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"As is often the case with these questions, everyone would die.
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Then the really weird stuff starts."
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Quote:As is often the case with these questions, everyone would die.
At least there are no unexpected relativistic effects.
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'We can't WAIT for the President's authorization. Snow is falling NOW.'
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" There are about 500 trillion calories of human in the world."
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"Once again we've reached a scenario I really don't want to illustrate, here's another squirrel."
Alt-Text: "I'm gonna look for less morbid questions for a while."
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http://what-if.xkcd.com/106/
Ink Molecules
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"mumble mumble carbon or something"
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
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"You could interpret David's question to mean particles of ink, so each hunk of carbon black would only count as 1. However, that would mean working out exactly what water fraction remains in the dried ink and how much weight 1,5-pentanediol contributes and so forth, and that sounds like more work."
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" Elon Musk reinvents the Pony Express"
(And "This is probably the first time I've ever ended a sentence with those words when I wasn't making a "your mom" joke.")
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"Of course, you could always put shoes in the shoebox."(Image text: "Weirdo")
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>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
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"Plutonium's critical mass is about 10 kilograms. So while you could fit 300 kilograms of it in a shoebox, you could only do so briefly."
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
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"... and MicroSD cards have a capacity of about 1.6 petabytes per gallon."
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http://what-if.xkcd.com/109/
"If I shot an infinitely strong laser beam into the sky at a random point, how much damage would it do?"
No really good line, except for the punchline.
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Quote:The fact that the night sky is dark is at the core of Olbers' Paradox.[5](Note reads: I was so tempted to vandalize this article to put a [citation needed] after every claim that the night sky was dark.)
Having read this, I just had to go see if someone had done it. Gentlemen, I offer you http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =622171780]this edit, already several revisions down in the history for the Wikipedia article on Olber's Paradox.
Edit: It wasn't the first try. There's http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =619530463]this one, slightly earlier, using a slightly different method.
Someone needs to object to the removal of these markups, on the grounds that looking up at the sky at night to see that it's dark constitutes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... l_research]"original research".
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Bob, I just went through those recent revisions. XKCD seems to have sparked a small edit war on the Olbers' Paradox page in Wikipedia.
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Heh.
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"Now there are seven, if you keep arguing, it'll be six."
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Two weeks in a row, the good line is the punchline... What the heck: go with the image ALT text.
" At least I'm eligible for bail once per geomagnetic reversal."
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Firvulag Wrote:%[link=http://blog.xkcd.com/2014/03/12/what-if-i-wrote-a-book/]"The publisher had some issues with my proposal to print an antimatter edition."] It's out, and http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/for ... 22?page=12]reviewed.
And, yes, there are some new questions. '“Would it be possible to get your teeth to such a cold temperature that they would shatter upon drinking a hot cup of coffee?” asks one Shelby Hebert. “Thank you, Shelby, for my new recurring nightmare,” answers one of Munroe’s XKCD stick figures.'
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Image text:
"Whatchya doing?"
"Economics."
ALT text:
"Well, yes, I can see THAT."
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"Dinosaurs loving money is the root of all evil."
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Possibly the weirdest one yet: http://what-if.xkcd.com/112/
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God, this guy's a riot! 
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Alt text: 'You're under arrest!' 'It's not what it looks like!' 'Yeah, but it's not what ANYTHING looks like.'
Note that this is for when the balloon has been made big enough to carry the Ferrari away, too.
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Image ALT text: "Those big ants down there look like little ants!"
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