Randall Monroe, much loved geek illustrator and comic writer of XKCD, pulls off another of his fantastic graphs/maps, that actually has relevance for us, so I can finally use something of his here.
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Depth of the sea to scale. loneswimmer.com
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Cheers Carl.
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Awesome! Great idea about the tiny un-named swimmer.
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The un-named swimmer is Evan!
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What an excellent idea. I hope he makes a poster for sale.
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With a tiny “un-named” swimmer freaking out over a 300 ft depth…
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Needs more Evan Morrison!
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There seems to be an assumption in previous comments that the graphic is supposed to comfort me! Au contraire!
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Did you see this one from last year? Actually my favourite.
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I spent like 30 minutes immersed in that graphic the other day… who knew bathymetry was so fascinating? My personal favorite oceanic xkcd comic is this one http://xkcd.com/731/
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Rob, I though remembered a larger version of that one, maybe as one of his Store posters? Sudo make me a sandwich will probably stay my favourite. But then there’s flow charts … or for a different scale … http://xkcd.com/482/, so many to choose from.
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