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6 Responses to “Science: It Works, Bitches!”

1. wisemrmagoo Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 12:41 am

   I’m pretty sure that’s from xkcd.

   http://xkcd.com/54/

2. larry Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 12:49 am

   There’s a T-shirt for sale at http://store.xkcd.com/ with it.

   The graph is of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which measurements of matched predictions and also helps confirm the Big Bang theory. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background_radiation

3. mrhe25 Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 1:15 am

   Barry,

   It’s an xkcd comic.

4. Jojo Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 4:48 am

   Love XKCD!

   Somebody pointed to this XKCD comic the other day about the Discovery channel:
   http://xkcd.com/442/

   And somehow, I found a link to someone who had animated and vocalized that comic. Pretty cool!
   http://vimeo.com/7151435

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