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title text: "One popular strategy is to enter an emotional spiral. Could that be the right approach? We contacted several researchers who are experts in emotional spirals to ask them, but none of them were in a state to speak with us." (https://xkcd.com/3007) title text: Though they do appreciate how much he improved the heating system for the flame pit. (https://xkcd.com/3006) title text: You do have to be careful, though--sometimes, instead of water, you hit this free fuel that you can sell for a lot of money instead. (https://xkcd.com/3004) title text: Our experiment will be expensive, but we believe it will produce important spin-offs, especially if we manage to hit the sun from the right angle. (https://xkcd.com/3000)  title text: There's a heated debate over whether the big island of Tierra del Fuego should qualify for membership. (https://xkcd.com/2996) title text: Add main-belt asteroids to taste. (https://xkcd.com/2993) title text: The local police, building inspector, and fire marshal are all contesting my 'safety' assertion, or would be if they could reach me past all the traps. (https://xkcd.com/2988) title text: Their calculations show it will 'pass within the distance of the moon' but that it 'will not hit the moon, so what's the point?' (https://xkcd.com/2984) title text: You'd think the most expensive part would be the quark-gluon plasma chamber, but it's actually usually the tube to the top of the atmosphere to carry the cosmic rays down. (https://xkcd.com/2982)  title text: During the day it also activates for neat clouds and pretty sunsets. (https://xkcd.com/2979) title text: At least they're not alone down there. (https://xkcd.com/2978) title text: Personally I think mercury is more of a 'wet earth' hybrid element. (https://xkcd.com/2975)  title text: They left the belt drive in place but switched which wheel was powered, so people could choose between a regular ride, a long ride, and a REALLY long ride. (https://xkcd.com/2973) title text: We were going to try swordfighting, but all my compiling is on hold. (https://xkcd.com/2961)
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 @xkcdbot Now that I'm retired we do this all day every day. It's a coin flip for scooter or chair. @xkcdbot I like the intertextuality reference to https://xkcd.com/303/ in the alt text! If anyone tells me I should only use the term "intertextuality" for links between different works of literature, I'll reply that each xkcd comic is a piece of literature. title text: Einstein's theories solved a longstanding mystery about Mercury: Why it gets so hot. "It's because," he pointed out, "the sun is right there." (https://xkcd.com/2959) title text: ’"‘”’" means "I edited this text on both my phone and my laptop before sending it" (https://xkcd.com/2954) title text: They originally came here to try to investigate our chemtrail technology, and got increasingly frustrated when all their samples turned out to just be water ice with trace amounts of jet exhaust. (https://xkcd.com/2953) title text: The worst was the time they accidentally held the can upside down and froze all the Earth's magma chambers solid. (https://xkcd.com/2952) title text: PERPETUALLY OPTIMISTIC CASE: Early in the execution, our research group makes a breakthrough on proving P=NP. (https://xkcd.com/2939) title text: Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end. (https://xkcd.com/2936) |
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