As an mediator with language I love ambiguity. If I can come up with an equally ambiguous translation (which in your example is perfectly feasible - Hell, the translation is already there!) everything is perfect. Let somebody else crack the problem or go down in flames. Pass the hot potato!
Or, as you so appropiately wrote in the other thread: 
Kind of like this digital calculator.
That third panel has to be a reference to Searching for Bobby Fisher, yes?
I put the timestamp 1:16 into this link, but I’m not sure if embedded videos respect timestamps.
You pay yearly to post scores and establish a handicap. Inactive and dead golfers rarely pay.
You also get 10s of thousands of course maps in detail. Games for groups, scoring in different formats. Your handicap is portable to other courses and tournaments around the world.
[Wipes tear] I thought it was only me!
As my motto goes, “I don’t write this shit, I just translate it.”
“Low gravity can cause bone loss, so we’re pleased to report that, since we initiated capsule motion, the number of bones in each crew member has been steadily increasing.”
No relationship to any particular xkcd strip, but today’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is very much xkcd-ish, especially the graph:
Somehow that graph reminds me of a side comment from a what-if to the effect that between overfishing and the growth of international commerce, the total weight of ships on the sea exceeds the total weight of fish in the sea. Sounds so wrong.
Not “wrong” as in “factually incorrect”, but rather as in “disastrously irresponsible”.
Or an old Onion headline “Consumer-Product Diversity Now Exceeds Biodiversity”.
Brilliant!
Where’s @kenobi_65 when we need him? 
Wouldn’t be surprising. Digikey carries 15.9 million products. McMaster-Carr carries 700,000. The number of identified species is around 2.2 million.
Granted, those are more industrial suppliers than consumer product suppliers. But the numbers are certainly in the ballpark.
On the other hand, there are many more unidentified species than identified. So the race may be closer than it seems. Wouldn’t shock me either way.
“After determining that his body was full of pipes carrying iron-rich fluid, our current theory is that the dagger-shaped object precipitated within the wound.”
I just sent this to my son who’ll be studying geology this fall.
I’m not willing to put in the effort, but it’d be sorta funny to try to emulate this comic but using each of our own degree areas.
Nothing to do with me, it’s obviously a hardware problem.
EE: We’ll fix it in software.
New animation of a What If article. I think this is from one of the books and never appeared on the website. What if the moon turned into a black hole?
One consequence of a black hole moon would be that large velocity changes for probes and space missions would be available for free or nearly free thanks to flybys and Oberth maneuvers.
But how long would they take?
The math is beyond me; but if tidal forces allowing you could fly within 20 kilometers of a moon-massed black hole orbiting the Earth at the moon’s orbital speed, I suspect the “slingshot” effect would be substantial. As would the velocity gain from performing a maneuver burn at periapsis (perihole?). The fact that such a velocity gain would be available at a distance that’s trivial in astronomical terms would be very helpful.