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Fault Taunting

One of the first things they teach you is to NEVER play with the geology toy over a mantle hotspot.

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07 Sep 18:54

Semaphore

The speed of light in air is 50% faster than in fiber, but it's a challenge to get the arms to move fast enough to realize the latency advantage.

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04 Sep 16:36

Asteroid Mission

Lander, this is Houston. There's been a request that you turn clipping back on and instead set the mass to 1kg. The theorists believe that will be pretty funny.

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02 Sep 21:39

Handedness

A 'left-handed specialist' is a physicist who studies the weak interaction.

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31 Aug 18:54

Geology Class

The rise of AI review bombing tools threatens to take away a crucial source of experience for geology undergraduates.

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28 Aug 19:09

Launchpad

It does come at the cost of some launchpad expansions and increased fuel requirements, but that all comes out of the facility's budget.

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26 Aug 22:12

Trade

"You legs may have a comparative advantage at running, but we arms have a competitive advantage at swinging hammers, so unless you accept that we're the dominant limbs and stop hogging the oxygen, that running advantage won't be around for long."

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25 Aug 02:57

Highway Signs

Highway engineers like Planck units because, like the speed of light, the energy capacity of a typical car's gas tank is 1.

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21 Aug 20:39

xkcd store reopening

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The xkcd store is back, with shirts, stickers, and posters for sale.

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21 Aug 20:09

Archery Feat

Update: I would not have embarked on this powerscaling venture if I'd known how thoroughly Mark Twain was going to roast me.

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19 Aug 17:09

Perseids

Recently I've been watching the Daytime Perseids. I haven't seen a meteor from them yet, but the clouds are pretty and the snacks are good.

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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 :(