Last week xkcd had a strip paying homage to the Discovery Channel’s current(?) advert. Not having seen the advert, I didn’t really understand it. So, tonight I finally remembered to check out the advert on YouTube, and liked it enough to stick up here; it actually does do a good job of igniting my sense of wonder.
Plus any song that rhymes “arach-a-nids” with “giant squids” gets my vote.
It pains me to have to do this; xkcd is so often a bastion of sense and logic. But I am called upon to root out muddles thinking and superstition wherever I see it and, my friends, I see it on xkcd. If it were a simple mistake, I could forgive it, but Randall has persisted in his misinformation, even revelled in it.
He leaves me no choice.
I give to you, the truth:
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