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Received — 11 January 2025 ⏭ Comics

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Chess Zoo 9 January 2025 at 19:00

Chess Zoo

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9 January 2025 at 19:00

The zoo takes special care to keep kings separated from opposite-color pieces as part of their conservation program to prevent mating in captivity.

Received — 9 January 2025 ⏭ Comics

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Trimix 7 January 2025 at 19:00

Trimix

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7 January 2025 at 19:00

You don't want the nitrogen percentage to be too high or you run the risk of eutrophication.

Received — 7 January 2025 ⏭ Comics

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Features of Adulthood 5 January 2025 at 19:00

Features of Adulthood

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5 January 2025 at 19:00

I don't dig pit traps and cover them with sticks and a thin layer of leaves nearly as much as I expected; I find a chance to do it barely once a month.

Received — 4 January 2025 ⏭ Comics

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Origami Black Hole 2 January 2025 at 19:00

Origami Black Hole

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2 January 2025 at 19:00

You may notice the first half of these instructions are similar to the instructions for a working nuclear fusion device. After the first few dozen steps, be sure to press down firmly and fold quickly to overcome fusion pressure.

Received — 2 January 2025 ⏭ Comics

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Skew-T Log-P 31 December 2024 at 19:00

Skew-T Log-P

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31 December 2024 at 19:00

The most important quantity for meteorologists is of course the product of latent pressure and temperostrophic enthalpy, though 'how nice the weather is' is a close second.

Received — 31 December 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Time Capsule Instructions 29 December 2024 at 19:00

Time Capsule Instructions

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29 December 2024 at 19:00

Inside is a third box, labeled DO NOT OPEN UNLESS YOU ARE IN THE TIME ZONE WHERE YOU OPENED BOTH PREVIOUS BOXES.

Received — 28 December 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Lasering Incidents 26 December 2024 at 19:00

Lasering Incidents

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26 December 2024 at 19:00

I still don't know how the police found my compound where I ran an illegal searchlight depot/covert blimp airfield/fireworks testing range.

Received — 26 December 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Sun Avoidance 24 December 2024 at 19:00

Sun Avoidance

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24 December 2024 at 19:00

C'mon, ESA Solar Orbiter team, just give the Parker probe a LITTLE nudge at aphelion. Crash it into the sun. Fulfill the dream of Icarus. It is your destiny.

Received — 24 December 2024 ⏭ Comics

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D Roll 22 December 2024 at 19:00

D Roll

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22 December 2024 at 19:00

Under some circumstances, if you throw a D8 and then a D12 at an enemy, thanks to the D8's greater pointiness you actually have to roll a D12 and D8 respectively to determine damage.

Received — 21 December 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Exclusion Principle 19 December 2024 at 19:00

Exclusion Principle

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19 December 2024 at 19:00

Fermions are weird about each other in a standoffish way. Integer-spin particles are weird about each other in a 'stand uncomfortably close while talking' kind of way.

Received — 19 December 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Linear Sort 17 December 2024 at 19:00

Linear Sort

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17 December 2024 at 19:00

The best case is O(n), and the worst case is that someone checks why.

Received — 17 December 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Phase Change 15 December 2024 at 19:00

Phase Change

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15 December 2024 at 19:00

Even when you try to make nice, smooth ice cubes in a freezer, sometimes one of them will shoot out a random ice spike, which physicists ascribe to kiki conservation.

Received — 13 December 2024 ⏭ Comics

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METAR 12 December 2024 at 19:00

METAR

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12 December 2024 at 19:00

In the aviation world, they don't use AM/PM times. Instead, all times are assumed to be AM unless they're labeled NOTAM.

Received — 12 December 2024 ⏭ Comics

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The Maritime Approximation 10 December 2024 at 19:00

The Maritime Approximation

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10 December 2024 at 19:00

It works because a nautical mile is based on a degree of latitude, and the Earth (e) is a circle.

Received — 10 December 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Making Tea 8 December 2024 at 19:00

Making Tea

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8 December 2024 at 19:00

No, of course we don't microwave the mug WITH the teabag in it. We microwave the teabag separately.

Received — 7 December 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Seismologists 5 December 2024 at 19:00

Seismologists

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5 December 2024 at 19:00

And even when they're not distracted, they usually get kicked out for illegal under-the-net 'subduction spikes'.

Received — 5 December 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Infinite Armada Chess 3 December 2024 at 19:00

Infinite Armada Chess

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3 December 2024 at 19:00

Stockfish 16 suggests the unconventional opening 1. RuntimeError: Out of bounds memory access

Received — 3 December 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Advent Calendar Advent Calendar 1 December 2024 at 19:00

Advent Calendar Advent Calendar

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1 December 2024 at 19:00

The growth rate of items per day may may seem absurd, but it's actually much less than the acceleration in the 12 Days of Christmas song.

Received — 30 November 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Second Stage 28 November 2024 at 19:00

Second Stage

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28 November 2024 at 19:00

Hmm, they won't do in-flight delivery, so let's order a new first and second stage to our emergency landing site and then try to touch down on top of them to save time.

Received — 28 November 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Neutrino Modem 26 November 2024 at 19:00

Neutrino Modem

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26 November 2024 at 19:00

Our sysadmin accidentally won a Nobel Prize while trying to debug neutrino oscillation error correction.