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>The Watership Down rabbits removed an additional 0.1 nanometers constructing their warren, although that was mostly soil. British rabbits have historically mined very little coal; the sole rabbit-run coal plant was shut down in the 1990s. https://explainxkcd.com/2992/
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>Under quantum tax law, photons sent through a beamsplitter don't actually choose which path they took, or incur a tax burden, until their wavefunction collapses when the power is sold. https://explainxkcd.com/2991/
Hover text: > Our nucleic acid recovery techinques found a great deal of homo sapiens DNA incorporated into the fossils, particularly the ones containing high levels of resin, leading to the theory that these dinosaurs preyed on the once-dominant primates. Transcript: > [Three squid-like aliens in a classroom; one alien stands in front of a board covered with minute text and a drawing of a T-Rex skeleton. Two aliens sit on stools watching the teacher alien. The teacher alien on the left is on a raised platform and points at the board with one tentacle.] > Left alien: Species such as triceratops and tyrannosaurus became more rare after the Cretaceous, but they survived to flourish in the late Cenozoic, 66 million years later. > Left alien: Many complete skeletons have been discovered from this era. > [Caption below the panel:] > It's going to be really funny when our museums get buried in sediment. https://www.xkcd.com/2990/ [explainxkcd.com for \#2990](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2990)
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>Hopefully the HVAC people set it to only affect the AIR in the room. https://explainxkcd.com/2989/
Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/6/
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>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. https://explainxkcd.com/2988/
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>The worst is when you wipe out in the barrel and you're trapped for several million years until erosion frees you. https://explainxkcd.com/2987/
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>Conveniently for everyone, it turns out that dark energy is produced by subterranean parasitoid wasps. https://explainxkcd.com/2986
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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. https://explainxkcd.com/2985/
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> 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! https://explainxkcd.com/2983/
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Title text: > You'd think the most expensive part would be the quark-gluon plasma chamber, but it's actually usually the tube to the top of the atmosphere to carry the cosmic rays down. https://explainxkcd.com/2982
Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/115/
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alt text: > In my reboot, Dennis the Menace was just trying to send Mr. Wilson a nice comet, but accidentally wiped out his dinosaur garden. https://explainxkcd.com/2981/
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alt text: > Hey, golf balls float on lava, so this should make recovering them from the hazards easier. https://explainxkcd.com/2980/
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alt text: > During the day it also activates for neat clouds and pretty sunsets. https://explainxkcd.com/2979/ PSA: This xkcd was released 6 days ago and nobody posted it. It is in fact allowed for other people to post new xkcd comics to this community too, you don't have to wait for me to do that.
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Alt text: >At least they're not alone down there. https://explainxkcd.com/2978/
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alt text: > The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.' https://explainxkcd.com/2977/
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alt text: > Many a hungry time traveler has Googled 'trilobites shellfish allergy' only to find their carrier had no coverage in the Ordovician. https://explainxkcd.com/2976/
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Alt text: >Personally I think mercury is more of a 'wet earth' hybrid element. https://explainxkcd.com/2975/
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alt text: > We're considering installing a pressurization system to keep the tanks at constant pressure solely to deter them. https://explainxkcd.com/2974/
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alt text: > They left the belt drive in place but switched which wheel was powered, so people could choose between a regular ride, a long ride, and a REALLY long ride. https://explainxkcd.com/2973/
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alt text: > Our lawyers were worried because it turns out the company inherits its debt from the parent universe, but luckily cosmic inflation reduced it to nearly zero. https://explainxkcd.com/2972/
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alt text: > If we can get a brood of 13-year cicadas going, we might have a chance at making this happen before the oceans evaporate under the expanding sun. https://explainxkcd.com/2971/
Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/54/
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alt text: > If you hold the meteor too long, it may imprint on you and form a contact binary, making reintroduction to space difficult. explanation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2970:_Meteor_Shower_PSA
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alt text: > [Political pundit on the ScrabbleTV News channel] "After four years of defying orthographic pressure, Joe ceded the top of the ticket to Kamala, who--after considering Josh, Mark, Andy, Roy, and Pete--picked Tim." explanation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2969:_Vice_President_First_Names
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alt text: > This only makes it more urgent that we adopt my roadmap for the next 10 years, which should put us solidly in the lead. expl: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2968:_University_Age
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alt text: > He was the first person to land a 900, which is especially impressive because pulling off a half-integer spin requires obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics. expl: https://explainxkcd.com/2967/
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alt text: > Calligraphy exam: Write down the number 37, spelled out, nicely. explananation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2966:_Exam_Numbers
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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Alt text: > Thankfully for everyone involved, the Winter Olympics officials spotted me and managed to stop me before I got to the ski jump. Explanation: https://explainxkcd.com/2964/
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alt text: > People think power over ethernet is so great, and yet when I try to do water over ethernet everyone yells at me. https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2963:_House_Inputs_and_Outputs
Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/59/
[xkcd.com/2962](https://xkcd.com/2962) ::: spoiler alt-text The image is a Venn diagram that compares the overlapping qualities between "Eligible to be President", "Would be a good President", and "Unusually vocal about love of Venn diagrams". The central overlapping area contains the text "Kamala Harris", while the eligibility and vocality areas contain the text “Me”. ::: Title text: >Hard to imagine political rhetoric more microtargeted at me than 'I love Venn diagrams. I really do, I love Venn diagrams. It's just something about those three circles.' [Explain xkcd](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2962:_President_Venn_Diagram) Context (2023): 
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alt text: > We were going to try swordfighting, but all my compiling is on hold. explanation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2961:_CrowdStrike
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alt text: > IMO the thymus is one of the coolest organs and we should really use it in metaphors more. explanation: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2960:_Organ_Meanings
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alt text: > Einstein's theories solved a longstanding mystery about Mercury: Why it gets so hot. "It's because," he pointed out, "the sun is right there."
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alt text: > Anadromous fish are more vulnerable in rivers, since the lack of salt means you can quickly crack passwords using rainbow trout tables.
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