#1514 PermaCalThe flood of PermaCalNTP leap-second notifications was bad enough, but when people started asking for millisecond resolution, the resulting DDOS brought down the internet.
#1515 Basketball EarthHow many points do you get for dunking every basketball in existence at once?
#1516 Win by InductionThis would be bad enough, but every 30th or 40th pokéball has TWO of them inside.
#1517 SpectroscopyAlthough right now I'm more excited about ESPRESSO's radial velocity measurements, so I'm listening to This Kiss, her song about measuring "centrifugal motion" on "a rooftop under the sky".
#1518 Typical Morning RoutineHang on, I've heard this problem. We need to pour water into the duct until the phone floats up and ... wait, phones sink in water. Mercury. We need a vat of mercury to pour down the vent. That will definitely make this situation better and not worse.
#1519 VenusThe sudden introduction of Venusian flowers led to an explosive growth of unusual Earth pollinators, which became known as the "butterfly effect."
#1520 Degree-OffI'M SORRY, FROM YOUR YEARS OF CONDESCENDING TOWARD THE 'SQUISHY SCIENCES', I ASSUMED YOU'D BE A LITTLE HARDER.
#1521 Sword in the StoneThat seems like an awful lot of hassle when all I wanted was a cool sword.
#1522 AstronomyAstrobiology is held back by the fact that we're all too nervous to try to balance on the ladder while holding an expensive microscope.
#1523 MicrodronesOh, weird, Amazon is out of butterfly nets.
#1524 DimensionsI would say time is definitely one of my top three favorite dimensions.
#1526 Placebo BlockerThey work even better if you take them with our experimental placebo booster, which I keep in the same bottle.
#1527 HumansAt this point, if we're going to keep insisting on portraying dinosaurs as featherless because it's "cooler", it's time to apply that same logic to art involving bald eagles.
#1528 VodkaOr whatever's handy! I'm pretty much pure alcohol and water, so it doesn't really matter!
#1529 BracketI'm staring at the "doctor" section, and I can't help but feel like I've forgotten someone.
#1530 Keyboard MashWHY DON'T YOU COME HANG OUT INSIDE MY HOUSE. WE CAN COOK BREAD AND CHAT ABOUT OUR INTERNAL SKELETONS.
#1531 The BDLPSWDKS EffectThis well-known effect has of course been replicated in countless experiments.
#1532 New HorizonsLast-minute course change: Let's see if we can hit Steve's house.
#1533 Antique FactoryWARNING: This item was aged by the same inexorable passage of time that also processes nuts.
#1534 BeerMmmm, this is such a positive experience! I feel no social pressure to enjoy it at all!
#1535 Words for PetsSeventh year: Perfectly coherent words, but in the pet's language, not mine.
#1536 The MartianI have never seen a work of fiction so perfectly capture the out-of-nowhere shock of discovering that you've just bricked something important because you didn't pay enough attention to a loose wire.
![[10 years later] Man, why are people so comfortable handing Google and Facebook control over our nuclear weapons?](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/1539/0.png)
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