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" Internet's here."
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"... it’s what the US government actually does."
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And since the Hubble makes a decent benchmark for the best that the Keyholes can do, the jury is in: no, you can't read license plate numbers from orbit. Yet.
But Tom Clancy was right: you probably could tell a woman from a man, at the right angle... assuming a sufficiently large bust size. 
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"Erudite?"
Or, more seriously, "140 characters may not seem like a lot, but we will never run out of things to say."
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And if we have something as cool as an indestructible hair dryer, it seems like a shame to limit it.
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Just one more, then we'll stop.
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(I lied about stopping)
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robkelk Wrote:And if we have something as cool as an indestructible hair dryer, it seems like a shame to limit it.
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Just one more, then we'll stop.
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(I lied about stopping) Also:
(Note: If you’re ever trapped with me in a burning building, and I suggest an idea for how we could escape the situation, it’s probably best to ignore me.)
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When he said "we'll assume an indestructible hair dryer," it reminded me of the other one, "Let's start by assuming spherical chickens...."
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DRAG0NFLIGHT Wrote:When he said "we'll assume an indestructible hair dryer," it reminded me of the other one, "Let's start by assuming spherical chickens...." Perfectly spherical, frictionless chickens. Proof that physics, as a pure science, doesn't actually work in the Really, Real World.
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Ebony wrote  erfectly spherical, frictionless chickens. Proof that physics, as a pure science, doesn't actually work in the Really, Real World.
Nah, it just proves that oversimplification is just as much of a problem with physics as with anything else. And that reality is more complicated than most people want to deal with
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I'm reminded of that theological joke with the phrase " assume a perfectly spherical jesus".
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New one is up. Fun with kitchen sinks: http://what-if.xkcd.com/36/
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Shepherd Wrote:New one is up. Fun with kitchen sinks: http://what-if.xkcd.com/36/ It was up late...
"But I guess if you really like cornstarch that much, nothing unpleasant has happened."
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It’s hard to hear music from that distance, particularly when your ears were just hit by (a) a sonic boom, and (b) pieces of a rapidly disintegrating stereo.
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...with of all things an Avatar: The Last Airbender joke in the last illo's alt text... Heh.
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"our rocket scientists are pretty good at rocket science."
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Firvulag Wrote:It also suggests that if you started to slowly tilt a hockey rink, it could get up to 50 degrees before the players would all slide to one end That was my second choice... My first pick is "It’s not just a problem of hitting it hard enough. This blog isn’t concerned with that kind of limitation."
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I was also severely tempted by "and world peace, which I recognize my first request makes significantly less likely."
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Image ALT text: " : the first thing i’d do in this world is try the diet coke and mentos thing"
(Second choice: "They can explode, in a sense, but not as violently as you might fear (or hope).")
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I'd prefer using Science as the link instead.
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"This stuff is awful ... It can literally make ice catch fire."
The worst thing that can happen in mine? I try to cook. Saints preserve us.
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I kept expecting him to mention the Railway rifle. That thing was insanely useful.
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I think "Science." needs some context to be properly menacing and hilarious. "What's the worst thing that can happen in a pressure cooker?"EDIT: also, alt text: "I'm expecting this contraption to get me a Nobel prize, assuming it proves powerful enough to blow open the safe where they're kept."
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Hazard Wrote:I'd prefer using Science as the link instead. I try to avoid using the punchline...
" We don’t care how it works—we just want to know if we can break it."
(Pretty much sums up the entire blog, doesn't it? So have an alternate quote: "The average car on the road weighs a hair over 4,000 lbs, so we have 850 billion pounds of car (plus around 30 billion pounds of driver) to throw around.")
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