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Source and far better layout: http://xkcd.com/1331/ Hovertext: This comic shows estimated average frequency. I wanted to include the pitch drop experiment, but it turns out the gif format has some issues with decade-long loops.
byrondio
COME ON US BUILD A FUCKING CAR ALREADY
sussbutterfly
This is incredible! Also the gif of the heartbeat is incredibly soothing for some reason
Wassamattauface
Too many babies, not enough vibrators. That... Sounds weirder than what I meant.
Shelby306
It's sad that not enough people are rescuing cats and dogs from shelters but people in Phoenix clearly need shoes!
icomehereforthecomments
I can't take my eyes off of the 'one death' box.
welcomestranger
Thankfully no magnitude 4 earthquakes on my watch...
TobyHinloopen
Lol @ iPhone screen
TheKun95
I waited for the turn signal ones to blink at the same time.
LieutenantFranzSchlechtnacht
We need less of someone steals a bicycle and more of someone buys a vibrator
mellylaughs
I enjoy that you chose these two instead of the ones pertaining to life and death.
JBlack5040
still waiting for old faithful to erupt
MarijuannaMakesYouGay
You WANNa KNOW HOW FRISTRATING THIS WAS ON MOBILE
Higure
FO SHO!
RarestXenon
I'm just glad "someone buys a vibrator" is on here! We need more awareness!! Save the batteries.. for the woman XD
dsappin
TIL a lot of people have sex in north dakota
rosesforfrida
I just bought a vibrator!
acme64
That star is REALLY moving, holy shit.
seemill
Moving to North Dakota. Opening a Vibrator store. Retiring.
baldorr
I want the cancer GIFs to stop blinking.
HommeDeBois
It seems like that one fades out a little bit slower than the rest :(
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Sorry, it's going to blink faster as other simpler causes of death (TB, malaria, heart disease, violence) are managed better.
baldorr
Right, and I still want it to stop blinking.
motherflunker
This is one of the best posts I've seen in a while
SamMan
Couldn't help but smile every time the first kiss or shelter dog adopted one blinked.
aoifard
The shelter ones made me feel so sad! It took so long for them to blink!
TheMsEvans
It almost made me wish there was one for when a shelter pet was euthanized, so ppl would realize the truth. Spay, neuter, and rescue, ppl.
aoifard
I feel sick enough just thinking about it, I don't think I could handle one of those!
mrmikeyb
am i the only one who is afraid of how much faster the birth blinker is going than the death one?
gotigs
As someone who lives in North Dakota - when's my turn?
WorkingClassMoustache
Now I'm really curious about star PSR J1748-2446AD. That's really damn fast.
localsinglesinyourarea
for those to lazy to google calcumagate 70,000km/s its 156,585,540mph. so ya know... fucking fast.
Krakencrotch
Also Guinness World Record holder for drunkest celestial body.
vixxy42
And I was thinking I'm glad I don't live near it ;)
LennyKoggins
It's a Pulsar! Yeah Science!
Pyrollamasteak
Or we're really slow.
theconstermonster
i find statistics like that highly disturbing
WickedSludge
Almost two-times the mass of our sun spinning 716 times per second. Think of how much energy that is! And it's all in a 16km sphere...crazy!
veelafleur
Honestly, how is that even possible?
onecowboytoo
It's a figure skater.
LokiKingOfJotunheim
Pulsars
LegitAces
god I fucking love space
idonthaveanyideawhatthehelliamtalkingabout
aliens
WorkingClassMoustache
Link, for those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_J1748-2446ad
GaiusOrpheus
And of course someone already put xkcd on the wiki page.
WizzardofAus
A Sagittarius named Amelia drinks a soda?
HeyCasButt
7 billion people in the world and most predictions of astrology are a lot more vague than that so happens o an even more frequent basis.(2)
HeyCasButt
Its a subtle jab at astrology. If you pick a common enough name and a common enough task you'll be right quite a lot because there are(1)
TheEarthIsMusicForThoseWhoListen
My name is Amelia.. I've never met another Amelia. (thus far)
HeyCasButt
That's probably because most Amelia's go by Amy so unless you knew them personally you'd just think it was Amy.
TheEarthIsMusicForThoseWhoListen
This is true, I go by Amee... Also, I don't socialize.
FizzleBurger
mouseover: "This comic shows estimated average frequency. I wanted to include the pitch drop experiment, (1/2)
sr20kschmitz
Damn, you beat me to it, glad someone else noticed it though.
FizzleBurger
but it turns out the gif format has some issues with decade-long loops."(2/2)
Steinmasten
TIL stuff.
NoTouch
You learnt that births occur faster than heartbeats.
mollyImalone
my browser froze for a while: there was no sex in North Dakota for about 2 minutes.
WhatUpMyNinjas
But did you learn things?
ajgriffy
Learn more stuff at http://xkcd.com. One of the best math / science / romance comics out there.
chemistrydoc
Imgur always teaches me things I don't know. There are cats and dogs too...but I appreciate the knowledge posts a lot.
slickfox
Then immediately forgotten after hitting next >>
nation543
nobody is buying To Kill A Mocking Bird.
Th3MadCreator
You're at 666 points. NOBODY TOUCH IT
PacZeterson
TIL that people are always playing little league
hezor
Fun game: look at the Death gif and try to think about each of blinks as a person with family and a whole life worth of experiences.
corneliusgansevoort
That's the shittist game I've ever played.
carryonnothingtoseehere
And now I'm depressed....
wandergeist
Thanks, but I'm too busy cheering every time someone buys a vibrator.
omenofwar
YEAH THANKS OP FUCKING GREAT GAME! dick
DameSteve
Do you WANT to make me depressed??
OneCoolFrood
Less fun game: think about how many of them are children dying from starvation or disease before they have a whole life worth of experience
hezor
If they die, then technically they do. I'll see myself out now.
ninmonkey
Then the weeping angles get you!
shinydistraction
You must be fun at parties :/
pinkcris
SUCH a fun game omg
localvagrant
"Fun"
quatrekins
Makes me wonder how many of those birth blinks turn into death blinks within 24 hours :(
doctoroptimist
Wait ...
expectopatranus
FUCK you.
doctoroptimist
Whee, you said the word fun!
winston2
"Fun"
hx50
how is that fun?
yazwho
And then watch the birth one next to it and become scared!
TheCatWearsJeans
Look at the births gif and try and think of the new life with all the experiences waiting, the new families created, parents, siblings...
Avatar720
I looked at both for a second then carried on as normal.
dremels
THERE WE GO!
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hezor
Perhaps it doesn't. Could you explain it to me, please?
quantacostacerveza
Its like not fun. Only the opposite of that.
SomeDutchGuy
"F is for friends who do stuff together"
DonkeyKongsLongShlongInABongIsWrong
well, F is for friends who do stuff together. U is for you and me. N is for anywhere at anytime at all down here in the deep blue sea.
Tylerm1
Well played
hezor
Then it would seem that everyone and their friends dying everywhere all the time are fun. I think I'm missing something here.
WellMyNameIsJimMostPeopleCallMeJim
how is that fun!? now i'm upset :(
TheManYourManCouldSmellLike
Dude. Stop making that third gif blink. Do you enjoy mass-murder?
ninmonkey
You can't spell "mass murder" without "ass murder".
DonkeyKongsLongShlongInABongIsWrong
well it needs to happen, especially considering how fast the second gif blinks.
bob7777777
Ha I thought how fast the 2nd one blinks in comparison scares me
DemonDarakna
we are bunnies
bob7777777
we are ugly bunnies
IamtheHoffman
Didn't you watch Torchwood: Miracle Day??? DO you want that to happen?
vampirehedgehog
Less fun with "diagnosed with cancer". The blinks are infrequent enough to give time to think and the victim also knows it is happening.
ToastyMozart
At least it's somewhat reassuring to see that the diagnoses are more frequent then the deaths.
Ihavesomethingtosay
Gets even less fun when you realize the creator's wife was one of those diagnosed with cancer.
chemistrydoc
In the grand scheme of time/space. I don't think we only get to experience 70 something years (if we are lucky) of life. There must be more.
swizec
In the grand scheme of time/space, you're just matter. Much like a rock or a dog's turd.
anotheroneandanotherone
fuck
chemistrydoc
Mostly...we are just empty space.
ajgriffy
Why must there be more? No other animal that we know of gets more. Why are humans special? Your life starts, you live it well, then it ends.
chemistrydoc
I just don't think we are limited to a blimp on the cosmic radar. We wouldn't even be around for a blink.
bentwrenches
A friend died last year, his FB page is still up. I sometimes ask him about the afterlife. Ha hasn't got back to me yet. RIP Russel.
RickyBobbyShakenBake
Until that is realized I will make the most of the time I know for certain I have.
chemistrydoc
Absolutely...of course I agree with that.
RickyBobbyShakenBake
Your longing for more had me thinking otherwise. What if there is not more? I feel like it is toxic to think that there is.
chemistrydoc
Why is it toxic? I'm not saying one shouldn't live a full life. I just personally believe there is more to it. So does Buddism i believe.
BingleyBingleyBeep
The frequency of flights taking off amazed me, the two about plastic bottles are unsettling and the shark one made me sad.
bentwrenches
I work close to a major airport. Every 5 mins, every day, a plane takes off. Sometimes i watch and wish I was on one of them.
FabricatiDiemPvnc
those blinker ones...i felt like I was really there
LaBotte
I lost it at the blinkers....
didneypls
So Annoying it was!
FoxyEllie
I once sat behind someone whose blinker was perfectly synced with mine. I never saw him again :(
FabricatiDiemPvnc
I'm so sorry
kerrific
I definitely waited until they synced and then got frustrated
FabricatiDiemPvnc
I do that when I'm waiting at a stoplight behind another car
jweenypwee
I was just flabbergasted someone else besides me actually uses their blinkers.
SirSaf
Has anyone ever seen the blinkers to sync?
qqkikilicious
But it wasn't an accurate representation of when the blinker becomes out of sync and then in sync and out of sync again with yours.
mesayoda
People in North Dakota finish *really* quickly
JaMayCanMeCrazy
I feel like I was just spied on...
ElderMaxson
Everytime somebody has sex in ND someone else orders a pizza in Denver
HeadPuntingBatmanRollerCoaster
Coincidence ? I think NOT !
FabricatiDiemPvnc
it's too cold to stay naked for long
defqon1
as someone from ND, I would say it is because there is nothing else to do here
mmmmmmmbacon
and by nothing, you mean alcohol
mesayoda
As someone from the West Midlands of Britain; I know the feeling.
AtalanBeardy
As someone who knows the difference in the distance between places in America and in Britain... I really don't think you do.
LordTyranius
Still waiting for that hole in one to blink..
Diax1324
My friends 14 year old daughter hit a hole in one. Just a TIL thing.
nyrum
When our Glorious Leader played golf once, that jif was used to strobe the biggest rave party DJ Kim that earth ever had.
maryishungry
How do you know it didn't happen while you were writing that comment?
PKallday
And my dad was three of them.
OneWithTheFro
THHANNKKK YOUUUU
ScreechYouCantaloupe
I went to a golf club in Oregon where the owner had hit a hole in one on all four par 3's on the course (two during the same round).
HollyJolly
TIL people hit hole in ones less often than magnitude 3 earthquakes happen
MagicalUnicornFarts
me to, does it ever?
kerms
I recently got two holes-in-one in the same round playing a mini-golf course. Never even drove the ball to the green playing real golf...
CaptainOverlyObvious
It won't
maybenextyear
and for Old Faithful to erupt.
OrganicallyGrownUnicorn
You are gonna have to sit there for a while. It happens every 5632 seconds (1 hour 33 minutes) according to the gif.
ArcaneDryad
Opened it up in Photoshop to see - every 172 seconds
OneWithTheFro
Thank god
Heatsir
How about the magnitude 3 and 4 earthquake?
ArcaneDryad
Magnitude 4 I believe is 2418 seconds, and Magnitude 3 is 234 seconds
Heatsir
Thanks.
IDontWatchDoctorWho
I was wondering how to do that "magic man" shit
Nandabun
http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131023150039/adventuretimewithfinnandjake/images/e/ef/S1e20_Magic_Man.png
TheNamesTalcJamesTalcSpecialAntiCakedayAgent
what about the firemen?
ArcaneDryad
Every 16.5 seconds
TheNamesTalcJamesTalcSpecialAntiCakedayAgent
Really? I thought I watched it for longer... must've missed it
ArcaneDryad
Might be broken, I pulled the .gif I measured from from the source
KingGuiseppi
How frequent are the magnitude 4 earthquakes?
ArcaneDryad
If I get it right, every 2418 seconds
HardSalami
If North Korea was included in that one it would be going off pretty rapidly.
mikerosswannabe
Splendid reference chap
pifac3
not since the great leader retired from the sport
idonthaveanyideawhatthehelliamtalkingabout
because of the accident ?
pifac3
no, he was too good. He didn't want to ruin golf, so he just retired after he got 231 under par in his first game.
PhillyFlash
Not since the accident.