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  To access distant parts of the project, I ended up building a regular-scale passenger train inside each rail. https://xkcd.com/3297/

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  Someday, we will find the problem that goes with this solution. https://xkcd.com/3298/

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  You should probably get back to shore before spring hits. https://xkcd.com/3299/

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  Many of the smaller dinosaurs seem to have largely preyed on housecats. https://xkcd.com/3300/

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  The sun and the moon appear the same size in the sky, even though in real life the sun is more than twice as big. Some call this lucky alignment coincidence; others say it's proof that sometimes things can be the same size. https://xkcd.com/3301/

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  Convincing him to turn off the stupid laser show and useless sound system was such a huge ordeal that no one has wanted to do it again. https://xkcd.com/3302/

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  It's ok if you want to close close your eyes for the slab graveyard, so you can still have fun riding the mantle plume back up afterward! https://xkcd.com/3303/

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  "I did briefly visit Venus in August 2025, but I figured out the mistake on my own because it didn't have any moons." https://xkcd.com/3304/

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  Runners looking for aerodynamic advantage typically wear sneakers because some fancy dress shoes can create wingtip vortices. https://xkcd.com/3305/

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  Fans at Daytona always get extra excited when officials decide to introduce some antimatter cars circling the track in the opposite direction. https://xkcd.com/3306/

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  Rumor has it that they're finally auctioning off the zeppelin navigation bands, but everyone is worried that the scary boat captains will express interest. https://xkcd.com/3307/

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  I need to push some updates to the remote sensing instruments, which are there to measure the surface and definitely not do anything else. https://xkcd.com/3308/

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  People out here catching strays out here catching strays https://xkcd.com/3309/

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  Although NASA agreed that Voyager 2 'seemed lonely' they decided against launching a companion orbiter mission after further measurements indicated that the spacecraft actually preferred the peace and quiet. https://xkcd.com/3310/

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  Atmospheric transmission spectroscopy has revealed that the sunsets from the observatory are really pretty. https://xkcd.com/3311/

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  "I'm doing really well on the Hertzsprung-Russell academic diagram, which has spectral class on one axis and Rate My Professors rating on the other." https://xkcd.com/3312/

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  I don't see why people have trouble doing this at room temperature. Using hot rivets would honestly have been MORE work. https://xkcd.com/3313/

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  Other numbers are largely unaffected, but anyone using '4' for their certificate key is urged to upgrade to '5'. https://xkcd.com/3314/

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  The 'light' refers to bremsstrahlung. https://xkcd.com/3315/

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  They initially thought the containment structure alone would be sufficient, but for good measure they decided to include the Elephant's Foot inside. https://xkcd.com/3316/

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  The family lore was that we've had it ever since it was ejected from a star-forming gas cloud, but it seems more likely that my great-grandparents probably just bought it while on vacation in the galactic thin disk. https://xkcd.com/3281/

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  Wind stress? Don't be silly. When has wind stress ever been a problem for a suspension bridge? https://xkcd.com/3279/

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  I NOTATION POLISH REVERSE ❤️ https://xkcd.com/3277/

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  We would like to once again apologize to Dr. Jones for last year's mistaken announcement. We should really have double-checked the envelope for this award in particular. https://xkcd.com/3275/

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  Most coffee shops have a descendant of Sophia of Hanover on staff for this, but just as I was about to ask for help, a previously unknown heir of Uther Pendragon who was ordering a muffin tripped on my laptop cord. https://xkcd.com/3274/

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  NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730). https://xkcd.com/3273/

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  All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse. https://xkcd.com/3272/

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  We have two 'in case of fire, break glass' boxes, which you pick between based on how big of a problem the fire is. One has an extinguisher, and one has sticks, marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate. https://xkcd.com/3270/

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  Although it was a setback for physics, I'm glad the particle naming rights issue led to the cancelation of Pizza Hut's Superconducting Super Collider in the early 90s, so the Double Stuffed Extra Cheese Topping Quark ended up just being named 'top quark.' https://xkcd.com/3269/

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  It's possible to do sea navigation without a compass, but you'll have to get some spoilers from the Polynesians. https://xkcd.com/3251/