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3173. Satellite Imagery

title text: Every weekend I take an ATV out into the desert and spend a day tracing a faint "(C) GOOGLE 2009" watermark across the landscape.

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Single panel comic. No hair and pony tail are standing on either side of a presentation screen with a satellite image. There is a small square in the middle that is very pixelated but still follows the general outline of the terrain. No hair says "Wait, when was this imagery taken? Is this censorship the work of the contractor? One of our people? *Foreign Actors* !?" Pony tail responds "Do we know who's operating a facility at that location?" No hair answers "We can't find *anything*." Lower caption: My hobby: setting up big colored panels in the middle of nowhere as a prank on remote sensing people.
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3171. Geologic Core Sample

title text: If you drill at the right angle and time things perfectly, your core sample can include a section of a rival team's coring equipment.

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Single panel comic. Title: Typical Geological Core Sample A long cylinder with bands that have different textures and shades of grey. Starting from the top: top soil till granite bedrock bottom soil roof of subway car floor of subway car more granite (a partial chunk missing from the cylinder is labeled municipal water main) slightly different granite piece of screaming spelunkers forearm cool crystals with no resale value mangled fragments of drill bit from previous attempts some boring intrusive rock that's basically granite, but has a name like "diorite" or "andante" that you always have to look up netherrock Balrog wing a long segment with a break missing implying a large distance is continued and labeled granite topsoil cement floorboards carpet possession of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere
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3126. Disclaimer

title text: You say no human would reply to a forum thread about Tom Bombadil by writing and editing hundreds of words of text, complete with formatting, fancy punctuation, and two separate uses of the word 'delve'. Unfortunately for both of us, you are wrong.

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Single panel comic. A profile picture of no hair next to a wall of text three paragraphs long. The text is illegible. At the bottom there is a single line highlighted and a zoomed in box shows that the text says "Not ChatGPT output -- I'm just like this." Lower caption: I've had to start adding this disclaimer to my messages.
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3125. Snake-in-the-Box Problem

title text: Chemistry grad students have been spotted trying to lure campus squirrels into laundry hampers in the hope that it sparks inspiration.

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