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26 Dec 16:36

Truly Universal Outlet

Building Inspectors HATE This One Weird Trick

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25 Dec 01:42

Sauropods

Vertebrae Georg

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23 Dec 04:57

Funny Numbers

In 1899, people were walking around shouting '23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.

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20 Dec 04:45

Pole Vault Pole

My goal in life is to be personally responsible for at least one sports rule change.

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18 Dec 00:42

Telescope Types

I'm trying to buy a gravitational lens for my camera, but I can't tell if the manufacturers are listing comoving focal length or proper focal length.

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16 Dec 04:57

Jumping Frog Radius

Earth's r_jf is approximately 1.5 light-days, leading to general relativity's successful prediction that all the frogs in the Solar System should be found collected on the surface of the Earth.

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12 Dec 23:42

Apples

The experimental math department's budget is under scrutiny for how much they've been spending on trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm traveling at 45 mph.

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11 Dec 03:42

Fishing

'That's definitely above the catch-and-release size minimum for planetesimals.' 'I'm going to throw it back anyway.'

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09 Dec 02:57

Hyperacute Interdynamics

Our models fall apart where the three theories overlap; we're unable to predict what happens when a nanometer-sized squirrel eats a grapefruit with the mass of the sun.

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06 Dec 02:42

Chessboard Alignment

Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.

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04 Dec 01:42

Inverted Catenaries

Some tires are marketed as 'all-shape tires,' but if driven in a climate with both inverted catenary falls and triangle falls, they wear out really fast.

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01 Dec 19:54

Website Task Flowchart

Tired of waiting on hold? Use our website to chat with one of our live agents, who are available to produce words at you 24/7!

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28 Nov 21:39

Bridge Clearance

A lot of the highway department's budget goes to adjusting the sign whenever the moon passes directly overhead.

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26 Nov 20:39

Satellite Imagery

Every weekend I take an ATV out into the desert and spend a day tracing a faint "(C) GOOGLE 2009" watermark across the landscape.

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24 Nov 21:54

Fifteen Years

"Want to feel old?" "Yes."

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21 Nov 23:42

Geologic Core Sample

If you drill at the right angle and time things perfectly, your core sample can include a section of a rival team's coring equipment.

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20 Nov 01:42

Service Outage

Now, if it were the *Canon* wiki, it's possible to imagine someone with a productivity-related reason for consulting it, but no one's job requires them to read that much about Admiral Daala.

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17 Nov 23:54

EPIRBs

'Oh no, the box is drifting out into the harbor!' 'Yeah, I wouldn't worry about losing it.'

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14 Nov 22:39

Beam Dump

We're adding some industrial flypaper to minimize reflection or scattering of customers who might complain.

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12 Nov 19:39

Car Size

'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.'

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11 Nov 01:57

Big and Little Spoons

Are you the annoying spoon or the sleepy spoon?

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08 Nov 02:42

Earthquake Prediction Flowchart

At least people who make religious predictions of the apocalypse have an answer to the question 'Why didn't you predict any of the other ones that happened recently?'

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05 Nov 21:39

Metric Tip

The package weighs 7 kg 9 oz.

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03 Nov 23:57

Repair Video

The statue should be in the likeness of whatever sculptor posted the sculpting tool repair video that was most helpful during the installation of the statue.

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01 Nov 00:42

Heart Mountain

Even geology papers about Heart Mountain are like, "Look, we all agree this 'volcanic gas earthquake hovercraft' thing seems like it can't possibly be right, but..."

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29 Oct 21:39

Airspeed

Carefully maneuvering the balloon down a mineshaft in an effort to break the OTHER altitude record

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27 Oct 21:54

Document Forgery

It comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a...

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24 Oct 13:36

Continents

The inflection point was probably in late 1966 or 1967, so when Neil Armstrong flew to space on Gemini 8, plate tectonics was not widely accepted, but when he landed on the Moon three years later it was the mainstream consensus.

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23 Oct 01:42

Shielding Chart

Sharks can occasionally travel short distances through air when pursuing prey, but their attenuation coefficient is pretty high.

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20 Oct 21:54

Emperor Palpatine

Many things about Star Wars were not well planned out, but having a 37-year-old in old-age makeup play the Emperor in Return of the Jedi was such an incredible call.