#xkcd No. 2905
Date: 2024-3-11
Title: Supergroup
Alt text: I love their cover of 1,200 Balloons, Dalmatians, and Miles.
https://xkcd.com/2905/
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I was today years old when I learned that #sudo actually changed their logo (https://www.sudo.ws/about/logo/) because of #XKCD 149 (https://xkcd.com/149/).
Love it.
#xkcd No. 2996
Date: 2024-10-9
Title: CIDABM
Alt text: There's a heated debate over whether the big island of Tierra del Fuego should qualify for membership.
https://xkcd.com/2996/
#xkcd No. 2906
Date: 2024-3-13
Title: Earth
Alt text: Just think of all the countless petty squabbles and misunderstandings, of all the fervent hatreds, over so insignificant a thing as the direction and duration of a rocket engine firing.
https://xkcd.com/2906/
#xkcd No. 2907
Date: 2024-3-15
Title: Schwa
Alt text: Doug's cousin, the one from London, runs a Bumble love cult.
https://xkcd.com/2907/
#xkcd No. 2904
Date: 2024-3-8
Title: Physics vs. Magic
Alt text: 'At the stroke of midnight, your brother will be hurtling sideways at an altitude of 150 meters' is a regular physics prediction about your nonmagical trebuchet, whereas 'you are cursed to build a brother-launching trebuchet' falls out of the Lagrangian.
https://xkcd.com/2904/
#xkcd No. 2910
Date: 2024-3-22
Title: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Alt text: You know that asteroid that almost destroyed Earth in the 90s? Turns out the whole thing was secretly created by Michael Bay, who then PAID Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck to look heroic while blowing it up!
https://xkcd.com/2910/
#xkcd No. 2908
Date: 2024-3-18
Title: Moon Armor Index
Alt text: Astronomers are a little unsure of the applicability of this index, but NASA's Planetary Protection Officer is all in favor.
https://xkcd.com/2908/
#xkcd No. 2909
Date: 2024-3-20
Title: Moon Landing Mission Profiles
Alt text: If you pick a low enough orbit, it gives you a lot of freedom to use a lightweight launch vehicle such as a stepladder.
https://xkcd.com/2909/
#xkcd No. 2911
Date: 2024-3-25
Title: Greenland Size
Alt text: The Mercator projection drastically distorts the size of almost every area of land except a small ring around the North and South Poles.
https://xkcd.com/2911/
#xkcd No. 2941
Date: 2024-6-3
Title: Cell Organelles
Alt text: It's believed that Golgi was originally an independent organism who was eventually absorbed into our cells, where he began work on his Apparatus.
https://xkcd.com/2941/
#xkcd No. 2913
Date: 2024-3-29
Title: Periodic Table Regions
Alt text: Cesium-133, let it be. Cesium-134, let it be even more.
https://xkcd.com/2913/
#xkcd No. 2914
Date: 2024-4-1
Title: Eclipse Coolness
Alt text: A partial eclipse is like a cool sunset. A total eclipse is like someone broke the sky.
https://xkcd.com/2914/
#xkcd No. 2912
Date: 2024-3-27
Title: Cursive Letters
Alt text: 𝓘 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓬𝓪𝓹𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓛 𝓲𝓼 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓫𝓪𝓫𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓾𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮, 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓬𝓪𝓼𝓮 𝓺 𝓲𝓼 𝓪𝓵𝓼𝓸 𝓪 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻.
https://xkcd.com/2912/
#xkcd No. 2915
Date: 2024-4-3
Title: Eclipse Clouds
Alt text: The rare compound solar-lunar-nephelogical eclipse
https://xkcd.com/2915/
#xkcd No. 2917
Date: 2024-4-8
Title: Types of Eclipse Photo
Alt text: The most rare, top-tier eclipse photo would be the Solar Earth Eclipse, but the Apollo 12 crew's attempt to capture it was marred by camera shake. They said it looked spectacular, though.
https://xkcd.com/2917/
#xkcd No. 2916
Date: 2024-4-5
Title: Machine
Alt text: The Credible Machine
https://xkcd.com/2916/
#xkcd No. 2919
Date: 2024-4-12
Title: Sitting in a Tree
Alt text: First comes blood / Then we perish / Then comes Death in his Eternity Carriage.
https://xkcd.com/2919/
#xkcd No. 2920
Date: 2024-4-15
Title: Survey Marker
Alt text: Fun fact: The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-center by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place.
https://xkcd.com/2920/
#xkcd No. 2918
Date: 2024-4-10
Title: Tick Marks
Alt text: If you're really savvy, you can hide an entire set of illicit transactions by timing them to draw what looks like a graph inset.
https://xkcd.com/2918/
#xkcd No. 2922
Date: 2024-4-19
Title: Pub Trivia
Alt text: Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Europe (or 'the EU') (e) Greater London
https://xkcd.com/2922/
#xkcd No. 2921
Date: 2024-4-18
Title: Eclipse Path Maps
Alt text: Okay, this eclipse will only be visible from the Arctic in February 2063, when the sun is below the horizon, BUT if we get lucky and a gigantic chasm opens in the Earth in just the right spot...
https://xkcd.com/2921/
#xkcd No. 2925
Date: 2024-4-26
Title: Earth Formation Site
Alt text: It's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core.
https://xkcd.com/2925/
#xkcd No. 2923
Date: 2024-4-22
Title: Scary Triangles
Alt text: Concealed mostly beneath the surface, sharks are the icebergs of the sea.
https://xkcd.com/2923/
#xkcd No. 2924
Date: 2024-4-24
Title: Pendulum Types
Alt text: The creepy fingers that grow from a vibrating cornstarch-water mix can be modeled as a chain of inverted vertical pendulums (DOI:10.1039/c4sm00265b) and are believed to be the fingers of Maxwell's Demon trying to push through into our universe.
https://xkcd.com/2924/
