XKCD/3169: EPIRBs
'Oh no, the box is drifting out into the harbor!' 'Yeah, I wouldn't worry about losing it.'
(https://xkcd.com/3169)
(https://xkcd.com/3169)
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XKCD/3168: Beam Dump
We're adding some industrial flypaper to minimize reflection or scattering of customers who might complain.
(https://xkcd.com/3168)
(https://xkcd.com/3168)
XKCD/3167: Car Size
'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.'
(https://xkcd.com/3167)
(https://xkcd.com/3167)
XKCD/3166: Big and Little Spoons
Are you the annoying spoon or the sleepy spoon?
(https://xkcd.com/3166)
(https://xkcd.com/3166)
XKCD/3165: Earthquake Prediction Flowchart
At least people who make religious predictions of the apocalypse have an answer to the question 'Why didn't you predict any of the other ones that happened recently?'
(https://xkcd.com/3165)
(https://xkcd.com/3165)
XKCD/3164: Metric Tip
The package weighs 7 kg 9 oz.
(https://xkcd.com/3164)
(https://xkcd.com/3164)
XKCD/3163: Repair Video
The statue should be in the likeness of whatever sculptor posted the sculpting tool repair video that was most helpful during the installation of the statue.
(https://xkcd.com/3163)
(https://xkcd.com/3163)
XKCD/3162: Heart Mountain
Even geology papers about Heart Mountain are like, "Look, we all agree this 'volcanic gas earthquake hovercraft' thing seems like it can't possibly be right, but..."
(https://xkcd.com/3162)
(https://xkcd.com/3162)
XKCD/3161: Airspeed
Carefully maneuvering the balloon down a mineshaft in an effort to break the OTHER altitude record
(https://xkcd.com/3161)
(https://xkcd.com/3161)
XKCD/3160: Document Forgery
It comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a...
(https://xkcd.com/3160)
(https://xkcd.com/3160)
XKCD/3159: Continents
The inflection point was probably in late 1966 or 1967, so when Neil Armstrong flew to space on Gemini 8, plate tectonics was not widely accepted, but when he landed on the Moon three years later it was the mainstream consensus.
(https://xkcd.com/3159)
(https://xkcd.com/3159)
XKCD/3158: Shielding Chart
Sharks can occasionally travel short distances through air when pursuing prey, but their attenuation coefficient is pretty high.
(https://xkcd.com/3158)
(https://xkcd.com/3158)
XKCD/3157: Emperor Palpatine
Many things about Star Wars were not well planned out, but having a 37-year-old in old-age makeup play the Emperor in Return of the Jedi was such an incredible call.
(https://xkcd.com/3157)
(https://xkcd.com/3157)
XKCD/3156: Planetary Rings
If you don't know where you are on Earth, the angle of satellite dishes can help constrain your latitude. If some of them are pointing straight up, you're probably near the Equator, right under the ring.
(https://xkcd.com/3156)
(https://xkcd.com/3156)
XKCD/3155: Physics Paths
If nothing else, that reasoning definitely overturns syllogisms.
(https://xkcd.com/3155)
(https://xkcd.com/3155)
XKCD/3154: Physics Insight
When Galileo dropped two weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, they put him in the history books. But when I do it, I get 'detained by security' for 'injuring several tourists.'
(https://xkcd.com/3154)
(https://xkcd.com/3154)
XKCD/3153: Hot Water Balloon
Despite a reputation for safety, the temperatures and surprisingly high pressures make them even more dangerous than the air kind, but the NTSB refuses to investigate accidents because they insist there is no 'transportation' involved.
(https://xkcd.com/3153)
(https://xkcd.com/3153)
XKCD/3152: Skateboard
I understand it's hard to do more than 300 feet on these 90-second rush jobs, but with a smaller ramp I'm worried the gee forces will be too high for me to do any tricks.
(https://xkcd.com/3152)
(https://xkcd.com/3152)
XKCD/3151: Window Screen
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Home Improvement or DIY
(https://xkcd.com/3151)
(https://xkcd.com/3151)
XKCD/3150: Ping
Progress on getting shipwrecked sailors to adopt ICMPv6 has been slow.
(https://xkcd.com/3150)
(https://xkcd.com/3150)