Today's xkcd

[Gagundathar]

“I only hope the story of how Building Wax Wings Enabled Me to Fly teaches everyone a lesson about hubris.”

XKCD #1110 - Click and Drag - Zoomable Map

[BigT]

@Bosstone

That’s still missing the point. The scroll itself is limited compared to other easier methods of viewing a large picture such as zoom in the same way that walking is limited compared to other easier methods of travel such as flight. Flight is quite literally the same as a zoom function; you go very high up, travel a smaller distance (or at least the same distance in a shorter amount of time), then go back down to ground detail.

Just because I get the point doesn’t mean I want to drudge through it, any more than I would want to walk all that way when I could fly. I already got the message of what he was doing. Slowly going through it gives me no more information and just delays getting to see what’s in it so I can appreciate the work he put into it.