Randall Munroe: Broken Model xkcd.com/2945 — Subium • Bluesky web client

Title text: "In addition to eating foxes, rabbits can eat grass. The grass also eats foxes. Our equations chart the contours of Fox Hell." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/2945#Transcript

Guess I'll get myself acquainted with the netherdwellers 💀

but grass *does* eat foxes. already dead ones and really slowly, but it does!

I have it on good authority that rabbits are voracious meat eaters.

d rabbit/ dt = HOW DARE YOU! I AM A GOD YOU PUNY HUMAN. I AM ETERNAL!

You have no idea how close I've been to making this exact error in a lecture. A plus . . . a minus . . .

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Well. This explains a lot about our world.

@marisadebowsky.bsky.social

There is truly an XKCD for everything,isn't there?

Conclusion: By working together, 20 extremely hungry rabbits can definitely kill and eat a single fox.

One of your most correct opinions (and you are a haver of many).

@acidlich.bsky.social

Lmao

Those poor foxes

Back in the '80s, I had a line drawing of a Space Shuttle orbiter mounted upside-down on its external tank & SSRBs. The caption was "Sign Error".

I've duly remixed this classic from the 1982 Horizons ZX Spectrum introductory cassette

The students in my class do it all the time:

What if we put wolf gut bacteria in a rabbit? 🐇

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We shouldn’t be restricted to reality. Sincerely, a mathematician.

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