Title Text:No, a hydroplane doesn’t land on water–that’s an aquaplane. A hydroplane is a plane that gets electric power from an onboard water reservoir with a tiny dam and turbines.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1669/ 不，水力飛機不是降落在水上的飛機，那是水上飛機。水力飛機是透過機上的小水庫推動渦輪發電作為動力的飛機。 https://xkcd.tw/1669 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1669:_Planespotting Cueball和一个戴着帽子… Read more
Title Text:I figured that now that society has collapsed, I wouldn’t need to wear clothes anymore, but apparently that violates some weird rule of quantum gravity.
Title Text:There was a schism in 2007, when a sect advocating OpenOffice created a fork of Sunday.xlsx and maintained it independently for several months. The efforts to reconcile the conflicting schedules led to the reinvention, within the cells of the…
Title Text:I just spent 20 minutes deciding whether to start an email with ‘Hi’ or ‘Hey’, so I think it transferred correctly.
Title Text:I don’t think the Lakeshore Air Crash Museum really belongs under ‘Tourist Attractions.’ It’s not a museum–it’s just an area near the Lake Festival Laser Show where a lot of planes have crashed.
Title Text:Conspiracy theory: There’s no such thing as corn. Those fields you see are just the stalks of a fungus that’s controlling our brains to make us want to spread it.
Title Text:Jill and Jack / began to frack. / The oil boosts their town. / But fractures make / the bedrock shake / and Jack came tumbling down.
Title Text:BREAKING: Senator’s bold pro-podium stand leads to primary challenge from prescriptivist base.
原作：http://what-if.xkcd.com/149 编译：猪的米 What if 系列：https://songshuhui.net/archives/tag/what-if 提问： 我男票最近搭乘了一般有机载Wifi的航班，当飞机还在天上飞的时候，他可怜巴巴地问我能不能给他送一份披萨。我开玩笑地给他发了一张嘴里叼着一片披萨的鹦鹉的照片作为回应。很显然我男票要等到飞机降落在纽约肯尼迪机场以后才有可能吃到披萨。那么问题来了：有没有什么鸟能够带得动一个20寸纽约风格的芝士披萨？如果有的话，是哪种鸟呢？ ——Tina Nguyen 回答： 一只鸟可能可以把披萨送到某一户人家那里，但要它送到一架正在飞行的飞机上就有些困难了。 （图片致谢：多米诺披萨外送追踪器） 一个20寸的披萨大约有1.8千克重。[1]这相当于麻… Read more
