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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/
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/
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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I NOTATION POLISH REVERSE ❤️
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3277/
xkcd #3276: Recursive Trucker's Hitch
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As if the americium smoke detector incident wasn't enough, now nuclear regulators have ANOTHER reason to worry about the Boy Scouts.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3276/
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We would like to once again apologize to Dr. Jones for last year's mistaken announcement. We should really have double-checked the envelope for this award in particular.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3275/
xkcd #3274: Arthurian Connector
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Most coffee shops have a descendant of Sophia of Hanover on staff for this, but just as I was about to ask for help, a previously unknown heir of Uther Pendragon who was ordering a muffin tripped on my laptop cord.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3274/
xkcd #3273: Latitude and Longitude
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NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730).
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3273/
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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3272/
