Gregory's Servertitle 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)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2984)
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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) title text: ==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?' (https://xkcd.com/2933)   @xkcdbot My four years of university reduced to one cartoon. We didn't have xkcd in those days. title text: This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time. (https://xkcd.com/2932) title text: From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours. (https://xkcd.com/2930) title text: While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake. (https://xkcd.com/2929)
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 title text: The Credible Machine (https://xkcd.com/2916)  title text: Cesium-133, let it be. Cesium-134, let it be even more. (https://xkcd.com/2913) @xkcdbot I have a theory that some protons go around feeling superior to other protons by calling themselves hydrogen ions but all the other atoms know and laugh at them behind their backs. title text: 'Thank you for the loveliest evening I've ever had...' [normal] '...east of the Mississippi.' [instant intrigue!] (https://xkcd.com/2901) |
@xkcdbot May all our potentially hazardous objects be boring dots 🤞🏻