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xkcd #2865: The Wrong Stuff
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The phantom found Edward Everett Hale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his 'brick moon' proposal were dismissed as science fiction.
Does Randall also work on explainxkcd? Because the explanation for the Trojan Horse seems to be pretty far fetched. Although I can't think of a better explanation either.
Lmao
I love the variety of places explainxkcd editors find to slip in a "citation needed".
You can find those in the what if series too.
“Outer space is a lot higher up than Niagara Falls,[citation needed] so the plunge down into the atmosphere at the bottom of Earth's gravity well adds a lot more than 0.1 degrees worth of heat.”
Source
I think explainxkcd is unofficial and crowdsourced?
Correct. I won't say that Randall has no input, but we can check the revision history to see all the different people that made edits.
I guess the idea is that if a competent engineer had been in charge of the Trojan Horse project, the ancient Greeks would've used an aluminum frame with a mylar fabric covering.
What's wrong with it?
That was the same explanation I came up with.