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[#] Wed Nov 08 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Parameterball

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The ball's density also varies, but players don't learn the value until after choosing their raquets. The infamous 'bowling ball table tennis' region of the parameter space often leads to equipment damage.

https://xkcd.com/2852/

[#] Fri Nov 10 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Redshift

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So do you have any plans for z=-0.000000000000045?

https://xkcd.com/2853/

[#] Mon Nov 13 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Date Line

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They estimate the rocket should be free by approximately ... uh ... well, in about two hours.

https://xkcd.com/2854/

[#] Wed Nov 15 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Empiricism

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The problems started with my resolution next year to reject temporal causality.

https://xkcd.com/2855/

[#] Fri Nov 17 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Materials Scientists

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If a materials scientist gives you a present, always ask whether regifting will incur any requirements for Federal paperwork.

https://xkcd.com/2856/

[#] Mon Nov 20 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Rebuttals

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The mainstream dogma sparked a wave of dogmatic revisionism, and this revisionist mainstream dogmatism has now given way to a more rematic mainvisionist dogstream.

https://xkcd.com/2857/

[#] Wed Nov 22 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Thanksgiving Arguments

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An occasional source of mild Thanksgiving tension in my family is that my mother is a die-hard fan of The Core (2003), and various family members sometimes have differing levels of enthusiasm for her annual tradition of watching it.

https://xkcd.com/2858/

[#] Fri Nov 24 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Oceanography Gift

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Shipping times vary. Same-ocean delivery may only take a few years, but delivery from the Weddell Sea in Antarctica may take multiple decades, and molecules meant for inland seas like the Mediterranean may be returned as undeliverable by surface currents.

https://xkcd.com/2859/

[#] Mon Nov 27 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Decay Modes

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Unlike an Iron Age collapse, a Bronze Age collapse releases energy, since copper and tin are past the iron peak on the curve of binding energy.

https://xkcd.com/2860/

[#] Wed Nov 29 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: X Value

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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.

https://xkcd.com/2861/

[#] Fri Dec 01 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Typical Seating Chart

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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.

https://xkcd.com/2862/

[#] Mon Dec 04 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Space Typography

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

https://xkcd.com/2863/

[#] Wed Dec 06 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Compact Graphs

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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.

https://xkcd.com/2864/

[#] Fri Dec 08 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: the Wrong Stuff

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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.

https://xkcd.com/2865/

[#] Mon Dec 11 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Snow

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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.

https://xkcd.com/2866/

[#] Wed Dec 13 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: DateTime

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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.]

https://xkcd.com/2867/

[#] Fri Dec 15 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Label the States

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

https://xkcd.com/2868/

[#] Mon Dec 18 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Puzzles

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

https://xkcd.com/2869/

[#] Wed Dec 20 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Love Songs

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

https://xkcd.com/2870/

[#] Fri Dec 22 2023 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Definitely

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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.

https://xkcd.com/2871/

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