Title text: "Before resurfacing, they promise to inspect the ice for any evidence of hockey-playing life."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3234#Transcript

Title text: "It's not as big a loss as it looks, because now I have leftover supplies, which will help me talk myself into doing this all over again with a new project!"

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3233#Transcript

Title text: "Anyone who is caught counting 'three ... two ... one ... zero ... GO!' will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3232#Transcript

Title text: "Maybe you should wear one too? I guess I'm taller than you, so as long as I have one we're fine."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3231#Transcript

Title text: "I think I accidentally installed an Overton window in my bedroom. A few months ago, the sun wasn't in my face in the morning, but now it is."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3230#Transcript

Title text: "Communication is one of the most popular ways to transmit information, ahead of rivals such as"

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3229#Transcript

Title text: "It has been −2,147,483,648 days since our last integer overflow."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3228#Transcript

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3226#Transcript

Title text: ""While I try to do my part to destroy the environment, I try not to focus too much on individual responsibility. By pushing for broad policy changes, we can collectively do far more damage to the biosphere than any of us could on our own.""

Title text: "This xkcd.com update introduces a variety of new reading modes which can be activated through the menu below the comic."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3227#Transcript

Title text: "We're working to make sure the images are as up-to-date and accurate as possible, with a minimum number of sponsored galaxies."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3225#Transcript

Title text: "Yes, the cosmic microwave background is great, but what about the earthly microwave foreground?"

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3224#Transcript

Title text: "Depending what corners of the internet you hang out on, 'regular' may at times awkwardly coexist with 'sexy.'"

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3223#Transcript

Title text: "It's ok, I still have some nice, cool gas clouds that aren't collapsing. As long as nothing ionizes them, I can continue to enjoy their ... HEY! NO!!!"

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3222#Transcript

Title text: "'Well, there's speculation that it's due to a mantle hotspot.' --a geologist who's trying to cover up the fact that they didn't hear your question"

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3221#Transcript

Title text: "I don't get it. The peak acceleration for passengers was WAY lower than in the giant-waterslide-loop-the-loop incident the other cruise line fired me for."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3220#Transcript

Title text: "An old astronomer trick for distinguishing the Sun from other stars is to take multiple photos a few minutes apart and overlay them, making the Sun stand out due to its high proper motion."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3219#Transcript

Title text: "Aww, the oceanic crust and the continental crust are getting married!"

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3218#Transcript

Title text: "As always, you are permitted to call one person for guidance, but that person must be a grandparent."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3217#Transcript

Title text: "In contrast to the deep booming sound associated with the cannon in pop culture depictions, recent studies show it actually made more of a 'toot toot!' noise."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3216#Transcript

Title text: "This replaces the previous solar activity watch, which was issued last month when the sun took off its sunglasses."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3215#Transcript

Title text: "Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3214#Transcript

Title text: "I mean, half of these are undefined. And your multiplication dots are too low; they look like decimal points."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3213#Transcript

Title text: "After a lot of analysis, I've determined that they're actually big red dots; they're just very far away."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3212#Transcript

Title text: "Oh, and do you have any tips on how to vacuum up copper that's melted into your carpet?"

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3211#Transcript

Title text: "'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3210#Transcript

Title text: "My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3209#Transcript

Title text: "People say setting of fireworks indoors is dangerous, but I looked at their energy release and it's like 10^-40 foe; totally negligible."

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3208#Transcript

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3207#Transcript

Title text: "'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day."