| titletext = Oh no, a musician just burst in through the door confidently twirling a treble cl
This comic imagines which {{w|List of mathematical symbols|mathematical symbols}} would be good in a fight if the
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...woman? ...wait, if that bothers me, then why doesn't... man, this game is no fun anymore.
...e title text it is clear that [[Cueball]] who played this modified version no longer enjoys the game.
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{{TOC}}To view your personal version of the comic, visit the {{xkcd|1037|original comic}}.
...e actually multiple comics that went up on April Fools' Day, although only one is seen.
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...beverages, because they contain as much sugar as 2 or 3 Cadbury Eggs, and one Cadbury Egg alone makes him feel gross. (A 12 oz can equals 355 mL, while a
...— which is anywhere between March 22nd and May 7th, depending on whether one is consulting the {{w|General Roman Calendar|Catholic}} or {{w|Eastern Orth
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...kcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A40%20pm-,Strip%20series,-One%20of%20a
...40%20pm-,Strip%20series,-One%20of%20a Original caption]:'' One of a series of strips I drew during a long and boring NASA lecture. It careers wildly from
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...ing game of getting nerds, in this case a physicist, to stop in the middle of a street and get crushed by traffic by showing them an interesting problem
...s. See [http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath668/kmath668.htm Infinite Grid of Resistors].
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...realizing how smart his nephew is for his age). Every time we get reminded of this fact, it can be scary, as you then realize that [[1393: Timeghost|you
...aid that "everyone remembers where they were when they first heard...". In consequence, these events act as milestones in our memory. They are recalled more vivid
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...ze comparisons, etc.) but having drawbacks from other points of view. Some of them are more frequently used than others in mass media and therefore more
...ection can reveal aspects of their personality, then goes through a series of them to show what they can mean.
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...arodies Internet arguers' insistence in the obvious, objective superiority of their viewpoint.
...perspective. In [[955: Neutrinos]] another incarnation of Cueball is cured of a similar disease. A much later comic is simply called [[1731: Wrong]], but
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...naceous chondrite, so it's basically a lump of gravel glued into the shape of a sword. A SPACE sword!
...powerful and cooler despite limited explanation for exactly why materials of extraterrestrial origin are so superior to their earthly counterparts. The
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...graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by t
[[Randall]] is showing the number of still living humans who have walked on another world for the 65-year period
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| titletext =Completely implausible? Yes. Nevertheless, worth keeping a can of shark repellent next to the bed.
...tists. The shark is depicted much larger than the humans, and the quantity of helium necessary to lift it (as the later panels show) would be extremely e
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...on (going "deeper" down), from Earth's surface (the grass) to the interior of a single proton.
...E How Do You Measure the Size of the Universe?]'', for a great explanation of the 46 billion light years.
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| titletext = In lieu of mapping software, I once wrote a Perl program which, given a USB GPS receiv
{{w|Hunt the Thimble|Hot and Cold}} is a children's activity/game where one person searches for an unknown object, and the rest must respond "Hot" or "
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...es by his mother as a consequence of a single altercation with a couple of no-good guys who were making trouble in his previous neighbourhood.
...then switching partway through to a very serious discussion of the status of their relationship culminating in a break-up.
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...any programmer. The absurdity of the number 3 somehow being cursed is part of the humor.
...volume of a sphere}}, normally (4/3)*pi*(r^3), but converted for avoidance of the number 3 to (4/int(pi))*pi*(r^int(pi)).
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| titletext = Every choice,
no matter how small, begins a new story
<div class="toclimit-3">{{TOC}}</div>To experience the interactivity
of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1350|original comic}}.
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...ing of the library devoted to copies of book #26, because ohmygod it's the one where Jake and Cassie finally KISS!!!
...collapses. But in Randall's version, the experts have made a list composed of many books from the {{w|Animorphs}} series.
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...strate this situation, and for $25 I promise not to take further advantage of this ability to create incentives.
...he way. The trolley can be diverted by using a lever, with the consequence of saving the 5 people but killing the 1 person.
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...[[1608: Hoverboard]]. This includes all text, but also a full description of all drawings as well as size and distances. To make text stand out clearly
**Following the line of sight for the people looking up, it will then be obvious to discover first
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