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xkcd presents "What If?"
 
"As is often the case with these questions, everyone would die.
...
Then the really weird stuff starts."
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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Quote:As is often the case with these questions, everyone would die.
At least there are no unexpected relativistic effects.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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'We can't WAIT for the President's authorization. Snow is falling NOW.'
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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"There are about 500 trillion calories of human in the world."
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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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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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
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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."
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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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.")
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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"Of course, you could always put shoes in the shoebox."(Image text: "Weirdo")
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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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"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."
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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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.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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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".
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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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.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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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."
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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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.'
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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Image text:
"Whatchya doing?"
"Economics."
ALT text:
"Well, yes, I can see THAT."

--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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"Dinosaurs loving money is the root of all evil."
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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Possibly the weirdest one yet: http://what-if.xkcd.com/112/
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
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God, this guy's a riot! Big Grin
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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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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
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Image ALT text: "Those big ants down there look like little ants!"
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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