Link to comic: https://xkcd.com/2821/
If like me you can’t see the picutre of the post, here is the original image:
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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.
Somehow he keeps on making awesome stuff, after all these years
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Of course you get an ice cream cone for the swimmer too! You’re not a monster
Now I want to see someone swimming with a cone of ice cream in each hand.
As an Aussie, I don’t see why that is unusual. You use your feet. But if it’s only two icecreams, then you hold them both in one hand and swim with the other one. All I can say about this one though is that this is a very flat beach: Waves would ruin the icecream pretty bloody fast. Must be a river or something.
Do people not swim with icecreams in other countries?
Do people not swim with icecreams in other countries?
Never heard of anyone doing it no, so probably not? 🤷
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…
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
Path that maximises time would be some kind of space-filling curve. Maybe it does that off panel?
Basically, yes. The path that maximises time goes around the world, so starts by going up off the top of the screen, and re-enters at the bottom.
Technically I think it could be a little longer by spiralling around the world several times, still reaching the target point despite going “in a straight line”. If we ignore the “straight line” restriction, which some of the other paths already do, then the sky’s the limit. Technically actually, the sky isn’t the limit, and the path could criss-cross over the whole planet first, and the air, and the whole galaxy, before reaching the destination as the last feasible space to arrive at. Personally I think that’s too complex for xkcd, if they are going for complex I’m sure they would have come up with something about paths through n-space and black-hole theory that is beyond my pay grade.
Xkcd good ;)
It would have to be a different panel but you could draw it as the whole screen being black except of the character and the destination.
It’s the path that maximises time, not distance. Technically the path that maximises time could look the same as the path that minimises distance, they could just sit down and wait decades until a minute before they die of natural causes and then get up and head to the end, and that’s assuming that they need to arrive alive.
