# Screw it, I'm just gonna ask: Why are the territories on Earth that are close to the South Pole really warm/hot, and the territories close to the North Pole are cold?

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I hate to do this, but is it okay if I request that this thread be closed?

My question has been thoroughly answered, I’ve read and enjoyed every post, but now it’s time to move on to more important things like starting a wiki that allows users to rank every XKCD comic strip:

> [@Someone should create a wiki or something that allows users to collectively rank all 2,945 XKCD comic strips from all-time greatest to all-time least-great](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-should-create-a-wiki-or-something-that-allows-users-to-collectively-rank-all-2-945-xkcd-comic-strips-from-all-time-greatest-to-all-time-least-great/1002869):
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> The title pretty much says it all. XKCD, the webcomic, has 2,945 strips as of today. I want a wiki that allows users to collectively vote and rank all the XKCD strips the same way IMDB has a TOP 300 Movies by User Votes. There’s a website called ExplainXKCD that’s a wiki that collectively works to explain each XKCD strip, so maybe it could just be a feature on that pre-existing site. Either way, I want a wiki or a site that allows us all to collectively vote the thousands of XKCD strips into a…

Thanks, all! 😀

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