Randall Munroe Quotes

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Space is about 100 kilometers away. That's far away—I wouldn't want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn't that far away. If you're in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.

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But I've never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

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The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

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The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could potentially cover it up. If it were larger, there would be no one left in the city to submit paperwork to.

Randall Munroe

Randall Munroe

Randall Munroe

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Born: October 17, 1984 (age 42)

Bio: Randall Patrick Munroe is an American cartoonist, author, and the creator of the webcomic xkcd. He and the webcomic have developed a cult following, and after leaving NASA, he became a professional webcomic artist.

Known for:

Thing Explainer (2015)
What if A co gdyby
Algorithms (2004)

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