#2901 Geographic Qualifiers'Thank you for the loveliest evening I've ever had...' [normal] '...east of the Mississippi.' [instant intrigue!]
#2902 Ice CoreIf you find an ash deposition layer from a year in which an eruption destroyed an island that had Camellia sinensis growing on it, you can make a Gone Island Ice_ฯ.
#2903 Earth/Venus Venn DiagramActually, the fact that Mars is still orbiting safely over here means that it was technically an *Euler* apocalypse, not a Venn one.
#2904 Physics vs. Magic'At the stroke of midnight, your brother will be hurtling sideways at an altitude of 150 meters' is a regular physics prediction about your nonmagical trebuchet, whereas 'you are cursed to build a brother-launching trebuchet' falls out of the Lagrangian.
#2905 SupergroupI love their cover of 1,200 Balloons, Dalmatians, and Miles.
#2906 EarthJust think of all the countless petty squabbles and misunderstandings, of all the fervent hatreds, over so insignificant a thing as the direction and duration of a rocket engine firing.
#2907 SchwaDoug's cousin, the one from London, runs a Bumble love cult.
#2908 Moon Armor IndexAstronomers are a little unsure of the applicability of this index, but NASA's Planetary Protection Officer is all in favor.
#2909 Moon Landing Mission ProfilesIf you pick a low enough orbit, it gives you a lot of freedom to use a lightweight launch vehicle such as a stepladder.
#2910 The Wreck of the Edmund FitzgeraldYou know that asteroid that almost destroyed Earth in the 90s? Turns out the whole thing was secretly created by Michael Bay, who then PAID Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck to look heroic while blowing it up!
#2911 Greenland SizeThe Mercator projection drastically distorts the size of almost every area of land except a small ring around the North and South Poles.
#2917 Types of Eclipse PhotoThe most rare, top-tier eclipse photo would be the Solar Earth Eclipse, but the Apollo 12 crew's attempt to capture it was marred by camera shake. They said it looked spectacular, though.
#2918 Tick MarksIf you're really savvy, you can hide an entire set of illicit transactions by timing them to draw what looks like a graph inset.
#2919 Sitting in a TreeFirst comes blood / Then we perish / Then comes Death in his Eternity Carriage.
#2920 Survey MarkerFun fact: The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-center by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place.
#2921 Eclipse Path MapsOkay, this eclipse will only be visible from the Arctic in February 2063, when the sun is below the horizon, BUT if we get lucky and a gigantic chasm opens in the Earth in just the right spot...
#2922 Pub TriviaBonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Europe (or 'the EU') (e) Greater London
#2923 Scary TrianglesConcealed mostly beneath the surface, sharks are the icebergs of the sea.
#2924 Pendulum TypesThe creepy fingers that grow from a vibrating cornstarch-water mix can be modeled as a chain of inverted vertical pendulums (DOI:10.1039/c4sm00265b) and are believed to be the fingers of Maxwell's Demon trying to push through into our universe.
#2925 Earth Formation SiteIt's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core.
#2926 Doppler EffectThe Doppler effect is a mysterious wavelength-shifting phenomenon which seems to primarily affect sirens, which is why the ๐จ emoji is red.
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