Detector
https://xkcd.com/3254/
No other experiment has a lower false negative rate.
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Planetary Science
https://xkcd.com/3255/
The research was overseen by the Institutional Review Board, which is what I named my surfboard.
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Beam Pipe
https://xkcd.com/3257/
'If you keep trying to spray your collaborators with the beam when they're not looking, I'm turning off the ion source and NO one will get to play with the beam!' --Physics's mom
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Nostalgia Content
https://xkcd.com/3256/
Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.
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Sunbeam
https://xkcd.com/3253/
While weather control is typically thought of as a superpower, the unconscious ability of astronomers and astrophotographers to summon clouds is more properly classified as a curse.
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Ancestral Genomes
https://xkcd.com/3252/
SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: No further research is needed as it is frankly none of our business.
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Neutrino Project
https://xkcd.com/3249/
We definitely put the pool in a mine for shielding. It was absolutely not to hide it from the funding people.
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182.8 Meters
https://xkcd.com/3248/
They rounded down to 182.8 instead of rounding up to 182.9 because 182.9 might make the statement incorrect.
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Time Machine Conversation
https://xkcd.com/3251/
It's possible to do sea navigation without a compass, but you'll have to get some spoilers from the Polynesians.
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Flag Design
https://xkcd.com/3250/
Every place has a local cryptid; more places need a local Pictish Beast, a creature in historical art that's drawn so weirdly that no one can tell what animal it's supposed to be.
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