Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 15/09/2026If you put a toaster in a freezer, which wins? Watch the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VG0...youtube.comIf you put a toaster in a freezer, which wins?YouTube video by xkcd's What If? 36978124
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/08/2026What if Earth’s Water Suddenly Disappeared? Watch the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZVt...youtube.comWhat if Earth’s Water Suddenly Disappeared?YouTube video by xkcd's What If? 2078893
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/08/2026The xkcd store has returned, with a variety of shirts, stickers, and posters! Check it out here: store.xkcd.com 1495896
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/08/2026I really recommend the 2022 documentary “It’s Quieter in the Twilight,” which profiles the scientists working in relative obscurity to keep the Voyager spacecraft operating—many of them past retirement age, but unwilling to quit until the Voyagers do. It was very sweet and thought-provoking. 383682478
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 28/07/2026Weird and worrying questions Watch the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/shorts/SLd4h...youtube.comWeird and worrying questionsYouTube video by xkcd's What If? 1179096
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 07/07/2026What would a rainbow look like on Tatooine? Watch the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO8r...youtube.comWhat would a rainbow be like on Tatooine?YouTube video by xkcd's What If? 131190192
![4-panel comic. (1) April 2023: [JUICE space probe flying away from Earth] FROM EARTH: *JUICE* is en route to explore the icy moons of Jupiter! JUICE: *Wheee!* (2) August 2024: [JUICE flying past Earth] JUICE: ...So which planet was I visiting again? I got distracted. FROM EARTH: Jupiter! JUICE: Right, OK. (3) September 2026: [JUICE flies past Earth again] JUICE: Is Jupiter the one with all the rings? Or... FROM EARTH: No, the big one near it. JUICE: Got it! (4) January 2029: [JUICE returning to fly past Earth again] JUICE: And *which* moons am I looking at? FROM EARTH: Oh my *god*. FROM EARTH: Now I get why we budgeted for so many Earth flybys.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreih2hocndvj6rupk5itttpmxce7tdl465uzaf5iibkzipzyvoy4tuq)
![4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: Any plans for Halloween? PERSON 2 with beret: Me and my friends are gonna check out a slab graveyard! (2) PERSON 1: What’s that? PERSON 2: When dense crust subducts, geologists think it might pile up at the bottom of the mantle. [illustration of Person 2’s related theory] (3) PERSON 2: We’re going to hide in the crust and ride it down to see. Wanna come? It’s gonna be spooky! (4) PERSON 1: Won’t that take millions of years? PERSON 2: Lots of time for ghost stories! PERSON 1: I think I’m good. PERSON 2: Too spooky? I understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigwl2q77jwcmcdvj6n4hvgfxrpkw5f5gzu2pzlofn3rawdh46vlmy)
![3-panel comic. (1) [Person with shoulder-length hair gestures at diagrams on wall in front of table with three people.] PERSON 1: As the radioactive power source on *Voyager 1* weakens, we’ve been turning instruments off to conserve power. (2) PERSON 1: Only two instruments remain. Do we want to lose the plasma wave subsystem or the magnetometer? (3) PERSON 2 with ponytail: You know, if we just turned off Greg’s LED underlighting– PERSON 4 with short hair: Absolutely not. PERSON 3: Dammit, Greg. PERSON 4: I will *not* allow us to look uncool in front of aliens.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreif7mauuvcdwzdpudh4qgynso2alimxydznfrdls5gpxsslzrxvk3u)
![4-panel comic. (1) [Black background with person with shoulder-length hair with raised arms in front in white, with figures in gray in the background.] PERSON 1: Welcome to stargazing! I’m back, despite efforts by astronomers who hate cool space facts to cover me up so I can’t see the sky anymore! Nice try, losers! Next time buy a tarp that’s harder to chew through! (2) [Person looks toward binoculars in hand.] PERSON 1: Now, let’s spy on some stars! Does everyone have binoculars? If you don’t, find someone looking at birds and try to grab theirs. Stars are the birds of the sky. (3) [Close-up on Person but with white background.] PERSON 1: But stars aren’t the only weird lights. Sometimes the sky fills with rippling colors. That’s the sky’s screensaver. It’s very pretty, so don’t move your mouse and ruin it. (4) [Switch back to black background, person points up while figures in background look toward where she’s pointing.] PERSON 1: That blob is a comet. People used to think they were harbingers of doom. We now know they’re boring, so we have to find new reasons to use the word “harbinger.” I’m a harbinger of astronomy! Cool facts are nigh!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiawgxezuuhswsusbwt5gayq2532hpqjf3subfia57gpj3cnt4jnh4)
![Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreih526pxolmi4pgqdcdu435uhkrrldhpwq6rrsnk4hfs6dskbe5r7e)
![4-panel comic. (1) [Person swings from tree over water.] (2) [In the middle of the swing, the tree’s leaves have turned brown.] (3) [When the person lets go, the tree is bare of leaves and everywhere is covered in ice or snow.] (4) [The person landed on the ice looks behind at Person 2 with shoulder-length hair standing on the snow.] PERSON 2: Summer over already, huh? PERSON 1: It seemed extra quick this year.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic4gbwxsjt6aw43ogiw36dnyicy7swyquypp6sqtr3ail3iqgwetq)
![Comic: Aerospace Engineer Problem-Solving Flowchart. [Start→Could we solve this problem by building giant airships again?→(No)→Try other solutions→(four arrows leading off-panel)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiazznauvx4jxzubkairbedbknh2k66oswplocckj347h4fwlyljyu)
![Comic. [Next to a two-story house and some trees is a huge rail (several times the height of the house) with an incomplete huge wheel on top surrounded by scaffolding.] [caption] Due to a typo in the plans, I’ve been building an 87:1 model train set in my yard.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicc6re2xjfzasl5jhzh7jmti3dc7ippkxxvyqji3eqrs2dhuh6xki)
![4-panel comic. (1) [Giant fishing rod-like cat toy positioned above four tectonic plates. Two helicopters that appear tiny due to scale fly above. People next to device are so tiny they cannot be seen.] PERSON 1: The key to exposing new geologic layers is understanding the three forces driving plate movement: slab pull, ridge push, and taunting. (2) PERSON 2: Taunting? What do– PERSON 1: *Initiate thrust fault pattern!* [The dangly end of the toy wiggles.] (3) “Rumble” sound effect from tectonic plates. (4) “Lunge!” sound effect from tectonic plates. [Plates split at a diagonal angling toward toy.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreib4bgny4aloexmhcpuj3hprxwxludu6ix23qkcarfocnvdizaw7ia)
![Comic. [Two identical machines face each other with a gap between them. Each is mounted on a box with a cable connecting it off-panel, webcams pointed at each other, and two flags at different angles that can move.] [caption] Networking tip: Separate sensitive components with a semaphore gap.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic4v4hvmzrkuhrd3uf6akmtzumrsex4gclro2spqkss2mdwvdxvam)
![4-panel comic. (1) [Announcer with medium-length hair in front of screen showing rocket.] ANNOUNCER: The asteroid is headed for Earth, but a mission has been launched to intercept it. (2) [Two people with space helmets and carrying equipment rush out of spacecraft landed on asteroid.] (3) [People connecting laptop to asteroid.] (4) [Laptop message reads >NOCLIP *ON*]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreielhvop2pgkkm4bxtms2gx2amqso6j3iaiq4zayf7ynzovwolslau)
![Comic. [Two people considering diagrams on whiteboard] PERSON 1 with ponytail: The W bosons produced by the collider beam will mostly be left-handed. PERSON 2: So we should send in a *right*-handed batter.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiclaz76nd4vfvtlhm7bncogauon6wkv4dh6fm7llbx3u4igqfovu4)
![4-panel comic. (1) [Person with ponytail addressing students seated at desks.] PERSON 1 with ponytail: Welcome to Geology 201. Today we’ll be review-bombing Applebees. (2) [Person 1 points to board on wall.] PERSON 1: Tomorrow we’ll do Costco and Sephora. PERSON 2: Why? PERSON 1: If we cut traffic to the Northgate Shopping Center, it will go to the East Plaza instead. (3) [Board shows map.] This will push the state to cancel the North Bridge Project and shift funds to the Highway 2 Extension... (4) ...creating new roadcuts through Triassic shale. PERSON 2: I *like* Applebees. PERSON 1: Then you should have told the city to approve my dig permit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigu5ey2adahbzvsk4nisnr5fbv3j4mw76tudzmo3uzbu5lizbseki)
![Comic. [Two large engines on the ground upside-down, with spacecraft pod in between.] PERSON to another person: To reduce the spacecraft’s weight, we’re mounting the engines on the launchpad and having them push the *Earth* away from the *spacecraft*.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreif4ltvtk75mjq7aiwy3vbybaz2fh2ghqca43s2cpn7saroqabs2w4)
![Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicenlzjvvtlegllp5khszuneez6ygyiq3d5g37oaqz5hkwoqhteru)
![Comic. [sign on road reads Next Exit: 1,390,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. The number on the speed limit sign in front of it is 0.000000097] [caption] Our local highway department is switching to planck units.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidlo7pma76po26wslrt2y3txknazzx6bbhcukzu2wour7l5cds5ce)
![Comic. [person drawing bow and arrow in front of a line of twelve axes, in front of a person seated on the ground with an apple on their head, in front of an archery target with an arrow in the bullseye that has been split by another arrow.] [caption] I want to prove that my new protagonist is a better shot than all those other protagonists.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibxcocebcdh27nco4fmf4la6f7m2tofuc7ewxeppa5izslwdnjtye)
![4-panel comic. (1) [Three people. The person on the left has shoulder-length hair; the person on the right has a white hat.] PERSON 1: I’m sad that we missed the Perseids. PERSON 2 with hat: There’s still the Geminids. PERSON 1: Yeah, but they’re in December. (2) PERSON 1: The Perseids happen when it’s warm enough to lie outside with a blanket, and we found a good mosquito-free beach. So we just lie around watching the stars and eating snacks. One year we saw the aurora. (3) PERSON 3 with shoulder-length hair: You know, I think I heard that the Perseids might be late this year. PERSON 2: Yeah, actually, I heard that too. (4) Later… [Three people lying down gazing up at stars in dark sky. One meteor is in the sky.] PERSON 3: Hm, seems like a normal number of meteors. Guess I heard wrong. PERSON 1: Maybe the Perseids are *next* weekend. PERSON 2: Oh, good thinking. Let’s come back then, just in case.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia2nfobiit5kmashzqken2545vvocu5wjnchfzw62yzvixksgunya)
![Comic: Particle Physics Equipment by how much it sounds like an offering at a high-end spa in a sci-fi/fantasy novel. Line graph increasing to the right. Geiger counter, Cherenkov detector, Photomultiplier tube, linear accelerator, scintillation counter. [small gap] Ion chamber [small gap] Cyclotron [extremely large gap] Bubble chamber, cloud chamber.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreieihg4jqbxqf5ffj6njvmtwqijkiw3a26ilbiuvxdytpejxaqz6zy)
![4-panel comic. (1) [Two people running] PERSON 1: They’re right behind us! PERSON 2 with ponytail: It’s OK! I have a plan. (2) [zoomed out view of group with weapons chasing first two people as they reach a small object on the ground] PERSON 2: This part of the continent used to be an island arc before it collided with North America. (3) [Person 1 looking behind as Person 2 hits buttons on small pillar sticking out of the Earth that makes a “beep beep” sound] PERSON 2: Just gotta access the control panel… Yes! It still works! Okay, full reverse! (4) [zoomed out view of map of east coast of North America. There is a jagged edge on the northeast, and an island with a jagged edge has separated from it.] FROM CONTINENT: *No!* FROM ISLAND: *HAH!*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreieiupj3rcaosmcgmsjz4bi66iwly4uly6yoj4fs2nvjhud22lfpwy)
![Comic. [A college building labeled “Department of Geology” with a diagonal slash through center making it look uneven.] [caption] The administration regretted giving the geology department free rein to design their new building.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiauxqpr37ipybyyjkyqz2ykojtxsilvnahvvs7heo47ie2wm4nrve)
![Comic. [diagram of a football field with people on each team represented as O or X. Arrows and dotted lines between players indicate passing or dribbling, but at one point a player simultaneously passes to two different players who both shoot at the goal; the goalie can only defend against one.] [caption] The math department team’s opponents hate it when Banach passes to Tarski.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreici3pw6jtrytnoorjpedddglrhwmwj6q4srnno3p4agulwecqsreu)
![Comic. [Two people with tiny star floating above display on table.] PERSON 1 with ponytail: Now, your grandmother said this was a relic low-mass population III star, from the first generation of stars. Unfortunately, the high iron content shows that it formed much later, after several rounds of supernovas. I’m afraid it’s a population I star. PERSON 2: Aw, darn. Well, it still has sentimental value. [banner for Antiques Roadshow]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreid2vzxc6ftisazc66p275gofrnkpbotbksmz7prz26wkuej7653we)
![Comic. [Small maze on a table. A person in a labcoat holds a mouse above it. Another person with shoulder-length hair, also in a labcoat, stands next to him behind a podium.] [caption] Research breakthrough: After over a century of trials, scientists have finally found a mouse that can solve the maze.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreih36uh4b6ksbmu22stjai7sl7ao6ivaqckavvdl7eiajfvpzdedsq)
![Comic. [Bridge with three peaks. The ones on the outside have pillars digging under the water. The middle one is held up by a hot air balloon, surrounded by equations.] [caption] How to get past the 3-4 km limit on suspension bridge main spans](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihizprhfnte5c5fr7ytsgbmsod7u7u3kwixv27tmsku4d4y6de4oe)
![Comic. [Back of car with bumper sticker reading “I forth [red heart emoji]”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreie63wpgnvtc2bwmewc5o7vjndx7okspndmqn73ifodbzfzvs5nnyi)
![Comic. [Winch arm with labels for “fusion capsule” and “plunger,” with string underneath with labels “recursive trucker’s hitch,” “Fout,” (at start of string) “n= number of layers,” and Fin (at end of string). Equation in box below: Mechanicaladvantage=FoutFin=13(2(2n+1)+1)≈234n. Below box: MA(1)=3:1; MA(5)=683:1 ; MA(20)=733,007,751,851:1 ; MA(50)=845,100,400,152,152,934,331,135,470,251:1 [caption] The international Atomic Energy Agency regulates the recursive trucker’s hitch, since the unlimited mechanical advantage it offers is powerful enough to ignite fusion.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreialsv6bb34yzapxtdelgz4pd33xwfjbhngzvscpbm5f5j3o4x735u)
![Comic. [Person 1 with short hair on stage behind podium reading off paper while addressing audience. People are shown sitting in chairs while Person 2 with ponytail and Person 3 waving are walking toward stage.] PERSON 1: This year’s Nobel Prize in “calibrating your equipment carefully and not embarrassing yourself by publishing spurious results” goes to Dr. Adams and Dr. Smith, who did *not* announce the discovery of microbes on Titan. PERSON 3: Thank you, thank you.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihztdrvxjeyzmz6dmz3xb4vi6wiwwtge6fwdoxjcum5aptndv3kfm)
![Comic. Cursed Connectors #158: The Arthurian (can only be unplugged by a rightful heir to the British throne) [one side of the cord connection is a sword; the other is a stone with a hole in the center]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihdil2atcav5pygpunsrfaitfx6rq5wgdrtwujwiy7ffpxswpkf2e)
![Comic. [Latitude and longitude lines squeezing Earth.] [caption: Bad news: NASA accidentally shrank Earth’s latitude and longitude lines in the wash.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreignozmqxt3egpltuwgoabt5phhaczxcim2ntx7n62c5opnnb3fqga)
![3-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1 behind podium on stage: We all hate springing forward. But we love falling back. (2) [Audience pictured listening] PERSON 1: Therefore, we are abolishing the *spring* time change *only*. We’ll gain an hour every year, but never lose one. (3) PERSON OFF-PANEL: Won’t that cause the clocks to spiral out of sync with the sun? PERSON 1 holding up a fist: *Then we will meet the chaos clear-eyed and well-rested!*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidl5ovrvqzuhtr6ygqwtdjes2qraloyxtxqrvjwu7xxxersawskde)
![Comic. [Line graph with many mattresses per pea pointing to the left, many peas per mattress pointing to the right, and 1:1 mattress-to-pea ratio in the center. Existing Hans Christian Andersen story is circled between center and left wit ha stack of mattresses and one pea with princess on top. Arrows for potential sequels/reboots point to a mountain of mattresses further left, and to the right in order a single mattress with one pea underneath, a princess sitting on a bed holding a bowl of peas, and the mattress sitting on a huge pile of peas.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihsbhveg2drygyizg2464pqtqqbpupwjdgt2v7a6bmjjce5brmfr4)
![Comic. [Two people toasting marshmallows over fire.] PERSON 1: At least we finally determined the board’s actual thermal limit. PERSON 2 with shoulder-length hair: Yeah. You know, we probably shouldn’t eat these. [caption] Engineering tip: Keep sticks and marshmallows around to make failures look intentional.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiffngo6na573hvijne5iqsi33hynqkueoo76zo6shikbkqzdyoxvm)
![4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1 with briefcase: I do restaurant analysis for a beverage company. PERSON 2 with ponytail and briefcase: Neat! I work in the automotive industry, developing parts for specialized vehicles. (2) PERSON 1: Oh, my flight is boarding. It was nice to meet you! PERSON 2: You too! (3) [Person 1 and Person 2 walk separate ways] (4) Years Later: [Book with cover text Michelin Tire Company ⭐ Star Restaurant Guide, above a car that says on the side Red Bull Supercar]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigvninluwujxm2ywb4set6r535vudmwvorh2araseyrblvd32ntzi)
![Comic. [chessboard with red dotted line and flag at second line. Highlighted rook is positioned next to King behind the red line.] [caption] I thought I had checkmate, but I didn’t realize my rook was offside.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreif4par7z6yterrvkhvlnemtc37rpb4yvretekqzpqnxl7gjio7fju)
![8-panel Comic. (1) Tornado Warning [tornado in the distance of a house] A tornado has been detected; take shelter (2) Tornado Watch [Person with bun talking to another person pointing at diagrams on screen] Conditions are favorable for tornadoes to form (3) Tornado precaution [person] Tornadoes happen sometimes, so be ready (4) Tornado Inkling [Person with hand on face] No tornadoes yet, but we have a feeling (5) Tornado Suspicion [Person looking up at clouds] Weird clouds have been observed (6) Tornado Premonition [Person looking at birds flying in tornado shape and two birds sitting on scythe-like structure with skull beneath] Tornado portents and omens have been observed (7) Tornado Recollection [Person with thought bubble containing tornado] Tornadoes have occurred in the past (8) Tornado Contemplation [Person sitting and saying, “Wow.”] Tornadoes are very big and powerful](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifxb7ror6yzflj5i3bqcsb74onpagh5acfbdqiosplmyiqil6sdgi)
![Comic: Holes. Elevation is to scale relative to sea level and ground level. Land shapes and horizontal distances are not to scale. [Lines for every 1k meters starting from -12k up to +4k: Bingham Canyon Mine (US), Veryovkina Cave (Georgia), MPONENG Gold Mine (South Africa), Sanford Laboratory (US), Giant Crystal Cave (Mexico), Derinkugo Underground City (Turkey), WIPP (US), Restof Salt Mine, with an arrow pointing at the bottom that reads “oops” (US), San Andreas Fault Observatory Borehole (US) CFB North Bay (Canada), Woodingdean Water Well (dug by hand) (United Kingdom), Diefen-Bunker (Canada), Deep Underground Command Center (Canceled in 1965) (US), Lake Peigneu, with another oops arrow next to it (US), Sydney Opera House Parking (Australia), Onkalo Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository (Finland), Hudson River, Delaware Aqueduct (US), Raven Rock (US), Wieliczka and Bochina Salt Mines (Poland), Atchison Storage Facility (US), Snolab (Canada), Detroit Salt Mine (US), Hongyancun Subway Station (China), Nuclear Test Shafts (North Korea), Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detector (Japan), Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy), Peak above Gran Sasso, Modane Laboratory (France), Peak above Modane Laboratory, Gotthard Tunnel (Switzerland), Peak above Cheyenne Bunker and Gotthard Tunnel, Cheyenne Mountain Bunker (US), Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russia) - deepest artificial point below surface at -11917m, Lake Baikal (Russia), sediments under Lake Baikal, IDDP-2 Borehole (Iceland), Dead Sea (multiple countries), Ryfylke Tunnel (Norway), Pantal Remis Mine with another oops arrow (Malaysia), Great Blue Hole (Belize), Joides Resolution Expedition 307 (Atlantic Ocean), Deepwater Horizon Borehole (Gulf of Mexico) - deepest artificial point below sea level at -11944m, Glomar Challenger Hole 504B (Pacific Ocean), Mohole (Pacific Ocean), Joides Resolution Expedition 329 (Pacific Ocean), Mariana Trench (Pacific Ocean)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia43wl3gwyqydc47yse5gbdzybk2edtcibxdtr5jf4gqorc676ap4)
![Comic. [Two images of Earth, one centered on Africa, with a dotted line behind, and the other in the foreground with a target marked in the Indian Ocean.] [caption] Dire news: An asteroid is on course to hit the Earth exactly *opposite* the Yucatán Peninsula, bringing *back* the dinosaurs.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicpi7i7uw3s4sgd5vpw4vhqeoc6nqabk27v6agwwuoa67syokp54q)
![Comic. [Person with short hair and a skateboard talking to another person, with an image of Person 1 on a skateboard going over a bump with a line with two swirls behind him.] PERSON 1: Something weird I’ve noticed is that if I do a 360 ollie, I land backward. I have to do a 720 to land going forward. [caption] Tony Hawk discovers that he’s a spin-½ fermion.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicglrymanz6jcvr6ycjmoscjzpvdt2pbcpan6p5vcjgzydx74apia)
![4-panel comic. (1) [Person floating near glowing black ball] PERSON: So you’re the creator of the universe? CREATOR: That’s me! So, got any questions? (2) PERSON: Oh man, so many. What’s the reason for baryon asymmetry? Why is most of the universe matter and not antimatter? (3) CREATOR: Crap. Did I forget the antimatter? One sec, let me just... (4) [explosions everywhere with “BOOM” sound effect]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiggjr6uff6p2r6mjzlfy7xoijcqeekmrsdmejy7wpmu5mr5wiay5q)
![Comic. [A person and a second person with a ponytail sitting at a table with a screen showing a soccer game behind them.] PERSON 1: They could be in trouble. Over the last 36 years, they’ve gone 0 for 2 when they’ve scored in the 37th minute to lead 2-1 against a team whose country comes before theirs alphabetically. [caption] I wish sports commentators hadn’t discovered p-hacking.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia7nj3d2xiski77uifyleeowddz6c24e5tgcxrk4jy5j6o3i2wryu)
![5-panel comic. (1) Two people standing, one with a ponytail and the second with white beret] PERSON 2: This new topical medication makes me extra sensitive to sun exposure and gravitational waves. (2) PERSON 1: Oh yeah, that’s a common... wait, what was that last part? PERSON 2: Here comes one now! (3) [Person 2 stretched taller] (4) [Person 2 squished shorter] (5) [Person 2 stretched taller again] PERSON 2: *Wheee!*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreieulrwmyudg5y2u6c2yag3lbuhahzjtehe25crkk2h6alsdxibjr4)