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- Tue May 22, 2018 6:50 am UTC
- Forum: What If?
- Topic: What-If 0157: "Earth-Moon Fire Pole"
- Replies: 30
- Views: 15302
Re: What-If 0157 "Earth-Moon Fire Pole"
The thing is - he didn't actually answer the question posed. How _long_ would it take? If He just said it takes "several years" to reach L1. If the rest is relatively quick then perhaps that's a good estimate for the whole thing but still, I was expecting more precision...
- Fri May 15, 2015 9:29 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1525: “Emojic 8 Ball”
- Replies: 125
- Views: 27943
Re: 1525: “Emojic 8 Ball”
It might have been a good idea if he'd used a downloadable font which had the emoji in it, then they would have worked for everyone...
- Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:21 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1505: "Ontological Argument"
- Replies: 278
- Views: 40456
Re: 1505: "Ontological Argument"
“[God's] omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense. There is no limit to His power. If you choose to say, 'God can give a creature free will and at the same time withhold free will fro...
- Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:33 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1173: "Steroids"
- Replies: 156
- Views: 31934
Re: 1173: Steriods
Numbered responses: 1) If you are really interested in how living things are defined, it shouldn't be too hard to find it yourself. According to Wikipedia, Life vs Non-life is "a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have signaling and self-sustaining processes from those that do not&...
- Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:08 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1173: "Steroids"
- Replies: 156
- Views: 31934
Re: 1173: Steriods
Awesome, and absolutely true. So many of Randall's comics unintentionally point out the inconsistencies of those who believe in evolutionary abiogenesis. "We humans are sacks of chemicals which stay alive by finding other chemicals and putting them inside us." * If humans are just "sa...
- Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:25 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1123: "The Universal Label"
- Replies: 114
- Views: 21956
Re: 1123: "The Universal Label"
Presumably this label could also be stuck on humans? If all you are is hydrogen and time, same as a star or a rock, then how can things like personality, morality, value or obligation have any real meaning? The big bag of fizzing chemicals which is me behaves one way; the other big bag which is you ...
- Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:00 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 0781: "Ahead Stop"
- Replies: 171
- Views: 36634
Re: "Ahead Stop" discussion (#781)
"Have you considered that highway engineers might just know a few things about how people read road signs that you don't?" Well, turns out the highway engineers in quite a few other countries (including the UK) don't know it either, because they write on the roads in the other order - the ...
- Mon May 31, 2010 9:29 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 0747: "Geeks and Nerds"
- Replies: 130
- Views: 34511