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2433. Mars Rovers
title text: I just Googled 'roomba sojourner mod' and was sorely disappointed. Be the change, I guess!
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2432. Manage Your Preferences
title text: Manage cookies related to essential site functions, such as keeping Atrius and his sons imprisoned within the page.
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2431. Leap Year 2021
title text: I've lived in the present for my whole life and I'm not about to move now.
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2430. Post-Pandemic Hat
title text: Plus a shirt that says "it feels like you're making eye contact."
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2429. Exposure Models
title text: "Cumulative number of coronavirus spreadsheets created over time" is a spreadsheet I am coming dangerously close to creating.
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2428. Mars Landing Video
title text: The best part of crashing a Mars briefing is you can get in a full 11 minutes of questions before they can start to respond.
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2427. Perseverance Microphones
title text: If the first audio they downlink is from the descent, we probably won't be able to hear anything over the sound of the rover screaming.
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2426. Animal Songs
title text: Dr. Fauci is not permitted to have a cat, because as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, his petting one would be considered giving aid and comfort to an allergen.
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2425. mRNA Vaccine
title text: To ensure lasting immunity, doctors recommend destroying a second Death Star some time after the first.
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2424. Normal Conversation
title text: "I think I'll pass. These days I have a hard time feeling comfortable in crowded bars with loud music and lots of shouting." --me, after the pandemic, but now for a second reason
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2423. Project Orion
title text: If you tune out again, when you tune back in you'll be hearing about dusty plasma fission fragment rockets.
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2422. Vaccine Ordering
title text: You know what they say: mRNA-1273 before tozinameran, you'll have to slay a banshee in a catamaran.
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2421. Tower of Babel
title text: Soon, linguists will be wandering around everywhere, saying things like "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" and "more people have been to Russia than I have," and speech will become unintelligible.
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2420. Appliances
title text: If you had an oven bag and a dryer that runs unusually hot, I guess you could in theory make tumbled eggs.
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2419. Hug Count
title text: I've never been that big of a hug person, but it turns out I'm not quite this small of a hug person either.
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2418. Metacarcinization
title text: Scientists still don't know how marine biologists manage to so consistently bring up whalefall ecosystems, when relevant conversational openings are so few and far between.
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2417. 1/1,000th Scale World
title text: We're worried that a regular whale will get into a 30-foot-deep ocean trench section and filter-feed on all the tiny whales.
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2416. Trash Compactor Party
title text: What an incredible smell you've discovered.
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2415. Allow Captcha
title text: To prove you're human, please click all the number pairs that appear together in your Social Security number.
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2414. Solar System Compression Artifacts
title text: Most of our universe consists of dark matter rendered completely undetectable by our spacetime codec's dynamaic range issues.
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