XKCD 3238: Soniferous Aether

Alt text: Imagine you could ride alongside a sound wave. It would probably be pretty cool, right? We're putting in a departmental budget request to buy a really fast plane so we can check it out.

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Optipess: Optipess

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Nerf Now: Nerf NOW!! — Windrose

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XKCD 3239: Simple Machines

Alt text: It's hard to decide which simple machine system to invest in. DeWalt makes a great lever and inclined plane, but I hear Milwaukee's wheel-and-axles are really good.

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Safely Endangered: Tumbleweave

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XKCD 3240: Bottle

Alt text: "I know it seems impossible, but the trick is that I sailed in here when I was very young."

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War and Peas: Spiders Are Friends

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XKCD 3241: Horizontal Stabilizers

Alt text: It started as a mistake that everyone was afraid to admit to, and then it stuck because removing it 'looks silly.'.

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XKCD 3242: Aperiodic Table

Alt text: Scientists occasionally invent alternative periodic table layouts, which is usually a sign that they don't have enough enrichment in their enclosures.

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Nerf Now: Nerf NOW!! — Optons

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Cyanide and Happiness

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XKCD 3243: Crystal Gazing

Alt text: 'Beyond that lies a vale of fire through which my vision cannot penetrate' is the kind of fun thing geologists, heliophysicists, and early universe cosmologists have a lot of opportunities to say.

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War and Peas: Choade Documentary

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XKCD 3244: Pullback Drive

Alt text: "How does the spring not run out almost immediately?" "We pull it back REALLY far."

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XKCD 3245: Results Age

Alt text: Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you're the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.

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Nerf Now: Nerf NOW!! — Magnum Opus

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XKCD 3246: Speedrun

Alt text: Usain Bolt holds the world record in the 100 meter speedrun.

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