# ­xkcd thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [May 28, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574 "2020-05-28T00:57:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 33
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/641 "2021-04-02T05:33:59Z")
It appears there’s a LOT going on with this. According to [explain xkcd](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page), by inputting the right Morse code you will get all kinds of complex responses. (Some people have a lot more patience than I do.) ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/642 "2021-04-02T06:02:40Z")
Okay, now _that’s_ a good April Fool’s prank, forcing you to learn Morse code to get anywhere in this program. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/644 "2021-04-06T02:31:15Z")
> **[Spike Proteins](https://xkcd.com/2446/)** > > Ugh, it's stuck to my laptop. It must have bound to the ACER-2 receptor. That was an awful pun in the title text. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/645 "2021-04-06T10:46:16Z")
I chortled ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/646 "2021-04-08T06:53:16Z")
> **[Hammer Incident](https://xkcd.com/2447/)** > > I still think the Cold Stone Creamery partnership was a good idea, but I should have asked before doing the first market trials during the cryogenic mirror tests. Not getting the title-text reference. It’s a lot easier to read here. At the time I’m posting, the image at the website is mega-large. No doubt it’ll be fixed. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/647 "2021-04-08T12:26:47Z")
The JWST has a cryocooler to keep things at the right temperature. The Cold Stone Creamery also uses flat chilled surfaces to prepare ice cream. Using the telescope mirror to prepare ice cream is a Bad Idea™. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/648 "2021-04-08T12:27:29Z")
Cold Stone Creamery is an ice cream shop where you can get a variety of ingredients mixed in to your ice cream. They do this mixing in front of you, on a chilled stone slab countertop, the “cold stone” in the name. A large mirror undergoing cryogenic tests would also be a cold slab, and could be used for similar mixing of ice cream: This would probably work very well for the ice cream, but perhaps not so well for the mirror. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/649 "2021-04-08T13:07:08Z")
But what if you like ice cream **and** astronomy? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/650 "2021-04-08T13:24:36Z")
Not exactly ice cream, but this was around is probably less destructive to science: > **[Viral Now: 5ft-Tall Telescope Made With Chocolate Looks Too Good To Eat!](https://food.ndtv.com/news/viral-now-5ft-tall-telescope-made-with-chocolate-looks-too-good-to-eat-2303760)** > > Viral Video: A pastry chef from Las Vegas has built a five feet tall telescope in his kitchen that is made entirely with chocolate. Take a look! If that’s not good enough for you, then this would make a better bowl for your ice cream, and it would probably be less damaging to the hardware to use it in that fashion. > **[The Green Bank Observatory Is Going Rogue to Stay Up and Running](https://www.wired.com/2016/10/happens-space-observatory-goes-rogue/)** > > Green Bank observatory has helped pave the path for other federal scientific facilities that the government will later leave behind. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/651 "2021-04-08T17:04:52Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > But what if you like ice cream **and** astronomy? I wonder if that’s why they named it … wait for it … The Milky Way? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/652 "2021-04-10T03:52:41Z")
> **[Eradication](https://xkcd.com/2448/)** > > When you get to hell, tell smallpox we say hello. I’ll second the motion. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/653 "2021-04-10T03:58:02Z")
While I also endorse this policy, may I humbly suggest we finish the eradication of polio first? That fucker has it coming. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/654 "2021-04-10T12:47:58Z")
This just might manage to be the basis of a bipartisan policy. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/655 "2021-04-13T02:35:56Z")
> **[ISS Vaccine](https://xkcd.com/2449/)** > > Because they orbit the Earth every 90 minutes, some astronauts should try to argue that, due to CDC regulations and time zone technicalities, they should be able to get their second dose just 30 or 40 hours after their first. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/656 "2021-04-13T04:13:36Z")
This is one of the feeblest xkcds I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/657 "2021-04-13T12:31:47Z")
I found it quite punny. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/658 "2021-04-15T17:56:06Z")
> **[Post Vaccine Social Scheduling](https://xkcd.com/2450/)** > > As if these problems weren't NP-hard enough. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/659 "2021-04-15T18:28:06Z")
Looks like person #3 went to a movie before their time. ---
**Author:** ![tofor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tofor/32/13727_2.png) [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/660 "2021-04-15T18:58:02Z")
Person 3 got their 2nd dose twice. That’s pretty hard to do. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/661 "2021-04-15T22:23:15Z")
Person 3 is a vewy spwecial pwecious snowfwake. She demanded the second dose up front and wanted a third dose the second time, but only the first place caved to her demands. I can’t quite make out her nametag, but it looks like it probably starts with a “K”. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574.md?page=34)