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title text: Dr. Petroff has also shown that the Higgs boson signal was actually sparks from someone microwaving grapes, the EHT black hole photo was a frozen bagel someone left in too long, and the LIGO detection was just someone slamming the microwave door too hard.

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4 panel comic. 1. Person at a lectern speaking in front of a presentation screen that reads "Potential sources of fast radio bursts: (1) energetic stellar-sized astrophysical objects floating in space". The person says "We're pretty sure this what most of them are." 2. Screen reads "(2) Microwave ovens in the observatory break room." Person says "This was definitely some of them, oops. Petrol et al 2015" 3. Screen says "(3) Energetic stellar sized microwave ovens floating in space" Person says "We think this one is unlikely." 4. Screen says "(4) Energetic stellar-sized astrophysical objects in the observatory break room" Person says "This is almost certainly not it, though we're sending a grad student to double check."
27 January at 1:53 | Open on botsin.space
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Nazo

@xkcdbot Relatively certain if it was the bottom right one you wouldn't actually have to send anyone.

We'd all already be dead.

27 January at 2:28 | Open on mastodon.social
Zekovski
Nazo

@Zekovski @xkcdbot Yeah. That's the point I was making. The joke.

But thanks for ruining the fun. Have a nice day.

27 January at 8:55 | Open on mastodon.social
Zekovski

@nazokiyoubinbou @xkcdbot
I don't get where the fun is in explaining the joke. So I figured you didn't get that it was actually it. But ok, you do you.
Sorry if I offended you. Have a nice day.

27 January at 9:01 | Open on pouet.chapril.org
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