If At First You Don't Succeed, That's

One Of The Things I've Learned With Doing 'xkcd' Is That You Sort Of Give People, 'here's The Thing, And Here's The Button You Can Press To Get Another Thing.' Sometimes That Can Be More Easy To Digest Than, 'here's A Long Page Of Things.

The Universe Is Probably Littered With The One-planet Graves Of Cultures Which Made The Sensible Economic Decision That There's No Good Reason To Go Into Space-each Discovered, Studied, And Remembered By The Ones Who Made The Irrational Decision.

You Don't Use Science To Show You're Right, You Use Science To Become Right.

Our Brains Have Just One Scale, And We Resize Our Experiences To Fit.

The Explosion Would Be Just The Right Size To Maximize The Amount Of Paperwork Your Lab Would Face. If The Explosion Were Smaller, You Could Potentially Cover It Up. If It Were Larger, There Would Be No One Left In The City To Submit Paperwork To.