Link to comic: https://xkcd.com/2821/

62 points

It is simply polite to include a link to the original https://xkcd.com/2821 as per the Artist’s desires.

Yes, I saw the explain, but that isn’t to the actual origin.

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Edited and added it. Thanks for the heads up

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6 points

Shouldn’t the path that maximizes time have its line go through literally everywhere in the globe rather than just going around it once?

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16 points

Yes, but by then the ice cream has melted

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We need a calculation using the speed at which ice cream melts and the max distance he could walk.

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2 points

The path that maximizes time would just be going back and forth and not approaching the endpoint.

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17 points

If like me you can’t see the picutre of the post, here is the original image:

reveal

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3 points

What’s up with that? I can’t see any of the pictures hosted here.

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5 points

I’m not positive but it might be due to the steps the Lemm.ee admin is taking to combat the CSAM uploads that have been happening and prevent the server’s administration team from being liable for potentially harmful and illegal images being hosted on their server.

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12 points

Somehow he keeps on making awesome stuff, after all these years

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115 points

I spent way too long trying to figure out why the guy and the ice cream shop were flying, and how he would move horizontally in he air…

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I couldn’t tell what I was looking at until I searched for an explanation. All I could see was a person falling into some water past a floating ice cream stall. It’s supposed to be a beach:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2821:_Path_Minimization

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27 points

“we have a beach at home”

the beach in question

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4 points

Yeah, I just thought it was two dudes racing to get ice cream first.

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I was more like: but if he choses the alternative paths, he doesn’t get the ice cream - that doesn’t make sense! Then I understood our priorities differ.

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