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The latest xkcd comics. (xkcd.com) Unofficial channel. Comics are automatically posted within a few minutes after publication.
'I love their cover of 1,200 Balloons, Dalmatians, and Miles.'
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''At the stroke of midnight, your brother will be hurtling sideways at an altitude of 150 meters' is a regular physics prediction about your nonmagical trebuchet, whereas 'you are cursed to build a brother-launching trebuchet' falls out of the Lagrangian.'
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'Actually, the fact that Mars is still orbiting safely over here means that it was technically an *Euler* apocalypse, not a Venn one.'
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'If you find an ash deposition layer from a year in which an eruption destroyed an island that had Camellia sinensis growing on it, you can make a Gone Island Ice_τ.'
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''Thank you for the loveliest evening I've ever had...' [normal] '...east of the Mississippi.' [instant intrigue!]'
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''Hey, can you call my cell?' '...I'm trying, but it says this number is blocked?' 'Ok, thanks, just checking.''
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'[later] I'm pleased to report we're now identifying and replacing hundreds of outdated metrics per hour.'
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'"Some people say light is waves, and some say it's particles, so I bet light is some in-between thing that's both wave and particle depending on how you look at it. Am I right?" "YES, BUT YOU SHOULDN'T BE!"'
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'When Pope Gregory XIII briefly shortened the light-year in 1582, it led to navigational chaos and the loss of several Papal starships.'
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'Also, we would really appreciate it if you could prominently refer to it as an 'eHit'.'
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'[earlier] "Your vintage-style handmade chest business is struggling. But I have a plan."'
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'Focus of your research: EXTREME PETTINESS AND UNWILLINGNESS TO LET ANYTHING GO'
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'Baseballs do present a challenge to this theory, but I'm convinced we just haven't found the right seasoning.'
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'It's a linear extrapolation, Michael. How big could the error be? 10%?'
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'I'm sure the building inspectors will approve my design once they finally manage to escape.'
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