#3002 RNAWorldDisney lore: Canonically, because of how Elsa's abiogenesis powers work, Olaf is an RNA-only organism.
#3003 Sandwich HelixThe number one rule of string manipulation is that you’ve got to specify your encodings.
#3004 WellsYou do have to be careful, though--sometimes, instead of water, you hit this free fuel that you can sell for a lot of money instead.
#3005 DisposalWe were disappointed that the rocket didn't make a THOOOONK noise when it went into the tube, but we're setting up big loudspeakers for future launches to add the sound effect.
#3006 DemonsThough they do appreciate how much he improved the heating system for the flame pit.
#3007 Probabilistic Uncertainty"One popular strategy is to enter an emotional spiral. Could that be the right approach? We contacted several researchers who are experts in emotional spirals to ask them, but none of them were in a state to speak with us."
#3008 Proterozoic RocksThese rocks are from a time before eyes, brains, and bones, pieces of a land warmed by an unseen sun.
#3009 Number Shortage"10 minutes ago we were down to only 2 0s!" "How many do we have now?" "I ... don't know!!"
#3010 GeometriphylogeneticsThere's a maximum likelihood that I'm doing phylogenetics wrong.
#3011 Europa ClipperThey had BETTER make this a sample return mission.
#3012 The Future of OrionDinosaur Cosmics
#3013 Kedging CannonThe real key was inventing the windmill-powered winch.
#3014 Arizona ChessSometimes, you have to sacrifice pieces to gain the advantage. Sometimes, to advance ... you have to fall back.
#3015 D CombinatoricsLook, you can't complain about this after giving us so many scenarios involving N locked chests and M unlabeled keys.
#3016 Cold AirWe also should really have checked that the old water tower was disconnected from the water system before we started filling it with compressed air.
#3017 Neutrino ModemOur sysadmin accidentally won a Nobel Prize while trying to debug neutrino oscillation error correction.
#3018 Second StageHmm, they won't do in-flight delivery, so let's order a new first and second stage to our emergency landing site and then try to touch down on top of them to save time.
#3019 Advent Calendar Advent CalendarThe growth rate of items per day may may seem absurd, but it's actually much less than the acceleration in the 12 Days of Christmas song.
#3020 Infinite Armada ChessStockfish 16 suggests the unconventional opening 1. RuntimeError: Out of bounds memory access
#3021 SeismologistsAnd even when they're not distracted, they usually get kicked out for illegal under-the-net 'subduction spikes'.
#3022 Making TeaNo, of course we don't microwave the mug WITH the teabag in it. We microwave the teabag separately.
#3023 The Maritime ApproximationIt works because a nautical mile is based on a degree of latitude, and the Earth (e) is a circle.
#3024 METARIn the aviation world, they don't use AM/PM times. Instead, all times are assumed to be AM unless they're labeled NOTAM.
#3025 Phase ChangeEven when you try to make nice, smooth ice cubes in a freezer, sometimes one of them will shoot out a random ice spike, which physicists ascribe to kiki conservation.
#3026 Linear SortThe best case is O(n), and the worst case is that someone checks why.
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