Authors: Randall Munroe
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About the Author
R
ANDALL
M
UNROE
, a former NASA roboticist, is the creator of the webcomic xkcd and the author of
xkcd: volume 0.
The International Astronomical Union recently named an asteroid after him; asteroid 4942 Munroe is big enough to cause a mass extinction if it ever hits a planet like Earth. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.