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Summer

You should probably get back to shore before spring hits.

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Aerospace Flowchart

Someday, we will find the problem that goes with this solution.

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OH Scale

To access distant parts of the project, I ended up building a regular-scale passenger train inside each rail.

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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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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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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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Handedness

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Geology Building

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

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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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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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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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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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Main Span

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

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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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Forth

I NOTATION POLISH REVERSE ❤️

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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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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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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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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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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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The Princess and the Pea

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