#2163: Chernobyl
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[Ponytail and White Hat facing each other.]
Ponytail: Did you like Chernobyl?
White Hat: Yeah!
White Hat: But I still don't understand the meltdown. Can you explain it...simpler?
[Zoom in to closeup of Ponytail holding one hand out with palm up, with White Hat off-panel to the right.]
Ponytail: Well, the graphite–
White Hat (off-panel): Already too complicated.
Ponytail: Uh...they put the reactor in an unstable–
White Hat (off-panel): Nope, sorry.
[Zoom back out to full view of Ponytail and White Hat, with Ponytail holding hand to her chin.]
Ponytail: Hmm, ok.
Ponytail: Long ago, humans banged rocks together to make fire.
White Hat: Ok...
[Full view of Ponytail and White Hat, who has both hands held straight out to both sides.]
Ponytail: 30 years ago, we banged some rocks together too hard.
White Hat: Oh no!
Ponytail: Yeah, we messed up real bad.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:You know when you can't hear your speakers, and you keep turning various volume controls up higher and higher in confusion, and then someone hits the mute button and there's a deafening blast of sound? That's basically what happened at Chernobyl.