xkcd

27 Dec 2024 23:40

'I still don't know how the police found my compound where I ran an illegal searchlight depot/covert blimp airfield/fireworks testing range.'

xkcd

26 Dec 2024 01:50

'C'mon, ESA Solar Orbiter team, just give the Parker probe a LITTLE nudge at aphelion. Crash it into the sun. Fulfill the dream of Icarus. It is your destiny.'

xkcd

24 Dec 2024 03:30

'Under some circumstances, if you throw a D8 and then a D12 at an enemy, thanks to the D8's greater pointiness you actually have to roll a D12 and D8 respectively to determine damage.'

xkcd

21 Dec 2024 04:45

'Fermions are weird about each other in a standoffish way. Integer-spin particles are weird about each other in a 'stand uncomfortably close while talking' kind of way.'

xkcd

18 Dec 2024 14:15

'The best case is O(n), and the worst case is that someone checks why.'

xkcd

16 Dec 2024 17:45

'Even when you try to make nice, smooth ice cubes in a freezer, sometimes one of them will shoot out a random ice spike, which physicists ascribe to kiki conservation.'

xkcd

13 Dec 2024 20:15

'In the aviation world, they don't use AM/PM times. Instead, all times are assumed to be AM unless they're labeled NOTAM.'

xkcd

11 Dec 2024 22:35

'It works because a nautical mile is based on a degree of latitude, and the Earth (e) is a circle.'

xkcd

10 Dec 2024 05:35

3022. "Making Tea"

xkcd

06 Dec 2024 20:35

3021. "Seismologists"

xkcd

05 Dec 2024 04:50

3020. "Infinite Armada Chess"

xkcd

02 Dec 2024 16:45

3019. "Advent Calendar Advent Calendar"

xkcd

29 Nov 2024 14:35

3018. "Second Stage"

xkcd

27 Nov 2024 23:10

3017. "Neutrino Modem"

xkcd

25 Nov 2024 23:20

3016. "Cold Air"

xkcd

27 Dec 2024 23:40

3030. "Lasering Incidents"

xkcd

26 Dec 2024 01:50

3029. "Sun Avoidance"

xkcd

24 Dec 2024 03:30

3028. "D&D Roll"

xkcd

21 Dec 2024 04:45

3027. "Exclusion Principle"

xkcd

18 Dec 2024 14:15

3026. "Linear Sort"

xkcd

16 Dec 2024 17:45

3025. "Phase Change"

xkcd

13 Dec 2024 20:15

3024. "METAR"

xkcd

10 Dec 2024 05:35

'No, of course we don't microwave the mug WITH the teabag in it. We microwave the teabag separately.'

xkcd

06 Dec 2024 20:35

'And even when they're not distracted, they usually get kicked out for illegal under-the-net 'subduction spikes'.'

xkcd

05 Dec 2024 04:50

'Stockfish 16 suggests the unconventional opening 1. RuntimeError: Out of bounds memory access'

xkcd

02 Dec 2024 16:45

'The growth rate of items per day may may seem absurd, but it's actually much less than the acceleration in the 12 Days of Christmas song.'

xkcd

29 Nov 2024 14:35

'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.'

xkcd

27 Nov 2024 23:10

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

xkcd

25 Nov 2024 23:20

'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.'

xkcd

23 Nov 2024 01:35

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