# ­xkcd thread

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** comic-strips\
**Created:** [May 28, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574 "2020-05-28T00:57:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4268 "2025-05-11T21:54:23Z")

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OK, total coincidence, of course. Or maybe YouTube has access to my cookies. Yesterday I wrote for the first time in this board about Pascal’s barrel, a subject I had not thought about in ages and never in English, today I had this recommendation in my YouTube suggestions:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/EJHrr21UvY8/maxresdefault.jpg "Pascal's Blaising Barrel - Exploding Glass Barrel with Water Pressure") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJHrr21UvY8)

It is 6 minutes and a half long and nice to watch, actually.

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