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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/