✒️Materials Scientists
If a materials scientist gives you a present, always ask whether regifting will incur any requirements for Federal paperwork.
https://xkcd.com/2856
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If a materials scientist gives you a present, always ask whether regifting will incur any requirements for Federal paperwork.
https://xkcd.com/2856
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✒️Rebuttals
The mainstream dogma sparked a wave of dogmatic revisionism, and this revisionist mainstream dogmatism has now given way to a more rematic mainvisionist dogstream.
https://xkcd.com/2857
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The mainstream dogma sparked a wave of dogmatic revisionism, and this revisionist mainstream dogmatism has now given way to a more rematic mainvisionist dogstream.
https://xkcd.com/2857
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✒️Thanksgiving Arguments
An occasional source of mild Thanksgiving tension in my family is that my mother is a die-hard fan of The Core (2003), and various family members sometimes have differing levels of enthusiasm for her annual tradition of watching it.
https://xkcd.com/2858
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An occasional source of mild Thanksgiving tension in my family is that my mother is a die-hard fan of The Core (2003), and various family members sometimes have differing levels of enthusiasm for her annual tradition of watching it.
https://xkcd.com/2858
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✒️Oceanography Gift
Shipping times vary. Same-ocean delivery may only take a few years, but delivery from the Weddell Sea in Antarctica may take multiple decades, and molecules meant for inland seas like the Mediterranean may be returned as undeliverable by surface currents.
https://xkcd.com/2859
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Shipping times vary. Same-ocean delivery may only take a few years, but delivery from the Weddell Sea in Antarctica may take multiple decades, and molecules meant for inland seas like the Mediterranean may be returned as undeliverable by surface currents.
https://xkcd.com/2859
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✒️Decay Modes
Unlike an Iron Age collapse, a Bronze Age collapse releases energy, since copper and tin are past the iron peak on the curve of binding energy.
https://xkcd.com/2860
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Unlike an Iron Age collapse, a Bronze Age collapse releases energy, since copper and tin are past the iron peak on the curve of binding energy.
https://xkcd.com/2860
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✒️X Value
The value of n is still unknown, but new results constrain it to fall between 8 and 10^500, ruling out popular 'n=1' and 'n=2' theories.
https://xkcd.com/2861
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The value of n is still unknown, but new results constrain it to fall between 8 and 10^500, ruling out popular 'n=1' and 'n=2' theories.
https://xkcd.com/2861
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✒️Typical Seating Chart
Now that airlines have started adding wheel locks to their drink carts, less than half of flights have one accidentally fall out through the hole.
https://xkcd.com/2862
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Now that airlines have started adding wheel locks to their drink carts, less than half of flights have one accidentally fall out through the hole.
https://xkcd.com/2862
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✒️Compact Graphs
People may complain about readability, but even with jpeg compression, extracting the data points is usually computationally feasible if there aren't too many of them.
https://xkcd.com/2864
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People may complain about readability, but even with jpeg compression, extracting the data points is usually computationally feasible if there aren't too many of them.
https://xkcd.com/2864
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✒️the Wrong Stuff
The phantom found Edward Everett Hale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his 'brick moon' proposal were dismissed as science fiction.
https://xkcd.com/2865
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The phantom found Edward Everett Hale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his 'brick moon' proposal were dismissed as science fiction.
https://xkcd.com/2865
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✒️Snow
For someone who has ostensibly outgrown staying up late waiting for Santa, I do spend an awful lot of time refreshing websites to see if packages are here yet.
https://xkcd.com/2866
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For someone who has ostensibly outgrown staying up late waiting for Santa, I do spend an awful lot of time refreshing websites to see if packages are here yet.
https://xkcd.com/2866
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✒️DateTime
It's not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling.]
https://xkcd.com/2867
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It's not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling.]
https://xkcd.com/2867
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✒️Label the States
Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states.
https://xkcd.com/2868
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Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states.
https://xkcd.com/2868
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✒️Puzzles
Why couldn't the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?
https://xkcd.com/2869
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Why couldn't the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?
https://xkcd.com/2869
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✒️Love Songs
The Piña Colada song carves a trajectory across the chart over the course of the song.
https://xkcd.com/2870
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The Piña Colada song carves a trajectory across the chart over the course of the song.
https://xkcd.com/2870
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✒️Definitely
A really mean prank you can play on someone who's picky about words is to add a 'definitely->definitively' autocorrect rule to their keyboard.
https://xkcd.com/2871
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A really mean prank you can play on someone who's picky about words is to add a 'definitely->definitively' autocorrect rule to their keyboard.
https://xkcd.com/2871
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✒️Hydrothermal Vents
Benthic Santas weren't even discovered until the 1970s, but many scientists now believe Christmas may have originally developed around hydrothermal vents and only later migrated to the surface.
https://xkcd.com/2872
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Benthic Santas weren't even discovered until the 1970s, but many scientists now believe Christmas may have originally developed around hydrothermal vents and only later migrated to the surface.
https://xkcd.com/2872
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✒️Supersymmetry
High-speed collisions at the Baby Park track may support the hypothesis that Daisy is her own evil twin, a theory first suggested by Nintendo in the game Majorana's Mask.
https://xkcd.com/2873
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High-speed collisions at the Baby Park track may support the hypothesis that Daisy is her own evil twin, a theory first suggested by Nintendo in the game Majorana's Mask.
https://xkcd.com/2873
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✒️Iceland
The HVAC bill for installing the Gulf Stream was enormous.
https://xkcd.com/2874
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The HVAC bill for installing the Gulf Stream was enormous.
https://xkcd.com/2874
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✒️2024
It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.
https://xkcd.com/2875
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It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.
https://xkcd.com/2875
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