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#xkcd No. 2954
Date: 2024-7-3
Title: Bracket Symbols
Alt text: ’"‘”’" means "I edited this text on both my phone and my laptop before sending it"
https://xkcd.com/2954/

#xkcd No. 2975
Date: 2024-8-21
Title: Classical Periodic Table
Alt text: Personally I think mercury is more of a 'wet earth' hybrid element.
https://xkcd.com/2975/

#xkcd No. 2950
Date: 2024-6-24
Title: Situation
Alt text: We're right under the flight path for the scheduled orbital launch, but don't worry--it's too cold out for the rockets to operate safely, so I'm sure they'll postpone.
https://xkcd.com/2950/

#xkcd No. 2953
Date: 2024-7-1
Title: Alien Theories
Alt text: They originally came here to try to investigate our chemtrail technology, and got increasingly frustrated when all their samples turned out to just be water ice with trace amounts of jet exhaust.
https://xkcd.com/2953/

#xkcd No. 2960
Date: 2024-7-17
Title: Organ Meanings
Alt text: IMO the thymus is one of the coolest organs and we should really use it in metaphors more.
https://xkcd.com/2960/

#xkcd No. 2956
Date: 2024-7-8
Title: Number Line Branch
Alt text: Attention all passengers: This is an express sequence to infinity. If your stop is not a power of two, please disembark now.
https://xkcd.com/2956/

#xkcd No. 2959
Date: 2024-7-15
Title: Beam of Light
Alt text: Einstein's theories solved a longstanding mystery about Mercury: Why it gets so hot. "It's because," he pointed out, "the sun is right there."
https://xkcd.com/2959/

#xkcd No. 2974
Date: 2024-8-19
Title: Storage Tanks
Alt text: We're considering installing a pressurization system to keep the tanks at constant pressure solely to deter them.
https://xkcd.com/2974/

#xkcd No. 2957
Date: 2024-7-10
Title: A Crossword Puzzle
Alt text: Hint: If you ever encounter this puzzle in a crossword app, just [term for someone with a competitive and high-achieving personality].
https://xkcd.com/2957/

#xkcd No. 2961
Date: 2024-7-19
Title: CrowdStrike
Alt text: We were going to try swordfighting, but all my compiling is on hold.
https://xkcd.com/2961/

#xkcd No. 2958
Date: 2024-7-12
Title: Hatchery
Alt text: Anadromous fish are more vulnerable in rivers, since the lack of salt means you can quickly crack passwords using rainbow trout tables.
https://xkcd.com/2958/

#xkcd No. 2979
Date: 2024-8-30
Title: Sky Alarm
Alt text: During the day it also activates for neat clouds and pretty sunsets.
https://xkcd.com/2979/

#xkcd No. 2976
Date: 2024-8-23
Title: Time Traveler Causes of Death
Alt text: Many a hungry time traveler has Googled 'trilobites shellfish allergy' only to find their carrier had no coverage in the Ordovician.
https://xkcd.com/2976/

#xkcd No. 2982
Date: 2024-9-6
Title: Water Filtration
Alt text: You'd think the most expensive part would be the quark-gluon plasma chamber, but it's actually usually the tube to the top of the atmosphere to carry the cosmic rays down.
https://xkcd.com/2982/

#xkcd No. 2981
Date: 2024-9-4
Title: Slingshots
Alt text: In my reboot, Dennis the Menace was just trying to send Mr. Wilson a nice comet, but accidentally wiped out his dinosaur garden.
https://xkcd.com/2981/

#xkcd No. 2977
Date: 2024-8-26
Title: Three Kinds of Research
Alt text: The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.'
https://xkcd.com/2977/

#xkcd No. 2980
Date: 2024-9-2
Title: Lava Lakes
Alt text: Hey, golf balls float on lava, so this should make recovering them from the hazards easier.
https://xkcd.com/2980/

#xkcd No. 3107
Date: 2025-6-25
Title: Weather Balloons
Alt text: Once you add the balloons into the model, it makes forecasting easier overall--the forecast is always 'cold and dark, with minimal solar-driven convection.'
https://xkcd.com/3107/

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#xkcd No. 2978
Date: 2024-8-28
Title: Stranded
Alt text: At least they're not alone down there.
https://xkcd.com/2978/

#xkcd No. 2983
Date: 2024-9-9
Title: Monocaster
Alt text: My competitors say the tiny single tiny caster is unsafe, unstable, and offers no advantages over traditional designs, to which I say: wow, why are you guys so mean? I thought we were friends!
https://xkcd.com/2983/

#xkcd No. 2988
Date: 2024-9-20
Title: Maslow's Pyramid
Alt text: The local police, building inspector, and fire marshal are all contesting my 'safety' assertion, or would be if they could reach me past all the traps.
https://xkcd.com/2988/

#xkcd No. 2984
Date: 2024-9-11
Title: Asteroid News
Alt text: Their calculations show it will 'pass within the distance of the moon' but that it 'will not hit the moon, so what's the point?'
https://xkcd.com/2984/

#xkcd No. 3071
Date: 2025-4-2
Title: Decay Chain
Alt text: If you have an old phone in a drawer, and you listen very carefully, you can occasionally hear the occasional tap of an emitted SIM card hitting the side of the drawer as the phone transmutes to a lower-end model.
https://xkcd.com/3071/

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#xkcd No. 2985
Date: 2024-9-13
Title: Craters
Alt text: It's annoying that the Nastapoka Arc isn't a meteor impact crater, but I truly believe that--with enough time, effort, and determination--we could make it one.
https://xkcd.com/2985/

#xkcd No. 2990
Date: 2024-9-25
Title: Late Cenozoic
Alt text: Our nucleic acid recovery techinques found a great deal of homo sapiens DNA incorporated into the fossils, particularly the ones containing high levels of resin, leading to the theory that these dinosaurs preyed on the once-dominant primates.
https://xkcd.com/2990/