'They're continuing to search for a square with the same area as the circle, as efforts to construct one have run into difficulties.'
Читать полностью…'I wonder what surviving human held the record before balloons (excluding edge cases like jumping gaps on a mountain bridge). Probably it was someone falling from a cliff into snow or water, but maybe it involved something weird like a gunpowder explosion or volcano.'
Читать полностью…'The zoo takes special care to keep kings separated from opposite-color pieces as part of their conservation program to prevent mating in captivity.'
Читать полностью…'You don't want the nitrogen percentage to be too high or you run the risk of eutrophication.'
Читать полностью…'I don't dig pit traps and cover them with sticks and a thin layer of leaves nearly as much as I expected; I find a chance to do it barely once a month.'
Читать полностью…'You may notice the first half of these instructions are similar to the instructions for a working nuclear fusion device. After the first few dozen steps, be sure to press down firmly and fold quickly to overcome fusion pressure.'
Читать полностью…'The most important quantity for meteorologists is of course the product of latent pressure and temperostrophic enthalpy, though 'how nice the weather is' is a close second.'
Читать полностью…'Inside is a third box, labeled DO NOT OPEN UNLESS YOU ARE IN THE TIME ZONE WHERE YOU OPENED BOTH PREVIOUS BOXES.'
Читать полностью…'I still don't know how the police found my compound where I ran an illegal searchlight depot/covert blimp airfield/fireworks testing range.'
Читать полностью…'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.'
Читать полностью…'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.'
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