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Seven Years

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[hair in face] "SEVVVENNN YEEEARRRSSS"
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chrisrosa
2531 days ago
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😢
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rjstegbauer
2533 days ago
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Touching and beautiful! One of your best.
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2533 days ago
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[hair in face] "SEVVVENNN YEEEARRRSSS"
ameel
2533 days ago
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<3
Melbourne, Australia
MaryEllenCG
2533 days ago
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::sniffle::
Greater Bostonia
kyleniemeyer
2533 days ago
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😭
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louloupix
2534 days ago
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That's why I still watch it..Time to time they deliver...
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2523 days ago
j'ai toujours autant de mal à comprendre la trame...
marcrichter
2534 days ago
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Awesome. I'm speechless.
tbd
deezil
2534 days ago
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OKAY I'M CRYING AT MY DESK NOW.
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sfrazer
2534 days ago
God damnit, Randal.
deezil
2534 days ago
For those that don't know the whole story: Approximately 7 years ago (imagine that) Randall posted this on the blog https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/11/05/submarines/ and made some vague references to tough times in the comics. On in to 2011, he posted this on the blog, and things seemed to be scary but hopeful. https://blog.xkcd.com/2011/06/30/family-illness/ . He's made mention several times about it over the years inside the comics, and I really believe that "Time" was made for some express purpose as to get his emotions out. But this update seriously is making a grown 32 year old man weep openly at his desk (thankfully I have a door that closes), as I always wondered how things were. Things look good, and this makes my heart happy.
effingunicorns
2534 days ago
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it's been kind of A Day so I'm not afraid to admit I cried
jlvanderzwan
2533 days ago
Had the same with the previous comic, that this one references. I felt so much relief when I reached the end of this one...
jlvanderzwan
2533 days ago
Links for the new readers: https://xkcd.com/881/, https://xkcd.com/1141/
jlvanderzwan
2533 days ago
These are also related but more humorous in nature: https://xkcd.com/933/, https://xkcd.com/996/
jlvanderzwan
2533 days ago
And this one explains how the experience of dealing with cancer "works": https://xkcd.com/931/
gordol
2533 days ago
As someone who is now officially a cancer survivor, this one hits home.

The Life Cycle of Phoenixes

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Hello again!

I’m sorry the comic has been gone for so long. In October, some bad code was injected into the site’s code which was sending emails out asking for people’s bank account numbers and such. The site was taken down and wasn’t brought back up because I didn’t know how to fix the problem. Good friend Greg Truono got it back and running.

In addition to getting the site back up, I’m also planning on updating Monday through Friday and taking the weekends off I’m going to start Tuesday.

A lot has happened since we last talked. Some highlights:

1. I got married. We had a delightful wedding and we gave out rules manuals and sets of dice at the reception. The rules manuals were put together by amazing pal Bailey Kung.

2. I stopped practicing clinical medicine for reasons I don’t mind talking about, but don’t really want to talk about here.

3. I visited the West Coast for the first time, and then took a train trip across America. It’s a really wide country!

It is nice to see you again.

 

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ISS Astronaut Snaps 3-Second Exposure to Show How ‘Crazy’ the Atmosphere Really Is

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atmosphere1

It’s one thing to visualize different layers of gasses in the Earth’s atmosphere and see drawings and models in a book or online… it’s another thing entirely to capture it on camera. But of course, that’s one of the perks of being an astronaut on the International Space Station, you get to do a whole lot of things that are “another thing entirely.”

The photograph above was taken by astronaut Reid Wiseman and uploaded to his Twitter feed early this morning. It’s a 3-second exposure, and we know this because he captioned the photo “3 second shutter exposure at night shows how crazy our #atmosphere really is.”


Further explanation of what you’re seeing was offered by Reddit user smsmkiwi in a comment:

The orange and green arcs are layers of glowing gas are called airglow. Each layer glows at a specific wavelength or band of wavelengths. The broad orange layer at the top is due to atomic oxygen from ~250 km altitude. The narrow green layer is also atomic oxygen and that originates from near 96 km altitude. Just below that is another orange layer due to atomic sodium from meteors burning up in the upper atmosphere at ~90 km altitude. Maybe a contribution in that layer by hydroxyl from 87km also.

‘Crazy’ indeed. To see a higher resolution version of the photo or to keep up with Wiseman as he continues on uploading amazing images from space, be sure to visit his Twitter and give him a follow.

And as a bonus, here’s the next photo he Tweeted from space not long after the photograph at the top:



Image credits: Photograph by Reid Wiseman/NASA

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February 08, 2014

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Just a reminder, I have an exclusive comic this week over at The Nib.
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lekan
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This reminds me of Calvin & Hobbes.
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Silence

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All music is just performances of 4'33" in studios where another band happened to be playing at the time.
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lekan
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amazing.
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danatnr
4233 days ago
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Given the amount of background noise mics pick up, this is just about impossible.
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garthk
4231 days ago
That's Cage's (and, I presume, Randall's) point. It's not 4:33 of silence; it's 4:33 of attention to background noise.
mcabrams
4235 days ago
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Thanks to the teacher whose name I can't remember, who taught the music course I can't remember, that allowed me to get this.
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Dadster
4237 days ago
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EXCELLENT.
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pepsy
4237 days ago
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solo per appassionati
veracity
4237 days ago
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Love it.
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norb
4237 days ago
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Music nerd alert
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JoeTortuga
4237 days ago
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Remember to take a moment of silence before you guffaw. Well that's what I did.
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TheTom
4237 days ago
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Hehehe...music nerd joke :P
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DrewMcMahon
4236 days ago
lol
KTamas
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ahaahaha
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greggrossmeier
4237 days ago
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Copyright nerds will find this one especially good.
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