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Spelling

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23 January 2024 at 19:00

Any time I misspell a word it's just because I have too much integrity to copy answers from the dictionary.

Log Alignment

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21 January 2024 at 19:00

A video can have a log scale that's misaligned with both the time AND space axes.

Astronaut Guests

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18 January 2024 at 19:00

They didn't bring us a gift, but considering the kinetic energy of a bottle of wine at orbital speed, that's probably for the best.

Net Rotations

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16 January 2024 at 19:00

For decades I've been working off the accumulated rotation from one long afternoon on a merry-go-round when I was eight.

Bug Thread

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14 January 2024 at 19:00

After some account issues, we've added 6 new people from the beach house rental website support forum.

Sheet Bend

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11 January 2024 at 19:00

A left-handed sheet bend creates a much weaker connection, especially under moderate loads.

Like This One

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9 January 2024 at 19:00

A lot of sentences undergo startling shifts in mood if you add 'like this one' to the end, but high on the list is 'I'm a neurologist studying dreams.'

Supernova

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7 January 2024 at 19:00

They're a little cagey about exactly where the crossover point lies relative to the likelihood of devastating effects on the planet.

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.

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.

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.

Iceland

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28 December 2023 at 19:00

The HVAC bill for installing the Gulf Stream was enormous.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.]

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.