I think you are totally over thinking the explanation. So summer and winter can last for many years. Perhaps their planet goes around the sun much slower so the change between seasons is much slower. Perhaps what they define as a “year” isn’t how long it takes for the planet to go around the sun (and given the…

You’re not a finger man.

This is the best article.

These worlds are yours, for now.

The problem with this and a lot of the other puzzles out there is the lack of rules and/or boundaries. I can come up with 5 different answers to this riddle that satisfy the conditions, but you have “arbitrarily” picked one and the only way to be correct is to hope I guessed correctly. On the flip side most of the…

They always say, “At the same time” but they never are. I wanna see some one get 300 rockets to all launch (ie ignite and lift off) at exactly the same time.

It might be in the same universe of Revelation Space but it’s very early in human space travel. At the point of the book humans haven’t even left the solar system much less colonized other systems.

There’s a book by Alastair Reynolds called Pushing Ice where humanity discovers that one of Saturn’s moons was an alien structure and when they go to explore it, it takes off into deep space with the humans on it still. It’s an excellent book and I hope this is what’s happening here.

And how do you think he gets fans? By people.... coming to his website.

Somebody always says this when there is an XKCD post. Every time. Do you think that perhaps there is a reason they don’t do that? Maybe they are trying to drive traffic to XKCD?

I remember for Christmas every year I would get one of these full of tokens and we would go to the mall that was an hour away so I could play video games. That was usually the only time I got to spend in an arcade as a kid. Fucking middle America.

When will they be replaced with transparent aluminum?

Get it wrong and sand off the part that sticks up from the edge of the seat. Hell do that anyway to give it a really nice flush look.

That's better than my idea, giving the moon a coke.

I live in Thailand and here I have unlimited 4G data, talk, and texts... for $30 a month.

If we were physicists, you would be a theoretical one and I would be a practical one. Burn me some skin.

Just once I want these people to put a pig foot or something in there and show what would happen if the laser hit human skin.

Ughhhhh, why do people use Vimeo. 2 hours to load a 5 minute clip.

Convincing the world that I don't exist.

For those of you wondering why waterway dumping isn't the go-to solution, think about what's actually in snow that's been plowed off the road: copious amounts of salt, oil, and probably the remnants of a foolhardy cyclist. That pollutes the ocean, and so can only be done if the snow constitutes a danger to public…