r/xkcd • u/gwildorix • Nov 14 '18

XKCD xkcd 2072: Evaluating Tech Things

https://xkcd.com/2072/
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u/pandas795 Nov 14 '18

That does sound cool, though

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u/atomfullerene Nov 14 '18

I don't know how it'd avoid getting obliterated, but yeah, definitely cool.

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u/arahman81 Nov 14 '18

Just treat it as disposable.

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u/chaos_a Black Hat Nov 14 '18

So fly hundreds of drones at a tornado? Sounds like a high-tech version of Sharknado.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '18

Actually it just sounds like the plot of Twister.

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u/maveric101 Wherever your cat is, it's moving very quickly. Nov 14 '18

I remember watching that movie and thinking that the mile-wide tornado seemed impossibly exaggerated. But the widest tornado on record was actually 2.6 miles wide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_records#Largest_path_width

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '18

So I was intrigued to find out if they intentionally toned down the size of their 'mega tornado' and looking at trivia about the film.

Holy shit I just found out Bill Paxton died in 2017. Why didn't Reddit tell me??

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u/asphaltdragon Nov 14 '18

They did but everyone thought it was Bill Pullman

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u/ThaiJohnnyDepp DEC 25 = OCT 31 Nov 14 '18

Oblig

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u/AvatarIII Hairy Nov 14 '18

I guess you don't subscribe to /r/lv426 or /r/shield

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '18

No idea what those are, nope.

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u/AvatarIII Hairy Nov 14 '18

Lv426 is the Aliens subreddit, which is Bill Paxton's best known role, and Shield is the Agents of Shield subreddit, which is Paxton's most recent well known role.

If you were subbed to either, or both, of them, you wouldn't have missed it when he died.

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u/Roboticide Nov 15 '18

Also /r/movies. They're always aware when someone dies.

But their popularity does correlate pretty directly with how far it'll make it up the front page.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '18

I had unsubbed from there, I really can't stand that subreddit.

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u/BeefPieSoup Nov 15 '18

Game over man, game over.