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Received — 5 January 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Fever 4 January 2024 at 19:00

Fever

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4 January 2024 at 19:00

Hypothermia of below 98.6 K should be treated by leaving the giant molecular cloud and moving to the vicinity of a star.

Received — 3 January 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Range Safety 2 January 2024 at 19:00

Range Safety

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2 January 2024 at 19:00

The Range Mischief Officer has modified the trajectory to add a single random spin somewhere in the flight, but won't tell us where.

Received — 1 January 2024 ⏭ Comics

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2024 31 December 2023 at 19:00

2024

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31 December 2023 at 19:00

It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.

Received — 29 December 2023 ⏭ Comics

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Iceland 28 December 2023 at 19:00

Iceland

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28 December 2023 at 19:00

The HVAC bill for installing the Gulf Stream was enormous.

Received — 27 December 2023 ⏭ Comics

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Supersymmetry 26 December 2023 at 19:00

Supersymmetry

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26 December 2023 at 19:00

High-speed collisions at the Baby Park track may support the hypothesis that Daisy is her own evil twin, a theory first suggested by Nintendo in the game Majorana's Mask.

Received — 25 December 2023 ⏭ Comics

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Hydrothermal Vents 24 December 2023 at 19:00

Hydrothermal Vents

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24 December 2023 at 19:00

Benthic Santas weren't even discovered until the 1970s, but many scientists now believe Christmas may have originally developed around hydrothermal vents and only later migrated to the surface.

Received — 22 December 2023 ⏭ Comics

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Definitely 21 December 2023 at 19:00

Definitely

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21 December 2023 at 19:00

A really mean prank you can play on someone who's picky about words is to add a 'definitely->definitively' autocorrect rule to their keyboard.

Received — 20 December 2023 ⏭ Comics

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Love Songs 19 December 2023 at 19:00

Love Songs

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19 December 2023 at 19:00

The Piña Colada song carves a trajectory across the chart over the course of the song.

Received — 18 December 2023 ⏭ Comics

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Puzzles 17 December 2023 at 19:00

Puzzles

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17 December 2023 at 19:00

Why couldn't the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?

Received — 15 December 2023 ⏭ Comics

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Label the States 14 December 2023 at 19:00

Label the States

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14 December 2023 at 19:00

Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states.

Received — 13 December 2023 ⏭ Comics

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DateTime 12 December 2023 at 19:00

DateTime

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12 December 2023 at 19:00

It's not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling.]

Received — 11 December 2023 ⏭ Comics

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Snow 10 December 2023 at 19:00

Snow

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10 December 2023 at 19:00

For someone who has ostensibly outgrown staying up late waiting for Santa, I do spend an awful lot of time refreshing websites to see if packages are here yet.

Received — 8 December 2023 ⏭ Comics

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The Wrong Stuff 7 December 2023 at 19:00

The Wrong Stuff

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7 December 2023 at 19:00

The phantom found Edward Everett Hale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his 'brick moon' proposal were dismissed as science fiction.

Received — 6 December 2023 ⏭ Comics

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Compact Graphs 5 December 2023 at 19:00

Compact Graphs

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5 December 2023 at 19:00

People may complain about readability, but even with jpeg compression, extracting the data points is usually computationally feasible if there aren't too many of them.

Received — 4 December 2023 ⏭ Comics

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Space Typography 3 December 2023 at 19:00

Space Typography

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3 December 2023 at 19:00

And over heeee[...]eeeere (i)s Saturn.

Received — 1 December 2023 ⏭ Comics

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Typical Seating Chart 30 November 2023 at 19:00

Typical Seating Chart

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30 November 2023 at 19:00

Now that airlines have started adding wheel locks to their drink carts, less than half of flights have one accidentally fall out through the hole.

Received — 29 November 2023 ⏭ Comics

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X Value 28 November 2023 at 19:00

X Value

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28 November 2023 at 19:00

The value of n is still unknown, but new results constrain it to fall between 8 and 10^500, ruling out popular 'n=1' and 'n=2' theories.

Received — 27 November 2023 ⏭ Comics

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Decay Modes 26 November 2023 at 19:00

Decay Modes

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26 November 2023 at 19:00

Unlike an Iron Age collapse, a Bronze Age collapse releases energy, since copper and tin are past the iron peak on the curve of binding energy.

Received — 24 November 2023 ⏭ Comics

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Oceanography Gift 23 November 2023 at 19:00

Oceanography Gift

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23 November 2023 at 19:00

Shipping times vary. Same-ocean delivery may only take a few years, but delivery from the Weddell Sea in Antarctica may take multiple decades, and molecules meant for inland seas like the Mediterranean may be returned as undeliverable by surface currents.

Received — 22 November 2023 ⏭ Comics

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Thanksgiving Arguments 21 November 2023 at 19:00

Thanksgiving Arguments

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21 November 2023 at 19:00

An occasional source of mild Thanksgiving tension in my family is that my mother is a die-hard fan of The Core (2003), and various family members sometimes have differing levels of enthusiasm for her annual tradition of watching it.