xkcd.com ([syndicated profile] xkcd_feed) wrote2025-10-17 04:00 am
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Planetary Rings

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If you don't know where you are on Earth, the angle of satellite dishes can help constrain your latitude. If some of them are pointing straight up, you're probably near the Equator, right under the ring.

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xkcd.com ([syndicated profile] xkcd_feed) wrote2025-10-15 04:00 am
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Physics Paths

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If nothing else, that reasoning definitely overturns syllogisms.

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xkcd.com ([syndicated profile] xkcd_feed) wrote2025-10-13 04:00 am
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Physics Insight

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When Galileo dropped two weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, they put him in the history books. But when I do it, I get 'detained by security' for 'injuring several tourists.'

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xkcd.com ([syndicated profile] xkcd_feed) wrote2025-10-10 04:00 am
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Hot Water Balloon

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Despite a reputation for safety, the temperatures and surprisingly high pressures make them even more dangerous than the air kind, but the NTSB refuses to investigate accidents because they insist there is no 'transportation' involved.

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xkcd.com ([syndicated profile] xkcd_feed) wrote2025-10-08 04:00 am
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Skateboard

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I understand it's hard to do more than 300 feet on these 90-second rush jobs, but with a smaller ramp I'm worried the gee forces will be too high for me to do any tricks.

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xkcd.com ([syndicated profile] xkcd_feed) wrote2025-10-06 04:00 am
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Window Screen

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Home Improvement or DIY

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