XKCD/3150: Ping
Progress on getting shipwrecked sailors to adopt ICMPv6 has been slow.
(https://xkcd.com/3150)
(https://xkcd.com/3150)
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XKCD/3149: Measure Twice, Cut Once
"Measure zero times, cut zero times." --carpenter who has achieved enlightenment and realized the wood is fine where it is
(https://xkcd.com/3149)
(https://xkcd.com/3149)
XKCD/3148: 100% All Achievements
I'm trying to share my footage of the full run to prove it's not tool-assisted, but the uploader has problems with video lengths of more than a decade.
(https://xkcd.com/3148)
(https://xkcd.com/3148)
XKCD/3147: Hiking
Every downhill walk is a waterslide that might have been.
(https://xkcd.com/3147)
(https://xkcd.com/3147)
XKCD/3146: Fantastic Four
One perk of being born at 0.88c is that your birthday is over two days long.
(https://xkcd.com/3146)
(https://xkcd.com/3146)
XKCD/3145: Piercing
Some lava around the piercing site is normal, but keep an eye out for spreading earthquakes and eruptive activity that might indicate rifting.
(https://xkcd.com/3145)
(https://xkcd.com/3145)
XKCD/3144: Phase Changes
People looking for the gaps in our understanding where the meaning of consciousness or free will might hide often turn to quantum uncertainty or infinite cosmologies, as if we don't have breathtakingly complex emergent phenomena right there in our freezers.
(https://xkcd.com/3144)
(https://xkcd.com/3144)
XKCD/3143: Question Mark
Although now people will realize three-per-em space that all this time I've been using weird medium mathematical space whitespace characters in my hair space hair space hair space speech dot dot dot...
(https://xkcd.com/3143)
(https://xkcd.com/3143)
XKCD/3142: <City>-Style Pizza
If you want to see true audacity, do an image search for 'Altoona-style pizza.'
(https://xkcd.com/3142)
(https://xkcd.com/3142)
XKCD/3141: Mantle Model
Mantle plumes explain Hawaii, Yellowstone, Iceland, the East African Rift, the Adirondack uplift, the Permian extinction, the decline of Rome, the DB Cooper hijacking, and the balrog in Moria. Those little hills of sand in your yard are caused by antle plumes.
(https://xkcd.com/3141)
(https://xkcd.com/3141)
XKCD/3140: Biology Department
Welcome to the Linguistics Department - It has been [2] [DAYS] since someone noticed that the Biology Department sign has a one-day-long singular/plural disagreement after it resets.
(https://xkcd.com/3140)
(https://xkcd.com/3140)
XKCD/3139: Chess Variant
The draw-by-repetition rule does a good job of keeping players from sliding a tile back and forth repeatedly, but the tiles definitely introduce some weird en passant and castling edge cases.
(https://xkcd.com/3139)
(https://xkcd.com/3139)
XKCD/3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure
A person with two watches is never sure what time it is, especially if I got them one of the watches.
(https://xkcd.com/3138)
(https://xkcd.com/3138)
XKCD/3137: Cursed Number
Another group of mathematicians is working to put an upper bound on the number, although everyone keeps begging them to stop.
(https://xkcd.com/3137)
(https://xkcd.com/3137)
XKCD/3136: Pull
Be careful fighting gravity. If you win, it's a long way down.
(https://xkcd.com/3136)
(https://xkcd.com/3136)
XKCD/3135: Sea Level
They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.
(https://xkcd.com/3135)
(https://xkcd.com/3135)
XKCD/3134: Wavefunction Collapse
Wavefunction collapse is only one interpretation. Under some interpretations, graduate students also have souls.
(https://xkcd.com/3134)
(https://xkcd.com/3134)
XKCD/3133: Dual Roomba
I tried uploading it to a household appliance porn site I found, but apparently their content is limited to only fans.
(https://xkcd.com/3133)
(https://xkcd.com/3133)
XKCD/3132: Coastline Similarity
Hey! A bunch of the early Cretaceous fossils on each coast seem to have been plagiarized, too!
(https://xkcd.com/3132)
(https://xkcd.com/3132)
XKCD/3131: Cesium
Someday I hope to find a way to mess up a recipe so badly that it draws the attention of the International Air Transport Association, the International Mathematical Olympiad, or the NSA.
(https://xkcd.com/3131)
(https://xkcd.com/3131)