XKCD Almost Made Me Cry...

[kevin11951]

http://xkcd.com/502/

that almost made me cry...

[SomeGuyDude]

I'm guessing you lost someone in the recent past? If so, my condolences.

On an only slightly related note, the XKCD guy thinks he's a hell of a lot more clever than he actually is. Almost every link aggregate or techie site I visit worships the guy and I can't handle it any more.

[dasunst3r]

Can someone enlighten me on what the joke is? Thanks!

[SomeGuyDude]

Guy in the hat's mom is obviously dead, so when the other guy said "maybe it's your MOM" then he went out to look into the sky and say "pull harder" (as in, pull the galaxy toward you harder).

Kinda clever.

[Grant A.]

Can someone enlighten me on what the joke is? Thanks!

He is saying that because everything in the universe is being rotated around a center, it must be due to his mom because she is so fat, but he takes it seriously because his mom died and wants her to pull harder so she can see him.

[kevin11951]

I'm guessing you lost someone in the recent past? If so, my condolences.

On an only slightly related note, the XKCD guy thinks he's a hell of a lot more clever than he actually is. Almost every link aggregate or techie site I visit worships the guy and I can't handle it any more.

my uncle... a few years ago...

[brunovecchi]

Oops, sorry about that. I came to this thread thinking it was crying of laughter. It took me a while to get the joke because of that.

I once *actually* fell off my chair and started to laugh on the floor with one of those comics (reverse euphemisms, look for it). It took me by surprise.

[Lord Xeb]

XD The best ever!

[Kernel Sanders]

Can someone enlighten me on what the joke is? Thanks!

There are two guys, one who's a techie, and the other that definately isn't. The other guy is doing a typical "YOUR MOM" joke to everything he says, and the techie guy takes it literally in this case.

Not funny at all tbf.

[matthew]

This has something to do with the background of the joke. It might not make it any funnier to those who don't already find it humorous, but it might make it a little deeper and give the joke a little more geek cred, beyond the silly "Your mom" joke.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081105-dark-flow.html

[Kernel Sanders]

This has something to do with the background of the joke. It might not make it any funnier to those who don't already find it humorous, but it might make it a little deeper and give the joke a little more geek cred, beyond the silly "Your mom" joke.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081105-dark-flow.html

I was aware of all that, but still found it to be a silly "your mom" joke.

*shrugs*

[SomeGuyDude]

This has something to do with the background of the joke. It might not make it any funnier to those who don't already find it humorous, but it might make it a little deeper and give the joke a little more geek cred, beyond the silly "Your mom" joke.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081105-dark-flow.html

Really, that concept is explained in the first panel of the comic.

[MaxIBoy]

This has something to do with the background of the joke. It might not make it any funnier to those who don't already find it humorous, but it might make it a little deeper and give the joke a little more geek cred, beyond the silly "Your mom" joke.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081105-dark-flow.html

On a scientific basis, I bet you that article was mangled pretty bad. Anything that could exert gravitational force on something in this universe would have to be inside this universe as well. (Not necessarily in the visible universe. The visible universe is the part of the universe where everything moves slower than the speed of light relative to us.)



Also, the joke is a lot funnier if you know that character:
http://xkcd.com/167/
http://xkcd.com/209/
http://xkcd.com/291/
http://xkcd.com/452/

[saulgoode]

Fans of xkcd might be interested in this video (http://www.archive.org/details/3Pi-Con-2008-MyDayAtWork-Doctorow-Munroe) from last month's 3PI-con SCIFI convention.

[jimi_hendrix]

I'm guessing you lost someone in the recent past? If so, my condolences.

On an only slightly related note, the XKCD guy thinks he's a hell of a lot more clever than he actually is. Almost every link aggregate or techie site I visit worships the guy and I can't handle it any more.

you must admit...some of their stuff (i think its more than one guy) is hillarious...like the real programmers use nano one or sudo make me a sandwich...

[MaxIBoy]

No, it's one person.

And real programmers use cat and echo.

[jimi_hendrix]

No, it's one person.

And real programmers use cat and echo.

found no one with "echo" but the one i was referring to mentions nano cat vim emacs and the rest...

[MaxIBoy]

"Cat" prints a file to any text stream (by default it's the terminal.) "Echo" gets text from any text stream (by default it's whatever is on the rest of the command line) to any text stream or file. So your workflow looks like this:

echo "your starting code" > file.c
debug
cat file.c #print file.c to the terminal
echo "your modified code" > file.c
or

echo "your starting code" > file.c
debug
echo "stuff to add to the end of the file" >> file.c

[jimi_hendrix]

"Cat" prints a file to any text stream (by default it's the terminal.) "Echo" gets text from any text stream (by default it's whatever is on the rest of the command line) to any text stream or file. So your workflow looks like this:

echo "your starting code" > file.c
debug
cat file.c #print file.c to the terminal
echo "your modified code" > file.cor

echo "your starting code" > file.c
debug
echo "stuff to add to the end of the file" >> file.c

i love how complex bash is...

[MaxIBoy]

Simpler than memorizing a bunch of stupid wizards.

[SomeGuyDude]

you must admit...some of their stuff (i think its more than one guy) is hillarious...like the real programmers use nano one or sudo make me a sandwich...

I used to read it fairly religiously, actually. For a while there was this sort of self-deprecating "holy balls I'm a nerd" attitude toward the thing. After a while, though, he got more and more popular and the comic almost felt like he was bragging about how smart he is.

I know it probably seems like I'm just being contradictory to seem "cool", but I'm bein' honest here.

[dioltas]

I thought it was kinda funny tbh. Lighten up people, it's just a joke.

[kevin11951]

On a scientific basis, I bet you that article was mangled pretty bad. Anything that could exert gravitational force on something in this universe would have to be inside this universe as well. (Not necessarily in the visible universe. The visible universe is the part of the universe where everything moves slower than the speed of light relative to us.)



Also, the joke is a lot funnier if you know that character:
http://xkcd.com/167/
http://xkcd.com/209/
http://xkcd.com/291/
http://xkcd.com/452/

personally i feel that the "visible universe" thing, has to do with the fact that the further back you look, the further back in time you are seeing, although gravity works at exactly the speed of light, so if we can feel it, we can see it to, i guess... :confused:

[MaxIBoy]

Mathematically speaking, it's the same concept. That's just how I think of it.

*Nuked for untruth*

[kevin11951]

Mathematically speaking, it's the same concept. That's just how I think of it.

However, everything gravitationally effects everything else. Something too far away to see might gravitationally effect something we can see, perhaps moving it further away so its gravitational effect on us is weaker, thus indirectly effecting us.

ow... my brain

[MaxIBoy]

Come to think of it, nevermind. There is absolutely NO way information can break the light barrier, not even indirectly. The intermediate object actually has to stretch out in order to make the system work.

Can't believe I made that mistake.