cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21076796

xkcd #2977: Three Kinds of Research

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The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.'

https://explainxkcd.com/2977/

Henry@hl@social.lol

Glad to see the great job @openstreetmap and @organicmaps are doing. For cycling to the zoo's main entrance, where I can buy entry, they suggest a sensible route. #Google maps seems to suggest I go through the zoo, possibly via the tiger cage.

https://social.lol/@hl/113047359789803891

Dawid Rejowski@didek@101010.pl

@hl @openstreetmap @organicmaps

Also somehow ZOO looks more like a ZOO.

Here I needed a while to understand what is that place. Only after reading the labels I understood it is the center of Warsaw, a place that should be one of the most recognizable places in Poland.
Compared to OragnicMaps, with rich colors, colorful Metro icons, building shapes and rails, Google Maps looks very blended.

https://101010.pl/@didek/113050389244877936

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18747630

https://xkcd.com/2956

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Attention all passengers: This is an express sequence to infinity. If your stop is not a power of two, please disembark now.

https://xkcd.com/2949

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If you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called 'netcat', though it does a different thing in each one.

https://xkcd.com/2945

In addition to eating foxes, rabbits can eat grass. The grass also eats foxes. Our equations chart the contours of Fox Hell.

https://xkcd.com/2944

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The ten-way tie was judged a ten-way tie, so no one won the grand prize, a rare fishing monopole.

https://xkcd.com/2943

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I'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.

https://xkcd.com/2941

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It's believed that Golgi was originally an independent organism who was eventually absorbed into our cells, where he began work on his Apparatus.

https://xkcd.com/2939

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PERPETUALLY OPTIMISTIC CASE: Early in the execution, our research group makes a breakthrough on proving P=NP.

https://xkcd.com/2938

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Cosmologists estimate the spaghetti strand to be about 200 septillion calories, though it could be higher depending on the nutritional value of dark matter.