[1130] Poll Watching
Title Text:The choices we make Tuesday could have MASSIVE and PERMANENT effects on the charts on Nate Silver’s blog!
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[1129] Cell Number
Title Text:There’s also a +1 sometimes, which is there to keep everyone on their toes. In the future, people who got to pick cool numbers by signing up for Google Voice early will be revered as wizards.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1129/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1129:_Cell_Number https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/…
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[1128] Fifty Shades
Title Text:Wishbone and the Illustrated Classics series have gotten me through every conversation I’ve ever had about Dickens, Treasure Island, The Anarchist’s Cookbook, and Our Bodies, Ourselves.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1128/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1128:_Fifty_Shades 五十道阴影 https://www.douban.com/photos/photo/1767646223/ 五十度灰色是一部畅销小说，具有大量的BDSM… Read more
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[What if]第18期——BB枪
原作:http://what-if.xkcd.com/18/ 翻译：junglerubik 校准：Ent 在电影《世界末日》中，一个NASA的人说用激光射小行星的计划就像“用BB枪射一辆货运列车。”那么需要用多少把BB枪才能让一辆失去控制的货运列车停下来呢？——Charles JamesO’Keefe 首先要明确指出，用激光照射小行星其实是一个让它们偏移的好办法。而用BB枪将列车停下可能就比较困难了。 一杆“红色游骑兵”弹簧活塞型杠杆式气步枪能将一颗标准的0.177口径、重0.33克的钢制BB弹以100米每秒的出膛速度射出。 Red Ryder，又译“红色莱德”，外形仿温彻斯特步枪制造，美国最著名的玩具气枪，如果你玩过《辐射》应该不会陌生。另外这把枪还是电影《圣诞故事》中的核心道具，电影里的主人… Read more
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[1127] Congress
Title Text:It’d be great if some news network started featuring partisan hack talking heads who were all Federalists and Jacksonians, just to see how long it took us to catch on.
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[1126] Epsilon and Zeta
Title Text:The average error in the NHC forecasted position of a hurricane three days in the future has shrunk to a third of what it was in 1990–a staggering accomplishment. However, as you may have gathered, forecasts of future storm…
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[1125] Objects In Mirror
Title Text:Universes in mirror, like those in windshield, are larger than they appear.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1125/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1125:_Objects_In_Mirror https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ 对于不是来自美国，印度，加拿大和韩国的所有人：“镜子中的物体比他们看起来更近”是必需的，虽然有点荒谬，“安全警告”，需要雕刻在机动车的乘客侧后视镜上。这些国家的镜子通常是唯一略微凸起的镜子，使物体看起来比它们的真实尺寸更小（更远）。其他国家通常在驾驶员侧和乘客侧后视镜中具有凸起以提供更大的… Read more
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[What if]第17期——绿色奶牛
原作：http://what-if.xkcd.com/17/ 翻译：junglerubik 校准：Ent 如果奶牛可以进行光合作用的话，它们能少吃多少食物？——匿名 从某种程度上来说，它们已经在“光合”了。牧草在地上不断吸收来自太阳的能量，以化学能的方式储存起来。之后食草动物就能过来在几分钟内吸收掉积累了几个星期的能量。 一头站姿恰当的娟姗牛大概有两平方米的有效受光面积。（奶牛可能需要经过训练才能站立成最佳受光姿态，不过我们也许不需要花费太多的力气来训练它们；研究表明它们已经能够自动以南北朝向排列） 叶绿素大概会吸收阳光总能量的3%-6%。假设每天奶牛能得到相当于6个小时的正午光照，那光合作用每天吸收的有效能量还不到200万焦耳。 这些能量多吗？呃，一头在牧场上到处晃悠的450公斤重的奶牛每天可能要吃掉的… Read more
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[1124] Law of Drama
Title Text:’Drama’ is just ‘people being upset,’ when someone says they’re always surrounded by drama and they just ignore it, it starts to make sense that their strategy might be backfiring.
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[1123] The Universal Label
Title Text:Works for any grocery or non-grocery. Even thyme is just H and time.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1123/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1123:_The_Universal_Label 万能标签 https://www.douban.com/photos/photo/1748308282/ 宇宙中的所有物质（比锂-7重）都是通过自大爆炸以来已经过去的138亿年间恒星内氢原子的核聚变而产生的。本文关于制作原子的详细解释（对于外行人）。 从这篇文章（以及关于大爆炸的维基文章）可以清楚地看出，我们的宇宙不仅仅是从氢气开始的。虽然大爆炸产生的大部分原子都是氢，… Read more
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