How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

by Randall Munroe

Physics doesn’t care if your question is weird. It just gives you the answer, without judging.

Lovely

can just do your best to look busy, and as long as you don’t get near the ball, maybe no one will notice you.

Me during most sports

If you check Facebook in the evening and see sunset photos with a higher-than-normal number of red and yellow pixels, and warmly lit selfies getting an unusual number of likes, it suggests bad weather is leaving the area. Sunrise photos and glowing morning selfies, on the other hand, may be an ominous sign.

One big reason is that humans evolved to experience 1 G of acceleration, and we find it uncomfortable to spend much time accelerating faster than that.

But to experience G is to be in free fall

When a leap second is inserted, any event scheduled after that date is pushed back by 1 second.

I think it's quite interesting we add Leap Seconds to account for the Earth slowing down