#xkcd No. 3077
Date: 2025-4-16
Title: de Sitter
Alt text: Our anti-de Sitter club is small at the moment, but I've started corresponding with the conformal field theory people.
https://xkcd.com/3077/
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#xkcd No. 3078
Date: 2025-4-18
Title: Anchor Screws
Alt text: The biggest expense was installing the mantle ducts to keep the carbonate-silicate cycle operating.
https://xkcd.com/3078/
#xkcd No. 3086
Date: 2025-5-7
Title: Globe Safety
Alt text: Frankly, given their extreme gravitational fields and general instability, even 12-inch globes should probably be banned.
https://xkcd.com/3086/
#xkcd No. 3093
Date: 2025-5-23
Title: Drafting
Alt text: A 5% efficiency gain at the cost of a 99% efficiency loss
https://xkcd.com/3093/
#xkcd No. 3087
Date: 2025-5-9
Title: Pascal's Law
Alt text: Reductio ad absurdum fails when reality is absurd.
https://xkcd.com/3087/
#xkcd No. 3079
Date: 2025-4-21
Title: Air Fact
Alt text: 'Wow, that must be why you swallow so many of them per year!' 'No, that's spiders. You swallow WAY more ants.'
https://xkcd.com/3079/
#xkcd No. 3088
Date: 2025-5-12
Title: Deposition
Alt text: P.S. If you have time travel, come to my birthday party Saturday!
https://xkcd.com/3088/
#xkcd No. 3095
Date: 2025-5-28
Title: Archaea
Alt text: Under the two-domain system, anyone who punches you is technically an Archaean pathogen.
https://xkcd.com/3095/
#xkcd No. 3097
Date: 2025-6-2
Title: Bridge Types
Alt text: Pontoon bridges are just linear open-sided waterbeds.
https://xkcd.com/3097/
#xkcd No. 3096
Date: 2025-5-30
Title: Check Engine
Alt text: They say it's probably safe to keep orbiting for a while, but if it stays on or starts flashing we might have to call someone.
https://xkcd.com/3096/
#xkcd No. 3103
Date: 2025-6-16
Title: Exoplanet System
Alt text: Sure, this exoplanet we discovered may seem hostile to life, but our calculations suggest it's actually in the accretion disc's habitable zone.
https://xkcd.com/3103/
#xkcd No. 3092
Date: 2025-5-21
Title: Baker's Units
Alt text: 169 is a baker's gross.
https://xkcd.com/3092/
#xkcd No. 3098
Date: 2025-6-4
Title: Trojan Horse
Alt text: Ultimately, history would imperfectly record the story of the Foal of Troy.
https://xkcd.com/3098/
#xkcd No. 3101
Date: 2025-6-11
Title: Good Science
Alt text: If you think curiosity without rigor is bad, you should see rigor without curiosity.
https://xkcd.com/3101/
#xkcd No. 3099
Date: 2025-6-6
Title: Neighbor-Source Heat Pump
Alt text: The installation of the pipes on the inside of the insulation can be challenging, especially when the neighbor could come home at any minute.
https://xkcd.com/3099/
#xkcd No. 3100
Date: 2025-6-9
Title: Alert Sound
Alt text: With a good battery, the device can easily last for 5 or 10 years, although the walls probably won't.
https://xkcd.com/3100/
#xkcd No. 3105
Date: 2025-6-20
Title: Interoperability
Alt text: We're getting a lot of complaints from commuters who were routed onto a coaster, but the theme park patrons who spent hours stuck on an intercity line are also not happy.
https://xkcd.com/3105/
#xkcd No. 3106
Date: 2025-6-23
Title: Farads
Alt text: 'This HAZMAT container contains radioactive material with activity of one becquerel.' 'So, like, a single banana slice?'
https://xkcd.com/3106/
#xkcd No. 3112
Date: 2025-7-7
Title: Geology Murder
Alt text: After determining that his body was full of pipes carrying iron-rich fluid, our current theory is that the dagger-shaped object precipitated within the wound.
https://xkcd.com/3112/
#xkcd No. 3104
Date: 2025-6-18
Title: Tukey
Alt text: Numbers can be tricky. On the day of my 110th birthday, I'll be one day younger than John Tukey was on his.
https://xkcd.com/3104/
#xkcd No. 3108
Date: 2025-6-27
Title: Laser Danger
Alt text: To combat the threat, many airlines are installing wing-mounted spray bottles.
https://xkcd.com/3108/
#xkcd No. 3109
Date: 2025-6-30
Title: Dehumidifier
Alt text: It's important for devices to have internet connectivity so the manufacturer can patch remote exploits.
https://xkcd.com/3109/
#xkcd No. 3110
Date: 2025-7-2
Title: Global Ranking
Alt text: Starting a meta-leaderboard for tracking who holds the record for ranking behind the most distinct people on an online leaderboard.
https://xkcd.com/3110/
#xkcd No. 3111
Date: 2025-7-4
Title: Artificial Gravity
Alt text: Low gravity can cause bone loss, so we're pleased to report that, since we initiated capsule motion, the number of bones in each crew member has been steadily increasing.
https://xkcd.com/3111/