xkcd

This projection distorts both area and direction, but preserves Melbourne.

https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2999:_Bad_Map_Projection:_The_United_Stralia

Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/67/

"It's a real accomplishment to mess up a ravioli recipe badly enough that the resulting incident touches all four quadrants of the NFPA hazard diamond."

explainxkcd.com/2998/

If any of you want to meet some cool local oxygen atoms, I can introduce you!

https://explainxkcd.com/2997/

There's a heated debate over whether the big island of Tierra del Fuego should qualify for membership.

https://explainxkcd.com/2996/

The distinctive 'UCLA comma' and 'Michigan comma' are a long string of commas at the start and end of the sentence respectively.

https://explainxkcd.com/2995/

I see white shores, and beyond it, a far green country under a tequila sunrise.

https://explainxkcd.com/2994/

The Watership Down rabbits removed an additional 0.1 nanometers constructing their warren, although that was mostly soil. British rabbits have historically mined very little coal; the sole rabbit-run coal plant was shut down in the 1990s.

https://explainxkcd.com/2992/

Under quantum tax law, photons sent through a beamsplitter don't actually choose which path they took, or incur a tax burden, until their wavefunction collapses when the power is sold.

https://explainxkcd.com/2991/

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Our nucleic acid recovery techinques found a great deal of homo sapiens DNA incorporated into the fossils, particularly the ones containing high levels of resin, leading to the theory that these dinosaurs preyed on the once-dominant primates.

Transcript:

[Three squid-like aliens in a classroom; one alien stands in front of a board covered with minute text and a drawing of a T-Rex skeleton. Two aliens sit on stools watching the teacher alien. The teacher alien on the left is on a raised platform and points at the board with one tentacle.]
Left alien: Species such as triceratops and tyrannosaurus became more rare after the Cretaceous, but they survived to flourish in the late Cenozoic, 66 million years later.
Left alien: Many complete skeletons have been discovered from this era.

[Caption below the panel:]
It's going to be really funny when our museums get buried in sediment.

https://www.xkcd.com/2990/
explainxkcd.com for #2990

Hopefully the HVAC people set it to only affect the AIR in the room.

https://explainxkcd.com/2989/

Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/6/

The local police, building inspector, and fire marshal are all contesting my 'safety' assertion, or would be if they could reach me past all the traps.

https://explainxkcd.com/2988/

The worst is when you wipe out in the barrel and you're trapped for several million years until erosion frees you.

https://explainxkcd.com/2987/

Conveniently for everyone, it turns out that dark energy is produced by subterranean parasitoid wasps.

https://explainxkcd.com/2986

It's annoying that the Nastapoka Arc isn't a meteor impact crater, but I truly believe that--with enough time, effort, and determination--we could make it one.

https://explainxkcd.com/2985/

My competitors say the tiny single tiny caster is unsafe, unstable, and offers no advantages over traditional designs, to which I say: wow, why are you guys so mean? I thought we were friends!

https://explainxkcd.com/2983/

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You'd think the most expensive part would be the quark-gluon plasma chamber, but it's actually usually the tube to the top of the atmosphere to carry the cosmic rays down.

https://explainxkcd.com/2982

Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/115/

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In my reboot, Dennis the Menace was just trying to send Mr. Wilson a nice comet, but accidentally wiped out his dinosaur garden.

https://explainxkcd.com/2981/

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Hey, golf balls float on lava, so this should make recovering them from the hazards easier.

https://explainxkcd.com/2980/

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During the day it also activates for neat clouds and pretty sunsets.

https://explainxkcd.com/2979/

PSA: This xkcd was released 6 days ago and nobody posted it. It is in fact allowed for other people to post new xkcd comics to this community too, you don't have to wait for me to do that.

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At least they're not alone down there.

https://explainxkcd.com/2978/