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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.

Our sysadmin accidentally won a Nobel Prize while trying to debug neutrino oscillation error correction.

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.

Look, you can't complain about this after giving us so many scenarios involving N locked chests and M unlabeled keys.

Sometimes, you have to sacrifice pieces to gain the advantage. Sometimes, to advance ... you have to fall back.

The real key was inventing the windmill-powered winch.

Dinosaur Cosmics

They had BETTER make this a sample return mission.

There's a maximum likelihood that I'm doing phylogenetics wrong.

"10 minutes ago we were down to only 2 0s!" "How many do we have now?" "I ... don't know!!"

These rocks are from a time before eyes, brains, and bones, pieces of a land warmed by an unseen sun.

"One popular strategy is to enter an emotional spiral. Could that be the right approach? We contacted several researchers who are experts in emotional spirals to ask them, but none of them were in a state to speak with us."

Though they do appreciate how much he improved the heating system for the flame pit.

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.

well well well, if it isn't a new xkcd

The number one rule of string manipulation is that you’ve got to specify your encodings.

Disney lore: Canonically, because of how Elsa's abiogenesis powers work, Olaf is an RNA-only organism.

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.

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.

This projection distorts both area and direction, but preserves Melbourne.

"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."

If any of you want to meet some cool local oxygen atoms, I can introduce you!

There's a heated debate over whether the big island of Tierra del Fuego should qualify for membership.

The distinctive 'UCLA comma' and 'Michigan comma' are a long string of commas at the start and end of the sentence respectively.

I see white shores, and beyond it, a far green country under a tequila sunrise.

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Hopefully the HVAC people set it to only affect the AIR in the room.

Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/6/

The local police, building inspector, and fire marshal are all contesting my 'safety' assertion, or would be if they could reach me past all the traps.

The worst is when you wipe out in the barrel and you're trapped for several million years until erosion frees you.

Conveniently for everyone, it turns out that dark energy is produced by subterranean parasitoid wasps.

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Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/54/

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This comic is inspired by XKCD and recent events and observations in my life. Disclaimer: I have no artistic ability and blatantly rip off the XKCD style and artwork, however the idea is mine and I feel it fits.

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https://xkcd.com/2956

alt-text: "Ugh, and we JUST went through this yesterday with the javelin."

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https://xkcd.com/2949

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It's annoying that the Nastapoka Arc isn't a meteor impact crater, but I truly believe that--with enough time, effort, and determination--we could make it one.

My competitors say the tiny single tiny caster is unsafe, unstable, and offers no advantages over traditional designs, to which I say: wow, why are you guys so mean? I thought we were friends!

Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/115/

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Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/59/

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Link to original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/