Comics that ask "what if?" | Randall Munroe 

Fungamerplays yeah

yes

I agree. Though I didn't realise who it was until the image of the cartoon came up...

I love this haughty dipshit.

He really is

Who learned more about orbital mechanics playing KSP than hanging out at NASA.

@@LordFokas To be fair, most people learn more about orbital mechanics playing KSP than anywhere else.

Yeah, that ex made me think he was old.

@@timothymclean What is KSP?

@@leif1075 Kerbal Space Program. It's a game that Randall Munroe has made a few comics about, including one where he attributes most of his understanding of orbital mechanics to the game.

There's enough text-to-voice apps that would allow you to have an airplane state that it is human, though, and a plane is not guaranteed to have luggage upon it. Nope, it'd have to be something more directly related to the definition of a plane.

@@roguishpaladin but have you ever seen a person vomit luggage?

Ah, the modified Harkness test.

Urgent

@@roguishpaladin Or more related to the definition of a human, which is Mr. Munroe's point I think.

I imagined him as black hat

"oh no, he's hot"

TIL he's not a stickman...

Ayup. They Randall'ed Randall.

did you just reference Randall to Randall about Randall?

@@entropy7999 it would appear so, yes. Now, back to my infinite resistors....

@@tf2excession My favorite "What-If" is still "What if you had a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (small furry critters)"?

@@jordananderson2728 I totally forgot about that!

Google's got multiple copies of everyone's style, in RAM, on disk and on tape :D

hear hear

Put you at 666 likes. So proud

Harry Potter Reference?

Cartoons are art...

Not as educational... but if you like emotional stick figures, look up Alan Becker on youtube.

@@nickelchlorine2753 What have you put in my brain

@@rudrasingh6354 Truth... He put truth in your brain. Google is run by data addicted technowizards with the money to live a life of perpetual D&D LARPING, complete with thrones, lizards genetically modified into dragons and secretive meetings in arcane temples in remote forests and forgotten wildernesses.

@@taitano12 You know, you'd think that, but the best LARPing in the nation so far as I can tell is up in the New England area, not in the Bay Area. If they're LARPing, they're not building out games here.

@@roguishpaladin The "Board game capitol" of the world isn't in new england, nor in the bay area, but often in the relatively unexplored areas. For a long time, it was in Salt Lake City because of the weird contradictory ideas, combined with a lack of funding to hash them out.

You're right. "No comment" seems to lean more towards "we can neither confirm nor deny" than just denying any information. "Neither confirm nor deny" is usually understood to be "you got it right"

+Slutuppnu Indeed, like that gives people more information :)

But what other physical object on Earth even compares to the punch cards? Unless he were to compare it to some other hypothetical mass, its pretty much the only thing :p

jake W Without googling it, tell me how much information a punch card contains? No? I rest my case.

Maximilian Wicén Presumably not very much considering the gargantuan size of Randall's punch card pile. I'm not sure if I'm understanding the point you're trying to make though

Maximilian Wicén it's in the video 80 characters, 10 bytes

Have you read his comics, they're really good.

I got some news for you @martins divine okoi in September his new book is being released called 'how to' and I believe it is a form of sequal that was teased in one chapter of what if? and I really hope it is. same style, more things. looks fun.

Martins Divine Okoi same

@@entropy7999 have you heard that What If 2 exists now?

@@vibaj16 Already read it! Was a very fun read, though I did enjoy the first one a tad more.

Slenderman basically

No no, you're thinking of CGPGrey

@@SoulOfTheReaver you'd need glasses too

SAME

He doesn't look geeky enough.

ithuvanian I think that might be it...

Because you are thinking funny people can not be intelligent. When it is actually the other way around.

igrewold no, I just don't picture him like that, I thought of him as younger

I'm reading How to as well, and it was my first introduction to him believe it or not. I'm loving it so much!

Don't forget Thing Explainer

:'(

oh you shush. he's ONE guy! he's been busy with his books, and touring. buy them! plenty of content contained within to provide the fix you're craving. sadly, i can't figure out how to get the mouse-over text to work, though. some of his stuff is going to need some advanced e-ink development before it fully translates well to print format.

Creighton Miller TRUE

I'm not able to read XKCD the same way I always had...

Creighton Miller My version is the Will Wheaton what if audio book

I'm so glad that for me it ISN'T Wheaton.

same

why would he be banned?

Zevti that was funny

I'm a bit upset that he didn't open with that.

155UR 5H4NK0V17CH Yeah...dang.

Zevti The solution, of course, is to use brackets: Linux (or BSD :]) would...

Kirk Schafer it's a what if. Doesn't have it.

What ifs do have mouse-over text

@@SuperGarryGamer Oh. Woah!

Google was nerd sniping.

+Ben Pyman Ahahah!

AquaPhoenix Productions tru

AquaPhoenix Productions but how cool is getting physical, exclusive content directly from Google's staff?

Yep.

They should have included a link to rickroll him, given the amount of times xkcd mentions that.

+Apollys I KNOW IT! People wear clothes! ^^

Best question

Chasey Not all people :)

Airplanes generate their own thrust, which must be enough to take off on their own.

Planes are made of metal, people are not

He's not a stickman and he's got a face

Matthew Cupelli i have both of them

I wish it were each Tuesday. Feels like once a quarter nowadays

@@Zimpfnis The rate is decreasing greatly. There were 4 in 2017, only 2 in 2018.

That would amount to about a similar storage capacity, if fully used...

But "If the ball is outside the strike zone when it touches the batter, it shall be called a ball if he makes no attempt to avoid being touched." Since this is also true, then...I guess it's a ball and a strike? I think the doctoring the ball rule might come into effect, though. By the mere act of throwing, the pitcher is intentionally damaging the ball and is thus ejected.

@@roguishpaladin My interpretation is that if any part of the ball is in the strike zone, the ball is considered in the strike zone. This does raise a question of what happens if a ball touches the batter while some part of it is in the strike zone, but the point of touching is outside the strike zone. The strict letter of the definition of a strike in this situation - "[t]ouches the batter in flight in the strike zone" - suggests that the point of touching must be in the strike zone to considered a strike. In this case, if it is not a hit by pitch, it would be neither a ball nor a strike. Another question arises when a pitch enters and exits the strike zone, and then hits the batter. It would be a strike under clause (b) of the definition of a strike ("[i]s not struck at, if any part of the ball passes through any part of the strike zone"); but the ball is not in the strike zone when it hit the batter, and rule 5.05(b)(2) says that's a ball.

@@roguishpaladin Also, the "doctoring the ball" rules - 6.02(c)(1) through (5) - don't apply to throwing the ball.

Pietro Celano He didn't want to get banned.

lmao

Yeah. But he never got his question answered....

Which was? (I can't remember:-)

Jarod Obando I guess they'd let him in after a promise of no graphs.

@@jarodwilfrid8505 How to end a parenthetical with emoticons.

@@proot. He said "... (I can't remember :) " (so he knew it :))

GUYS THE BOOK JUST REACHED Oh my gosh ! ! IM SO HAPPYYYY

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He didn't write the Bible

@@nishantak911 You're the one who's written the greatest comment of all time!

+Dillon McManus xkcd.com/90/

+Roman Fox 😂

+Julian Yang She looks so displeased too xD

yeah

Nice picture.

Julian Yang hahaha lol

"Just" 90%... 😅