You can’t just drop something like that and not post pics…

<3

There’s a archnemesis origin story in here somewhere

Aside from the ridiculousness of reading anything malicious in an unordered comparison list…

In 2012, a great amount of priming research was thrown into doubt as part of the replication crisis. Many of the landmark studies that found effects of priming were unable to be replicated in new trials using the same mechanisms.[10] The experimenter effect may have allowed the people running the experiments to subtly influence them to reach the desired result, and publication bias tended to mean that shocking and positive results were seen as interesting and more likely to be published than studies that failed to show any effect of priming. The result is that the efficacy of priming may have been greatly overstated in earlier literature, or have been entirely illusory.[11][12]

Yeah, but Billy probably has like 1hp.

Hopefully! My comment wasn’t aimed at KSP / KSA though, just talking about why IP is valuable

Name recognition sells stuff. Somebody who loved KSP 1 will probably give KSP 3 a go, at least to a greater probability than an unrelated game in the same genre.

New comic, author’s still finding his feet I guess

I wonder what the efficiency of absorption is, though. Does 100% of emitted radiation get soaked up by the cup, or does some escape into the surroundings?

Huh. I guess the kettle has some thermal mass to it making it less efficient for small amounts

Unless I’m misunderstanding your statement, you’re saying it’s faster to boil water in the microwave than the kettle? How’s that possible? I would think the microwave has more wasted energy

This thread is just switching me around from one earworm to another

That’s not clickbait, that’s you trying hard to be a pedantic ass.

Also, the idea of Randall Munroe of XKCD having to resort to clickbait is hilarious. He’s gotta be in the top 10 most famous scientists alive.

The series is named ‘What If’, not ‘How Could’.

hypothetical
/hʌɪpəˈθɛtɪk(ə)l/
adjective: hypothetical
    based on or serving as a hypothesis.
    "let us take a hypothetical case"

    supposed but not necessarily real or true.
    "the hypothetical tenth planet"
    
    Similar:
    theoretical
    speculative
    conjectured
    imagined
    notional
    suppositional
    supposed
    assumed
    presumed
    putative
    made up
    unreal
    academic

    Opposite:
    real
    actual
    Logic denoting or containing a proposition of the logical form if p then q.

noun
noun: hypothetical; plural noun: hypotheticals

    a hypothetical proposition or statement.
    "officials refuse to discuss military policy except in coy hypotheticals"

Mmm, in that case just sounds like unreliable data.

Darwinism at work again.

Um. You did notice panel 10 - 12, right?

Here’s how I’m reading the questions:

“are you an atheist”. 4%

4% of respondents have a firm belief that gods do not exist. (atheist)

“do you believe in any god” 20%

20% of respondents do not believe in a god, but do not necessarily think they don’t exist either. They don’t have enough knowledge to form a belief, i.e. they don’t know. (agnostic)