Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Jun 29 720 Ollie xkcd.com/3264/
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the website alt text is so good
I'd have guessed he's a USB Type A plug.
At the end of the conversation, the scientist concludes with: “Say, has anyone ever told you that you kinda look like Tony Hawk?”
He should have studied more physics when he was young. In that universe, however, this cartoon would about somebody else. #spooky #invariant
nevertheless it was rodney, who invented flatground ollie...
I guess I only imagined him doing a 180 then
Hey, do we have enough data to calculate the cost of an AI data prompt in units of human lives? We asked Gemini but it just used calories, which isn't very useful. And I'd still very much like to get a sense of how much death was involved in the asking. Y'know.. ballpark.
The real question is whether he emits Hawk-ing radiation.
Thank you for this. I make this joke all the time (e.g. "USB type A are fermions, USB type C are bosons") and thank you for providing something I can link to instead of trying to find a coffee cup to do the demonstration of 4pi symmetry.
Sandra Tsing Loh would approve.
I thought it only happened to me but I guess it also happens to Tony Hawk too, huh
now i wanna learn theoretical physics
Kinda tempted to do a "wel askchually" on this cartoon, but I'm not even a skater so meh whatev... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
bosoned (sorry)
If he does a 180° ollie it's impossible to tell if he'll land forward or backward until someone sees the landing
Wait, so when we say '1/2 spin' that's a MULTIPLIER?
You just make up scientific terms and expect us to believe that they are things, don't you.
Title text: "This discovery was key to his demonstration of regular/goofy symmetry violation, which won him gold in the theory portion of the X Games." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3264#Transcript