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2025-04-19 02:46:40

The biggest expense was installing the mantle ducts to keep the carbonate-silicate cycle operating.
https://xkcd.com/3078/
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2025-01-22 22:46:40

They're continuing to search for a square with the same area as the circle, as efforts to construct one have run into difficulties.
https://xkcd.com/3041/
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2025-01-21 03:01:39

Can you pass the nackle?
https://xkcd.com/3040/
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2025-01-18 00:31:40

I wonder what surviving human held the record before balloons (excluding edge cases like jumping gaps on a mountain bridge). Probably it was someone falling from a cliff into snow or water, but maybe it involved something weird like a gunpowder explosion or volcano.
https://xkcd.com/3039/
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2025-01-15 13:16:39

Speed limit c arcminutes^2 per steradian
https://xkcd.com/3038/
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2025-01-13 20:35:22

A good ²³⁸Umbrella policy should cover it.
https://xkcd.com/3037/
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2025-01-10 18:46:58

The zoo takes special care to keep kings separated from opposite-color pieces as part of their conservation program to prevent mating in captivity.
https://xkcd.com/3036/
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2025-01-09 05:16:09

You don't want the nitrogen percentage to be too high or you run the risk of eutrophication.
https://xkcd.com/3035/
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2025-01-06 21:16:50

I don't dig pit traps and cover them with sticks and a thin layer of leaves nearly as much as I expected; I find a chance to do it barely once a month.
https://xkcd.com/3034/
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2025-01-03 19:01:58

You may notice the first half of these instructions are similar to the instructions for a working nuclear fusion device. After the first few dozen steps, be sure to press down firmly and fold quickly to overcome fusion pressure.
https://xkcd.com/3033/
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2025-01-02 03:47:04

The most important quantity for meteorologists is of course the product of latent pressure and temperostrophic enthalpy, though 'how nice the weather is' is a close second.
https://xkcd.com/3032/
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2024-12-30 22:31:39

Inside is a third box, labeled DO NOT OPEN UNLESS YOU ARE IN THE TIME ZONE WHERE YOU OPENED BOTH PREVIOUS BOXES.
https://xkcd.com/3031/
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2024-12-27 22:46:20

I still don't know how the police found my compound where I ran an illegal searchlight depot/covert blimp airfield/fireworks testing range.
https://xkcd.com/3030/
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2024-12-24 02:31:16

Under some circumstances, if you throw a D8 and then a D12 at an enemy, thanks to the D8's greater pointiness you actually have to roll a D12 and D8 respectively to determine damage.
https://xkcd.com/3028/
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2024-12-18 13:16:25

The best case is O(n), and the worst case is that someone checks why.
https://xkcd.com/3026/
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2024-12-16 16:46:25

Even when you try to make nice, smooth ice cubes in a freezer, sometimes one of them will shoot out a random ice spike, which physicists ascribe to kiki conservation.
https://xkcd.com/3025/
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2024-12-10 04:31:25

No, of course we don't microwave the mug WITH the teabag in it. We microwave the teabag separately.
https://xkcd.com/3022/
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2024-12-02 15:46:25

The growth rate of items per day may may seem absurd, but it's actually much less than the acceleration in the 12 Days of Christmas song.
https://xkcd.com/3019/
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2024-11-29 13:46:02

Hmm, they won't do in-flight delivery, so let's order a new first and second stage to our emergency landing site and then try to touch down on top of them to save time.
https://xkcd.com/3018/
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2024-11-19 01:31:12

The real key was inventing the windmill-powered winch.
https://xkcd.com/3013/
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2024-11-15 17:46:04

Dinosaur Cosmics
https://xkcd.com/3012/
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2024-11-09 05:01:04

"10 minutes ago we were down to only 2 0s!" "How many do we have now?" "I ... don't know!!"
https://xkcd.com/3009/
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2024-08-28 20:31:07

At least they're not alone down there.
https://xkcd.com/2978/
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2024-08-19 20:01:07

We're considering installing a pressurization system to keep the tanks at constant pressure solely to deter them.
https://xkcd.com/2974/
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2024-08-15 03:46:03

Our lawyers were worried because it turns out the company inherits its debt from the parent universe, but luckily cosmic inflation reduced it to nearly zero.
https://xkcd.com/2972/
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2024-08-13 00:31:07

If we can get a brood of 13-year cicadas going, we might have a chance at making this happen before the oceans evaporate under the expanding sun.
https://xkcd.com/2971/
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2024-07-27 11:31:09

Thankfully for everyone involved, the Winter Olympics officials spotted me and managed to stop me before I got to the ski jump.
https://xkcd.com/2964/
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2024-07-19 18:01:08

We were going to try swordfighting, but all my compiling is on hold.
https://xkcd.com/2961/
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2024-07-12 21:16:08

Anadromous fish are more vulnerable in rivers, since the lack of salt means you can quickly crack passwords using rainbow trout tables.
https://xkcd.com/2958/
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2024-07-06 01:16:03

Ugh, and we JUST went through this yesterday with javelin.
https://xkcd.com/2955/
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2024-06-27 03:01:09

Although Kansas is widely thought to contain the geographic center of the contiguous 48 states, topologists now believe that it's actually their outer edge.
https://xkcd.com/2951/
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2024-06-24 18:46:21

We're right under the flight path for the scheduled orbital launch, but don't worry--it's too cold out for the rockets to operate safely, so I'm sure they'll postpone.
https://xkcd.com/2950/
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2024-06-19 17:01:29

An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that's the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.
https://xkcd.com/2948/
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2024-06-07 19:31:14

I'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.
https://xkcd.com/2943/
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2024-06-05 23:16:15

Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.
https://xkcd.com/2942/
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2024-06-03 19:16:02

It's believed that Golgi was originally an independent organism who was eventually absorbed into our cells, where he began work on his Apparatus.
https://xkcd.com/2941/
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2024-05-10 20:16:17

Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.
https://xkcd.com/2931/
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2024-05-09 00:46:13

From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours.
https://xkcd.com/2930/
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2024-05-07 04:31:14

While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.
https://xkcd.com/2929/
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2024-05-04 01:46:07

The company tried to document how often employees were celebrating Software Testing Day, but their recordkeeping system kept mysteriously crashing.
https://xkcd.com/2928/
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2024-04-24 12:46:09

The creepy fingers that grow from a vibrating cornstarch-water mix can be modeled as a chain of inverted vertical pendulums (DOI:10.1039/c4sm00265b) and are believed to be the fingers of Maxwell's Demon trying to push through into our universe.
https://xkcd.com/2924/
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2024-04-23 00:01:19

Concealed mostly beneath the surface, sharks are the icebergs of the sea.
https://xkcd.com/2923/
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