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I now want to fact check this. Does anyone have a copy if the Kansas City Sun from 6th May 1921?
Brighton, UK
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Predictably, Explain XKCD has already done some fact checking:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2129:_1921_Fact_Checker
Perhaps equally predictable: Randall did his research.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2129:_1921_Fact_Checker
Perhaps equally predictable: Randall did his research.
POLITIFACT SAYS: MOSTLY WHATEVER
Seems odd to have times in Eastern rather than UTC, given timezones are always quoted relative to UTC.
Is there a mistake in the caption or alt text? The caption implies consensus new year happens at 6:30 UTC, but the alt text says 5:30
Is there a mistake in the caption or alt text? The caption implies consensus new year happens at 6:30 UTC, but the alt text says 5:30
Brighton, UK
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Note: the line appears to reach 100% but some of us will continue living in the past.
Earth, Sol system, Western spiral arm
TIL that one time zone has a quarter of the world's population.
Lafayette, LA, USA
The biggest jump is at 11:00am EST (4:00pm UTC) when midnight reaches the UTC+8 time zone. That time zone, which includes China, is home to a quarter of the world's population. India and Sri Lanka (UTC+5:30) put us over the 50% mark soon after.
The biggest jump is at 11:00am EST (4:00pm UTC) when midnight reaches the UTC+8 time zone. That time zone, which includes China, is home to a quarter of the world's population. India and Sri Lanka (UTC+5:30) put us over the 50% mark soon after.
In Europe we just include the sales tax in the price on the shelf. If the label says £1, I hand over £1. When I'm buying something I don't really care how much of that £1 is tax, how much is going to the shop, how much is going to the producer etc.
Brighton, UK
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A lot of places work out their prices so things land exactly on an even dollar amount after taxes. The japanese restaurant I eat at randomly, for example. I'm still an advocate for eliminating the nickel and penny entirely.
Colorado Plateau
one of a million reasons I love living in Oregon. Though sales tax is slightly progressive..
Uranus
I'd like 0.4608 apples, please.
I'd like 0.4608 apples, please.
Click through and you'll see that this comic is meant to be shown much larger than normal size.
Brighton, UK
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No, tell the park rangers to calm down, it's fine--I put a screen on the front. I just want to get the birds a little closer.
The site it links to is down, but the flowchart is accessible at https://web.archive.org/web/20160110210954/http://meteorites.wustl.edu/check-list.htm
Brighton, UK
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how to identify a meteorite (be sure to check the mouse-over).
San Francisco, CA
I used to work in a lab in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington U, therefore I am (extremely) tangentially related to this xkcd and feeling very pleased with myself. (also I wonder if they've figured out why their site is crashing this morning...)
Chicago
Click for an actual flowchart for identifying a meteorite. My favorite part is how 'Did someone see it fall? -> Yes' points to 'NOT A METEORITE.' This is not a mistake.
As a non-American, Farenheit points 2, 5 and 6 don't make sense to me. Celsius is easy to approximate, and my friends expect me to talk Celsius.
Brighton, UK
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Arctic weather
Asia, EU, Africa
We just don't have enough ascot weather days here in Sacramento.
Yup.
The Apollo Guidance Computers used metric units internally, and converted to "English" units for display... so really there was no excuse for losing the Mars Climate Orbiter over this crap 30 years later. Source: http://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html
New York, NY
I seriously don't understand why people don't want their temperature in degrees Reamur any more... :-P
FourSquare, qv
I'm the friend that does this on purpose.
East Helena, MT
"Radians Fahrenheit or radians Celsius?" "Uh, sorry, gotta go!"
t-shirt weather, sweatshirt weather, parka weather, umbrella weather, rain suit weather, galoshes weather, waders weather, ad infinitum
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