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xkcd #2863: Space Typography

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xkcd #2863: Space Typography

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https://xkcd.com/2863

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And over heeee[…]eeeere (i)s Saturn

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    Planet Pixel offset Relative Distance in Comic Actual Distance in AU
    Mercury 93 0.3907 0.39
    Venus 169 0.7101 0.72
    Earth 238 1 1
    Mars 362 1.5210 1.52
    Jupiter 1229 5.1639 5.2
    Source

    Btw, I also really like how you misspelled “typo” in the title

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      And it’s probably actually a typi since the letters are next to each other on qwerty.

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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      Not that I should have doubted Munroe but that’s incredible.

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    Where tf does the xkcd author get all these comic ideas from. Like jfc, I haven’t had a single good thought in the past 10 years and counting.

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      He’s super smart. I’ve always thought that an idea he has for a comic starts as part of a funny and/or interesting conversation he was having with friends or colleagues. Then later he remembers some of them and makes comics out of them.

      That’s how I imagine it, anyway.

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      And he’s making YouTube videos now!

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    https://explainxkcd.com/2863

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      Apparently it’s actually very accurate

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        If the planets remained in conjunction as they went around the Sun, yes. The planets don’t wander as though they’re attached to the spoke of a wheel though… and as I click through the explainxkcd link, it seems that someone else has pointed that out, albeit in other words.

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    Inyalowda eat your heart out.

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    Mission Control: where are you?
    Astronaut: At the ‘a’ for aliens.
    Earth: Aliens?!?!!!

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    Would it still work with Free Serif or Liberation Serif etc, or is this part of an evil plot to get spaceship-owning Linux users lost in space?

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      It works with Liberation Serif

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    uh huh… and what about the second and third dimensions

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