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The worst was the time they accidentally held the can upside down and froze all the Earth's magma chambers solid.

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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.

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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/2949

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If you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called 'netcat', though it does a different thing in each one.

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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that's the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

Link to original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/

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In contrast to Pascal's Wager Triangle, Pascal's Triangle Wager argues that maybe God wants you to draw a triangle of numbers where each one is the sum of the two numbers above it, so you probably should, just in case.

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'Oh yeah? Give me 50 milliscore reasons why I should stop.'

https://xkcd.com/2945

In addition to eating foxes, rabbits can eat grass. The grass also eats foxes. Our equations chart the contours of Fox Hell.

https://xkcd.com/2944

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The ten-way tie was judged a ten-way tie, so no one won the grand prize, a rare fishing monopole.

https://xkcd.com/2943

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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'.

xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

https://xkcd.com/2942

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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/2941

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It's believed that Golgi was originally an independent organism who was eventually absorbed into our cells, where he began work on his Apparatus.

xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation

https://xkcd.com/2940

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My bold criticism might anger the hot air balloon people, which would be a real concern if any of them lived along a very narrow line directly upwind of me.

https://xkcd.com/2939

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PERPETUALLY OPTIMISTIC CASE: Early in the execution, our research group makes a breakthrough on proving P=NP.

https://xkcd.com/2938

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Cosmologists estimate the spaghetti strand to be about 200 septillion calories, though it could be higher depending on the nutritional value of dark matter.

https://xkcd.com/2937

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Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.

https://xkcd.com/2936

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Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.

https://xkcd.com/2935

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I can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.

https://xkcd.com/2934

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Sometimes, you can tell Bloom filters are the wrong tool for the job, but when they're the right one you can never be sure.

https://xkcd.com/2933

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==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'

https://xkcd.com/2932

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This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.

https://xkcd.com/2931

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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.