You know, satellites have day and night too. Even if they were far from Earth, and lit up by the Sun, it would still make sense to aim the satellites AWAY from the sun.
But xkcd is not a funny comic strip.
It's the funniest comic strip.
I am, obviously, doubtful of this explanation.
Yes, it seems strange that something like this could be allowed to happen.
If you knew exactly when this was going to happen, you could stand to make a lot of money.
Data is described in LOC.
Please turn in your card at the door.
Yes. And we have recently seen that you get about 2000 LOCs into a Catholic Church of data.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/04/28/1814221/Vatican-Chooses-Open-FITS-Image-Format
If you have to post a redundant obvious reply, that's also not funny. I don't even know why I'm typing this.
You have an extra colon and a misplaced closing parenthesis.
If only there was some sort of computerized networked look-up thing of known information, where you could type in something, and then it would tell you about it, before you made a post.... Hmmmm....
It's funny 'cause it's true.
Citation needed.
Humor recognition skills needed.
All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.