This is the best of the recent series of xkcd comics

[conuly]

https://xkcd.com/2287/

Though knowing that I can fit 8 horses in with me to maintain my personal space zone IS interesting.

Comments

[gingicat]

I am intrigued that the virus injector looks like something out of Steven Universe. (Viruses can in fact last for a very long time in a crystalline form.)

[frith]

From what I recall, that would be the tobacco mosaic virus, as seen via scanning electron microscope.

[conuly]

Wasn't that the first virus we were ever able to identify?

[frith]

I think you're right! All the more reason for it to have been in my old Biology last century. In them olde days, back when 5 kingdoms roamed the earth (sciences).

[gingicat]

*looks it up*

I have learned something new, thank you!

[conuly]

I think it's more that Steven Universe cribbed from virus injectors.

[gingicat]

Wow, now I want Rebecca Sugar to tell us about that brainwave.

Edit: Apparently she did. I am wowed. https://steven-universe.fandom.com/wiki/Injectors

[pensnest]

You know, that is somehow the most liberal and the most hopeful thing I have seen in ages. It is very heartening.

[conuly]

:)

[rhoda_rants]

Genuinely heartwarming, that. <3

[conuly]

Nobody cares for the feelings of the little viruses.

[cynthia1960]

This is great.

[conuly]

Agreed :D

You had me at 'horses'

[frith]

The horses are in xkcd 2286. ^_^

Re: You had me at 'horses'

[conuly]

Yes!

[sgatazmy]

Thanks for this! I haven’t read xkcd in a while but now I need to go catch up.

[conuly]

The current series: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:COVID-19

Horse sizes

[polydad]

Horses come in different sizes. Fitting half a dozen Shetlands in a 6' radius circle, fine. Half a dozen Belgians, not happening.

Re: Horse sizes

[conuly]

Whatever, I want a barrier.

[tcpip]

I have to disagree. Randall has outdone himself with this effort.

https://m.xkcd.com/2287/

[conuly]

...that's the one I linked to. I think that is the best, but I also appreciated the earlier ones, particularly the one with the wall-of-horses.

[tcpip]

LOL, I'm an idiot, I misread the link and text.

Haha, you're right, it is the best! :)

[bibliofile]

[adds pasta to grocery list]