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19 Aug 03:12

Particle Physics Equipment

The one that sounds like the oracle at the center of the galaxy where the hero travels to hear a prophecy is probably Brookhaven National Laboratory's now-dismantled COSMOTRON.

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15 Aug 03:15

Accretionary Arc

The late Triassic rifting was caused by a dinosaur trying to use the control panel to escape a predator, but it was eaten before the continent could fully separate.

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13 Aug 01:12

Geology Building

The administration thinks it's weird, but the geologists say it looks normal.

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10 Aug 11:48

Size and Lifespan

With their 13 years recording and performing together and two humans worth of mass, the White Stripes are sandwiched neatly between gray wolves and blue whales.

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07 Aug 17:39

Trick Play

I've been trying to find out whether the Laws of the Game take the axiom of choice or not, but FIFA officials keep blocking my number.

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05 Aug 21:39

Antiques Roadshow

The family lore was that we've had it ever since it was ejected from a star-forming gas cloud, but it seems more likely that my great-grandparents probably just bought it while on vacation in the galactic thin disk.

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03 Aug 20:54

Maze

As a side effect of the research, mice are now the only known animals other than humans to have developed a Backrooms mythology.

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31 Jul 15:36

Main Span

Wind stress? Don't be silly. When has wind stress ever been a problem for a suspension bridge?

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29 Jul 19:09

Vera Rubin Observatory

'Spurious signals from the kitchen' is harder for an optical telescope than a radio one, but with enough determination and creativity, I believe it's possible.

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27 Jul 17:21

Forth

I NOTATION POLISH REVERSE ❤️

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24 Jul 23:42

Recursive Trucker's Hitch

As if the americium smoke detector incident wasn't enough, now nuclear regulators have ANOTHER reason to worry about the Boy Scouts.

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22 Jul 16:06

Calibration Nobel

We would like to once again apologize to Dr. Jones for last year's mistaken announcement. We should really have double-checked the envelope for this award in particular.

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20 Jul 16:21

Arthurian Connector

Most coffee shops have a descendant of Sophia of Hanover on staff for this, but just as I was about to ask for help, a previously unknown heir of Uther Pendragon who was ordering a muffin tripped on my laptop cord.

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17 Jul 20:09

Latitude and Longitude

NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730).

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16 Jul 01:42

Time Change

All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.

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14 Jul 02:57

The Princess and the Pea

Once we've fully explored this space, we can start varying the number of princesses.

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11 Jul 01:15

Toasting Marshmallows

We have two 'in case of fire, break glass' boxes, which you pick between based on how big of a problem the fire is. One has an extinguisher, and one has sticks, marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate.

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08 Jul 20:09

Airport Meeting

Although it was a setback for physics, I'm glad the particle naming rights issue led to the cancelation of Pizza Hut's Superconducting Super Collider in the early 90s, so the Double Stuffed Extra Cheese Topping Quark ended up just being named 'top quark.'

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06 Jul 23:27

Offside

The arbiter gave my knight a red card for capturing with cleats up :(

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04 Jul 03:15

Types of Tornado Alert

I hate the unearthly sound my phone makes when the weather service issues a tornado harbinger.

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02 Jul 02:12

Holes

If you're thinking 'Wait, a giant crystal cave in Mexico? What's that?' then I'm SO excited for the image search you're about to do.

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29 Jun 18:24

Asteroid Threat

Paleontologists have long worried that the dinosaurs blasted into space 66 million years ago will one day complete their orbits and fall back down.

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27 Jun 02:42

720 Ollie

This discovery was key to his demonstration of regular/goofy symmetry violation, which won him gold in the theory portion of the X Games.

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25 Jun 04:15

Baryon Asymmetry

Wait, what do you mean, 'dark matter'? It's not dark, it interacts with high-energy gamma rays ... right? Oh jeez, did I forget to make it interact?

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23 Jun 03:57

Sports Commentary

The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote.

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20 Jun 02:12

Side Effect

Brace yourself--the chirp gets pretty weird.

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17 Jun 16:36

Messi

Commentators agree that this will probably be the last World Cup in which Messi faces serious competition.

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15 Jun 15:51

Tethys

In order to carry the necessary crafting supplies, they built the ships at 12:1 scale.

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12 Jun 22:12

Plate Flip

It's great for exfoliating your skin, bones, houses, cities, landscape, etc.

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11 Jun 01:42

Beam Pipe

'If you keep trying to spray your collaborators with the beam when they're not looking, I'm turning off the ion source and NO one will get to play with the beam!' --Physics's mom