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xkcd #2898: Orbital Argument (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Some people say light is waves, and some say it's particles, so I bet light is some in-between thing that's both wave and particle depending on how you look at it. Am I right?" "YES, BUT YOU SHOULDN'T BE!"

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I appreciate the origin story being included in this cliché, cuz it got repeated so often on Reddit that people seemed to forget it was said by a parody of an obnoxious heartless bureaucrat and repeat the phrase without irony.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You know, you are technically correct.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Which is a kind of correct.

What kind we’ll never know.