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2982: Water Filtration (xkcd.com)

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You'd think the most expensive part would be the quark-gluon plasma chamber, but it's actually usually the tube to the top of the atmosphere to carry the cosmic rays down.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Another article tag on explaixkcd that makes you go hmm 🤔😄

WATER. JUST PLAIN WATER. NOTHING DONE TO IT, JUST PLAIN WATER. POSSIBLY DRINKABLE. - Do NOT delete this tag too soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They always have fun with the "attribution" of that incomplete explanation tag for new comics 😄

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah I know, some are just better than others 😁

And none tickle me as much as the best {obvious thing} [Citation needed] ones 😄