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UFO Evidence

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[Decades in the future] "Well, the good news is that we've received definitive communication from aliens. The bad news is that they're asking about Cats (2019)."
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[Decades in the future] "Well, the good news is that we've received definitive communication from aliens. The bad news is that they're asking about Cats (2019)."
Pylgrimm
1 day ago
Ah, we're doomed. There's no way they are going to think a species that created that is worth being given rights.
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DrGaellon
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As has been observed, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Yonkers, NY
DexX
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The alt text on this one is wonderful. :)
Melbourne, Australia
acdha
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True in my sample set
Washington, DC

Marble Run

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I have so many plans. It would incorporate a Galton board, a Ranque-Hilsch marble vortex tube, and a compartment lined with pinball bouncers with a camera-and-servo Maxwell's Demon that separated the balls into fast and slow sides.
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I have so many plans. It would incorporate a Galton board, a Ranque-Hilsch marble vortex tube, and a compartment lined with pinball bouncers with a camera-and-servo Maxwell's Demon that separated the balls into fast and slow sides.
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jlvanderzwan
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This is Randall Munroe being auto-biographical, isn't it?

Drainage Basins

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After a pail of water was thrown on the Wicked Witch of the West outside Salt Lake City, Utah's Great Salt Lake was measured to be 7 parts per trillion witch by volume.
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After a pail of water was thrown on the Wicked Witch of the West outside Salt Lake City, Utah's Great Salt Lake was measured to be 7 parts per trillion witch by volume.
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Ruling Out

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We were able to replicate and confirm prior authors' detection of a moon orbiting the Earth with high confidence.
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We were able to replicate and confirm prior authors' detection of a moon orbiting the Earth with high confidence.
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Wikipedia Article Titles

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I would never stoop to vandalism, but I'm not above discreetly deleting the occasional 'this article contains excessive amounts of detail' tag.
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I would never stoop to vandalism, but I'm not above discreetly deleting the occasional 'this article contains excessive amounts of detail' tag.
fxer
10 days ago
replace it with {stub}
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The Six Platonic Solids

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Plato made the solids, and five were gifted to the mathematicians. But in secret Plato forged a sixth solid to rule over all the others.
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Plato made the solids, and five were gifted to the mathematicians. But in secret Plato forged a sixth solid to rule over all the others.
fxer
12 days ago
And in the darkness manifold them
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JayM
13 days ago
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Ha!
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