XKCD/3188: Anyone Else Here
Anyone else watching this Youtube video in 1954? If so, my last trip definitely messed with the timeline.
(https://xkcd.com/3188)
(https://xkcd.com/3188)
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XKCD/3187: High Altitude Cooking Instructions
1,300,000-1,400,000 ft: Ask a crew member to show you how to use the ISS food warmer.
(https://xkcd.com/3187)
(https://xkcd.com/3187)
XKCD/3186: Truly Universal Outlet
Building Inspectors HATE This One Weird Trick
(https://xkcd.com/3186)
(https://xkcd.com/3186)
XKCD/3185: Sauropods
Vertebrae Georg
(https://xkcd.com/3185)
(https://xkcd.com/3185)
XKCD/3184: Funny Numbers
In 1899, people were walking around shouting '23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.
(https://xkcd.com/3184)
(https://xkcd.com/3184)
XKCD/3183: Pole Vault Pole
My goal in life is to be personally responsible for at least one sports rule change.
(https://xkcd.com/3183)
(https://xkcd.com/3183)
XKCD/3182: Telescope Types
I'm trying to buy a gravitational lens for my camera, but I can't tell if the manufacturers are listing comoving focal length or proper focal length.
(https://xkcd.com/3182)
(https://xkcd.com/3182)
XKCD/3181: Jumping Frog Radius
Earth's r_jf is approximately 1.5 light-days, leading to general relativity's successful prediction that all the frogs in the Solar System should be found collected on the surface of the Earth.
(https://xkcd.com/3181)
(https://xkcd.com/3181)
XKCD/3180: Apples
The experimental math department's budget is under scrutiny for how much they've been spending on trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm traveling at 45 mph.
(https://xkcd.com/3180)
(https://xkcd.com/3180)
XKCD/3179: Fishing
'That's definitely above the catch-and-release size minimum for planetesimals.' 'I'm going to throw it back anyway.'
(https://xkcd.com/3179)
(https://xkcd.com/3179)
XKCD/3178: Hyperacute Interdynamics
Our models fall apart where the three theories overlap; we're unable to predict what happens when a nanometer-sized squirrel eats a grapefruit with the mass of the sun.
(https://xkcd.com/3178)
(https://xkcd.com/3178)
XKCD/3177: Chessboard Alignment
Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.
(https://xkcd.com/3177)
(https://xkcd.com/3177)
XKCD/3176: Inverted Catenaries
Some tires are marketed as 'all-shape tires,' but if driven in a climate with both inverted catenary falls and triangle falls, they wear out really fast.
(https://xkcd.com/3176)
(https://xkcd.com/3176)
XKCD/3175: Website Task Flowchart
Tired of waiting on hold? Use our website to chat with one of our live agents, who are available to produce words at you 24/7!
(https://xkcd.com/3175)
(https://xkcd.com/3175)
XKCD/3174: Bridge Clearance
A lot of the highway department's budget goes to adjusting the sign whenever the moon passes directly overhead.
(https://xkcd.com/3174)
(https://xkcd.com/3174)
XKCD/3173: Satellite Imagery
Every weekend I take an ATV out into the desert and spend a day tracing a faint "(C) GOOGLE 2009" watermark across the landscape.
(https://xkcd.com/3173)
(https://xkcd.com/3173)
XKCD/3172: Fifteen Years
"Want to feel old?" "Yes."
(https://xkcd.com/3172)
(https://xkcd.com/3172)
XKCD/3171: Geologic Core Sample
If you drill at the right angle and time things perfectly, your core sample can include a section of a rival team's coring equipment.
(https://xkcd.com/3171)
(https://xkcd.com/3171)
XKCD/3170: Service Outage
Now, if it were the *Canon* wiki, it's possible to imagine someone with a productivity-related reason for consulting it, but no one's job requires them to read that much about Admiral Daala.
(https://xkcd.com/3170)
(https://xkcd.com/3170)
XKCD/3169: EPIRBs
'Oh no, the box is drifting out into the harbor!' 'Yeah, I wouldn't worry about losing it.'
(https://xkcd.com/3169)
(https://xkcd.com/3169)