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Your plane would fly pretty well, except it would be on fire the whole time, and then it would stop flying, and then stop being a plane.
— Randall Munroe
I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.
— Randall Munroe
To occasional heat waves - ice in the Martian soil occasionally melts and flows as a liquid.
— Randall Munroe
I like it when things catch fire and explode, which means I do not have your best interests in mind.
— Randall Munroe
If every human somehow simply disappeared from the face of the Earth, how long would it be before the last artificial light source would go out?
— Randall Munroe
Sometimes I mistake this for a universe that cares.
— Randall Munroe
Your brain - not accustomed to nonuniform gravities - thinks you're standing on a gentle slope.
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Okay, you can stop looking at your hand now.
— Randall Munroe
Self-fertilization is a risky strategy, which is why sex is so popular among large and complex organisms.
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There's a thing about being alone and there's a thing about being lonely, and they're two different things.
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computers are limited by our ability to program them, so we've got a built-in advantage. Instead,
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Laser Pointer Q. If every person on Earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change color?
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Plausible that a professional pitcher with some time to practice could throw a golf ball faster than a baseball.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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Introverts understand; the loneliest human in history was just happy to have a few minutes of peace and quiet.
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Manhattan has been continuously inhabited for the past 3000 years, and was first settled by humans perhaps 9000 years ago.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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But I've never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.
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Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.
— Randall Munroe
Burning selenium can make sulfur smell like Chanel.
— Randall Munroe
The US isn't a perfect model of the world,
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The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.
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what year did a single typical desktop computer surpass the combined processing power of humanity? 1994.
— Randall Munroe
Cook's The Science of Good Cooking was also helpful.
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We'd end up with a mole planet slightly larger than the Moon.
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Hans Moravec's book Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind.
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That's one in 27 quinquatrigintillion.
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That's if everything goes as planned.
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A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat.
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neutrino radiation
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Q. This may be a bit gruesome, but ... if someone's DNA suddenly vanished, how long would that person last?
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something ... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.
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On to the sixth row! No matter how careful you are, the sixth row would definitely kill you.
— Randall Munroe
The Moon would shine as brightly as the midmorning sun, and by the end of the two minutes, the lunar regolith would be heated to a glow.
— Randall Munroe
REENTERING SPACECRAFT HEAT UP because they're compressing the air in front of them (not, as is commonly believed, because of air friction).
— Randall Munroe
Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of a collection of particles.
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Actually, what I'm confused about is how.
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If an asteroid was very small but supermassive, could you really live on it like the Little Prince?
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A. Nearly everyone would die. Then things would get interesting.
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There's no material safety data sheet for astatine. If there were, it would just be the word "NO" scrawled over and over in charred blood.
— Randall Munroe
Magnitude -15 A drifting mote of dust coming to rest on a table Sometimes it's nice not to destroy the world for a change.
— Randall Munroe
I mean, I guess it's just me who argues that; but I'm very vocal.
— Randall Munroe
It's not that the wind is blowing, it's what the wind is blowing.
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Remember: I am a cartoonist. If you follow my advice on safety around nuclear materials, you probably deserve whatever happens to you.
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Two magnitude 9+ earthquakes this century both altered the length of the day by a tiny fraction of a second.
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A child from a parent who self-fertilized would be like a clone of the parent with severe genetic damage.
— Randall Munroe
Thin Burning Light Gun
If the car found life, it could try to use this gun to learn about it, but the life might not be alive when it was done. — Randall Munroe
If the car found life, it could try to use this gun to learn about it, but the life might not be alive when it was done. — Randall Munroe
In a billion years, Earth will become a second Venus.
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A world of random soul mates would be a lonely one. Let's hope that's not what we live in.
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But what kind of person makes tea in a blender?
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(not, as is commonly believed, because of air friction). To
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Yes, "centrifugal." I will fight you.
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This would be something never before seen in the history of the universe: an underground shooting star.
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Of the 28 people killed by lightning in the US in 2012, 13 were standing under or near trees.
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Trees make babies by dropping tiny wooden tree eggs on the ground.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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The lesson: If the optimist says the glass is half full, and the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the physicist ducks.
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THE RICHTER SCALE, WHICH has technically been replaced by the "moment magnitude"1 scale, measures the energy released by an earthquake.
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For a small smartphone charger, if it's not warm to the touch, it's using less than a penny a year. This is true of almost any powered device.1
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If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.
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If people had wheels and could fly, how would we differentiate them from airplanes? - Anonymous
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Red Delicious apples, whose misleading name is a travesty.
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