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- xkcd #3006: Demons
>Though they do appreciate how much he improved the heating system for the flame pit.
https://explainxkcd.com/3006/
- xkcd #3005: Disposal
>We were disappointed that the rocket didn't make a THOOOONK noise when it went into the tube, but we're setting up big loudspeakers for future launches to add the sound effect.
https://explainxkcd.com/3005/
- xkcd #3004: Wells
well well well, if it isn't a new xkcd
>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://explainxkcd.com/3004/
- xkcd #3003: Sandwich Helix
>The number one rule of string manipulation is that you’ve got to specify your encodings.
https://explainxkcd.com/3003/
- xkcd #3002: RNAWorld
>Disney lore: Canonically, because of how Elsa's abiogenesis powers work, Olaf is an RNA-only organism.
https://explainxkcd.com/3002/
- xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales
>In my new scale, °X, 0 is Earths' record lowest surface temperature, 50 is the global average, and 100 is the record highest, with a linear scale between each point and adjustment every year as needed.
https://explainxkcd.com/3001/
- xkcd #3000: Experimental Astrophysics
>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://explainxkcd.com/3000/
- xkcd #2999: Bad Map Projection: The United Stralia
>This projection distorts both area and direction, but preserves Melbourne.
https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2999:_Bad_Map_Projection:_The_United_Stralia
- What if Earth grew 1cm every second?
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Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/67/
- xkcd #2998: Ravioli-Shaped Objects
> "It's a real accomplishment to mess up a ravioli recipe badly enough that the resulting incident touches all four quadrants of the NFPA hazard diamond."
explainxkcd.com/2998/
- xkcd #2997: Solar Protons
>If any of you want to meet some cool local oxygen atoms, I can introduce you!
https://explainxkcd.com/2997/
- xkcd #2996: CIDABM
>There's a heated debate over whether the big island of Tierra del Fuego should qualify for membership.
https://explainxkcd.com/2996/
- xkcd #2995: University Commas
>The distinctive 'UCLA comma' and 'Michigan comma' are a long string of commas at the start and end of the sentence respectively.
https://explainxkcd.com/2995/
- xkcd #2994: Númenor Margaritaville
>I see white shores, and beyond it, a far green country under a tequila sunrise.
https://explainxkcd.com/2994/
- xkcd #2992: UK Coal
>The Watership Down rabbits removed an additional 0.1 nanometers constructing their warren, although that was mostly soil. British rabbits have historically mined very little coal; the sole rabbit-run coal plant was shut down in the 1990s.
https://explainxkcd.com/2992/
- xkcd #2991: Beamsplitters
>Under quantum tax law, photons sent through a beamsplitter don't actually choose which path they took, or incur a tax burden, until their wavefunction collapses when the power is sold.
https://explainxkcd.com/2991/
- xkcd #2990: Late Cenozoic
Hover text: > Our nucleic acid recovery techinques found a great deal of homo sapiens DNA incorporated into the fossils, particularly the ones containing high levels of resin, leading to the theory that these dinosaurs preyed on the once-dominant primates.
Transcript:
> [Three squid-like aliens in a classroom; one alien stands in front of a board covered with minute text and a drawing of a T-Rex skeleton. Two aliens sit on stools watching the teacher alien. The teacher alien on the left is on a raised platform and points at the board with one tentacle.] > Left alien: Species such as triceratops and tyrannosaurus became more rare after the Cretaceous, but they survived to flourish in the late Cenozoic, 66 million years later. > Left alien: Many complete skeletons have been discovered from this era.
> [Caption below the panel:] > It's going to be really funny when our museums get buried in sediment.
https://www.xkcd.com/2990/ explainxkcd.com for \#2990
- xkcd #2989: Physics Lab Thermostat
>Hopefully the HVAC people set it to only affect the AIR in the room.
https://explainxkcd.com/2989/
- What if a glass of water were LITERALLY half empty?
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Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/6/
- xkcd #2988: Maslow's Pyramid
>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://explainxkcd.com/2988/
- xkcd #2987: Tectonic Surfing
>The worst is when you wipe out in the barrel and you're trapped for several million years until erosion frees you.
https://explainxkcd.com/2987/
- xkcd #2986: Every Scientific Field
>Conveniently for everyone, it turns out that dark energy is produced by subterranean parasitoid wasps.
https://explainxkcd.com/2986
- xkcd #2985: Craters
> It's annoying that the Nastapoka Arc isn't a meteor impact crater, but I truly believe that--with enough time, effort, and determination--we could make it one.
https://explainxkcd.com/2985/
- xkcd #2983: Monocaster
> My competitors say the tiny single tiny caster is unsafe, unstable, and offers no advantages over traditional designs, to which I say: wow, why are you guys so mean? I thought we were friends!
https://explainxkcd.com/2983/
- 2982: Water Filtration
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://explainxkcd.com/2982
- [What If?] Could you survive a nanosecond on the Sun?
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Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/115/
- xkcd #2981: Slingshots
alt text:
> In my reboot, Dennis the Menace was just trying to send Mr. Wilson a nice comet, but accidentally wiped out his dinosaur garden.
https://explainxkcd.com/2981/
- xkcd #2980: Lava Lakes
alt text:
> Hey, golf balls float on lava, so this should make recovering them from the hazards easier.
https://explainxkcd.com/2980/
- xkcd #2979: Sky Alarm
alt text:
> During the day it also activates for neat clouds and pretty sunsets.
https://explainxkcd.com/2979/
PSA: This xkcd was released 6 days ago and nobody posted it. It is in fact allowed for other people to post new xkcd comics to this community too, you don't have to wait for me to do that.
- xkcd #2978: Stranded
Alt text:
>At least they're not alone down there.
https://explainxkcd.com/2978/
- xkcd #2977: Three Kinds of Research
alt text:
> The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.'
https://explainxkcd.com/2977/
- xkcd #2976: Time Traveler Causes of Death
alt text:
> Many a hungry time traveler has Googled 'trilobites shellfish allergy' only to find their carrier had no coverage in the Ordovician.
https://explainxkcd.com/2976/
- xkcd #2975: Classical Periodic Table
Alt text:
>Personally I think mercury is more of a 'wet earth' hybrid element.
https://explainxkcd.com/2975/
- xkcd #2974: Storage Tanks
alt text:
> We're considering installing a pressurization system to keep the tanks at constant pressure solely to deter them.
https://explainxkcd.com/2974/
- xkcd #2973: Ferris Wheels
alt 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://explainxkcd.com/2973/
- xkcd #2972: Helium Synthesis
alt text:
> Our lawyers were worried because it turns out the company inherits its debt from the parent universe, but luckily cosmic inflation reduced it to nearly zero.
https://explainxkcd.com/2972/
- xkcd #2971: Celestial Event
alt text:
> If we can get a brood of 13-year cicadas going, we might have a chance at making this happen before the oceans evaporate under the expanding sun.
https://explainxkcd.com/2971/
- What if we teleported the oceans to Mars?
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Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/54/