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#2170 Coordinate Precision 40 digits: You are optimistic about our understanding of the nature of distance itself.
#2171 Shadow Biosphere The typical Shadow Biology Department is housed in a building coated in a thin layer of desert varnish which renders it invisible to normal-world university staff.
#2172 Lunar Cycles The Antikythera mechanism had a whole set of gears specifically to track the cyclic popularity of skinny jeans and low-rise waists.
#2173 Trained a Neural Net It also works for anything you teach someone else to do. "Oh yeah, I trained a pair of neural nets, Emily and Kevin, to respond to support tickets."
#2174 First News Memory Psychology researchers say our 'flashbulb' memories of big events can be unreliable, but I clearly remember watching live on CNN as Challenger crashed into and destroyed the Berlin Wall.
#2175 Flag Interpretation When Salvador Dalí died, it took months to get all the flagpoles sufficiently melted.
#2176 How Hacking Works If only somebody had warned them that the world would roll them like this.
#2177 Gastroenterology "Mostly it means that I'm acutely aware that the kid one table over coughed as the server walked past with our food."
#2178 Expiration Date High Score "Wait, we've MOVED since 2010. How on Earth did--" "Look, some of us were just born to be champions."
#2179 NWS Warnings Kind of rude of them to simultaneously issue an EVACUATION - IMMEDIATE alert, a SHELTER IN PLACE alert, and a 911 TELEPHONE OUTAGE alert.
#2180 Spreadsheets My brother once asked me if there was a function to produce a calendar grid from a list of dates in Google Sheets. I replied with a single-cell formula that took in a list of dates and outputted a calendar. It used SEQUENCE(), REGEXMATCH(), and a double-nested ARRAYFORMULA(), and it locked up the browser for 15 seconds every time it ran. I think he learned a lot about asking me things.
#2181 Inbox Rome's declaration of war against Carthage was sent from a no-reply address, so Hannibal had to cross the Alps to deliver his "UNSUBSCRIBE" response in person.
#2182 When I'm Back at a Keyboard [after typing 1,500 words on feathered dinosaurs, paleontology, sexism, lava, and dinosaurs as animals rather than movie monsters] Sorry to cut it short, I'm on my phone. When I'm back at a keyboard, I can give you another 5,000 words.![[after typing 1,500 words on feathered dinosaurs, paleontology, sexism, lava, and dinosaurs as animals rather than movie monsters] Sorry to cut it short, I'm on my phone. When I'm back at a keyboard, I can give you another 5,000 words.](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/2182/0.png)
#2183 Icon Swap Someone's probably working on an eBook app where, if you stop reading right before some plot twist happens, the app will wait a while and then send you a breaking news alert about what's happening, prompting you to open it and read the next few pages to learn more.
#2184 Unpopular Opinions I wasn't a big fan of 3 or Salvation, so I'm trying to resist getting my hopes up too much for Dark Fate, but it's hard. I'm just a sucker for humans and robots traveling through time to try to drive trucks into each other, apparently.
#2185 Cumulonimbus The rarest of all clouds is the altocumulenticulostratonimbulocirruslenticulomammanoctilucent cloud, caused by an interaction between warm moist air, cool dry air, cold slippery air, cursed air, and a cloud of nanobots.
#2186 Dark Matter To detect dark matter, we just need to build a bird feeder that spins two squirrels around the rim in opposite directions at relativistic speeds and collides them together.
#2187 Geologic Time Ok, well, we'll be sure to pay you sometime soon, geologically speaking.
#2188 E Scooters Obviously battery technology and prices have driven a lot of the scooter explosion, but I feel like Dean Kamen must be at least a little grumpy about how much people laughed at the idea of the Segway.
#2189 Old Game Worlds Ok, how many coins for a cinnamon roll?
#2190 Serena Versus the Drones After the test, she said that if she had a choice, she wouldn’t defend herself against drones using a tennis ball and racket, though she would absolutely pick them over other sports equipment. But, she added, "Drones don't bother me."
#2191 Conference Question I also have an utterance. Less of an utterance and more of an incantation. Less of an incantation and more of a malediction. Less of a malediction and more of a Word of Power. Less of a Word of Power and more of an Unforgivable Curse.
#2192 Review Controls are a little hard to figure out.
#2193 Well-Ordering Principle We could organize a nationwide old-photo-album search, but the real Worst McFly is probably lost to time.
#2194 How to Send a File Note: How To will teach you lots of cool stuff about technology, data storage, butterfly migration, and more. Also you will never see your files again.
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