#2448 EradicationWhen you get to hell, tell smallpox we say hello.
#2449 ISS VaccineBecause they orbit the Earth every 90 minutes, some astronauts should try to argue that, due to CDC regulations and time zone technicalities, they should be able to get their second dose just 30 or 40 hours after their first.
#2450 Post Vaccine Social SchedulingAs if these problems weren't NP-hard enough.
#2451 AI MethodologyWe've learned that weird spacing and diacritics in the methodology description are apparently the key to good research; luckily, we've developed an AI tool to help us figure out where to add them.
#2452 Aviation FirstsMile High Club membership [✓] [ ] Discovery of parts of Amelia Earhart's skeleton [ ] [ ] Mid-flight incident that results in safe landing on the Hudson River [✓] [ ]
#2453 Excel LambdaExtremely rude how Turing's later formulations of the halting problem called me out by name specifically.
#2454 Fully Vaccinated"You still can't walk into someone's house without being invited!" "What? Oh, I see your confusion. No, this vaccine is for a bat VIRUS. I'm fine with doorways and garlic and stuff."
#2455 Virus ConsultingAll our teams make an effort to stay optimistic, but I will say that once our virus division saw the vaccine efficacy data, they started asking for payment up front.
#2456 Types of Scientific PaperOthers include "We've incrementally improved the estimate of this coefficient," "Maybe all these categories are wrong," and "We found a way to make student volunteers worse at tasks."
#2457 After the PandemicI'm looking forward to having to worry a lot less about covid, but wouldn't mind if we worried a little more about giving each other colds. Colds are bad!
#2458 Bubble WrapI think of myself as the David Attenborough of factory mailing equipment.
#2459 March 2020"I've traveled here from the year 2020 to bring you this vaccine!"
#2460 VaccinatedI built a model that combines local case rates and vaccination stats to estimate when it's reasonable to attend various types of party, but I forgot to include anything about where to find them.
#2461 90's Kid Space ProgramNASA may not want to admit it, but at this point they ARE the 90's Kid Space Program.
#2462 NASA AwardThe key to discovering life on Mars is to find someone who built a camera and landed it on Mars. Then you just look through the pictures for plants and dogs and stuff.
#2463 Astrophotography[One hill over, a competing astrophotographer does a backflip over a commercial airliner while throwing a tray of plastic space stations into the air, through which a falcon swoops to 'grab' the real one.]
#2464 Muller's RatchetWho knew you could learn so much about sexual reproduction from looking at pictures on the internet!
#2465 Dimensional ChessIn Dimensional Chess, every move is annotated '?!'.
#2466 In Your ClassroomOntology is way off to the left and geography is way off to the right.
#2467 Wikipedia CaltropsOh no, they set up a roadblock which is just a sign with the entire 'Czech hedgehog' article printed on it.
#2468 InheritancePeople ask me whether I feel any moral qualms about the source of the points, but if he hadn't introduced factory farming to Agricola, someone else would have.
#2469 Astronomy Status BoardJunior astronomers hate getting put on board update duty, but someone's gotta make sure that stuff is still up there.
#2470 Next Slide Please"I have nothing to offer but blood--next slide, please--toil--next slide, please--tears, and--next slide, please--sweat."
#2471 Hippo AttacksIt's cool how, when there's a number lots of people are curious about, but which isn't easy to measure, some random guess will get cited everywhere and become the universally quoted value. Unrelatedly, did you know there are 850 trillion waves in the ocean?
#2472 Fuzzy BlobIf there's no dome, how do you explain the irregularities the board discovered in the zoning permits issued in that area!?
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