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Obviously one too many inquisitive eight-year-olds.
My favorite line from this one:
"I’ve always thought that one of the the great thing about physics is that you can add more digits to any number and see what happens and nobody can stop you."
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"(Judging by the amount of ammunition they had lying around their house ready to measure and weigh for me, Texas has apparently become some kind of Mad Max-esque post-apocalyptic war zone.)"
(With a close second to "Do you know why I pulled you over?" "No.")
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"Which means that by reading this article, you’ve quite possibly erased the gains from all the pennies you’ll pick up in your entire life and any gains in fuel economy due to keeping a clean change cup."
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It's a "short answer" week, so multiple quotes!
"It makes me happy that an arm of the US government has, in some official capacity, issued an opinion on the subject of firing nuclear missiles into hurricanes."
"It works, but it feels so wrong."
"I’m curious what tactical advantage you’re expecting to gain by having the high explosive fly back at you if it misses the target."
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" Essentially, what you’ve created is an unstable pile of gunpowder the size of Central Park."
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Heh. The YouTube video linked at the end already has a comment from a reader of XKCD...
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http://what-if.xkcd.com/25/
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" In the end, there’s only one solution: Hitting the Earth with asteroids."
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Or moving teratons of rock to the poles to create a new continent.
Hmmm. Will the melting of the antarctic ice sheet and the subsequent extra drag all that water going into the oceans will iumpose, outwight the effects of all that landmass underneath bouncing back up once shorn of so much massive weight?
That seems to be the case for the Northern ice sheets....
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" The death rate in all of these countries is going to go up. It has to, because of math."
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robkelk Wrote:"The death rate in all of these countries is going to go up. It has to, because of math." "Strictly speaking, the observed death rate for the human condition is something like 93%—that is, around 93% of all humans have died. This means the death rate among humans who were not members of The Beatles is significantly higher than the 50% death rate among humans who were."
Heh.
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Quote:If anyone puts a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to get better data on this, please, send me the video.
You know, now, someone will.
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It's no sillier than the invention of the Chicken Cannon.
Originally created to test the behavior of bird impacts on high-speed bullet trains, some group of people were paid to create a device which would project a bird at high speed in a wind tunnel at a mockup of a bullet train front.
Well, they finally built it, and went ahead to test it. One of their number was sent to get a bird for testing, and when they fired it, the bird punched through the plexi window, and buried itself in the concrete wall behind it.
Apparently no one told this guy not to use a frozen chicken. Hence the name...
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I always enjoyed the Royal Canadian Air Farce's (rubber) chicken cannon.
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Same tech, different payload...
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Silly? Oh hell no.
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“You’d die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.”
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I knew that if you were extremely patient you could eventually develop lead poisoning as a result of the slow radioactive decay of uranium because the decay sequence ends up with lead as the end result, but that is a lot faster than I figured it would be 
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Hazard Wrote:I knew that if you were extremely patient you could eventually develop lead poisoning as a result of the slow radioactive decay of uranium because the decay sequence ends up with lead as the end result, but that is a lot faster than I figured it would be On tombstone: Died of old age while trying to commit suicide via Radiation induced lead poisoning.
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I was about to flip a coin for which quote to use this week: "Your plane would fly pretty well, except it would be on fire the whole time, and then it would stop flying, and then stop being a plane." or "But I've never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive."
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I like the first of those, or at least the first two clauses. Past that, it starts feeling a bit like gilding the lily.
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I forget the proper term, but I found the mouse text for the 'test flights' to be hilarious. 8)
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