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xkcd #3257: Beam Pipe

Title text:

'If you keep trying to spray your collaborators with the beam when they're not looking, I'm turning off the ion source and NO one will get to play with the beam!' --Physics's mom

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3257/

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[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 78 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Never mind that their thumb is now an anti-thumb.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 44 points 1 week ago

The only person that can count to -1

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

One two three four, would you like to play thumbonuclear war?

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You have to be careful with that logic, or born again right wing christian groups will go nuts. Lemme explain.

If

Christ is everywhere

Then

Christ is in the large Hadron collider.

And if

[stuff] inside the collider becomes anti-[stuff]

Then:

--> The LHC creates the Antichrist.

!!

[–] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Then The Antichrist and Christ touches and is turned into energy, and levels half of Switzerland.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

And think what that would do to the snow sports industry.

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

Oh no, they'd have to move the wef to monaco

God, it would be funny to see people protesting based on this.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Today’s satire is tomorrow’s debate topic.

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I wish i could push back on that by saying no one would be dumb enough to make that argument non satirically, but...

[–] 000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Never shall they twiddle