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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Hyperacute Interdynamics

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

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Chessboard Alignment

Some tires are marketed as 'all-shape tires,' but if driven in a climate with both inverted catenary falls and triangle falls, they wear out really fast.

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Inverted Catenaries

Tired of waiting on hold? Use our website to chat with one of our live agents, who are available to produce words at you 24/7!

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Website Task Flowchart

A lot of the highway department's budget goes to adjusting the sign whenever the moon passes directly overhead.

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Bridge Clearance

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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Satellite Imagery

"Want to feel old?" "Yes."

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Fifteen Years

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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Geologic Core Sample

Now, if it were the *Canon* wiki, it's possible to imagine someone with a productivity-related reason for consulting it, but no one's job requires them to read that much about Admiral Daala.

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Service Outage

'Oh no, the box is drifting out into the harbor!' 'Yeah, I wouldn't worry about losing it.'

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EPIRBs