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  • ...se answering machines and especially voicemail were rare or nonexistent in the 1970s, and his telephone has a {{w|rotary dial}}, rather than a {{w|touch t
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  • ...taking the pi-th root of anything, set down the marker and back away from the whiteboard; something has gone horribly wrong. ...is "π × 10<sup>7</sup>", though he later added a statement to the top of the comic page addressing this point.
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  • ...Dear Wiccan readers: I understand modern Wiccans are not usually all about the curses and hexes. But Darth Vader was recently converted from Episcopaliani .... The introduction to the comic explains everything you need to know about the circumstances behind it.
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  • | titletext = Every computer, at the unreachable memory address 0x-1, stores a secret. I found it, and it is tha ...task; however, this would not be helpful in improving his playing the game the normal way (though [[#Alternate Explanation|see below]]) by perhaps learnin
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  • ...andall may have erased gridlines in these comics. In 2012, Randall revived the blue grid as a background image for ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?]]''. ...age with complex page and server-side scripting to present the reader with the more immersive or interactive content.
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  • {{comicsrow|478|2008-09-19|The Staple Madness}} {{comicsrow|470|2008-09-01|The End is Not for a While}}
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  • ...eral mail transfer agents, and each one has to temporarily store a copy of the email. Space constraints on those mail servers means that they must impose ...}}), used to transfer files between computers on a shared network, such as the internet. However, FTP servers are a touch more esoteric than a mere email
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  • ...oes not exceed the capacity of the knapsack, and the combined value of all the items is maximized. ...ram would be polynomial in the input size) to verify a solution, but it is unknown whether finding any or all solutions can be done in polynomial time. Polyno
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  • | titletext = Some people haven't heard of the Donner Party. They were pioneers who got stranded and likely resorted to ca ...posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[27: Meat Cereals]], and the next one was [[34: Flowers]].
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  • <noinclude>:''"9", this comic's number, redirects here. For the comic named "Nine", see [[1103: Nine]].''</noinclude> ...m-,Firefly,-Drawn%20in%20honor Original caption</span>]: Drawn in honor of the upcoming ''Serenity''! If you work very hard you can figure out who is who.
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  • ...system actually live in very different worlds. Everything about you shapes the world you inhabit--from your ideology to your glasses prescription to your *To view your personal version of the comic, visit the {{xkcd|1037|original comic}}.
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  • | titletext = Tau Ceti is farther away, so it took me 36 years to start the war over updog. ...established communications with aliens living on {{w|Proxima Centauri b}}, the nearest exoplanet to Earth according to current knowledge, and [[Randall]]
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  • ...ginally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[35: Sheep]], and the next one was [[38: Apple Jacks]]. ...by saving money on his car insurance by intimidation, instead of choosing the best provider. A golf club would later also be used for similarly socially
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  • ...ive/objective), and ye/you (plural, subjective/objective, or just "you" as the formal singulars). This is similar to second-person pronouns in many modern ...t the work is autobiographical is unknown. Also unknown is the identity of the person whom each work refers to. It is believed that Sonnet 18 is addresse
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  • ...sed seven days earlier on LiveJournal than on xkcd.com (25/1 2006). We use the earliest possible day--> ...0points%20if LiveJournal caption</span>]: Bonus points if you can identify the science in question.
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  • ...sed three days earlier on xkcd.com than on LiveJournal (21/1 2006). We use the earliest possible day--> | titletext = The malaria party was David's idea.<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://we
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  • ...eased two days earlier on xkcd.com than on LiveJournal (23/1 2006). We use the earliest possible day--> | titletext = No two adjacent circles are the same color.
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  • ...eased two days earlier on xkcd.com than on LiveJournal (25/1 2006). We use the earliest possible day--> | titletext = The only one of these games I really played was Area 51
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  • ...kcd]]. She frequently appears with [[Black Hat]], and like him, represents the same character in each appearance. ...nce). Thus, she mainly appears in comics together with Black Hat, which is the most certain giveaway that a long-haired woman is Danish rather than Megan.
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  • ...like a leap. In any event, this is another early Black Hat strip that, for the first time, explicitly sets out that he goes out of his way to wreak havoc. ...holes in the cup, Black Hat ensures that someone pouring boiling water in the cup would have it leak all over them, causing them great surprise and pain.
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  • | titletext = Wait, damn, I think I spotted a new email on the last refresh. ...realizing/acknowledging the inherent dangers of leaving her realm into an unknown universe.
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  • ...in the spot from the displaced pieces. It's a confusing maneuver known as the auto-troll shuffle. ...acters, so Congress has a lot of reservations about his {{w|résumé}}. At the time when this comic was released, Senate confirmation hearings occurred ra
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  • | titletext = The blueprints for the Department of the Internet offices call for Ceiling Cat-themed sprinkler heads. ...pects of it) for public relations purposes. The suppositional president in the comic is less savvy.
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  • | titletext = The Pioneer anomaly is due to the force of my love. ...vable sibling universe or similarly supermassive object beyond the edge of the visible universe. [[Cueball]] sees this as an opportunity to make yet anoth
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  • | titletext = Coconuts are so far down to the left they couldn't be fit on the chart. Ever spent half an hour trying to open a coconut with a rock? Fuck c ...at the bottom. The X-axis goes from "easy" on the right to "difficult" on the left.
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  • ...9 solving the differential equation] leads to the following solution (with unknown ''c<sub>1</sub>''): ...uation where the value of ''dPain/dt'' is close to zero. But we don't know the meaning of ''k<sub>1</sub>'' or ''k<sub>2</sub>''; these variables are just
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  • ...w|exploration}}, making possible references to {{w|space exploration}} and the {{w|Age of Discovery}}. ...whatever celestial bodies), but the general concepts of exploration remain the same.
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  • ...es like writing the password down on a post-it attached to the monitor. On the other hand, a password such as "correct horse battery staple" is hard for c ...aracter of a password is. It is calculated as ''log2(a^b)'' where ''a'' is the number of allowed symbols and ''b'' is its length.
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  • Another fine example of [[356|nerd sniping]], as mentioned in the title text. ...png|text=A map scale. Lists kilometers and miles as equivalent. (And makes the diagram many miles wide.)}}
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  • ...{{w|Obsessive-compulsive disorder}} (OCD) is a mental illness that compels the sufferer to perform repetitive actions. Common symptoms include, but are no ...sink, presumably either to repeatedly wash his hands or to make sure that the faucet was turned off.
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  • ...the first panel of this comic. [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] is demonstrating the problem with making such statements, many of which simply come down to coin ...ecome more and more nested and complicated, and then brought by Randall to the point of absurdity by pointing out very trivial things, such as "No Democra
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  • ...se--I'm not making this up--there's a really satisfying climactic scene in the Orson Scott Card horror novel 'Lost Boys' which hinges on it being an incor ...plies, is able to mimic other animals, so all animals and objects found in the sea could actually just be such an animal (or animals).
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  • This comic revolves around the similarities (and differences) between the concepts of "analogy", "simile" and "metaphor" (as well as "synecdoche", "s ...very literally meaning that she will would go an make a {{w|sandwich}} in the kitchen, and she would make one for either of them if they wished.
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  • ...xt = Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will event ...gree of specificity, the downside is that whenever Wikipedia goes offline, the limitations of his actual knowledge are revealed. Note: if he had downloade
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  • | titletext = The Wikipedia page List of Numbers opens with "This list is incomplete; you can ...used for subtraction). Negative numbers may be called imitator numbers in the comic because of their similarities to positive numbers.
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  • ...phrase "said the actress to the bishop." An example usage might look like the following: ...t the phrase might also refer to a human penis. While popular for a while, the phrase is considered puerile and cliché nowadays, so it isn't often used e
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  • ...n finding an apartment on {{w|Craigslist}}. Just as in Craigslist, some of the posts are re-posted several times. Additionally, lots of posts use lots of ...who compulsively keep a number of cats much greater than is appropriate to the living space.
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  • ...verse merely from one instant to the next takes an extremely long time, as the time it takes to update just one row of rocks would be eons, assuming a rea ...ut "rockets" to collide and interact with each other. Cueball can simulate the functioning of an entire universe because he has unlimited time and space (
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  • | titletext = The fact that things like the npm left-pad incident are so rare is oddly reassuring. ...sed to see past versions of a page, even if that site has since shut down. The Internet Archive accepts submissions of any type of information, including
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  • | titletext = She won the first half of all our chemo Scrabble games, but then her IV drugs started k This comic marks the second year of [[Randall Munroe]]'s wife's battle with cancer, and appears
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  • | titletext = The exact cause of the phenomenon is unknown, but it's thought to be linked to atmospheric refraction and you getting a ...8)|Tesla Roadster}}. If the bottle is green, it would also be the cause of the green flash.
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  • | titletext = You can either hang out in the Android Loop or the HURD loop. ...ructured, but can never be completed before changes in the situation cause the original code design to be insufficient for one or multiple reasons.
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  • ...the right one, but I managed to salvage our night out--if not the boat--in the end. ...lace, or maybe even take the effort to design an {{w|ASIC}} that can drive the peripheral instead.
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  • | titletext = The 8th panel is my favorite ...e's mind may experience when trying to process information at an hour when the person is not used to being awake.
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  • | titletext = "Grandpa, what was it like in the Before time?" "It was hell. People went around saying glass was a slow-flow The Wikipedia article {{w|List of common misconceptions}} gives a list of {{tvt
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  • ...thus about the existential questions that might arise from such a crisis. The moral could be interpreted as that you shouldn't begrudge your fellow human Also, any sentence is instantly funny if, at the end of it, you address your audience as "bitches". It may also be a referen
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  • | titletext = And I was really impressed with how they managed to shock the Goatse guy. ...''{{w|Never Gonna Give You Up}}''. The prank first occurred in May 2007 on the popular {{w|imageboard}} {{w|4chan}} and has since become a widespread {{w|
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  • | titletext = The 538TR attempts to capture a player's combined skill at basketball (either r ...James}} and {{w|Stephen Curry}}. The joke is that while comprehensive, all the statistics are completely meaningless - many of them are obviously false, a
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  • ...od these contracts are signed in is from me cutting my hand trying to open the goddamn CD case. ...away their immortal souls] because of a clause in an E.U.L.A. However, in the European Union, all provisions of these agreements that aren't already codi
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  • ...see the programmer's true brilliance and get him much-earned plaudits from the academic community. ...sually hand over this new problem, however unsatisfying (or unsatisfiable) the new technical issue truly is.
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  • ...is rule up. Although my mom wants you all to know it made perfect sense at the time. ...ut stops when he turns 6. This cycle repeats every 3 years, so the kid has the privilege to get snacks in his room before bed when his age is 2, 5, 8, 11,
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  • ...re about from the comfort of their own bed; indeed, they could do it under the covers if they want to. ...loser than ''beside'' the bed, even if you could drag the keyboard beneath the covers. Hence, laptops are ''weird.''
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  • ...ted the introduction that I completely forget to pay attention to the name the other person told me. ...This doesn't often happen with one's own significant other, however, hence the joke.
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  • ...ed from physical reality, they become more efficient at their programming. The comic is a take on this belief, with two references: ..." (with one L) are peaks in the emission spectrum of hydrogen (named after the 19th century scientist Johann Balmer).
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  • | titletext = I hate being the slowest guy in the lab. There are conflicting theories as to the meaning of this comic.
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  • | title = The Flake Equation | image = the flake equation.png
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  • | titletext = The end. * The comic image is a link to [http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190 geekwagon.
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  • | title = The Past | image = the past.png
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  • This comic deals with two linked themes, which both come under the umbrella of {{w|Existentialism|existentialism}}, a branch of philosophy. ...that, rather than continuously worrying, we should enjoy the thrill of the unknown.
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  • ...strip versions of regular party games like {{w|Truth or Dare}} or {{w|Spin the Bottle}}. ...is Van Allsburg picture book ''{{w|Jumanji (picture book)| Jumanji}}'' and the Robin Williams movie adaptation
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  • ...d their location and from that, speed on Earth. It was first developed for the U.S. military, but now it sees international usage for everyday navigation. ...distance more accurately. The closer the player is to the mystery object, the "hotter" they are.
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  • ...ay), not over the usual Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule, and it comprises the following five {{w|parodies}}: ...house about to be squashed in panel 3 is a more rudimentary rendition, and the person about to be squashed in panel 4 has been changed into [[Cueball]] ra
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  • ...h to see that particular movie, but I am cautiously optimistic about Where The Wild Things Are. ...nally criticized) for his style of film adaptation. Cueball is unsure that the IP would be a good fit for a summer blockbuster, but is dismissed.
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  • | titletext = Wait, is that the ORIGINAL voynich manuscript? Where did you GET that? Wanna try playing a ro ...fully attempted to decode the book. A cut out from the book is depicted in the first frame (real or similar).
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  • ...ty where they quickly had a romantic rapport and spent the night together. The next two stanzas are a lamentation that Megan is now married and can never ...at a wedding will have had previous relationships with someone other than the groom, but a wedding is no time to mention them.
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  • ...ate space in a public place, unknown to one another and separated by time. The graffiti text is juxtaposed with more common bathroom stall scrawlings - in ...dea of "finding meaning where you look for it," a recurring theme in xkcd. The caption implies that a bathroom stall isn't a place where Randall would lik
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  • ...{{w|Han Solo}}, portrayed by {{w|Harrison Ford}}, is frozen in carbonite, the following conversation occurs: ...cripted version, but it was the "I know" version that was actually used in the finished film.
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  • | title = The Mother of All Suspicious Files | titletext = Better change the URL to 'https' before downloading.
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  • *A larger version of the picture can be found [https://xkcd.com/1256/large here]. The largest pictured questions are: "Why are there slaves in the bible" and "Why are there ants in my laptop".
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  • ...e of these is ours, another is {{w|Narnia}}, and Charn (the world of Jadis the {{w|White Witch}}) is also visited through these pools. ...|cosmologist}}, [[Megan]], on a swing who has several other theories about the universe.
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  • ...tory/1248397/andy-warhol-originals-found-on-floppy-disk Sky News published the story] of original {{w|Andy Warhol}} artwork, created in 1985 on an {{w|Ami ...{{w|AOL}}, NYET, and {{w|Kazaa}}. These files are meant to be analogous to the fossils and artifacts found in lower, older rock layers.
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  • ...between high estimates of the likelihood of {{w|extraterrestial life}} and the fact that no evidence for it has thus far been found. ...e stars - homing in on radio signals and destroying young civilizations in the cradle...
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  • ...cript of the [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/money_huge.png huge version] of the comic [[980: Money]]. ...as well. If there is a title, it will be written in '''bold''' letters in the transcript.
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  • | titletext = This was actually wish #406. Wish #2 was for him to lose the ability to remember that each new wish wasn't my first. .... They even have a reporter ([[Cueball]]) on the spot reporting from where the ''darkness'' has spread so far.
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  • ...ined his identity, and the investigation was called off in 2016, making it the United States' only unsolved plane hijacking. (This mystery was later refer ...ing Orson Welles and what is widely considered the worst film of all time, the first film produced by, written by, directed by, and starring Tommy Wiseau.
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  • ...them which hurricane they think was the worst' is left as an exercise for the reader. ...ed by their US reporting names, with hurricanes before 1953 (the year when the current naming system was established) being listed by their year and somet
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  • ...ch everyone wants to know the answer; worrying about birds getting wet is "the thing that unites us". ...usually find birds in leafy trees, caves or other kinds of cover. Also, if the rain is light, many birds don’t even care and just continue with their no
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  • ...ted appearing November 12, 2014 and were being updated every five minutes. The collection of images creates a {{w|flip book}} that is displayed above. ...he progress of the {{w|Philae (spacecraft)|Philae}} lander separating from the {{w|European Space Agency}}'s {{w|Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta}} probe to l
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  • *A larger version of the image can be found [http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/payloads_large.png here]. ...he case of {{w|Vanguard 1}}, even a dog is too large a measure, so instead the unit squirrel is used to represent its 1.47&nbsp;kg (3.5&nbsp;lb.?) mass.
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  • ...leasant, but of the two ways we typically transfer them, I promise this is the one you want. ...the microbiome see [http://youtu.be/5DTrENdWvvM The Invisible Universe Of The Human Microbiome].
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  • | titletext = Do you think you could actually clean the living room at some point, though? ...ing a silly mistake, confusing the "vacuum" referred to in calculations of the theoretical energy density of space time with a {{w|vacuum cleaner}}, which
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  • ...engths are our web-facing chairs, our huge collection of white papers, and the fact that we physically cannot die. ...e in these three comics is that Beret Guy misuses common business cliches. The following are examples and phrases that [[Randall]] is likely making a joke
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  • ...ago, I decide it's a good time to read through every Wikipedia article in the categories 'Out-of-place artifacts', 'Earth mysteries', 'Anomalous weather' ...andall]] has an explanation or not for the mystery. Each item is listed in the [[#Table|table below]].
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  • Below are five tables listing the prices of the items in [[980: Money]]. | The price has since [https://www.in2013dollars.com/Apples/price-inflation/2011-
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  • ===The Spice Girls=== ...in 1994. It consists of five girls who each have a "spice girl" nickname. The five girls with their respective nicknames are:
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  • ...ing more seriously, gained a lot more readers, started selling t-shirts on the site, and am currently shipping t-shirts and drawing this comic full-time. ...xt, which was often along the same lines, but was almost never the same as the caption on LiveJournal.
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  • | titletext = Do you need me to do a quicksort on the whiteboard or produce a generation of offspring or something? It might take ...y to help the interviewer determine if he is right for the job — because the interviewer is likely to presume that a person who gives silly and unhelpfu
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  • ...text = My country's World Cup win was exciting and all, but c'mon, what if the players wore nylon wings and COULD LITERALLY FLY? ...the questions have not been satisfactorily answered or proven by anyone in the {{w|List of unsolved problems in physics#Astronomy and astrophysics|scienti
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  • * The comic on xkcd is a link to [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-space ...dnesday/Friday cycle for the [[xkcd]] comics. Also on this day he released the first ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?]]'' in over three months, and it was cal
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  • ...joke so far into the ground they'll have to build levees around it to keep the sea out. ...to exclude Pluto and similar objects, resulting in much debate (The IAU is the organization that takes responsibility for naming celestial bodies like pla
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  • ...r meat from specific sources (such as {{w|Roadkill cuisine|roadkill}}). On the other hand, {{w|veganism|vegans}} typically go further, and refuse to use a ...laring that anything that looks vaguely similar to people (since faces are the main way we identify people) are enough like us that they deserve at least
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  • ...ates that no communication about the no-communication theorem can clear up the misunderstanding quickly enough to allow faster-than-light signaling. ...must necessarily travel ''instantaneously'' and does not obey the limit of the speed of light.
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  • <!--DO NOT ADD the title text: Return to the play area. This is not shown in the comic. See trivia--> *To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1608|original comic}}.
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  • | titletext = Oh no, I changed the future and now I'm disappearing! Wait, never mind, it was just my hat slipp ...time, see [[1524: Dimensions]]. Beret Guy has also previously traveled to the future in a similar manner, see [[209: Kayak]].
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  • ...hicle|radio-controlled helicopter}}''. Some people have objections towards the usage of quadcopters as, if equipped with cameras, they can potentially int For this reason the US {{w|Federal Aviation Administration}} is now requiring any "drone" (unma
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  • ...t high enough energies, FRBs and perytons become indistinguishable because the detector burns out. The second [[:Category:Christmas|Christmas comic]] in a row, the first being [[1620: Christmas Settings]].
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  • ...ies]] where [[Randall]] has suggested substitutions that will make reading the news more fun. But there have been several [[:Category:Substitutions|comics The series as of 2016:
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  • ...ies near the bird/plane boundary over a range of distances, which explains the confusion. ...{w|dwarf planets}}. See for instance also explanations, for the layman, of the results here: ''[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/feature-astronomers
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  • ...won't be too hard. The web searches he makes tell what happens next, i.e. the bot balloons in complexity until it starts {{w|Technological singularity|fo ...presenting the stereotypical scenario where an unassuming idea results in the accidental creation of malevolent {{w|AI}}, which then attempts to destroy
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  • ...er, and we'll all just show up with a bucket each day to take our share of the resulting smoothie. ...if|147|Niagara Straw}}" from three days before this comic's release, where the entire water flow over {{w|Niagara Falls}} is imagined to be funneled throu
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