­xkcd thread

How about “coo coo co choo”?

That’s a tungsten-aluminum-rubidium alloy, with a bit of sulfur.

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Gesundheit.

Semolina pilchard.

Well, you can use Potassium for a hard c. So Potassium superoxide, Potassium superoxide, Monopotassium monooxide and Formate? Sounds tasty.

“They’re continuing to search for a square with the same area as the circle, as efforts to construct one have run into difficulties.”

When the archaeologists unearth the other wheel off that axle is when the trouble will really begin. Suddenly the old joke about 1.99 equaling 2 will come true, depending on which wheel is taken as fundamental.

“Unfortunately, body size and bite force continue to increase.”

Ah, yes, the timeline where the most recent common ancestor of the purple worm and the sand worm is T. rex.

The wyvern fits along that line post-Cretaceous.

Where does he think dragon boats come from?

I’m curious what they’ll be like 70 million years from now.

Maybe like General Franco, still dead? :wink:

But yeah, that is kinda a threadshit for this one comic’s chapter in our omnibus.

So in the spirit of penance I’ll propose instead that 70MY in the future T-rex’s now vestigial limbs will have re-sprouted as fins and Earth’s oceans will be patrolled by 300 foot long insatiable killing machines that make the ancient plesiosaurs seem like harmless goldfish by comparison.

If humans are still around the smallest ships that can safely ply the seas are made of armor steel and are the size of modern containerships or aircraft carriers. Anything lesser is promptly rammed or bitten apart until it sinks. A modern diesel-electric attack sub would simply be swallowed whole. They’d be smart enough to know the nuclear ones produce fatal indigestion when eaten.

Eh… we’d still find a way to hunt them to extinction. It’s what we do.


Update: I’ve been banned from the physics department for the way I pronounce "Doppler effect."

It should really be MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONS, as the average Lorentz factor of atmospheric muons is about 8.4.

The hover-over in lots of his comics are not in the form of a question, but still provide a very thought-provoking question for you to noodle on. Today’s implied question being:

How does he pronounce “Doppler effect” in a way that’s scientifically plausible and pisses off his fellow physicists?

I’ve been noodling on this one for awhile. A rising then abruptly falling pitch is obvious enough. Can we say anything deeper than that? Should he be in accelerating straight-line motion the entire time? Or constant straight-line? Or?

It only be done properly in Chinese.

“They should add a little sticker that certifies that the humidifier supports water conservation, but in the sense of energy conservation or momentum conservation.”

My wife insisted that large blocks of ice were better for picnic coolers because they lasted longer. My protests that this just meant they didn’t keep the interior as cool were ignored.