But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.
-- Randall Munroe
Definitely a double, but I can’t link the others right now.
I thought that unlikely, because it’s from last week’s XKCD What If?
Maybe Randall has said it before (or borrowed it from someone else).
Earlier posting
OK thanks.
I don’t know why I didn’t see it—I tried searching the page for Icarus before posting :(
I tried searching the page for Icarus before posting
I searched on the entire quote. That’s probably easier and more reliable than trying to pick out a keyword.
Well, that post was from the January thread. If you only Control-F’d this page, then it wouldn’t have come up.
That seems unlikely; the quote above was only posted about three weeks ago and nothing about Icarus turns up in a search. Can anyone find a duplicate?
Two, in fact.
It was three, but I deleted mine.
-- Randall Munroe
Definitely a double, but I can’t link the others right now.
I thought that unlikely, because it’s from last week’s XKCD What If?
Maybe Randall has said it before (or borrowed it from someone else).
Earlier posting
OK thanks.
I don’t know why I didn’t see it—I tried searching the page for Icarus before posting :(
I searched on the entire quote. That’s probably easier and more reliable than trying to pick out a keyword.
Well, that post was from the January thread. If you only Control-F’d this page, then it wouldn’t have come up.
That seems unlikely; the quote above was only posted about three weeks ago and nothing about Icarus turns up in a search. Can anyone find a duplicate?
Two, in fact.
It was three, but I deleted mine.