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xkcd #2821: Path Minimization (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I spent way too long trying to figure out why the guy and the ice cream shop were flying, and how he would move horizontally in he air...

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I couldn't tell what I was looking at until I searched for an explanation. All I could see was a person falling into some water past a floating ice cream stall. It's supposed to be a beach:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2821:_Path_Minimization

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

"we have a beach at home"

the beach in question

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I just thought it was two dudes racing to get ice cream first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was more like: but if he choses the alternative paths, he doesn't get the ice cream - that doesn't make sense! Then I understood our priorities differ.