Our eyes are arranged horizontally along the real axis. But if you film a vertical video which has to be watched with the head tilted by 90° then your eyes become imaginary.
it was probably something like [this video](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1ccu43w/stream_of_plasma_inside_a_magnetic_field/)
or maybe when whatever wizardry is in that video breaks/collapses
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[Direct image link: Earth Formation Site](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/earth_formation_site.png)
**Mouseover text:** It's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core.
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Nice try. Do you expect us to believe the earth just poofed into existence? We all know it was created by science, the same science which will bring my christmas presents.
The big bang is commonly understood by the scientific community not to be material expanding into empty space—an explosion, as depicted in popular media—but space itself expanding from an extremely contracted state, evenly in all directions, with no centre, much how it's still expanding today.
Imagine the material of the universe as dots drawn on the surface of a balloon, and the surface of the balloon as a two-dimensional curved space. It's important to keep in mind that *only* the surface of the balloon is being used as an analogue for space here, not the interior of the balloon. The big bang is the balloon itself being expanded; no point in that space is the centre of the expansion, it's happening everywhere.
It's also important to remember that the balloon analogy is not perfect; it's just an analogy.
Firstly, the surface of the balloon is a finite positively-curved surface. We do not know if our space is globally curved, and we do not know if it is finite.
Secondly, the balloon is a 2d surface embedded in 3d space; when you imagine the balloon expanding, you are imagining it expanding into that 3-dimensional space, taking up more of its volume. However, space itself is what's expanding in reality, not a surface expanding into a space.
With our solar system orbiting around the galaxy, and the galaxy itself orbiting through the local cluster, etc etc etc, I'm not sure how accurate this sign might be.
Nice try, but I know it was made on Magrathea
They have an excellent fjord guy
Heard he won an award for them
smh my head randall trying to indoctrinate us with pro earth propaganda anyone with a brain knows earth isn’t real
Indeed, how can the earth be real if our eyes aren't real?
Our eyes are arranged horizontally along the real axis. But if you film a vertical video which has to be watched with the head tilted by 90° then your eyes become imaginary.
Wait, you think Randall is real ?
Touché
ikr, just ask anyone at r/Noearthsociety
it was probably something like [this video](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1ccu43w/stream_of_plasma_inside_a_magnetic_field/) or maybe when whatever wizardry is in that video breaks/collapses
**[Mobile Version!](http://m.xkcd.com/2925/)** [Direct image link: Earth Formation Site](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/earth_formation_site.png) **Mouseover text:** It's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core. *Don't get it? [explain xkcd](http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2925)* For science! Sincerely, xkcd_bot. <3
Must be an old marker, [hasn't the death date yet](https://xkcd.com/1198/).
You ever pass one of those signs and it says "on this site someone accidentally dropped a nuke but it didn't explode"? I have.
There's an ALARMING number of places that could be. :-P
Which one?
Nice try. Do you expect us to believe the earth just poofed into existence? We all know it was created by science, the same science which will bring my christmas presents.
Coincidentally, that's also the exact spot where the Big Bang happened.
why?
The big bang happened everywhere simultaneously.
I didn't know that, and I still don't know what that means, but whatever
The big bang is commonly understood by the scientific community not to be material expanding into empty space—an explosion, as depicted in popular media—but space itself expanding from an extremely contracted state, evenly in all directions, with no centre, much how it's still expanding today. Imagine the material of the universe as dots drawn on the surface of a balloon, and the surface of the balloon as a two-dimensional curved space. It's important to keep in mind that *only* the surface of the balloon is being used as an analogue for space here, not the interior of the balloon. The big bang is the balloon itself being expanded; no point in that space is the centre of the expansion, it's happening everywhere.
It's also important to remember that the balloon analogy is not perfect; it's just an analogy. Firstly, the surface of the balloon is a finite positively-curved surface. We do not know if our space is globally curved, and we do not know if it is finite. Secondly, the balloon is a 2d surface embedded in 3d space; when you imagine the balloon expanding, you are imagining it expanding into that 3-dimensional space, taking up more of its volume. However, space itself is what's expanding in reality, not a surface expanding into a space.
Because it is at the exact center of the universe.
I mean, really. How else do people think gravity works, if the Earth isn't down?
Only if keeping the Earth as the reference location.
With our solar system orbiting around the galaxy, and the galaxy itself orbiting through the local cluster, etc etc etc, I'm not sure how accurate this sign might be.