他們一定馬上就會這麼做。 https://xkcd.tw/2058 地幔地质学家研究地球的一部分,它位于地球顶部的“地壳”之下。这个行星的顶层是几十英里厚,是我… Read more

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[2057] Internal Monologues

Title Text:Haha, just kidding, everyone’s already been hacked. I wonder if today’s the day we find out about it.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/2057/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2057:_Internal_Monologues 內心戲 嘿嘿,我開玩笑的,所有人都已經被駭了。我很好奇我們會不會在今天發現這件事。 https://xkcd.tw/2057 这部漫画探讨了学者或专业人士可能拥有的一些看似奇怪的观点,因为他们对所研究的领域有更深入的了解和理解。 如果你了解它们的真正运作方式,许多看似平凡的现象实际上可能非常奇… Read more

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[2056] Horror Movies

Title Text:”Isn’t the original Jurassic Park your favorite movie of all time?” “Yes, but that’s because I like dinosaurs and I WANT there to be an island full of them. If John Hammond’s lab had been breeding serial killers in…

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[2055] Bluetooth

Title Text:Bluetooth is actually named for the tenth-century Viking king Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson, but the protocol developed by Harald was a wireless charging standard unrelated to the modern Bluetooth except by name. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2055/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2055:_Bluetooth 蓝牙 实际上,蓝牙是以10世纪维京国王哈拉尔德的名字命名的。但他们当初开发的协议是一种无线通信标准,除了名字以外与蓝牙并没有… Read more

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