What will be true of xkcd's for July 29th-August 2nd?
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There will be at least one comic with no stick figures at all
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YES
The comics will have >=5 panels collectively
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YES
There will be at least one character that represents an actual person
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NO
All letters in every comic will be uppercase
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NO
Cueball will make >=2 appearances
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NO
There will be at least one comic that is a graph/chart
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NO
There will be at least one space-related comic
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NO
The sum of all the digits appearing in the comics (not the title or title text) is even
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NO
Megan will make an appearance
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NO
At least one of the comics will be related to the 2024 U.S. Election Cycle
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NO
Ponytail will make an appearance
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NO
There will be a color other than black or white used (intentional use of gray counts as a distinct color)
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NO
White Hat will make an appearance

I will resolve any answers to these questions as soon as I have time to resolve and the result has become clear. If an answer is potentially ambiguous, I will wait to see thoughts posted on explain xkcd, and will either resolve or conclude N/A based on the possible consensus there.

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There will be at least one space-related comic

@traders I've decided that today’s comic did not satisfy being space-related. Cosmology is space-related, but that was not a central theme of the comic. If anyone feels this is unreasonable, let me know and I can at least partially refund you.

@traders Before I reopen, I would like to hear thoughts on whether or not a reference to cosmology counts as a reference to space.

For context, I am leaning yes based on how space-focused the Cosmology wiki is.

I think the reference to the Hubble constant counts for me -- if it was just a reference to a cosmologist's approximations (e.g. 2205) I would say no.

I'd count cosmology as space related

I do think cosmology is space related. But it feels a stretch to say the comic itself is space related since it was focused on mathematics and exams rather than space or cosmology itself

@StephenStroup This seems to be good reasoning. I am going to try and spend some time comparing when I have said yes to this condition, and see if those times would suggest I need to resolve yes here

I assume the small caps in "PhD" count as uppercase?

I would say so, yes.

Wait, I'm dumb -- of course the letters of "sin" are all lowercase!