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Planetary Alignment

We're going to need to modify the surface to mount it on the test stand. Which ocean basin do you like the least?
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Superstition

It's important to teach yourself to feel responsible for random events, because with great responsibility comes great power. That's what my wise Uncle Ben told me right before he died; he might still be alive today if only I'd said rabbit rabbit that year!
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Tensegrity

Some people argue that the tension and compression in the human skeleton is technically tensegrity, but it's missing the defining characteristic: making people say 'wtf, how is that thing floating?' when they see it.
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Conic Sections

They're not generally used for crewed spacecraft because astronauts HATE going around the corners.
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Apples

The experimental math department's budget is under scrutiny for how much they've been spending on trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm traveling at 45 mph.
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Fishing

'That's definitely above the catch-and-release size minimum for planetesimals.' 'I'm going to throw it back anyway.'
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Hyperacute Interdynamics

Our models fall apart where the three theories overlap; we're unable to predict what happens when a nanometer-sized squirrel eats a grapefruit with the mass of the sun.
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Chessboard Alignment

Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.
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Heart Mountain

Even geology papers about Heart Mountain are like, "Look, we all agree this 'volcanic gas earthquake hovercraft' thing seems like it can't possibly be right, but..."
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Airspeed

Carefully maneuvering the balloon down a mineshaft in an effort to break the OTHER altitude record
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Document Forgery

It comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a...
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Continents

The inflection point was probably in late 1966 or 1967, so when Neil Armstrong flew to space on Gemini 8, plate tectonics was not widely accepted, but when he landed on the Moon three years later it was the mainstream consensus.
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Fantastic Four

One perk of being born at 0.88c is that your birthday is over two days long.
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Piercing

Some lava around the piercing site is normal, but keep an eye out for spreading earthquakes and eruptive activity that might indicate rifting.
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Phase Changes

People looking for the gaps in our understanding where the meaning of consciousness or free will might hide often turn to quantum uncertainty or infinite cosmologies, as if we don't have breathtakingly complex emergent phenomena right there in our freezers.
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Question Mark

Although now people will realize three-per-em space that all this time I've been using weird medium mathematical space whitespace characters in my hair space hair space hair space speech dot dot dot...
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Global Ranking

Starting a meta-leaderboard for tracking who holds the record for ranking behind the most distinct people on an online leaderboard.
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Dehumidifier

It's important for devices to have internet connectivity so the manufacturer can patch remote exploits.
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Laser Danger

To combat the threat, many airlines are installing wing-mounted spray bottles.
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