Oh yeah. Comic for today.
I'm not sure why a blue whale is higher on the luminosity scale than a human would be. Is it simply because it's bigger, so it reflects more light? If you set it on fire the fire would be bigger?
Lost in Space
Yes, it's because it's larger. Size makes a big difference in apparent luminosity. This one is cute.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Redmess
You see this in China, too. As Chinese culture expands southwards, it erased many older languages, which results in a lot of apparently orphaned modern languages. There must obviously have been a linguistic history there, but it has been completely erased by another dominant language which is not related to it.
Optimism is a duty.
Lost in Space
I wonder if someone's actually doing this, although it wouldn't work on the Apple App Store, since all updates have to be approved.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
I'm reminded of a certain Neon Genesis Evangelion fanfic where Ritsuko and Maya covertly made plans on how to subvert Gendo's plans and flirted via the comments inside the MAGI's OS's code.
edited 22nd Jun '18 10:17:09 AM by Millership
Spiral out, keep going.
Redmess
This is probably a fireable offence in most companies. 
Simply making fun little comments in code? No, not really.
Plotting against your boss and making inappropriate comments in code? Maaaaaybe.
Our company hired a new Team Lead, and he brought with himself to the project an old friend of his as an outsourcer. We've noticed that the latter made a comment in the code, complaining about the architectural choice in a very inappropriate manner. When we've drawn the Team Lead's attention to the comment he basically said that "While I do agree with the point of the message, its phrasing is unacceptable. Don't comment your code like that in the future." — the latter was aimed at us.
Spiral out, keep going.
Redmess
Its scary just how right Dilbert sometimes is.
Optimism is a duty.
I'm think I get the joke, but it's pretty "meh". I guess Randall just had an off-day.
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About half, if not more, of the comics is meh. There are some exceptionally good ones, and the others which can induce a good discussion on the forum, but nothing more.
Redmess
Yeah, this is basically a pun on a classic scientific drawing.
Optimism is a duty.
And not necessarily intended to be all that funny. There is a serious message there.
With how climate change has been going, I could see the planet becoming uninhabitable in a few centuries, so either we get our shit together to fix it, get our shit together and get out into space, or humanity dies in a frying pan of its own making.
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
You know we fixed the hole in the ozone layer right?
Oh really when?
Is that sarcasm or some reference I'm not getting? If so, my apologies. Otherwise, you do realize that average global temperature is still going up every year, sea levels are still rising, and that while the hole in the ozone layer has shrunk, the overall ozone layer is still being gradually depleted?
Redmess
Indeed, and the hole is still there, though not as severe as it once was. The ozone level goes up and down somewhat, too.
Optimism is a duty.
Too old for this
Randall made this frighteningly efficient comic about global warming by the way. I have not checked the figures, but if they are accurate this is one of the most striking demonstration of the subject I have ever seen.
Redmess
Ah yes, that one was great.
Optimism is a duty.
@danime91 Whatever happens to Earth, it will still be more habitable than any other celestial object in the Solar System.
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.
Which I'm sure will be a comfort to the roaches. A rise in temperature that drastic would kill off species by the hundreds. Sure, humans would be able to survive, but the biosphere would be wrecked beyond repair, and a lot of crops would also die, unless we manage to make some heat-resistant breeds. Rising sea levels would eliminate a lot of coastal and low-lying areas, which, since a lot of people tend to live by coastlines, would mean mass displacement of populations, and less land means less room to grow what food can still be grown. It may not be an extinction-level issue in 10, 20, or even 100 years, but it definitely will be unless something is done to curb it.
Edited by danime91 on Jun 28th 2018 at 9:34:19 AM
Isolates are an interesting and mysterious phenomenon. There are many in Papua New Guinea, as well.
There obviously is a history to those languages, and probably extinct predecessors that might link them to the most ancient shared languages at the root of other language families, but there's basically no way of ever finding out.
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.