#xkcd

[todays-xkcd]

The creepy fingers that grow from a vibrating cornstarch-water mix can be modeled as a chain of inverted vertical pendulums (DOI:10.1039/c4sm00265b) and are believed to be the fingers of Maxwell's Demon trying to push through into our universe.

Pendulum Types [Explained]

Transcript

[Four types of pendulums are shown in a single panel. Each has a bullet list below the depiction.] [Label:] Simple pendulum [A basic pendulum consisting of a joint, rod, and weight swinging in a regular arc]

Periodic

Stable

Useful for timekeeping

[Label:] Double pendulum [A pendulum consisting of 2 joints, 2 rods, and a weight swinging in a more loopy arc]

Aperiodic

Chaotic

Moderately cursed

[Label:] Inverted pendulum [An upside-down basic pendulum with some apparatus underneath vibrating up and down]

Finely balanced

Unstable

Becomes stable when vibrated

[Label:] Nightmare pendulum [An inverted double pendulum, with an additional uninverted pendulum swinging within a large weight adorned with archaic/mystical symbols]

Forbidden

Unphysical

Summons Maxwell's Demon

#xkcd #xkcd 2924 #pendulum types #webcomics

[yesterdays-xkcd]

Family going to bed at 10 PM is so much worse than jet lag.

Christmas Back Home [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[The panel depicts the interior of a house with numerous Christmas decorations. Santa stares at Cueball, who is sitting at his desk with his laptop.] 'Twas the night before Christmas at my family's house. There were no sound of stirring save the click of a mouse. For 'twas just like a childhood Christmas except I'd forgotten the hours that normal folks slept.

Santa: What are you doing out of bed so late? Cueball: Late? It's barely 3AM!

#xkcd #xkcd 361 #christmas back home #2000s #2007

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

#'your moon is here' things that make me explode like a supernova #UGHHHHHHH what if i was perpetually in your orbit. influencing the tides. protecting you from asteroids. and slowly drifting further away. #then you stopped moving and i was only pulse to your dead heart. orbiting you. right where ive been left. and so you started turning again. #ria.txt #personal #space opera au #(<- not about what you think is about) #hiiii this is gaining traction so glad we're all going insane :D your moon is here is SO fucked up. so good. #xkcd #randall munroe #space #moon #anyways xkcd comics are so good. entertaining witty and informative. check em out!

[hbmmaster]

xkcd fans are the only fandom I've had direct experience with where people do the stereotypical nerdy fan thing of referring to installments of the thing they like by their release order numbers instead of their titles

#hbmmaster #xkcd

[verbforverb]

#xkcd #memes taken too far presented out of context

[shaonicwhite]

i think we should all consider getting emotional over this xkcd. as a group. let's get emotional about it

#rock emotions... #xkcd #shaoniposting #geology

[raspberrypie4u]

#196 #r/196 #rule #depleted uranium my beloved #196archive #xkcd

[apas-95]

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#xkcd #england #royals #queen

[quasi-normalcy]

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

#xkcd

[yuri-enjoyer]

A friend asked me how many Star Trek there are and I was immediately hit with the realization that I am this meme

#m’thoughts #Star trek #star trek tos #xkcd #tos

[wlw-webcomic-bracket]

I’m glad the folks at NASA are having fun with XKCD too.

#xkcd #not polls

[todays-xkcd]

When an Ur guy / sells Nanni things / but the copper's bad, / He simply records his complaint for all time / "I got a bad deal / I'm maaaaad"

My Favorite Things [Explained]

#xkcd #xkcd 2758 #my favorite things #webcomics #ea-nasir #the sound of music #musicals #lyric reskinning

[coulsonlives]

This has been a reminder

#don't trust miracle cures #critical thinking #health #medicine #cancer #cancer ment cw #misinformation #supplements #xkcd #if anyone still doesn't quite get it because i didn't for a hot second lol: you could literally dump a bucket of 'miracle cure' on cells #in a petri dish but if that amount of 'miracle cure' gets into human tissue it might kill em #in other words 'in a petri dish' means nothing because all the rules doses etc that would apply to actual human administration are out #fave

[night-vale-heritage-posts]

[Image ID: An edited XKCD meme with two stick figures having a conversation.

"Night Vale lore is second nature to us fans, so it's easy to forget that the average person only knows the strexcorp takeover arc and one or two intern deaths."

"And the glow cloud, of course."

"All hail"]

Inspired by a time when I commented "all hail the glow cloud" on a nextdoor post leading the creator of the post to think i was more original than I actually am

#wtnv #not a heritage post #memes #xkcd

[yesterdays-xkcd]

But one of the regulars in the channel is a girl!

Pix Plz [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Black Hat stands in the entrance to Cueball's room, the door broken down. A surprised Cueball has turned away from his computer to face him.] Black Hat: Hi. I'm here about the girl who visited your IRC channel last night looking for Java help. Cueball: What did you do to my door?

Black Hat: When someone with a feminine username joins your community and you say "OMG a woman on the Internet" and 'jokingly' ask for naked pics, you are being an asshole. You are not being ironic. You are not cracking everybody up. You are the number one reason women are so rare on the Internet. Black Hat: At least, the parts of it you frequent.

[A woman enters the room, holding some sort of device.] Black Hat: As someone who likes nerdy girls, I do not appreciate this. I'm here to ban you from the Internet. The gal behind me with the EMP cannon is Joanna - she'll be assigned to you for the next year. Try to go online and she'll melt your PC. Cueball: Dude, she's hot. Is she single? Black Hat: Joanna, fire.

#xkcd #xkcd 322 #pix plz #webcomics #2000s #2007 #a classic

[aces-and-anime]

#xkcd #nonbinary #trans #genderqueer #queer #demigirl #demiguy #demiboy #neutrois #xenogender #shitpost