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hahaha

> "so light in water is travelling at about 3/4 of the speed of light in a vacuum" > "charged particles, however, are not slowed down by the refractive index, so a high-energy charged particle will be travelling faster than light in water" > "in effect, the particle outruns its own electric field"

Straight to jail.

That’s terrible!

Well played sir. Well played.

Take your damn Like and get out.

The man who would make a pun would pick a pocket

punny

Please add the alt text too!

Oh very good

Randall.

Hyuk

I hate this so damn much. Perfection

G-

I had to go to "explainxkcd" for this one and it was just a pun I didn't get. I feel so stupid sometimes... keep going!

Great now I've gone down a rabbit hole learning about this and seeing if I can work it into my Marvel TTRPG character...

But we have to be careful when making generalizations about faraway C life, because some of it moves very quickly with a high tempo when feeding such as the Over Cs Shark.

Boooooooo

Yikes.

🎶 Sebastian sings:” Under the C! Under the C! Up above they flash all day! Blue light shock waves both night and day. Darling have traction, with high-mass interactions under the c!”

This pun, is *chef's kiss*

💥👁️🎥👁️💥

Randall.

*sigh*

*takes a deep breath* *golf clap*

I was so caught up in "local speed of light" that I completely missed the pun until I read the comments.

< groan > 😁

It's a pun worthy of Long Drink McGonnigle!

*holds their nose and flees*

Noice!

Oh gods this pun

Everybody is so concerned about neutrinos. But does anyone care about OLDtrinos? No!

Booo!

I have no idea what that means, but it still seems like an awful pun.

* Deep * Thoughts by Jack Handy

jerry no

Boooooo!

does anyone else smell toast?

but also, good one.

Da dum ching

I hate myself for liking this so much

An an ~old neutrino-hunter (DUMAND, back in the late 1970s), I love it!

Boooooooo (I'm only angry because I didn't come up with this myself)

Ouch. Ha!

Oh, Randall…

Dang, took me a minute.

oh c'mon I thought you were better than this 😭

Briljant!

That is the worst/best pun

Randall, go to your room.

This pun is saved only by the alt-text....

That's the worst joke I've heard all day. Well done!

That pun is so bad. It is also really goddamn good.

Unless, of course, it's me bsky.app/profile/tige...

... argh ... ;)

booooooooo.

Love the pun

Boo! Boo!

Thanks to you, I am now unctrollably giggling in my local café (added details: wearing a béret and a SpongeBob aloha shirt...)

Good job hitting so many physics principles in a singular post.

Ba dum tss

groan

I gently explained that we were seeing the aftermath of an exploding star far, far away. "Are they dangerous?" Hmmmm

Ah I C

ಠ_ಠ

🥁📀

🥰

Damn it, that's such a good joke

alt text on this terrible pun is very good

😑😑😑😑

I groaned internally, but in a good way.

Love this!

The pun is amazingly face-palm worthy

I'm genuinely shocked that this is an actual joke on reading the comments. I thought it was just salt of the earth brain liquefying physics. 😭🧎🏽‍♂️😂

💆🏽‍♂️💆🏽‍♂️😂😂

Far future, when a techno organic organism is created directly to flex on this comic.

Only an idiot says something is impossible.

Yes. Bad, bad, terrible. Thank you.

My god Randall

Heh

Digusting

Took me a second.🤣

godsdammit

Prior to January 20, 2025, jokes like this would be considered illegal; however, no one is enforcing the laws right now, so we must let this one slide.

No.

You deserve an afterlife that is an eternity of swirlies, wedgies, et al

undersea?

Your impressionable young mind! The illuminatus! series of books and Monty Python led me down a dark, windy, dark dark road as a young sprout, I can relate. 🙂

Ah under C... *groan*

*SIGH*

Bruh I have never felt so unscientific as I do realizing I didn’t know this was a joke

Fuck you

BOO! BOO! <*hastily writes that one down for later use*> BOO! BOO!

The pun is so bad, it had to be admonished. (Not really reported)

You gotta be really smart to make such dumb jokes, I'm just sayin

Very good @xkcd.com , how long have you been holding onto that one? 😘

I live for educated puns. It takes a lot of general knowledge to understand this one but it is so satisfying to get it. Well done.

Finally! One I totally get! 😜

Ahh, I see. Thanks.