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Airspeed 28 October 2025 at 19:00

Airspeed

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28 October 2025 at 19:00

Carefully maneuvering the balloon down a mineshaft in an effort to break the OTHER altitude record

Received — 27 October 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Document Forgery 26 October 2025 at 19:00

Document Forgery

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26 October 2025 at 19:00

It comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a...

Received — 24 October 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Continents 23 October 2025 at 19:00

Continents

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23 October 2025 at 19:00

The inflection point was probably in late 1966 or 1967, so when Neil Armstrong flew to space on Gemini 8, plate tectonics was not widely accepted, but when he landed on the Moon three years later it was the mainstream consensus.

Received — 22 October 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Shielding Chart 21 October 2025 at 19:00

Shielding Chart

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21 October 2025 at 19:00

Sharks can occasionally travel short distances through air when pursuing prey, but their attenuation coefficient is pretty high.

Received — 20 October 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Emperor Palpatine 19 October 2025 at 19:00

Emperor Palpatine

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19 October 2025 at 19:00

Many things about Star Wars were not well planned out, but having a 37-year-old in old-age makeup play the Emperor in Return of the Jedi was such an incredible call.

Received — 17 October 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Planetary Rings 16 October 2025 at 19:00

Planetary Rings

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16 October 2025 at 19:00

If you don't know where you are on Earth, the angle of satellite dishes can help constrain your latitude. If some of them are pointing straight up, you're probably near the Equator, right under the ring.

Received — 15 October 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Physics Paths 14 October 2025 at 19:00

Physics Paths

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14 October 2025 at 19:00

If nothing else, that reasoning definitely overturns syllogisms.

Received — 13 October 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Physics Insight 12 October 2025 at 19:00

Physics Insight

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12 October 2025 at 19:00

When Galileo dropped two weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, they put him in the history books. But when I do it, I get 'detained by security' for 'injuring several tourists.'

Received — 10 October 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Hot Water Balloon 9 October 2025 at 19:00

Hot Water Balloon

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9 October 2025 at 19:00

Despite a reputation for safety, the temperatures and surprisingly high pressures make them even more dangerous than the air kind, but the NTSB refuses to investigate accidents because they insist there is no 'transportation' involved.

Received — 8 October 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Skateboard 7 October 2025 at 19:00

Skateboard

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7 October 2025 at 19:00

I understand it's hard to do more than 300 feet on these 90-second rush jobs, but with a smaller ramp I'm worried the gee forces will be too high for me to do any tricks.

Received — 6 October 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Window Screen 5 October 2025 at 19:00

Window Screen

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5 October 2025 at 19:00

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Home Improvement or DIY

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Ping 2 October 2025 at 19:00

Ping

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2 October 2025 at 19:00

Progress on getting shipwrecked sailors to adopt ICMPv6 has been slow.

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Measure Twice, Cut Once 30 September 2025 at 19:00

Measure Twice, Cut Once

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30 September 2025 at 19:00

"Measure zero times, cut zero times." --carpenter who has achieved enlightenment and realized the wood is fine where it is

Received — 29 September 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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100% All Achievements 28 September 2025 at 19:00

100% All Achievements

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28 September 2025 at 19:00

I'm trying to share my footage of the full run to prove it's not tool-assisted, but the uploader has problems with video lengths of more than a decade.

Received — 26 September 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Hiking 25 September 2025 at 19:00

Hiking

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25 September 2025 at 19:00

Every downhill walk is a waterslide that might have been.

Received — 24 September 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Fantastic Four 23 September 2025 at 19:00

Fantastic Four

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23 September 2025 at 19:00

One perk of being born at 0.88c is that your birthday is over two days long.

Received — 22 September 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Piercing 21 September 2025 at 19:00

Piercing

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21 September 2025 at 19:00

Some lava around the piercing site is normal, but keep an eye out for spreading earthquakes and eruptive activity that might indicate rifting.

Received — 19 September 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Phase Changes 18 September 2025 at 19:00

Phase Changes

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18 September 2025 at 19:00

People looking for the gaps in our understanding where the meaning of consciousness or free will might hide often turn to quantum uncertainty or infinite cosmologies, as if we don't have breathtakingly complex emergent phenomena right there in our freezers.

Received — 17 September 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Question Mark 16 September 2025 at 19:00

Question Mark

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16 September 2025 at 19:00

Although now people will realize three-per-em space that all this time I've been using weird medium mathematical space whitespace characters in my hair space hair space hair space speech dot dot dot...

Received — 15 September 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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-Style Pizza 14 September 2025 at 19:00

-Style Pizza

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14 September 2025 at 19:00

If you want to see true audacity, do an image search for 'Altoona-style pizza.'