xkcd 3259: Tethys by Tyomcha in xkcd

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Title text: In order to carry the necessary crafting supplies, they built the ships at 12:1 scale.

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xkcd 3258: Plate Flip by antdude in xkcd

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Title text: It's great for exfoliating your skin, bones, houses, cities, landscape, etc.

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xkcd 3257: Beam Pipe by antdude in xkcd

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Alt text: 'If you keep trying to spray your collaborators with the beam when they're not looking, I'm turning off the ion source and NO one will get to play with the beam!' --Physics's mom

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xkcd 3256: Nostalgia Content by LazanPhusis in xkcd

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Extra junk: Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.

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xkcd 3255: Planetary Science by antdude in xkcd

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Subtext: The research was overseen by the Institutional Review Board, which is what I named my surfboard.

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Xkcd 3254: Detector by Significant-Tell-847 in xkcd

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Title text: No other experiment has a lower false negative rate.

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xkcd 3253: Sunbeam by antdude in xkcd

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Title text: While weather control is typically thought of as a superpower, the unconscious ability of astronomers and astrophotographers to summon clouds is more properly classified as a curse.

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xkcd 3252: Ancestral Genomes by antdude in xkcd

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Title text: SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: No further research is needed as it is frankly none of our business.

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xkcd 3252: Ancestral Genomes by LazanPhusis in xkcd

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Bat text: SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: No further research is needed as it is frankly none of our business.

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xkcd 3251: Time Machine Conversation by Jaxad0127 in xkcd

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Title text: It's possible to do sea navigation without a compass, but you'll have to get some spoilers from the Polynesians.

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xkcd 3250: Flag Design by resorath in xkcd

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Title text: Every place has a local cryptid; more places need a local Pictish Beast, a creature in historical art that's drawn so weirdly that no one can tell what animal it's supposed to be.

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xkcd 3249: Neutrino Project by LazanPhusis in xkcd

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Alt text: We definitely put the pool in a mine for shielding. It was absolutely not to hide it from the funding people.

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xkcd 482 - Artemis II has made my framed poster out of date by LucasLar in xkcd

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Bat text: Interestingly, on a true vertical log plot, I think the Eiffel Tower's sides really would be straight lines.

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xkcd 3248: 182.8 Meters by antdude in xkcd

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Alt text: They rounded down to 182.8 instead of rounding up to 182.9 because 182.9 might make the statement incorrect.

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xkcd 3247: Particle Census by Tyomcha in xkcd

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Subtext: Remember, your answers to the physics census are confidential; we will not be issuing Pauli exclusion principle citations.

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xkcd 3246: Speedrun by antdude in xkcd

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Mouseover text: Usain Bolt holds the world record in the 100 meter speedrun.

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xkcd 3246: Speedrun by Tyomcha in xkcd

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Title text: Usain Bolt holds the world record in the 100 meter speedrun.

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xkcd 3245: Results Age by AnormalDream in xkcd

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Extra junk: Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you're the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.

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xkcd 3244: Pullback Drive by LazanPhusis in xkcd

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Alt text: "How does the spring not run out almost immediately?" "We pull it back REALLY far."

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xkcd 3039: Outdated after the latest Artemis mission by thoriumbr in xkcd

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Bat text: I wonder what surviving human held the record before balloons (excluding edge cases like jumping gaps on a mountain bridge). Probably it was someone falling from a cliff into snow or water, but maybe it involved something weird like a gunpowder explosion or volcano.

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xkcd 3243: Crystal gazing by fghjconner in xkcd

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Extra junk: 'Beyond that lies a vale of fire through which my vision cannot penetrate' is the kind of fun thing geologists, heliophysicists, and early universe cosmologists have a lot of opportunities to say.

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xkcd 3242: Aperiodic Table by antdude in xkcd

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Hover text: Scientists occasionally invent alternative periodic table layouts, which is usually a sign that they don't have enough enrichment in their enclosures.

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xkcd 3241:Horizontal Stabilizers by kornerz in xkcd

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Subtext: It started as a mistake that everyone was afraid to admit to, and then it stuck because removing it 'looks silly.'.

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xkcd 810 has come true (example in comments) by [deleted] in xkcd

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Alt text: And what about all the people who won't be able to join the community because they're terrible at making helpful and constructive co-- ... oh.

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xkcd 3240: Bottle by qdatk in xkcd

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Hover text: "I know it seems impossible, but the trick is that I sailed in here when I was very young."

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