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2982: Water Filtration (xkcd.com)

submitted 1 week ago by WeirdAlex03@lemmy.zip to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

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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.

https://explainxkcd.com/2982

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[–] WeirdAlex03@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 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 😄

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