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(These instructions also work for the other kind of Terminator.)
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"No ... This is kind of a disappointing answer."-or-"The Little Engine That Let Everyone Down."
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>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
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Quote:Ankhani wrote:
"No ... This is kind of a disappointing answer."-or-"The Little Engine That Let Everyone Down."
I would have gone with: Quote:...a number of countries have built jet-engine-powered trains. Sadly, they never took off. Fortunately, they never took off.
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"I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain a train."
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The video that was linked was awesome, although I'm somewhat baffled as to the actual use of this article.
Oh, wait, it's XKCD Tuesday, this is just for fun and SCIENCE. And it is fun. And scientific(ish).
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paladindythe Wrote:"I will give these in units of giraffes" "act now while supplies are still cooperative"
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Quote:robkelk wrote:
Quote:paladindythe wrote:
"I will give these in units of giraffes"
"act now while supplies are still cooperative"
"wrong kind of drumstick but hey, i like the sound."
(Though I also like "Bradstock’s experience gives us a lot of useful data (and a lot of other data, too).")
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He has some free time, and it’s no skin off anyone’s back how he spends it (assuming his hobby isn’t drilling holes in walls).
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"Why do we even have that drill?"
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Image text: " This is no longer, by any stretch of the imagination, a regulation ball."
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So, what do we use for pins, and what do we use as a lane?
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"Sir, the enemy has launched a missile."
"How do you know?"
"Twitter."
(Close second: "It’s essentially a flashlight which we shine on planets to see them better. (This is just as crazy as it sounds.)")
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"AAAAAAAAAA!!"
*CRUNCH*
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Quote:robkelk wrote:
"Sir, the enemy has launched a missile."
"How do you know?"
"Twitter."
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" But they are independent states which happen to have the same queen; they are not part of any empire that they know of."
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"Inside each one is a cup of tea."
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And yet they still haven't answered my one about chicken powered central heating.
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And yet they still haven't answered my one about chicken powered central heating.
They? I didn't know that Munroe was multiple people now...
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He was using the royal "they."
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If the Sun went out, we would see a variety of benefits across many areas of our lives.
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"Source: I'm going to go out on a limb and say 'The US Naval Observatory' on the assumption that no one there will read this."
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And we reach 50 columns!
Image text: " The mercury one was going to be the least deadly, wasn't it."
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And we reach 50 columns!
When we get to 65, hit "return".
ObsSecondQuote: "Worth it."
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" Yeah, because that sounds way more fun than staying here and eating cotton candy."
(It was that or "(So much for making things less gruesome.)"...)
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