Title text:
Starting a meta-leaderboard for tracking who holds the record for ranking behind the most distinct people on an online leaderboard.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3110/
Title text:
Starting a meta-leaderboard for tracking who holds the record for ranking behind the most distinct people on an online leaderboard.
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: https://xkcd.com/3110/
At one point I was ranked dead last in the entire world for number of seconds lived.
Chances are you shared that position with someone else.
Edit: There are 86400 seconds in a day while globally on average about 362,000 babies are born per day.
Not if it’s measured with a fractional part.
I wonder if the rate is high enough and the distances large enough that relativity could make it so people on opposite ends of the world disagree on which baby was born first. Then again, birth takes a lot longer than a second and it’s not really possible to pinpoint an exact timestamp when the baby is born and wasn’t previously.
In that case I’d expect the wording to be “time lived”, not “number of seconds lived”.
I don’t think the time someone is born is registered that precisely anywhere, so it would probably be very hard to get anyone to agree on it.
You know I thought of how to word that better, but wasn’t sure I could convey what I meant clearly enough. I should have just used something like ‘time lived’.