XKCD 3288: Archery Feat

Alt text: Update: I would not have embarked on this powerscaling venture if I'd known how thoroughly Mark Twain was going to roast me.

Link

War and Peas: Passenger Princess

Link

Optipess: Optipess

Link

XKCD 3289: Highway Signs

Alt text: Highway engineers like Planck units because, like the speed of light, the energy capacity of a typical car's gas tank is 1.

Link

XKCD 3290: Trade

Alt text: "You legs may have a comparative advantage at running, but we arms have a competitive advantage at swinging hammers, so unless you accept that we're the dominant limbs and stop hogging the oxygen, that running advantage won't be around for long."

Link

Nerf Now: Nerf NOW!! — GTA 6 News

Link

Cyanide and Happiness

Link

XKCD 3291: Launchpad

Alt text: It does come at the cost of some launchpad expansions and increased fuel requirements, but that all comes out of the facility's budget.

Link

War and Peas: Good Mood

Link

XKCD 3292: Geology Class

Alt text: The rise of AI review bombing tools threatens to take away a crucial source of experience for geology undergraduates.

Link

XKCD 3293: Handedness

Alt text: A 'left-handed specialist' is a physicist who studies the weak interaction.

Link

Nerf Now: Nerf NOW!! — Serious Business

Link

Cyanide and Happiness

Link

XKCD 3294: Asteroid Mission

Alt text: Lander, this is Houston. There's been a request that you turn clipping back on and instead set the mass to 1kg. The theorists believe that will be pretty funny.

Link

XKCD 3295: Semaphore

Alt text: The speed of light in air is 50% faster than in fiber, but it's a challenge to get the arms to move fast enough to realize the latency advantage.

Link

Cyanide and Happiness

Link

XKCD 3296: Fault Taunting

Alt text: One of the first things they teach you is to NEVER play with the geology toy over a mantle hotspot.

Link