# Today's xkcd **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 19, 2012, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150 "2012-09-19T08:02:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/61 "2012-09-20T00:51:21Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > The world is _big_. I mean, it’s fricking massive. That entire landscape covers about two miles (or 10km by one reader’s estimate). At the extreme left at ground level there are two stick figures, one of which says that they must have walked to the far side of the world while the other says they’ve only gone two miles. I think that’s where the “two miles” is coming from. My only comment is that Monroe apparently has a thing about antennae, dish antennae especially. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/62 "2012-09-20T02:57:42Z")
> [@Flander](#): > > ☹ The dragging doesn’t work on my work computer. It won’t let go. I can’t even get the first tree out of frame. Maybe Javascript is disabled there. You need it to explore the image. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/63 "2012-09-20T03:11:47Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > I just scrolled up the enormous radio mast to see the following: “Dubai may have taken the record for ‘Tallest Manmade Structure’ but North Dakota still has ‘Largest Buffalo Monument’ ‘Biggest Hamburger’ and ‘Tallest Pyramid made of Oilcans’. So there!” > > Which I found incredibly cool, as I’m going to Dubai next week and going to go up the Burj Khalifa just cause I can! I’m pretty sure the tower just left of the starting point is the Burj Khalifa, and it is taller than the radio antenna. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/64 "2012-09-20T03:18:20Z")
Yep, I found that after going all the way to the right and then started going to the left. So my questions now are - is that a particular suspension bridge? And are the towers, bridges and Saturn V all to the same scale? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/65 "2012-09-20T04:40:05Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > It contains dozens (or more) of jokes, some impressive silhouette artwork and must have taken him weeks if not months to do. Just on that level it’s impressive to me. Plus is has a space Jellyfish 🙂 There’s a joke with the jellyfish too. You see two bird watchers and one of them is saying he sees a yellow warbler. His companion is facing the other direction and says “cool”. When you scroll over you see she’s looking at the giant flying jellyfish. ---
**Author:** ![Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/66 "2012-09-20T06:00:54Z")
Best xkcd… possibly ever. Loved it. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/67 "2012-09-20T13:56:48Z")
Very impressive, but the work:payoff ratio is quite low, especially in the underground portions. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/68 "2012-09-20T14:10:28Z")
Yeah, it is a neat concept, but I got bored quickly with dragging it and only spent about 5 minutes on it. ---
**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/69 "2012-09-20T14:19:43Z")
> [@tanstaafl](#): > > At the extreme left at ground level there are two stick figures, one of which says that they must have walked to the far side of the world while the other says they’ve only gone two miles. I think that’s where the “two miles” is coming from. > > My only comment is that Monroe apparently has a thing about antennae, dish antennae especially. I measured the height of the stick figure at the beginning at about 73 pixels; if you assume he is 6 feet tall and use the width of the image (165,888 pixels), I get about 13,634 feet or 2.58 miles, so that is pretty close (in terms of monitor screen area, it is about 200 feet wide and 100 feet tall, depending on your monitor’s PPI; the total size can be seen by doing “view source”). ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/70 "2012-09-20T15:22:20Z")
The right edge is a direct quote of the very first xkcd. [I wonder where I’ll float next?](http://xkcd.com/1/) ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/71 "2012-09-20T15:31:53Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > [Explain xkcd is in a tizzy!](http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page) Reposting just to point out that this link has links to all the individual “tiles or whatever” and points out which ones have something interesting and which ones are blank. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/72 "2012-09-20T15:42:16Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Is that Gary Seven on the side of the Saturn V? I don’t see him, but that’s way to nerd-cool for Randall to have missed. Where do you see him? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/73 "2012-09-20T22:30:31Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I don’t see him, but that’s way to nerd-cool for Randall to have missed. Where do you see him? Ok, from the starting point go left past the tower and over the ocean, past two islands until you come to mainland again- Cape Canaveral Florida presumably. There’s a figure approximately halfway up the right side of the rocket, just past the first horizontal connection to the gantry tower. Except now I have my doubts- it doesn’t really look like a human figure. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/74 "2012-09-21T00:41:06Z")
Did anyone think the whales were referenced from [HHGttG](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzHuBYEqhqE)? Still looking for the bowl of petunias though. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/75 "2012-09-21T01:41:34Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Ok, from the starting point go left past the tower and over the ocean, past two islands until you come to mainland again- Cape Canaveral Florida presumably. There’s a figure approximately halfway up the right side of the rocket, just past the first horizontal connection to the gantry tower. > > Except now I have my doubts- it doesn’t really look like a human figure. No, you’re right. There’s definitely a person there. It looks like a female person to me, though. (Or at least a long-haired person.) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/76 "2012-09-21T02:26:04Z")
> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#): > > Did anyone think the whales were referenced from [HHGttG](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzHuBYEqhqE)? Still looking for the bowl of petunias though. That’s what I immediately thought of, though I don’t know why it’s two whales. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/77 "2012-09-21T08:01:58Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Aw man, I still can’t find the X-wings! (HUGE x-wing fan) How to find the X-wing:Go left from the starting point. Go past the skyscraper and out into the ocean. On the second island, you’ll see a big palm tree and a tunnel that goes down. Follow the tunnel down, past the lemonade stand, and it’ll bring you to the X-wing. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/78 "2012-09-21T08:06:54Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > That’s what I immediately thought of, though I don’t know why it’s two whales. I thought it was a reference to [Fantasia 2000](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGZeT07rqlU). ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/79 "2012-09-21T08:12:27Z")
There’s two X-Wings, by the way. One in the sky, one in the ground. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150/80 "2012-09-21T08:28:00Z")
To the right of the X-Wing going up the tunnel, if you follow the east-west passage going eastward you eventually come to this: > **[XKCD #1110 - Click and Drag - Zoomable Map](http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/#10/-31.4328/-30.0964)** > > Explore the Gigapixel xkcd 1110 Webcomic in a Google Maps like interface. It is a rather interesting vista after being underground all that time. This is easily in my top 5 online comic strips. Amazing! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-xkcd/635150.md?page=5)