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The odds of getting hit by a lightning is actually surprisingly high (1 in 3000 in an average lifetime). He should really go see a doctor though, since there's
by feniv 13y ago
The odds of getting hit by a lightning is actually surprisingly high (1 in 3000 in an average lifetime). He should really go see a doctor though, since there's a 70% chance that he may be affected with serious long-term conditions.
[source : http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0623_040623_lightningfacts.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0623_040623_... ]
- kunai 13y agoI know that I've been on an xkcd spree lately, but for some reason the HN frontpage is filled with circumstances that match. http://xkcd.com/795/ http://xkcd.com/795/
- famousactress 13y agoI'm surprised no one's written a bot yet that auto-picks the most appropriate xkcd for an HN post and posts a 'relevant xkcd' comment :)
- kunai 13y agoYou've just given me a new scripting project to undertake over the weekend. :)
- famousactress 13y agoGood luck! I imagine there'll be some interesting challenges. I don't know how useful the alt-text will be since I guess it's sort of a cheeky second-comic, so coming up with clever ways to index relevant ideas/terms will be interesting. You'd probly get some impressive looking results by just taking the echo-chamber approach of looking for HN links to comics and index what the discussion was about. Hell, just hard-coding comments for horse battery staple and bobby tables would probably pass 30% of the unit tests :)
- nitrogen 13y agoThere's http://www.explainxkcd.com/ http://www.explainxkcd.com/, and some of the comics have a <div id="transcript">transcript here</div>.
- fr0sty 13y agoThis one is even more relevant: http://what-if.xkcd.com/16/ http://what-if.xkcd.com/16/