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20 Jan 02:57

Aurora Coolness

I've had countless nights where the line never left the bottom zone of the graph, but the few moments where it's climbed all the way to the top have made up for them all.

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16 Jan 15:36

International Station

Welcome to the International Space Station Exclamation Point!

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14 Jan 20:39

16 Part Epoxy

Some surfaces may seem difficult to glue. But if you research the materials, find tables of what adhesives work on them, and prepare your surfaces carefully, you can fail to glue them in a fun NEW way that fills your house with dangerous vapors.

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13 Jan 04:57

Sailing Rigs

I wanted to make the world's fastest yawl, so I made the aft sail bigger, but apparently that means it's not a yawl anymore! It's a real ketch-22.

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10 Jan 05:45

Planetary Alignment

We're going to need to modify the surface to mount it on the test stand. Which ocean basin do you like the least?

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07 Jan 20:39

Superstition

It's important to teach yourself to feel responsible for random events, because with great responsibility comes great power. That's what my wise Uncle Ben told me right before he died; he might still be alive today if only I'd said rabbit rabbit that year!

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06 Jan 03:57

Tensegrity

Some people argue that the tension and compression in the human skeleton is technically tensegrity, but it's missing the defining characteristic: making people say 'wtf, how is that thing floating?' when they see it.

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03 Jan 01:42

Conic Sections

They're not generally used for crewed spacecraft because astronauts HATE going around the corners.

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31 Dec 22:39

Anyone Else Here

Anyone else watching this Youtube video in 1954? If so, my last trip definitely messed with the timeline.

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29 Dec 23:54

High Altitude Cooking Instructions

1,300,000-1,400,000 ft: Ask a crew member to show you how to use the ISS food warmer.

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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.'