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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.

There were no earthworms in New England when the European colonists arrived.

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

To occasional heat waves - ice in the Martian soil occasionally melts and flows as a liquid.

I like it when things catch fire and explode, which means I do not have your best interests in mind.

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?

Sometimes I mistake this for a universe that cares.

Your brain - not accustomed to nonuniform gravities - thinks you're standing on a gentle slope.

Okay, you can stop looking at your hand now.

Self-fertilization is a risky strategy, which is why sex is so popular among large and complex organisms.

There's a thing about being alone and there's a thing about being lonely, and they're two different things.

computers are limited by our ability to program them, so we've got a built-in advantage. Instead,

Laser Pointer Q. If every person on Earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change color?

Plausible that a professional pitcher with some time to practice could throw a golf ball faster than a baseball.

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.

Introverts understand; the loneliest human in history was just happy to have a few minutes of peace and quiet.

Manhattan has been continuously inhabited for the past 3000 years, and was first settled by humans perhaps 9000 years ago.

I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.

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.

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

Burning selenium can make sulfur smell like Chanel.

The US isn't a perfect model of the world,

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

I would say time is definitely one of my top three favorite dimensions.

But this is where it gets weird. The mole planet would be a giant sphere of meat.

what year did a single typical desktop computer surpass the combined processing power of humanity? 1994.

Cook's The Science of Good Cooking was also helpful.

We'd end up with a mole planet slightly larger than the Moon.

Hans Moravec's book Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind.

That's one in 27 quinquatrigintillion.

That's if everything goes as planned.

Falling from great heights is dangerous.[citation needed] A balloon could

A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat.

neutrino radiation

Q. This may be a bit gruesome, but ... if someone's DNA suddenly vanished, how long would that person last?

The thing about the Internet is that you can write something ... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.

On to the sixth row! No matter how careful you are, the sixth row would definitely kill you.

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.

much eye contact as possible. We could put together massive conveyer belts

REENTERING SPACECRAFT HEAT UP because they're compressing the air in front of them (not, as is commonly believed, because of air friction).

Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of a collection of particles.

Actually, what I'm confused about is how.

If an asteroid was very small but supermassive, could you really live on it like the Little Prince?

A. Nearly everyone would die. Then things would get interesting.

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.

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.

I mean, I guess it's just me who argues that; but I'm very vocal.

It's not that the wind is blowing, it's what the wind is blowing.

Remember: I am a cartoonist. If you follow my advice on safety around nuclear materials, you probably deserve whatever happens to you.

Two magnitude 9+ earthquakes this century both altered the length of the day by a tiny fraction of a second.

I still don't know whether there are more hard or soft things in the world,

A child from a parent who self-fertilized would be like a clone of the parent with severe genetic damage.

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.

To DNA, our most complex programming projects are like pocket calculators.

Eventually, humans will die out. Nobody knows when,12 but nothing lives forever.

In a billion years, Earth will become a second Venus.

A world of random soul mates would be a lonely one. Let's hope that's not what we live in.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

But what kind of person makes tea in a blender?

(not, as is commonly believed, because of air friction). To

Yes, "centrifugal." I will fight you.

This would be something never before seen in the history of the universe: an underground shooting star.

Of the 28 people killed by lightning in the US in 2012, 13 were standing under or near trees.

Trees make babies by dropping tiny wooden tree eggs on the ground.

Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?

The lesson: If the optimist says the glass is half full, and the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the physicist ducks.

Maybe we'll all be killed by nanobots hours after you read this sentence.

THE RICHTER SCALE, WHICH has technically been replaced by the "moment magnitude"1 scale, measures the energy released by an earthquake.

If you liked it, then you should have moved a mass inside its Roche limit.

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

If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.

If people had wheels and could fly, how would we differentiate them from airplanes? - Anonymous

Red Delicious apples, whose misleading name is a travesty.

It's weird how I am constantly surprised by the passage of time when it's literally the most predictable thing in the Universe.

People often wonder whether we could harvest electrical power from lightning.

The Mars rover Curiosity, for example, is powered by the heat from a chunk of plutonium it carries in a container on the end of a stick.