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Depth
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https://xkcd.com/485/
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Sizes Accurate on a vertical log scale
[[Series of images of characters doing various things. Thei things they are doing are listed in left to right order]]
Man and woman playing in a ball pen
Woman using witchcraft to ban vista "Out, Vista!"
Two girls play Rock Band
Man and woman are having "fun" on a shaking bed.
[[Below this series of images, an image of a man on the computer]]:
Man is on computer and the image expands as it goes down. Here are the labels from left to right, up to down:
CD
DVD
Case
North Bridge
Ps
2
Mouse (a physical mouse)
RAM
CPU Socket Pin
2,767 Angels Dancing (one more and they'd roll over and become 32,768 Devils), Rice, Torrent (a bug), CPU, upcoming segfault
dust mite
hair
OVUM
Data (a pixel on Rick Astley's shoulder), rust mite, fork();
Peter Norton fighting a baxteriophage
memory
carbon nanotubes
space elevator
a line of silicon (Si), Electron Cloud, a man made out of arrows saying "sup?
Silicon nucleus
IPod femto
Brian Greene knitting furiously <<clank, clunk>>
{{Alt Text: The Planck length is another thousand or two pixels below the comic.}}
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SMBC,
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Oglaf (nsfw),
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Buttersafe,
Perry Bible Fellowship,
Questionable Content,
Buttercup Festival,
Homestuck,
Junior Scientist Power Hour