#2649 Physics Cost-Saving TipsI got banned from the county fair for handing out Helium-2 balloons. Apparently the instant massive plasma explosions violated some local ordinance or something.
#2650 DeepfakesIf so great a deductive mind as Arthur Conan Doyle can be fooled by the Cottingley Deepfakes, what chance do we mortals have? Soon our very reality will be dictated by the whims of Frances (9) and Elsie (16).
#2651 Air GapYou can still do powerline networking, but the bitrate does drop a little depending on the lightbulb warmup and cooldown delay.
#2652 Proxy VariableOur work has produced great answers. Now someone just needs to figure out which questions they go with.
#2653 Omnitaur"My parents were both omnitaurs, which is how I got interested in recombination," said the normal human.
#2654 ChemtrailsAnts have reverse chemtrails--regular citizens spraying chemicals everywhere they go to control the government.
#2655 Asking Scientists Questions'Does the substance feel weird to the touch?' is equally likely to get the answers 'Don't be ridiculous, you would never put your hand near a sample. We have safety protocols.' and 'Yeah, and it tastes AWFUL.'
#2660 Gen ZCurdled milk, of a peculiar kind, made after a Bulgarian recipe and called "yaghurt," is now a Parisian fad and is believed to be a remedy against growing old. A correspondent who has tried it, says he would prefer to die young. (1905, The Elk Falls Journal)
#2661 Age Milestone PrivilegesIf you reach 122, you get complete unrevertible editorial control over Jeanne Calment's Wikipedia article.
#2662 Physics Safety TipIn general, avoid exposure to any temperatures, pressures, particle energies, or states of matter that physicists think are neat.
#2663 Tetherball ConfigurationsGround-pole-ball-pole can be fun if you shake the first pole to get the second one whipping around dangerously, but the ball at the joint gets torn apart pretty fast.
#2664 Cloud Swirls'Why did you get into fluid dynamics?' 'Well, SOME planet has to have the coolest clouds, odds are it's not ours, and rockets are slow.'
#2665 America SongsJuraaaassic Park, Juraaaassic Park, God shed his grace on theeeee
#2666 Universe Price TiersIn Universe Pro®™ the laws of physics remain unchanged under time reversal, to maintain backward compatibility.
#2667 First Internet InteractionTo that stranger on the KOOL Tree House chat room, I gotta hand it to you: You were, ultimately, not wrong.
#2668 Artemis QuoteAnother option: "It is an honor to be the first human to set foot on the moon."
#2669 Things You Should Not DoNow I'm tempted to start telling people that I secretly don't actually know how to do any physics calculations, and so all the answers in What If are based on me actually trying to do the thing and then reporting what happened, but phrased as if it's hypothetical.
#2670 InterruptionIt's been extra bad ever since my GPS got stuck on Phoebe Judge mode.
#2671 RotationIt's okay, we can just feed the one-pixel image into an AI upscaler and recover the original image, or at least one that's just as cool.
#2672 What If? 2 FlowchartDon't worry, the dogs are all fine. That's actually kind of the problem.
#2673 Cursed mRNA CocktailServe one each to guests whose last cursed cocktail was more than 2 months ago.
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