xkcd

C'mon, ESA Solar Orbiter team, just give the Parker probe a LITTLE nudge at aphelion. Crash it into the sun. Fulfill the dream of Icarus. It is your destiny.

https://explainxkcd.com/3029/

Under some circumstances, if you throw a D8 and then a D12 at an enemy, thanks to the D8's greater pointiness you actually have to roll a D12 and D8 respectively to determine damage.

https://explainxkcd.com/3028/

Fermions are weird about each other in a standoffish way. Integer-spin particles are weird about each other in a 'stand uncomfortably close while talking' kind of way.

https://explainxkcd.com/3027/

The best case is O(n), and the worst case is that someone checks why.

https://explainxkcd.com/3026/

https://xkcd.com/3025/

Even when you try to make nice, smooth ice cubes in a freezer, sometimes one of them will shoot out a random ice spike, which physicists ascribe to kiki conservation.

https://explainxkcd.com/3025/

In the aviation world, they don't use AM/PM times. Instead, all times are assumed to be AM unless they're labeled NOTAM.

https://explainxkcd.com/3024/

It works because a nautical mile is based on a degree of latitude, and the Earth (e) is a circle.

https://explainxkcd.com/3023/

No, of course we don't microwave the mug WITH the teabag in it. We microwave the teabag separately.

https://explainxkcd.com/3022/

And even when they're not distracted, they usually get kicked out for illegal under-the-net 'subduction spikes'.

https://explainxkcd.com/3021/

Stockfish 16 suggests the unconventional opening 1. RuntimeError: Out of bounds memory access

https://explainxkcd.com/3020/

The growth rate of items per day may may seem absurd, but it's actually much less than the acceleration in the 12 Days of Christmas song.

https://explainxkcd.com/3019/

Hmm, they won't do in-flight delivery, so let's order a new first and second stage to our emergency landing site and then try to touch down on top of them to save time.

https://explainxkcd.com/3018/

Our sysadmin accidentally won a Nobel Prize while trying to debug neutrino oscillation error correction.

https://explainxkcd.com/3017/

We also should really have checked that the old water tower was disconnected from the water system before we started filling it with compressed air.

https://explainxkcd.com/3016/

This comic has been out for 5 days – it is in fact ok for people other than me to post new xkcd comics here too. You don't have to wait for me to do it. I do it when I think of it and don't have anything else to do, but wouldn't at all be bothered if other people did it before me.

Look, you can't complain about this after giving us so many scenarios involving N locked chests and M unlabeled keys.

https://explainxkcd.com/3015/

Sometimes, you have to sacrifice pieces to gain the advantage. Sometimes, to advance ... you have to fall back.

https://explainxkcd.com/3014/

The real key was inventing the windmill-powered winch.

https://explainxkcd.com/3013/

Dinosaur Cosmics

https://explainxkcd.com/3012/

They had BETTER make this a sample return mission.

https://explainxkcd.com/3011/

There's a maximum likelihood that I'm doing phylogenetics wrong.

https://explainxkcd.com/3010/

"10 minutes ago we were down to only 2 0s!" "How many do we have now?" "I ... don't know!!"

https://explainxkcd.com/3009/

These rocks are from a time before eyes, brains, and bones, pieces of a land warmed by an unseen sun.

https://explainxkcd.com/3008/

"One popular strategy is to enter an emotional spiral. Could that be the right approach? We contacted several researchers who are experts in emotional spirals to ask them, but none of them were in a state to speak with us."

https://explainxkcd.com/3007/

Though they do appreciate how much he improved the heating system for the flame pit.

https://explainxkcd.com/3006/