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xkcd #3253: Sunbeam
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While weather control is typically thought of as a superpower, the unconscious ability of astronomers and astrophotographers to summon clouds is more properly classified as a curse.
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xkcd #3245: Results Age
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Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you’re the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.
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xkcd #3245: Results Age
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Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you’re the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.
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xkcd #3238: Soniferous Aether
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Imagine you could ride alongside a sound wave. It would probably be pretty cool, right? We’re putting in a departmental budget request to buy a really fast plane so we can check it out.
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xkcd #3237: Husband and Wife
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Borat came out twenty years ago this year–closer to the breakup of the Soviet Union than to today–but it honestly feels like it’s been even longer, somehow.
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xkcd #3235: Types of Board Game
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I can’t believe Candles of Vienna caved to commercial pressure and added the Goku expansion.
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xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard
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Anyone who is caught counting ‘three … two … one … zero … GO!’ will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples.
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xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard
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Anyone who is caught counting ‘three … two … one … zero … GO!’ will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples.
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xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles
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Now that I’ve finally gotten an electric vehicle, I’m never going back to an acoustic one.
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