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Sheet Bend

2024-01-12 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2880/

A left-handed sheet bend creates a much weaker connection, especially under moderate loads.

Like This One

2024-01-10 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2879/

A lot of sentences undergo startling shifts in mood if you add 'like this one' to the end, but high on the list is 'I'm a neurologist studying dreams.'

Supernova

2024-01-08 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2878/

They're a little cagey about exactly where the crossover point lies relative to the likelihood of devastating effects on the planet.

Fever

2024-01-05 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2877/

Hypothermia of below 98.6 K should be treated by leaving the giant molecular cloud and moving to the vicinity of a star.

Range Safety

2024-01-03 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2876/

The Range Mischief Officer has modified the trajectory to add a single random spin somewhere in the flight, but won't tell us where.

2024

2024-01-01 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2875/

It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.

Iceland

2023-12-29 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2874/

The HVAC bill for installing the Gulf Stream was enormous.

Supersymmetry

2023-12-27 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2873/

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.

Hydrothermal Vents

2023-12-25 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2872/

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.

Definitely

2023-12-22 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2871/

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.” alt=”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.” /></p>
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Love Songs

2023-12-20 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2870/

The Piña Colada song carves a trajectory across the chart over the course of the song.

Puzzles

2023-12-18 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2869/

Why couldn't the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?

Label the States

2023-12-15 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2868/

Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states.

DateTime

2023-12-13 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2867/

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.]

Snow

2023-12-11 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2866/

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.

the Wrong Stuff

2023-12-08 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2865/

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.

Compact Graphs

2023-12-06 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2864/

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.

Space Typography

2023-12-04 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2863/

And over heeee[...]eeeere (i)s Saturn.

Typical Seating Chart

2023-12-01 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2862/

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.

X Value

2023-11-29 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/2861/

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.

Noise