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'The biggest expense was installing the mantle ducts to keep the carbonate-silicate cycle operating.'
Читать полностью…'Our anti-de Sitter club is small at the moment, but I've started corresponding with the conformal field theory people.'
Читать полностью…'When you worry that you're missing out on something by not making both choices simultaneously by quantum superposition, that's called phomo.'
Читать полностью…'NOTIFICATION: Now dismissing a head of the Notification Hydra… NOTIFICATION: Success! You have dismissed a head of the Notification Hydra!'
Читать полностью…'[later] I don't get why our pizza slices have such terrible reviews; the geotextile-infused sauce gives the toppings incredible slope stability!'
Читать полностью…'We haven't actually seen a star fall in since we invented telescopes, but I have a list of ones I'm really hoping are next.'
Читать полностью…'If you have an old phone in a drawer, and you listen very carefully, you can occasionally hear the occasional tap of an emitted SIM card hitting the side of the drawer as the phone transmutes to a lower-end model.'
Читать полностью…'There has long been debate about Big Bird's species, with some experts claiming he was a canary, but recent genetic analysis places him firmly in Cariamiformes.'
Читать полностью…''Is it worth anything?' 'I dunno, is the answer to that question worth another $5?''
Читать полностью…'Unfortunately, SawStart is one-use-only. Once started, the blade cannot be stopped, and must be replaced with a fresh blade while the running one is carefully disposed of.'
Читать полностью…'This is the biggest breakthrough since astronomers noticed that the little crosshairs around red giant stars starting to burn helium are all the same size.'
Читать полностью…'The biggest I've seen in a published source in the wild is an 80-fold error in a reported distance, which I think came from a series of at least three unit conversions and area/length misinterpretations.'
Читать полностью…'I know having so many base pairs makes rebasing complicated, but you're in Bilateria, so shouldn't you at LEAST be better at using git head?'
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