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[#] Fri Nov 08 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Number Shortage

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"10 minutes ago we were down to only 2 0s!" "How many do we have now?" "I ... don't know!!"

https://xkcd.com/3009/

[#] Mon Nov 11 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Geometriphylogenetics

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There's a maximum likelihood that I'm doing phylogenetics wrong.

https://xkcd.com/3010/

[#] Wed Nov 13 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Europa Clipper

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They had BETTER make this a sample return mission.

https://xkcd.com/3011/

[#] Fri Nov 15 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: The Future of Orion

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Dinosaur Cosmics

https://xkcd.com/3012/

[#] Mon Nov 18 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Kedging Cannon

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The real key was inventing the windmill-powered winch.

https://xkcd.com/3013/

[#] Wed Nov 20 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Arizona Chess

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Sometimes, you have to sacrifice pieces to gain the advantage. Sometimes, to advance ... you have to fall back.

https://xkcd.com/3014/

[#] Fri Nov 22 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: D Combinatorics

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Look, you can't complain about this after giving us so many scenarios involving N locked chests and M unlabeled keys.

https://xkcd.com/3015/

[#] Mon Nov 25 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Cold Air

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We also should really have checked that the old water tower was disconnected from the water system before we started filling it with compressed air.

https://xkcd.com/3016/

[#] Wed Nov 27 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Neutrino Modem

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Our sysadmin accidentally won a Nobel Prize while trying to debug neutrino oscillation error correction.

https://xkcd.com/3017/

[#] Fri Nov 29 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Second Stage

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Hmm, they won't do in-flight delivery, so let's order a new first and second stage to our emergency landing site and then try to touch down on top of them to save time.

https://xkcd.com/3018/

[#] Mon Dec 02 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Advent Calendar Advent Calendar

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The growth rate of items per day may may seem absurd, but it's actually much less than the acceleration in the 12 Days of Christmas song.

https://xkcd.com/3019/

[#] Wed Dec 04 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Infinite Armada Chess

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Stockfish 16 suggests the unconventional opening 1. RuntimeError: Out of bounds memory access

https://xkcd.com/3020/

[#] Fri Dec 06 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Seismologists

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And even when they're not distracted, they usually get kicked out for illegal under-the-net 'subduction spikes'.

https://xkcd.com/3021/

[#] Mon Dec 09 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Making Tea

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No, of course we don't microwave the mug WITH the teabag in it. We microwave the teabag separately.

https://xkcd.com/3022/

[#] Wed Dec 11 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: The Maritime Approximation

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It works because a nautical mile is based on a degree of latitude, and the Earth (e) is a circle.

https://xkcd.com/3023/

[#] Fri Dec 13 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: METAR

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In the aviation world, they don't use AM/PM times. Instead, all times are assumed to be AM unless they're labeled NOTAM.

https://xkcd.com/3024/

[#] Mon Dec 16 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Phase Change

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Even when you try to make nice, smooth ice cubes in a freezer, sometimes one of them will shoot out a random ice spike, which physicists ascribe to kiki conservation.

https://xkcd.com/3025/

[#] Wed Dec 18 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Linear Sort

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The best case is O(n), and the worst case is that someone checks why.

https://xkcd.com/3026/

[#] Fri Dec 20 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Exclusion Principle

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Fermions are weird about each other in a standoffish way. Integer-spin particles are weird about each other in a 'stand uncomfortably close while talking' kind of way.

https://xkcd.com/3027/

[#] Mon Dec 23 2024 05:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: D Roll

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Under some circumstances, if you throw a D8 and then a D12 at an enemy, thanks to the D8's greater pointiness you actually have to roll a D12 and D8 respectively to determine damage.

https://xkcd.com/3028/

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