loosing

*losing :)

“Loosing” means “to set loose”, e.g. “loosing the hounds on the fugitive”, and is kinda only applicable in a pretty narrow set of circumstances.

Fun at parties, am I? On the specific party, it depends.

Take my Yodish very seriously, I do :)

A fruit, knowledge it is, to know you are. Our fruit salad, wisdom it is, to not put you in.

FTFY.

Object-subject-verb :)

If I recall correctly, for strawberries, each seed is an individual “fruit”, and the tasty juicy part is just an accessory or something.

I think raspberries and blackberries are classified as a bunch of fruits stuck together or something…

I love the bowl of petunias appearing for a split second at 1:47 :)

Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/103/

information seems to be largely unavailable

I’ve heard almost nothing about their space station

Jack Congram’s Substack has a nice section with regular updates on what the Taikonauts are up to aboard Tiangong.

That reminds me of this gem from Mr. Plinkett’s review:

So this movie’s called “Attack of the Clones”, so I guess we should talk about THAT shit, and what can laughingly be called the plot. So Count Dooku has bugs make robots so that the Republic gets scared, and then wants to make clones to fight the robots that the bugs made. But the clones were ALREADY being made before the robots were being made by the bugs. If you’re confused, don’t be ashamed. Even the writer of the film doesn’t understand it.

To be fair, that’s not a particularly unusual end to xkcd What-If scenarios. The more interesting details are “how?” and “when?”.

Isn’t that acknowledged in the footnote at 1:32?

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I know the man who runs this place

How did Obi-Wan know Tarkin?

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“What are we waiting for?”

The shock on the camel’s face really sells it.

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running on oil money

That makes the switch to BYD all the more poetic.

I mean, 3D print the final part. If it works for fucking rockets going into space, it can work for cars too.

3D printing doesn’t “work” for rockets in general. 3D printing works for specific rocket components (engine cooling channels) which are difficult to manufacture using traditional techniques like machining or casting. I can’t think of any components like this on cars.

Relativity Space did try to 3D print an entire rocket (including the tanks, LOL), but cancelled it after the first launch, switching to a design where only specific components will be 3D printed.

Is it? I’ve heard Zillennials use most of these in casual conversation…

TIL

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