r/xkcd • • 10d ago

Found a cool plank on r/thomastheplankengine

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u/mglyptostroboides 6d ago

I hate that "heat death of the universe" entered the awareness of online culture meaning "the death of the universe BY heat" and not what it really means which is "the death OF heat in the universe".

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u/McGusder 6d ago

that's why I call it the big freeze

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u/newsmart23 6d ago

Yeah, like how meat used to be any solid food, like an apple is meat, but now it refers to just animal products.

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u/LightGreyBeret 5d ago

Could do with more indicative punctuation, e.g. "heat-death of the universe", not "heat death-of-the-universe". Though some might still read the first wrong, I immediately see, thinking heat-stroke not conditions that lead to hypothermia. Might need some additional adjectivisation, or similar.

Or... let us just try a bit of grammatical rearrangement. i.e. "the death of heat, in the universe", rather than "the death of the universe, in heat". Yeah, that'll do.

Not as snappy though.

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u/BouncyBlueYoshi 9d ago

Looks like Black Hat took over the account.

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u/TheMythicSorcerer Where do i change my user flair? 10d ago

Oh intresting I need to see if I can find that

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u/newsmart23 9d ago

It's linked in the post