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Alt text: 'Finding a 105-year-old who's lived in each location and asking them which hurricane they think was the worst' is left as an exercise for the reader.
Oslo, Norway
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Mine was Fran - 1996 in Raleigh, NC. Really cool visualization.
Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth
Rita is right on for me (Shreveport, Louisiana)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
This is incredible.
Washington, DC
Carla was my first hurricane. All the nearby family gathered at our rock house on high ground (25' above sea level) in Corpus Christi, TX. I recall Beulah did more damage. My parents asked me to come home and help clean up. In those days there was a chain link divider on IH37, and metal roofing was hanging from it, pressed into the links. I had to start dodging trees in the road as far north as Three Rivers, TX.
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Atlanta, GA
Alt text: See also: Spider-Man reboot in which he can produce several inches of web, doesn't need as much chalk powder on his hands when he goes rock climbing, and occasionally feels vaguely uneasy about situations.
Oslo, Norway
Alt text: This isn't an informational illustration; this is a thing I think we should do. First, we'll need a gigantic spool of thread. Next, we'll need some kind of ... hmm, time to head to Seattle.
Oslo, Norway
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I like the human skin section. It would have been cool to represent the surface area of human space trash too though. I guess it would have been too small?
Actually reminds me of various RPGs when you can go from planet to planet.
Silver Spring, MD, USA
nice
New York, NY
The surfaces of our solar system in one map
Berlin/Germany
Ah, but how long is the coastline?
Alt text: PROTIP: You can get around the Shannon-Hartley limit by setting your font size to 0.
Oslo, Norway
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love
New York, NY
By the way, if you ever really need the alt text on mobile, go to the website, add a .m subdomain (so it's m.xkcd.com) and click the alt text button below the comic.
Missouri
Alt Text: PROTIP: You can get around the Shannon-Hartley limit by setting your font size to 0.
Alt text: "Let me just scroll down and check behind that rock. Annnnd ... nope, page copyright year starts with '19'. Oh God, is this a WEBRING?"
Oslo, Norway
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And this is how I feel three quarters of the time when I'm trying to find something on Microsoft forums.
All I can think of is that Arthur C Clarke line, "All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there."
New York, NY
even more desperate is to try a different search engine. that's the pits of despair.
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Talking rocks
Canada
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Atlanta, GA
It's ok, they'll always let you opt out! Like they did with the YouTube real name profile thing.
Oslo, Norway
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Sounds like a plan
Belgium
Nice.
New York, NY
That's awesome.
Tarrytown, NY
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