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The existence of this chart will temporarily stimulate interest in solar flares.

I’m going to name my kid “solar flare” and train them to be a star from a young age so that when they die, it will ruin this chart

Well, he never mentioned that as an example, but knowing him a group of Ray Charles impersonators physically or psychically interfering with things wouldn't be ruled out. Kinda like this, but with Rays.

Tampa Bay baseball team

gamma rays from the microwave xD

Yeah, but any day now it's going to start inventing them.

I thought these were just the times in the economy when the largest number of people are hoping for a natural em pulse to destroy civilization

Yeah, now Google “carrington event” and gasp in horror at how overdue we are for one.

I think there’s another reason for this trend

Has anybody worked out why the periodicity is a prime number? Maybe ChatGPT knows better than Google?

In 2117 you could make a similar chart regarding the transit of Venus.

Excellent observation

Title text: "From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/2930#Transcript

I heard we're in for another round of global cooling any day now.