#2624 Voyager WiresAlso, they're getting increasingly worried that someone will accidentally hit the 'retract' button, and that the end of the cable thrashing around as it winds up could devastate the Earth's surface.
#2625 Field TopologyThe combination croquet set/10-lane pool can also be used for some varieties of foosball and Skee-Ball.
#2626 d65536They're robust against quantum attacks because it's hard to make a quantum system that large.
#2627 Types of ScopesAn x-ray gyroscope is used to determine exactly which toppings they included in the pita.
#2628 Motion BlurI can't speak for your other subjects, but MY motion was as smooth and natural as the framerate allowed.
#2629 Or WhateverOh yeah, I didn't even know they renamed it the Willis Tower in 2009, because I know a normal amount about skyscrapers.
#2630 Shuttle SkeletonIt's believed to be related to the Stellar Sea Cow.
#2631 Exercise ProgressionThey said after I got into a routine, I'd enjoy getting progressively stronger and stop whining so much about how hard exercise was. Well, they were half right!
#2632 Greatest Scientist"Ow! One of the petri dishes I left on the tower railing fell and hit me on the head! Hey, that gives me an idea..."
#2633 Astronomer HotlineEmployment statistics have to correct for the fact that the Weird Bug Hotline hires on a bunch of extra temporary staff every 17 years.
#2634 Red Line Through HTTPSSome organization has been paying to keep this up and it hasn't been removed from search results. Seems like two votes of confidence to me.
#2635 Superintelligent AIsYour scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they should, they didn't stop to think if they could.
#2636 What If? 2 CountdownIf you don't end the 99 Bottles of Beer recursion at N=0 it just becomes The Other Song That Never Ends.
#2637 Roman Numerals100he100k out th1s 1nno5at4e str1ng en100o501ng 15e been 500e5e50op1ng! 1t's 6rtua100y perfe100t! ...hang on, what's a "virtuacy"?
#2638 Extended NFPA Hazard DiamondWith most labs, the hushed horror stories are about something like dimethylmercury or prions, but occasionally you'll get a weird lab where it's about the soda machine or the drop ceiling.
#2639 Periodic Table ChangesIt's nice how the end of the periodic table is flush with the edge these days, so I think we should agree no one should find any new elements after #118 unless they discover a whole row at once.
#2640 The Universe by Scientific FieldThe math and philosophy people also claim everything, but the astronomers argue that the stuff they study really only comprises a small number of paper surfaces.
#2641 Mouse TurbinesIt's sad seeing those videos of turbine blade being torn apart in high winds, but it's the only way they can disperse their seeds.
#2642 Meta-Alternating CurrentIt's always bothered me that you can't cancel out an inverter by putting a second inverter after it.
#2643 Cosmologist GiftThese neutrinos were freshly produced by a local source just 8 minutes ago
#2644 fMRI Billboard[other side] If the first word of an instruction you're given starts with the same letter as your crush's name, for that step imagine the experimenter is your crush.
#2645 The Best CameraThe best camera is the one at L2.
#2646 Minkowski SpaceMy liege, we were able to follow the ship into Minkowski space, but now they've jumped to Hilbert space and they could honestly be anywhere.
#2647 Capri Suns[As security is dragging me away] "Come on, at least I didn't make the mistake in the other direction!"
#2648 ChemicalsIt's hard to believe, but lots of kids these days ONLY know how to buy prepackaged molecules.
![[other side] If the first word of an instruction you're given starts with the same letter as your crush's name, for that step imagine the experimenter is your crush.](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/2644/0.png)
![[As security is dragging me away] "Come on, at least I didn't make the mistake in the other direction!"](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/2647/0.png)
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