Detector
https://xkcd.com/3254/
No other experiment has a lower false negative rate.
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Tethys
https://xkcd.com/3259/
In order to carry the necessary crafting supplies, they built the ships at 12:1 scale.
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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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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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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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Plate Flip
https://xkcd.com/3258/
It's great for exfoliating your skin, bones, houses, cities, landscape, etc.
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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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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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Messi
https://xkcd.com/3260/
Commentators agree that this will probably be the last World Cup in which Messi faces serious competition.
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