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PlanetPixel offsetRelative Distance in ComicActual Distance in AU
Mercury930.39070.39
Venus1690.71010.72
Earth23811
Mars3621.52101.52
Jupiter12295.16395.2
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Btw, I also really like how you misspelled "typo" in the title

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And it's probably actually a typi since the letters are next to each other on qwerty.

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Where tf does the xkcd author get all these comic ideas from. Like jfc, I haven't had a single good thought in the past 10 years and counting.

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He's super smart. I've always thought that an idea he has for a comic starts as part of a funny and/or interesting conversation he was having with friends or colleagues. Then later he remembers some of them and makes comics out of them.

That's how I imagine it, anyway.

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If the planets remained in conjunction as they went around the Sun, yes. The planets don't wander as though they're attached to the spoke of a wheel though... and as I click through the explainxkcd link, it seems that someone else has pointed that out, albeit in other words.

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Would it still work with Free Serif or Liberation Serif etc, or is this part of an evil plot to get spaceship-owning Linux users lost in space?

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xkcd #2863: Space Typography | Spyke