Posts by xkcd@mastodon.xyz
 (DIR) Post #B5VTdbeBt9bw1xEQtc by xkcd@mastodon.xyz
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       I can't believe Candles of Vienna caved to commercial pressure and added the Goku expansion.https://xkcd.com/3235/
       
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       Thanks to differences in logging regulations, the messages actually turned out to be visible from the air.https://xkcd.com/3236/
       
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       Borat came out twenty years ago this year--closer to the breakup of the Soviet Union than to today--but it honestly feels like it's been even longer, somehow.https://xkcd.com/3237/
       
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       Imagine you could ride alongside a sound wave. It would probably be pretty cool, right? We're putting in a departmental budget request to buy a really fast plane so we can check it out.https://xkcd.com/3238/
       
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       It's hard to decide which simple machine system to invest in. DeWalt makes a great lever and inclined plane, but I hear Milwaukee's wheel-and-axles are really good.https://xkcd.com/3239/
       
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       "I know it seems impossible, but the trick is that I sailed in here when I was very young."https://xkcd.com/3240/
       
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       It started as a mistake that everyone was afraid to admit to, and then it stuck because removing it 'looks silly.'.https://xkcd.com/3241/
       
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       Scientists occasionally invent alternative periodic table layouts, which is usually a sign that they don't have enough enrichment in their enclosures.https://xkcd.com/3242/
       
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       'Beyond that lies a vale of fire through which my vision cannot penetrate' is the kind of fun thing geologists, heliophysicists, and early universe cosmologists have a lot of opportunities to say.https://xkcd.com/3243/
       
 (DIR) Post #B6DRF6lPPW8WLN2G48 by xkcd@mastodon.xyz
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       "How does the spring not run out almost immediately?" "We pull it back REALLY far."https://xkcd.com/3244/
       
 (DIR) Post #B6GM1RTXguMkEIDrNY by xkcd@mastodon.xyz
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       Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you're the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.https://xkcd.com/3245/
       
 (DIR) Post #B6L2SW3nj5IAyVc9L6 by xkcd@mastodon.xyz
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       Usain Bolt holds the world record in the 100 meter speedrun.https://xkcd.com/3246/
       
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       Remember, your answers to the physics census are confidential; we will not be issuing Pauli exclusion principle citations.https://xkcd.com/3247/
       
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       They rounded down to 182.8 instead of rounding up to 182.9 because 182.9 might make the statement incorrect.https://xkcd.com/3248/
       
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       We definitely put the pool in a mine for shielding. It was absolutely not to hide it from the funding people.https://xkcd.com/3249/
       
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       Every place has a local cryptid; more places need a local Pictish Beast, a creature in historical art that's drawn so weirdly that no one can tell what animal it's supposed to be.https://xkcd.com/3250/
       
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       It's possible to do sea navigation without a compass, but you'll have to get some spoilers from the Polynesians.https://xkcd.com/3251/
       
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       SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: No further research is needed as it is frankly none of our business.https://xkcd.com/3252/
       
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       While weather control is typically thought of as a superpower, the unconscious ability of astronomers and astrophotographers to summon clouds is more properly classified as a curse.https://xkcd.com/3253/
       
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       No other experiment has a lower false negative rate.https://xkcd.com/3254/