• qaz
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    7 months ago
    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

  • Lemminary
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    587 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.

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      7 months ago

      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.

      • 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.

  • @fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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    57 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?