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17 Oct 16:36

Planetary Rings

If you don't know where you are on Earth, the angle of satellite dishes can help constrain your latitude. If some of them are pointing straight up, you're probably near the Equator, right under the ring.

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15 Oct 20:39

Physics Paths

If nothing else, that reasoning definitely overturns syllogisms.

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13 Oct 13:51

Physics Insight

When Galileo dropped two weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, they put him in the history books. But when I do it, I get 'detained by security' for 'injuring several tourists.'

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10 Oct 21:39

Hot Water Balloon

Despite a reputation for safety, the temperatures and surprisingly high pressures make them even more dangerous than the air kind, but the NTSB refuses to investigate accidents because they insist there is no 'transportation' involved.

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09 Oct 01:42

Skateboard

I understand it's hard to do more than 300 feet on these 90-second rush jobs, but with a smaller ramp I'm worried the gee forces will be too high for me to do any tricks.

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07 Oct 03:57

Window Screen

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Home Improvement or DIY

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03 Oct 17:39

Ping

Progress on getting shipwrecked sailors to adopt ICMPv6 has been slow.

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02 Oct 00:42

Measure Twice, Cut Once

"Measure zero times, cut zero times." --carpenter who has achieved enlightenment and realized the wood is fine where it is

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30 Sep 02:57

100% All Achievements

I'm trying to share my footage of the full run to prove it's not tool-assisted, but the uploader has problems with video lengths of more than a decade.

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26 Sep 19:39

Hiking

Every downhill walk is a waterslide that might have been.

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24 Sep 20:39

Fantastic Four

One perk of being born at 0.88c is that your birthday is over two days long.

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22 Sep 20:54

Piercing

Some lava around the piercing site is normal, but keep an eye out for spreading earthquakes and eruptive activity that might indicate rifting.

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19 Sep 13:36

Phase Changes

People looking for the gaps in our understanding where the meaning of consciousness or free will might hide often turn to quantum uncertainty or infinite cosmologies, as if we don't have breathtakingly complex emergent phenomena right there in our freezers.

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18 Sep 01:42

Question Mark

Although now people will realize three-per-em space that all this time I've been using weird medium mathematical space whitespace characters in my hair space hair space hair space speech dot dot dot...

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15 Sep 20:54

-Style Pizza

If you want to see true audacity, do an image search for 'Altoona-style pizza.'

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12 Sep 20:39

Mantle Model

Mantle plumes explain Hawaii, Yellowstone, Iceland, the East African Rift, the Adirondack uplift, the Permian extinction, the decline of Rome, the DB Cooper hijacking, and the balrog in Moria. Those little hills of sand in your yard are caused by antle plumes.

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10 Sep 16:36

Biology Department

Welcome to the Linguistics Department - It has been [2] [DAYS] since someone noticed that the Biology Department sign has a one-day-long singular/plural disagreement after it resets.

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08 Sep 21:54

Chess Variant

The draw-by-repetition rule does a good job of keeping players from sliding a tile back and forth repeatedly, but the tiles definitely introduce some weird en passant and castling edge cases.

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06 Sep 00:42

Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure

A person with two watches is never sure what time it is, especially if I got them one of the watches.

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03 Sep 21:39

Cursed Number

Another group of mathematicians is working to put an upper bound on the number, although everyone keeps begging them to stop.

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02 Sep 05:00

Pull

Be careful fighting gravity. If you win, it's a long way down.

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30 Aug 01:42

Sea Level

They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.

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28 Aug 01:42

Wavefunction Collapse

Wavefunction collapse is only one interpretation. Under some interpretations, graduate students also have souls.

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26 Aug 05:00

Dual Roomba

I tried uploading it to a household appliance porn site I found, but apparently their content is limited to only fans.

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22 Aug 16:36

Coastline Similarity

Hey! A bunch of the early Cretaceous fossils on each coast seem to have been plagiarized, too!

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20 Aug 14:35

Cesium

Someday I hope to find a way to mess up a recipe so badly that it draws the attention of the International Air Transport Association, the International Mathematical Olympiad, or the NSA.

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18 Aug 20:54

Predicament

I dropped my phone while trying to search, and I tried to unlock it from up here, so can you also search for screen repair places?

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15 Aug 14:36

Archaeology Research

The academic archaeology establishment is suppressing my breakthroughs because of the disruption it would bring to their prepared-core flake-based toolmaking industry.

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13 Aug 16:36

Thread Meeting

Hey, so did you ever finish your video series about Cassie and the caterpillar morph? I loved the first three, but never ... no, sorry, I get it, this isn't the place. Sorry! Sorry.

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11 Aug 21:54

Where Babies Come From

Historians: Contemporaneous documentation of the initial events is often sparse, and in fact people often get testy and uncooperative when we urge better documentation for the historical record.