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#1488 Flowcharts Whoa, and if you overlay a Fibonacci spiral on a golden spiral it matches up almost perfectly!
#1489 Fundamental Forces "Of these four forces, there's one we don't really understand." "Is it the weak force or the strong--" "It's gravity."
#1490 Atoms When I was little I had trouble telling my dad apart from the dog. I always recognized my mom because she had a bunch of extra plutoniums in her middle. I never did ask her why ...
#1491 Stories of the Past and Future Little-known fact: The 'Dawn of Man' opening sequence in 2001 cuts away seconds before the Flintstones theme becomes recognizable.
#1492 Dress Color This white-balance illusion hit so hard because it felt like someone had been playing through the Monty Hall scenario and opened their chosen door, only to find there was unexpectedly disagreement over whether the thing they'd revealed was a goat or a car.
#1493 Meeting Here at CompanyName.website, our three main strengths are our web-facing chairs, our huge collection of white papers, and the fact that we physically cannot die.
#1494 Insurance LIFEHACKS: You can just take all the luggage off the airport conveyer belt and leave with it. They don't check that it's yours at the door!
#1495 Hard Reboot Googling inevitably reveals that my problem is caused by a known bug triggered by doing [the exact combination of things I want to do]. I can fix it, or wait a few years until I don't want that combination of things anymore, using the kitchen timer until then.![Googling inevitably reveals that my problem is caused by a known bug triggered by doing [the exact combination of things I want to do]. I can fix it, or wait a few years until I don't want that combination of things anymore, using the kitchen timer until then.](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/1495/0.png)
#1496 Art Project It's my most ambitious project yet, judging by the amount of guacamole.
#1497 New Products If you ever hear "Wait, is that Kim Dotcom's new project? I'm really excited about it and already signed up, although I'm a little nervous about whether everyone should hand over control of their medical...", it's time to dig a bunker in your backyard.
#1498 Terry Pratchett Thank you for teaching us how big our world is by sharing so many of your own.
#1499 Arbitrage The invisible hand of the market never texts me back.
#1500 Upside-Down Map Due to their proximity across the channel, there's long been tension between North Korea and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Southern Ireland.
#1501 Mysteries At the bottom left: The mystery of why, when I know I needed to be asleep an hour ago, I decide it's a good time to read through every Wikipedia article in the categories 'Out-of-place artifacts', 'Earth mysteries', 'Anomalous weather', and 'List of people who disappeared mysteriously'.
#1502 Wasted Time Since it sounds like your time spent typing can't possibly be less productive than your time spent not typing, have you tried typing SLOWER?
#1503 Squirrel Plan [Halfway to the Sun ...] Heyyyy ... what if this BALLOON is full of acorns?!![[Halfway to the Sun ...] Heyyyy ... what if this BALLOON is full of acorns?!](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/1503/0.png)
#1504 Opportunity We all remember those famous first words spoken by an astronaut on the surface of Mars: "That's one small step fo- HOLY SHIT LOOK OUT IT'S GOT SOME KIND OF DRILL! Get back to the ... [unintelligible] ... [signal lost]"![We all remember those famous first words spoken by an astronaut on the surface of Mars: "That's one small step fo- HOLY SHIT LOOK OUT IT'S GOT SOME KIND OF DRILL! Get back to the ... [unintelligible] ... [signal lost]"](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/1504/0.png)
#1505 Ontological Argument A God who holds the world record for eating the most skateboards is greater than a God who does not hold that record.
#1507 Metaball Shoot, it landed in the golf course. Gonna be hard to get it down the--oh, never mind, it rolled onto the ice hazard. Face-off!
#1508 Operating Systems One of the survivors, poking around in the ruins with the point of a spear, uncovers a singed photo of Richard Stallman. They stare in silence. "This," one of them finally says, "This is a man who BELIEVED in something."
#1509 Scenery Cheat Sheet At the boundary between each zone, stories blend together. Somewhere in the New Mexico desert, the Roadrunner is pursued by a tireless Anton Chigurh.
#1510 Napoleon "Mr. President, what if the unthinkable happens? What if the launch goes wrong, and Napoleon is not stranded on the Moon?" "Have Safire write up a speech."
#1511 Spice Girl Haha, you'll see!
#1512 Horoscopes If you live in the Northern hemisphere, anyway. In the southern hemisphere, due to the coriolis effect, babies are born nine months BEFORE they're conceived.
#1513 Code Quality I honestly didn't think you could even USE emoji in variable names. Or that there were so many different crying ones.
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