• qaz
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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

    • @Crackhappy
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      1310 months ago

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

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

  • Lemminary
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    5810 months ago

    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.

    • @teejay
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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.

    • @Risus_Nex
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      3310 months ago

      Apparently it’s actually very accurate

      • palordrolap
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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.

  • @[email protected]
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    1410 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    510 months ago

    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?