the blandfill blog » science http://www.blandfill.com Whimmy Wham Wham Wozzle Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:11:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Confirmation http://www.blandfill.com/2009/12/15/confirmation/ http://www.blandfill.com/2009/12/15/confirmation/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:34:55 +0000 duncan http://www.blandfill.com/2009/12/15/confirmation/ It turns out that Charles was right. Here is an e-mail that was sent to someone in the Harvard Society of Physics Students:

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Randall Munroe
Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: the harvard physicists are on to you: (was: Fwd:
[sps-open] xkcd and galactic rotation curves)
To: Jacob Rus

It’s a coincidence, but I swear I’ve seen that graph before. I
remember wishing I could see the error bars and data points.

Best,
Randall

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