Randall Munroe
@xkcd
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Excited to share the cover for the special 10th anniversary edition of WHAT IF?—revised and annotated with brand-new illustrations and answers to important questions you never thought to ask. Coming from @DeyStreet November 2024! Preorder your copy:
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My mom sent me some papers that belonged to my grandfather, Darwin Randall Crum, which included a collection of “Disfrustrating Puzzles” he created
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I created a Google Calendar event in the year 7777 CE, but the start time in the confirmation email is off by an hour from the one in the calendar. I love imagining the heavy sigh from whoever handles this bug report.
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(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video. Well, I have good news.
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I was trying to take a nice photo of some sunspots, but the international community flew a space station RIGHT through my shot!! 😤
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I just want to say a little extra thank you to all the people who are squeamish about needles and got vaccinated over the past year anyway.
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Oddly delighted by this phrase. “You know, eukaryotes—like sourdough starter or Conan O’Brien.”
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THREAD: The evolution of Pokémon cards through history, as generated by DALL·E 2. For starters, here’s what DALL·E 2 thinks 21st century Pokémon cards look like, using prompts like “A Pokémon card from 2001”
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I recently invited a friend to an event that takes place during the 10 days in 1582 that don’t actually exist due to a Papal edict modifying the calendar
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Overall, their results matched my answer in the chapter pretty well! The the surface of the steak was cooked by the winds, charred, and blasted away, while the interior stayed cold and raw. Conclusion: This is not a great way to cook steak.
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So thank you to Tom Fisher and Thomas Rees, who—despite splattering the interior of a research wind tunnel with bits of raw and cooked steak—were not kicked out of their university and both successfully got their PhDs!.
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Using DALL·E to make fictional 90s kid nostalgia items. Who else remembers the cool 8-bit sounds of the Nintendo GameBoy food processor?
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