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.
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I’m pretty sure the tower just left of the starting point is the Burj Khalifa, and it is taller than the radio antenna.
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?
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.
Best xkcd… possibly ever. Loved it.
Very impressive, but the work:payoff ratio is quite low, especially in the underground portions.
Yeah, it is a neat concept, but I got bored quickly with dragging it and only spent about 5 minutes on it.
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”).
The right edge is a direct quote of the very first xkcd.
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.
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.
Did anyone think the whales were referenced from HHGttG? Still looking for the bowl of petunias though.
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.)
That’s what I immediately thought of, though I don’t know why it’s two whales.
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.
I thought it was a reference to Fantasia 2000.
There’s two X-Wings, by the way.
One in the sky, one in the ground.
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:
It is a rather interesting vista after being underground all that time.
This is easily in my top 5 online comic strips. Amazing!