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#xkcd No. 2989
Date: 2024-9-23
Title: Physics Lab Thermostat
Alt text: Hopefully the HVAC people set it to only affect the AIR in the room.
https://xkcd.com/2989/

#xkcd No. 2986
Date: 2024-9-17
Title: Every Scientific Field
Alt text: Conveniently for everyone, it turns out that dark energy is produced by subterranean parasitoid wasps.
https://xkcd.com/2986/

#xkcd No. 2991
Date: 2024-9-27
Title: Beamsplitters
Alt text: Under quantum tax law, photons sent through a beamsplitter don't actually choose which path they took, or incur a tax burden, until their wavefunction collapses when the power is sold.
https://xkcd.com/2991/

#xkcd No. 2993
Date: 2024-10-2
Title: Ingredients
Alt text: Add main-belt asteroids to taste.
https://xkcd.com/2993/

#xkcd No. 2992
Date: 2024-9-30
Title: UK Coal
Alt text: The Watership Down rabbits removed an additional 0.1 nanometers constructing their warren, although that was mostly soil. British rabbits have historically mined very little coal; the sole rabbit-run coal plant was shut down in the 1990s.
https://xkcd.com/2992/

#xkcd No. 2987
Date: 2024-9-18
Title: Tectonic Surfing
Alt text: The worst is when you wipe out in the barrel and you're trapped for several million years until erosion frees you.
https://xkcd.com/2987/

#xkcd No. 2994
Date: 2024-10-4
Title: Númenor Margaritaville
Alt text: I see white shores, and beyond it, a far green country under a tequila sunrise.
https://xkcd.com/2994/

#xkcd No. 2997
Date: 2024-10-11
Title: Solar Protons
Alt text: If any of you want to meet some cool local oxygen atoms, I can introduce you!
https://xkcd.com/2997/

#xkcd No. 2995
Date: 2024-10-7
Title: University Commas
Alt text: The distinctive 'UCLA comma' and 'Michigan comma' are a long string of commas at the start and end of the sentence respectively.
https://xkcd.com/2995/

#xkcd No. 3002
Date: 2024-10-23
Title: RNAWorld
Alt text: Disney lore: Canonically, because of how Elsa's abiogenesis powers work, Olaf is an RNA-only organism.
https://xkcd.com/3002/

#xkcd No. 3003
Date: 2024-10-25
Title: Sandwich Helix
Alt text: The number one rule of string manipulation is that you’ve got to specify your encodings.
https://xkcd.com/3003/

#xkcd No. 2998
Date: 2024-10-14
Title: Ravioli-Shaped Objects
Alt text: It's a real accomplishment to mess up a ravioli recipe badly enough that the resulting incident touches all four quadrants of the NFPA hazard diamond.
https://xkcd.com/2998/

#xkcd No. 2999
Date: 2024-10-16
Title: Bad Map Projection: The United Stralia
Alt text: This projection distorts both area and direction, but preserves Melbourne.
https://xkcd.com/2999/

#xkcd No. 3000
Date: 2024-10-18
Title: Experimental Astrophysics
Alt text: Our experiment will be expensive, but we believe it will produce important spin-offs, especially if we manage to hit the sun from the right angle.
https://xkcd.com/3000/

#xkcd No. 3075
Date: 2025-4-11
Title: Anachronym Challenge
Alt text: I have to pay with paper money.
https://xkcd.com/3075/

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#xkcd No. 3001
Date: 2024-10-21
Title: Temperature Scales
Alt text: In my new scale, °X, 0 is Earths' record lowest surface temperature, 50 is the global average, and 100 is the record highest, with a linear scale between each point and adjustment every year as needed.
https://xkcd.com/3001/

#xkcd No. 3010
Date: 2024-11-11
Title: Geometriphylogenetics
Alt text: There's a maximum likelihood that I'm doing phylogenetics wrong.
https://xkcd.com/3010/

#xkcd No. 3004
Date: 2024-10-28
Title: Wells
Alt text: You do have to be careful, though--sometimes, instead of water, you hit this free fuel that you can sell for a lot of money instead.
https://xkcd.com/3004/

#xkcd No. 3023
Date: 2024-12-11
Title: The Maritime Approximation
Alt text: It works because a nautical mile is based on a degree of latitude, and the Earth (e) is a circle.
https://xkcd.com/3023/

#xkcd No. 3020
Date: 2024-12-4
Title: Infinite Armada Chess
Alt text: Stockfish 16 suggests the unconventional opening 1. RuntimeError: Out of bounds memory access
https://xkcd.com/3020/

#xkcd No. 3005
Date: 2024-10-30
Title: Disposal
Alt text: We were disappointed that the rocket didn't make a THOOOONK noise when it went into the tube, but we're setting up big loudspeakers for future launches to add the sound effect.
https://xkcd.com/3005/

#xkcd No. 3011
Date: 2024-11-13
Title: Europa Clipper
Alt text: They had BETTER make this a sample return mission.
https://xkcd.com/3011/

#xkcd No. 3012
Date: 2024-11-15
Title: The Future of Orion
Alt text: Dinosaur Cosmics
https://xkcd.com/3012/

#xkcd No. 3006
Date: 2024-11-1
Title: Demons
Alt text: Though they do appreciate how much he improved the heating system for the flame pit.
https://xkcd.com/3006/

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