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…
原作：http://what-if.xkcd.com/50 译者：猪的米 What if 系列：https://songshuhui.net/archives/tag/what-if 提问： 在一湾水银河里划船会是什么样子的？溴河呢？液态镓河呢？液态钨河呢？液态氮河呢？液态氦河呢？（敢不敢再奇怪一点……） —— Nicholas Aron 回答： 你一口气问得太多了，让我一个一个来回答…… 溴和水银是已知物质中仅有的在室温下是液态的单质。 在水银河里划船是有可能的…… 水银的密度极大，甚至铁质的轴承都能在里面浮起来。因而你所坐的船只会在水银表面弄出浅浅的凹痕，而且你得把全身的重量都压在船桨上才能勉强让它插入水银液面以下一点点的距离。 归根到底，在水银河里划船是件费力的事情，而且你划不快，不过你确实可以划上一段距离。 哦对了… Read more
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’…
Title Text:’And hypnotize someone into thinking they’ve uploaded it and passed it around.’ ‘But then won’t the uploader get suspicious that it pauses at 301+ for a while? Why don’t we just forge the number entirel–‘ ::BLAM:: ‘The Council of 299…
原作：http://what-if.xkcd.com/49 译者：猪的米 What if 系列：https://songshuhui.net/archives/tag/what-if 提问： 如果太阳某一天突然灭了，地球会怎么样？ —— 许许多多无穷无尽的读者们 回答： 这个问题可能是What if 栏目收到的最多的问题了……（喂喂喂，别再问我这个问题了！） 那为什么我到现在都不回答这个问题呢？嗯……部分原因是这个问题已经被回答过了（坑被人占了！）。随手谷歌一下”太阳熄灭了会怎么样“就能找到许许多多详细分析这种情况的好文章。 不过，自从前几期讲到了日落，问这个问题的人就更加多了（愚蠢的人类啊！），所以我还是尽我所能回答一下。（虽然坑没有了，但是翔还是要拉的！） 如果太阳熄灭了…… 我们不用在意太阳是… Read more
Title Text:I may be the kind of person who wastes a year implementing a Turing-complete computer in Dwarf Fortress, but that makes you the kind of person who wastes ten more getting that computer to run Minecraft.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1223/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1223:_Dwarf_Fortress 矮人要塞…
Title Text:Good thing we’re too smart to spend all day being uselessly frustrated with ourselves. I mean, that’d be a hell of a waste, right?
Title Text:[shouted, from the field] ‘Aunt Beast hit a pop fly to second! Dive for it, Mrs Whatsit!'< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1221/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1221:_Nomenclature 事物命名法 https://sites.google.com/site/bbraintranslator/home/xkcd/1221 命名法可以定义为设计或选择事物的名称。兰德尔在这里连接了三个流行文化参考文献，每个文献都包含一个或多个基于代词的模糊命名实例：“谁在第一个？” skit，“神秘博士”电视连续剧，以及标题文本中的Madel… Read more
