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One of the first things they teach you is to NEVER play with the geology toy over a mantle hotspot.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3296/
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The speed of light in air is 50% faster than in fiber, but it's a challenge to get the arms to move fast enough to realize the latency advantage.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3295/
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Lander, this is Houston. There's been a request that you turn clipping back on and instead set the mass to 1kg. The theorists believe that will be pretty funny.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3294/
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A 'left-handed specialist' is a physicist who studies the weak interaction.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3293/
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The rise of AI review bombing tools threatens to take away a crucial source of experience for geology undergraduates.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3292/
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It does come at the cost of some launchpad expansions and increased fuel requirements, but that all comes out of the facility's budget.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3291/
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"You legs may have a comparative advantage at running, but we arms have a competitive advantage at swinging hammers, so unless you accept that we're the dominant limbs and stop hogging the oxygen, that running advantage won't be around for long."
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3290/
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Highway engineers like Planck units because, like the speed of light, the energy capacity of a typical car's gas tank is 1.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3289/
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Update: I would not have embarked on this powerscaling venture if I'd known how thoroughly Mark Twain was going to roast me.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3288/
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Recently I've been watching the Daytime Perseids. I haven't seen a meteor from them yet, but the clouds are pretty and the snacks are good.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3287/
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xkcd #3286: Particle Physics Equipment
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The one that sounds like the oracle at the center of the galaxy where the hero travels to hear a prophecy is probably Brookhaven National Laboratory's now-dismantled COSMOTRON.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3286/
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The late Triassic rifting was caused by a dinosaur trying to use the control panel to escape a predator, but it was eaten before the continent could fully separate.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3285/
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The administration thinks it's weird, but the geologists say it looks normal.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3284/
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With their 13 years recording and performing together and two humans worth of mass, the White Stripes are sandwiched neatly between gray wolves and blue whales.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3283/
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I've been trying to find out whether the Laws of the Game take the axiom of choice or not, but FIFA officials keep blocking my number.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3282/
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The family lore was that we've had it ever since it was ejected from a star-forming gas cloud, but it seems more likely that my great-grandparents probably just bought it while on vacation in the galactic thin disk.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3281/
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As a side effect of the research, mice are now the only known animals other than humans to have developed a Backrooms mythology.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3280/
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Wind stress? Don't be silly. When has wind stress ever been a problem for a suspension bridge?
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3279/
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xkcd #3278: Vera Rubin Observatory
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'Spurious signals from the kitchen' is harder for an optical telescope than a radio one, but with enough determination and creativity, I believe it's possible.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3278/
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