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Hypothermia of below 98.6 K should be treated by leaving the giant molecular cloud and moving to the vicinity of a star.

The Range Mischief Officer has modified the trajectory to add a single random spin somewhere in the flight, but won't tell us where.

It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.

The HVAC bill for installing the Gulf Stream was enormous.

High-speed collisions at the Baby Park track may support the hypothesis that Daisy is her own evil twin, a theory first suggested by Nintendo in the game Majorana's Mask.

Benthic Santas weren't even discovered until the 1970s, but many scientists now believe Christmas may have originally developed around hydrothermal vents and only later migrated to the surface.

A really mean prank you can play on someone who's picky about words is to add a 'definitely->definitively' autocorrect rule to their keyboard.

The Piña Colada song carves a trajectory across the chart over the course of the song.

Why couldn't the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?

Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states.

It's not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling.]

For someone who has ostensibly outgrown staying up late waiting for Santa, I do spend an awful lot of time refreshing websites to see if packages are here yet.

The phantom found Edward Everett Hale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his 'brick moon' proposal were dismissed as science fiction.

People may complain about readability, but even with jpeg compression, extracting the data points is usually computationally feasible if there aren't too many of them.

And over heeee[...]eeeere (i)s Saturn.

Now that airlines have started adding wheel locks to their drink carts, less than half of flights have one accidentally fall out through the hole.

The value of n is still unknown, but new results constrain it to fall between 8 and 10^500, ruling out popular 'n=1' and 'n=2' theories.

Unlike an Iron Age collapse, a Bronze Age collapse releases energy, since copper and tin are past the iron peak on the curve of binding energy.

Shipping times vary. Same-ocean delivery may only take a few years, but delivery from the Weddell Sea in Antarctica may take multiple decades, and molecules meant for inland seas like the Mediterranean may be returned as undeliverable by surface currents.

An occasional source of mild Thanksgiving tension in my family is that my mother is a die-hard fan of The Core (2003), and various family members sometimes have differing levels of enthusiasm for her annual tradition of watching it.

The mainstream dogma sparked a wave of dogmatic revisionism, and this revisionist mainstream dogmatism has now given way to a more rematic mainvisionist dogstream.

If a materials scientist gives you a present, always ask whether regifting will incur any requirements for Federal paperwork.

The problems started with my resolution next year to reject temporal causality.

They estimate the rocket should be free by approximately ... uh ... well, in about two hours.

So do you have any plans for z=-0.000000000000045?

The ball's density also varies, but players don't learn the value until after choosing their raquets. The infamous 'bowling ball table tennis' region of the parameter space often leads to equipment damage.

The debate over the correct Messier number for the Ship of Theseus is ongoing.

"The police told me I can't be a doctor, but whenever they show up I just go into the Google Maps settings page I found and change the house to 'Police Headquarters' and then they have to do what I say."

If you live in Los Angeles (around 33°52'N, roughly the latitude of Hermosa Beach) the black hole in V404 Cygni passes over you each day. On Christmas Day it will be directly overhead around 2pm.

Any electrician will warn you to first locate and flip the house's CAUSALITY circuit breaker before touching the CIRCUIT BREAKERS one.

These anomalies are known as Miyake events, named for the pioneering scientist who discovered them and was tragically devoured by a carnivorous tree.

I average out the spring and fall changes and just set my clocks 39 minutes ahead year-round.

The Late Heavy Bombardment was followed a few billion years later by the Comparatively Light but Oddly Specific Bombardment.

Created by the collapse of: [massive stars] [Florida limestone bedrock]

Interpretations of the Hermeneutic Oath differ.

Look, I just think we need to stop coddling those hedonistic roundabout hogs who get into the inner lane and circle for hours, wasting valuable capacity.

Speed Limit: 45 MPH / Minimum: 65 MPH

The Earth's magnetic field is primarily generated by currents in the liquid outer core, though some geophysicists argue that an unexplained mismatch with models suggests that the Kinder toy contains a magnet.

My first words were 'These were my first words; what were yours?'

Running for office in Minnesota on the single-issue platform 'dig a permanent channel through the Traverse Gap because it will make this map more satisfying.'

Ugh, it says they attempted delivery but "Nobody was home."

[after a minute] "Okay, I think I've got it, thanks. Can I--" "oOOOooOOooo!"

So what do we do when we get to base 10? Do we use A, B, C, etc? No: Numbers larger than about 3.6 million are simply illegal.

I've been working my way through this 1950s podcast by someone named John Tolkien called 'Lord of the Rings'--it's a deep dive into this fictional world he created. Good stuff, really bingeable!

I was, at least at the start of this disastrous game night, your friend.

If they're going to make people ride bikes and scooters in traffic, then it should at LEAST be legal to do the Snow Crash thing where you use a hook-shot-style harpoon to catch free rides from cars.

Theranos partnership: Sorry, we know, but we signed the contract back before all the stuff and the lawyers say we can't back out, so just try to keep your finger away from the bottom of the phone.

You can leave at any time through the door over there. It's a Louisville door, so you'll need to find a compatible knob. No, don't be silly, that one is a Lexington knob! Of course it won't fit.

Our experimental aerogel iceberg with helium pockets manages true 100% efficiency, barely touching the water, and it can even lift off of the surface and fly to more efficiently pursue fleeing hubristic liners.

NASA prefers to say that their rovers are 'looking for signs of past life on Mars' and not 'ghost hunting.'

Sequoia Brussels sprouts are delicious but it's pretty hard to finish one.

It can be expensive to hire a professional spectroscopist for your wedding, but the quality of the spectra you get is worth it.

Of course in reality this is just a US/UK thing; in British English, 'fall' is the brief period in between and 'autumn' is the main season.

Escape Artist Frees Self From Conversation With Pickup Artist

The two best reasons to get into fossils are booping trilobites and getting to say the word "fossiliferous" a lot.

Hi all, just replying to loop in *@outlook.com and *@yahoo.com.

Of course you get an ice cream cone for the swimmer too! You're not a monster.

An apple fell on Isaac Newton's head and gave him the idea that the moon might be a tasty apple, though this turned out not to be true--the Apollo program eventually determined that it was just a desolate and bland Red Delicious.

I pronounce the 'u' in 'pronunciation' like in 'putting' but the 'ou' in 'pronounce' like in 'wound'.

A circle with an A in it means that the circuit has committed a sin and has been marked as punishment.

They tried to report me to the authorities, but because I had the device they couldn't charge me.

The best place to be for a hug eclipse is a scenic natural area with good views and few clouds. The worst place to be is the lunar surface.

I'm glad modern car washes use synthetic baleen, instead of harvesting it from whales like 1800s car washes did.

When speaking out loud, you can can call it the 'Perseids meatier shower' and no one will ever know. (If you do get caught somehow, just tell them to Google the 'Kentucky meat shower' and that will distract them while you escape.)

FYI: The 'drop, cover, and hold on' advice only applies to earthquakes. If you encounter a mountain lion, you should absolutely not drop to the ground, crawl under it, and hold on to one of its legs.

Getting the utility people to run transmission lines to Earth is expensive, but it will pay for itself in no time.

Their crash investigation team had some particularly harsh words for Dave Matthews.

The ideal mix for maximum competitive cable-coiling energy is one A/V tech, one rock climber, one sailor, and one topologist.

I mean, it's pretty, but it doesn't really affect us beyond that. Except that half the nights aren't really dark, and once or twice a day it makes the oceans flood the coasts.

Mr. Jones, watch out for Ms. Lenhart! She's from genus Photuris!

Positive vibes/longitudes only

The vaccine stuff seems pretty simple. But if you take a closer look at the data, it's still simple, but bigger. And slightly blurry. Might need reading glasses.

Refs generally say that you can exercise enough altitude control to avoid the ground, but if you start strategically choosing air layers to steer yourself, that's traveling.

The increasing number of graham crackers and chocolate bars in orbit has created a growing risk of Kessler s'mores.

The Atlantic is expanding at about 10 ppm (points per month).

I feel bad for Earth 2 and their shadowflies.

I actually kind of feel like John and Surf King wouldn't like each other, which is a lot to unpack.

It's just that I get nervous about heights.

When I began trying to form a new claim by stitching together these parts in such an unnatural way, some called me mad.

They're also refusing to fund my device that demonstrates uncontrolled hot fusion.

Slowly progressing from 'how do protons behave in relativistic collisions?' to 'what the heck are protons even doing when they're just sitting there?'

Mars does get a good score on 'noise levels' and 'scenic views,' but the school district ranking isn't great; the only teacher--the Perseverance rover--is too busy with rock samples to teach more than the occasional weekend class.

You can pour a drink into it while hosting a party, although it's a real pain to fit in the dishwasher afterward.

Listen, you're very cute, but if you rearrange the alphabet to put U and I together it will RUIN the spacing!

Arboretum Owner Denied Standing in Garden Path Suit on Grounds Grounds Appealing Appealing

Then I'll start work on my lunar engines to line the Moon up with the ecliptic so we can have a solar eclipse every month (with a little wobble so they're not always on the equator.)

Of course, I sort all my bookshelves the normal way, alphabetically (by first sentence).

If I'm not going to upgrade to a powered one, I should at LEAST stop leaving the door open so often.

Oh no, I haven't checked in with Yvonne in YEARS.

In the Hall of the Mountain King was accidentally composed on log/log paper.

90% of the iceberg is hidden beneath the water, but that 90% only uses 10% of its brain, so it's really only 9%.

[Decades in the future] "Well, the good news is that we've received definitive communication from aliens. The bad news is that they're asking about Cats (2019)."

I have so many plans. It would incorporate a Galton board, a Ranque-Hilsch marble vortex tube, and a compartment lined with pinball bouncers with a camera-and-servo Maxwell's Demon that separated the balls into fast and slow sides.

After a pail of water was thrown on the Wicked Witch of the West outside Salt Lake City, Utah's Great Salt Lake was measured to be 7 parts per trillion witch by volume.

We were able to replicate and confirm prior authors' detection of a moon orbiting the Earth with high confidence.

I would never stoop to vandalism, but I'm not above discreetly deleting the occasional 'this article contains excessive amounts of detail' tag.

Plato made the solids, and five were gifted to the mathematicians. But in secret Plato forged a sixth solid to rule over all the others.

The Hubble length is about 1.9 meters lying down; Edwin Hubble was a tall guy.

Tau Ceti is farther away, so it took me 36 years to start the war over updog.

My connection to it goes way back, to my early days, when I was just a cloud of primordial hydrogen collapsing in the darkness of space.