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XKCD 3156: Planetary Rings
xkcd.com/3156

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> If you don't know where you are on Earth, the angle of satellite dishes can help constrain your latitude. If some of them are pointing straight up, you're probably near the Equator, right under the ring.
XKCD 3156: Planetary Rings saying, "Astronomy fact: A century ago, Earth didn't have rungs, now we have one now! It's where all the satellite dishes are pointed." There is a picture of the earth with a geostationary satellite belt, plus a check list of which plants have rings, with Earth's checkbox highlighted in red.
October 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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XKCD (@xkcd.com) is going hard today.

xkcd.com/3081

Comic hover text links to a YouTube video — youtu.be/JyypeEEOklM
"Surveillance video shows Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk apprehended in Somerville, MA" by CBS Boston
XKCD 3081, titled US Ph.D. Program Timeline. The XKCD comic presents a typical Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) timeline, with a twist. Typically a Ph.D. is broken into a number of steps, from enrollment through to thesis defense. However, in this case, the timeline takes an unexpected turn when, instead of publishing the thesis, the candidate is detained by masked government agents. While this may seem like an unlikely event, it reflects the lived experience of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University who was abruptly detained by six masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Somerville, MA while walking to an iftar dinner. Subsequently, she was transported to Vermont and then to a detention facility in Louisiana before a court ordered that she not be removed from Massachusetts. Description via Explain XKCD website: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
April 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM