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xkcd #3161: Airspeed (imgs.xkcd.com)

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xkcd #3161: Airspeed

Title text:

Carefully maneuvering the balloon down a mineshaft in an effort to break the OTHER altitude record

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3161/

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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep, the last two comics are quite fundamentally wrong. It's as though he didn't fact check them in the most basic way. Slightly disappointing

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The document forgery one? Isn't that just a joke? What exactly do you fact check about a hypothetical forged document?

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah sorry, I meant the one before that with the continents and space.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Ok... Plate techtonics were widely accepted in the late 1960s according to my search, which is exactly what the previous comic claims (make sure to read the image text).

What did he get wrong?