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"Sir! The Detector... isn't!" "My god..."

youtu.be/7vIjBtdEQRE?...

The light flickers, we all sweat profusely.

hot dog or not hot dog?

Reality detector checks if the area is still real. Or at least a simulation of reality. Or a system indistinguishable from… you know what? Let’s try to lower the detection limit because are we positive that this is not the Bad Place?

It's my favorite detective show

“Returns TRUE if the computer is on. Otherwise, the return value is undefined.”

Also, it can boil an egg at 30 paces.

Humor: Detected!

There's a Latin phrase in that. "quis detectiet ipsos detectes".

That would be a “meta detector”…

*turns on Holmdel Horn Antenna...

This is the refrigerator light of detectors.

Doomsday detector, except that doomsday would happen so fast there’d be no time to detect it.

Not to be confused with the "Sensitive Scanner"!

But what do YOU give up?

...does it detect people close enough to see the readout?

Not now, my Geiger counter's on cooldown.

Title text: "No other experiment has a lower false negative rate." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3254#Transcript

It detects states. Ohio disappears. Light remains green without a hint of flicker.