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#2851 Messier Objects The debate over the correct Messier number for the Ship of Theseus is ongoing.
#2852 Parameterball The ball's density also varies, but players don't learn the value until after choosing their raquets. The infamous 'bowling ball table tennis' region of the parameter space often leads to equipment damage.
#2853 Redshift So do you have any plans for z=-0.000000000000045?
#2854 Date Line They estimate the rocket should be free by approximately ... uh ... well, in about two hours.
#2855 Empiricism The problems started with my resolution next year to reject temporal causality.
#2856 Materials Scientists If a materials scientist gives you a present, always ask whether regifting will incur any requirements for Federal paperwork.
#2857 Rebuttals The mainstream dogma sparked a wave of dogmatic revisionism, and this revisionist mainstream dogmatism has now given way to a more rematic mainvisionist dogstream.
#2858 Thanksgiving Arguments An occasional source of mild Thanksgiving tension in my family is that my mother is a die-hard fan of The Core (2003), and various family members sometimes have differing levels of enthusiasm for her annual tradition of watching it.
#2859 Oceanography Gift Shipping times vary. Same-ocean delivery may only take a few years, but delivery from the Weddell Sea in Antarctica may take multiple decades, and molecules meant for inland seas like the Mediterranean may be returned as undeliverable by surface currents.
#2860 Decay Modes Unlike an Iron Age collapse, a Bronze Age collapse releases energy, since copper and tin are past the iron peak on the curve of binding energy.
#2861 X Value The value of n is still unknown, but new results constrain it to fall between 8 and 10^500, ruling out popular 'n=1' and 'n=2' theories.
#2862 Typical Seating Chart Now that airlines have started adding wheel locks to their drink carts, less than half of flights have one accidentally fall out through the hole.
#2863 Space Typography And over heeee[...]eeeere (i)s Saturn.![And over heeee[...]eeeere (i)s Saturn.](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/2863/0.png)
#2864 Compact Graphs People may complain about readability, but even with jpeg compression, extracting the data points is usually computationally feasible if there aren't too many of them.
#2865 The Wrong Stuff The phantom found Edward Everett Hale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his 'brick moon' proposal were dismissed as science fiction.
#2866 Snow For someone who has ostensibly outgrown staying up late waiting for Santa, I do spend an awful lot of time refreshing websites to see if packages are here yet.
#2867 DateTime It's not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling.]![It's not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling.]](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/2867/0.png)
#2868 Label the States Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states.
#2869 Puzzles Why couldn't the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?
#2870 Love Songs The Piña Colada song carves a trajectory across the chart over the course of the song.
#2871 Definitely A really mean prank you can play on someone who's picky about words is to add a 'definitely->definitively' autocorrect rule to their keyboard.
#2872 Hydrothermal Vents Benthic Santas weren't even discovered until the 1970s, but many scientists now believe Christmas may have originally developed around hydrothermal vents and only later migrated to the surface.
#2873 Supersymmetry High-speed collisions at the Baby Park track may support the hypothesis that Daisy is her own evil twin, a theory first suggested by Nintendo in the game Majorana's Mask.
#2874 Iceland The HVAC bill for installing the Gulf Stream was enormous.
#2875 2024 It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.
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