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[#] Fri Aug 09 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Meteor Shower PSA

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If you hold the meteor too long, it may imprint on you and form a contact binary, making reintroduction to space difficult.

https://xkcd.com/2970/

[#] Mon Aug 12 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Celestial Event

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If we can get a brood of 13-year cicadas going, we might have a chance at making this happen before the oceans evaporate under the expanding sun.

https://xkcd.com/2971/

[#] Wed Aug 14 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Helium Synthesis

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Our lawyers were worried because it turns out the company inherits its debt from the parent universe, but luckily cosmic inflation reduced it to nearly zero.

https://xkcd.com/2972/

[#] Fri Aug 16 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Ferris Wheels

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They left the belt drive in place but switched which wheel was powered, so people could choose between a regular ride, a long ride, and a REALLY long ride.

https://xkcd.com/2973/

[#] Mon Aug 19 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Storage Tanks

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We're considering installing a pressurization system to keep the tanks at constant pressure solely to deter them.

https://xkcd.com/2974/

[#] Wed Aug 21 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Classical Periodic Table

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Personally I think mercury is more of a 'wet earth' hybrid element.

https://xkcd.com/2975/

[#] Fri Aug 23 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Time Traveler Causes of Death

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Many a hungry time traveler has Googled 'trilobites shellfish allergy' only to find their carrier had no coverage in the Ordovician.

https://xkcd.com/2976/

[#] Mon Aug 26 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Three Kinds of Research

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The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.'

https://xkcd.com/2977/

[#] Wed Aug 28 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Stranded

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At least they're not alone down there.

https://xkcd.com/2978/

[#] Fri Aug 30 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Sky Alarm

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During the day it also activates for neat clouds and pretty sunsets.

https://xkcd.com/2979/

[#] Mon Sep 02 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Lava Lakes

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Hey, golf balls float on lava, so this should make recovering them from the hazards easier.

https://xkcd.com/2980/

[#] Wed Sep 04 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Slingshots

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In my reboot, Dennis the Menace was just trying to send Mr. Wilson a nice comet, but accidentally wiped out his dinosaur garden.

https://xkcd.com/2981/

[#] Fri Sep 06 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Water Filtration

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You'd think the most expensive part would be the quark-gluon plasma chamber, but it's actually usually the tube to the top of the atmosphere to carry the cosmic rays down.

https://xkcd.com/2982/

[#] Mon Sep 09 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Monocaster

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My competitors say the tiny single tiny caster is unsafe, unstable, and offers no advantages over traditional designs, to which I say: wow, why are you guys so mean? I thought we were friends!

https://xkcd.com/2983/

[#] Wed Sep 11 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Asteroid News

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Their calculations show it will 'pass within the distance of the moon' but that it 'will not hit the moon, so what's the point?'

https://xkcd.com/2984/

[#] Fri Sep 13 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Craters

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It's annoying that the Nastapoka Arc isn't a meteor impact crater, but I truly believe that--with enough time, effort, and determination--we could make it one.

https://xkcd.com/2985/

[#] Tue Sep 17 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Every Scientific Field

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Conveniently for everyone, it turns out that dark energy is produced by subterranean parasitoid wasps.

https://xkcd.com/2986/

[#] Wed Sep 18 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Tectonic Surfing

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The worst is when you wipe out in the barrel and you're trapped for several million years until erosion frees you.

https://xkcd.com/2987/

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