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Title text: "Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3214#Transcript

Title text: "I mean, half of these are undefined. And your multiplication dots are too low; they look like decimal points."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3213#Transcript

Title text: "After a lot of analysis, I've determined that they're actually big red dots; they're just very far away."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3212#Transcript

Title text: "Oh, and do you have any tips on how to vacuum up copper that's melted into your carpet?"

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3211#Transcript

Title text: "'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3210#Transcript

Title text: "My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3209#Transcript

Title text: "People say setting of fireworks indoors is dangerous, but I looked at their energy release and it's like 10^-40 foe; totally negligible."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3208#Transcript

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Title text: "'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day."

Title text: "Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?"

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3206#Transcript

Title text: "This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3205#Transcript

Title text: "Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3204#Transcript

Title text: "The discovery of a fully typographical star system comes with a big asterisk."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3203#Transcript

Title text: "Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3202#Transcript

Title text: "There's also a proof without content of a conjecture without content, but it's left as an exercise for the reader."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3201#Transcript

Title text: "Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3200#Transcript

Title text: "'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects"

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3199#Transcript

Title text: "'Oh, and can I borrow 50 sacks of loose flour, a pile of lithium-ion batteries, a bucket of bleach, and a bucket of vinega--' 'NO!!!!!!'"

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3198#Transcript

Title text: "Unfortunately, my scheme to trick NASA has now taken over a decade longer than planned and has run way over budget."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3197#Transcript

Title text: "I've had countless nights where the line never left the bottom zone of the graph, but the few moments where it's climbed all the way to the top have made up for them all."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3196#Transcript

Title text: "Welcome to the International Space Station Exclamation Point!"

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3195#Transcript

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3194#Transcript

Title text: "Some surfaces may seem difficult to glue. But if you research the materials, find tables of what adhesives work on them, and prepare your surfaces carefully, you can fail to glue them in a fun NEW way that fills your house with dangerous vapors."

Title text: "I wanted to make the world's fastest yawl, so I made the aft sail bigger, but apparently that means it's not a yawl anymore! It's a real ketch-22."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3193#Transcript

Title text: "We're going to need to modify the surface to mount it on the test stand. Which ocean basin do you like the least?"

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3192#Transcript

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3191#Transcript

Title text: "It's important to teach yourself to feel responsible for random events, because with great responsibility comes great power. That's what my wise Uncle Ben told me right before he died; he might still be alive today if only I'd said rabbit rabbit that year!"

Title text: "Some people argue that the tension and compression in the human skeleton is technically tensegrity, but it's missing the defining characteristic: making people say 'wtf, how is that thing floating?' when they see it."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3190#Transcript

Title text: "They're not generally used for crewed spacecraft because astronauts HATE going around the corners."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3189#Transcript

Title text: "Anyone else watching this Youtube video in 1954? If so, my last trip definitely messed with the timeline."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3188#Transcript