Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · May 4 Bottle xkcd.com/3240/
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Wind.
Wasn't there a boat mode in the dark mode dropdown? Wait... where did the dark mode dropdown go?
A) there is a man in a boat in a bottle in the ocean. B) there is a man on the shore looking through a bottle at a man in a boat in the ocean. Something something hydrostatic pressure something something water column.
But all of this is also in a bottle on the water and…it’s bottles all the way down, isn’t it?
Implication here is that guy is inside the bottle, cause there’s no wind in the sail, right? But why is the water level in the bottle visible above the water next to the bottle, Randall, why? There’s a Petty about “getting the words wrong, wasting the meaning, losing the rhyme”. This is me rn.
I love how the water inside is lower than outside, because of the weight of the bottle. Well done. 🤣
What if the bottle is the natural environment and the other boats are the outliers?
haters will say it’s photoshopped
brilliant
Btw, what happened to mode changes, it was sooo geeky cool?
And I always thought there is not enough wind in the bottle to warrant a sailboat.
What about oxygen?
Smooth sailing. Except inside the bottle smells like pickles.
There's a message in there.
And the use of a cork in a bottle with a left-handed screw thread obviously signifies.... uh... something
ah, even comics have Bottle Episodes
Perfecto
"I don't understand you snowflakes whining about how hard sailing is. Let's gut safety regulations."
Title text: ""I know it seems impossible, but the trick is that I sailed in here when I was very young."" Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3240#Transcript
