xkcd

#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. 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/

#xkcd No. 3015
Date: 2024-11-22
Title: D&D Combinatorics
Alt text: Look, you can't complain about this after giving us so many scenarios involving N locked chests and M unlabeled keys.
https://xkcd.com/3015/

#xkcd No. 3017
Date: 2024-11-27
Title: Neutrino Modem
Alt text: Our sysadmin accidentally won a Nobel Prize while trying to debug neutrino oscillation error correction.
https://xkcd.com/3017/

#xkcd No. 3018
Date: 2024-11-29
Title: Second Stage
Alt text: Hmm, they won't do in-flight delivery, so let's order a new first and second stage to our emergency landing site and then try to touch down on top of them to save time.
https://xkcd.com/3018/

#xkcd No. 3021
Date: 2024-12-6
Title: Seismologists
Alt text: And even when they're not distracted, they usually get kicked out for illegal under-the-net 'subduction spikes'.
https://xkcd.com/3021/

#xkcd No. 3008
Date: 2024-11-6
Title: Proterozoic Rocks
Alt text: These rocks are from a time before eyes, brains, and bones, pieces of a land warmed by an unseen sun.
https://xkcd.com/3008/

#xkcd No. 3016
Date: 2024-11-25
Title: Cold Air
Alt text: We also should really have checked that the old water tower was disconnected from the water system before we started filling it with compressed air.
https://xkcd.com/3016/

#xkcd No. 3123
Date: 2025-8-1
Title: Canon
Alt text: Achilles was a mighty warrior, but his Achilles' heel was his heel.
https://xkcd.com/3123/

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#xkcd No. 3022
Date: 2024-12-9
Title: Making Tea
Alt text: No, of course we don't microwave the mug WITH the teabag in it. We microwave the teabag separately.
https://xkcd.com/3022/

#xkcd No. 3009
Date: 2024-11-8
Title: Number Shortage
Alt text: "10 minutes ago we were down to only 2 0s!" "How many do we have now?" "I ... don't know!!"
https://xkcd.com/3009/

#xkcd No. 3019
Date: 2024-12-2
Title: Advent Calendar Advent Calendar
Alt text: The growth rate of items per day may may seem absurd, but it's actually much less than the acceleration in the 12 Days of Christmas song.
https://xkcd.com/3019/

#xkcd No. 3031
Date: 2024-12-30
Title: Time Capsule Instructions
Alt text: Inside is a third box, labeled DO NOT OPEN UNLESS YOU ARE IN THE TIME ZONE WHERE YOU OPENED BOTH PREVIOUS BOXES.
https://xkcd.com/3031/

#xkcd No. 3033
Date: 2025-1-3
Title: Origami Black Hole
Alt text: You may notice the first half of these instructions are similar to the instructions for a working nuclear fusion device. After the first few dozen steps, be sure to press down firmly and fold quickly to overcome fusion pressure.
https://xkcd.com/3033/

#xkcd No. 3025
Date: 2024-12-16
Title: Phase Change
Alt text: Even when you try to make nice, smooth ice cubes in a freezer, sometimes one of them will shoot out a random ice spike, which physicists ascribe to kiki conservation.
https://xkcd.com/3025/

#xkcd No. 3076
Date: 2025-4-14
Title: The Roads Both Taken
Alt text: When you worry that you're missing out on something by not making both choices simultaneously by quantum superposition, that's called phomo.
https://xkcd.com/3076/

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#xkcd No. 3042
Date: 2025-1-24
Title: T. Rex Evolution
Alt text: Unfortunately, body size and bite force continue to increase.
https://xkcd.com/3042/

#xkcd No. 3032
Date: 2025-1-1
Title: Skew-T Log-P
Alt text: The most important quantity for meteorologists is of course the product of latent pressure and temperostrophic enthalpy, though 'how nice the weather is' is a close second.
https://xkcd.com/3032/

#xkcd No. 3027
Date: 2024-12-20
Title: Exclusion Principle
Alt text: Fermions are weird about each other in a standoffish way. Integer-spin particles are weird about each other in a 'stand uncomfortably close while talking' kind of way.
https://xkcd.com/3027/

#xkcd No. 3034
Date: 2025-1-6
Title: Features of Adulthood
Alt text: I don't dig pit traps and cover them with sticks and a thin layer of leaves nearly as much as I expected; I find a chance to do it barely once a month.
https://xkcd.com/3034/

#xkcd No. 3036
Date: 2025-1-10
Title: Chess Zoo
Alt text: The zoo takes special care to keep kings separated from opposite-color pieces as part of their conservation program to prevent mating in captivity.
https://xkcd.com/3036/

#xkcd No. 3028
Date: 2024-12-23
Title: D&D Roll
Alt text: Under some circumstances, if you throw a D8 and then a D12 at an enemy, thanks to the D8's greater pointiness you actually have to roll a D12 and D8 respectively to determine damage.
https://xkcd.com/3028/