xkcd with captions

I am a fan of Randall Munroe's xkcd comic. I read it on a regular basis and enjoy the mouseover texts that come with the comics, but those can't easily be read on mobile devices. So this website has an RSS feed which pulls out the text and places it under the image. The feed links back to xkcd.com. Enjoy. This page only shows the latest entries.

Earth Sized Planets

It probably has an icy mantle over the real silicate geology, but I'm hoping something weird happened to burn off most of the water like with Io.

Gravitational Square Wave

Depending on the energy deposition I can manage, it might also be a fun prank on the rest of the Earth.

Siege Engine

They initially thought the containment structure alone would be sufficient, but for good measure they decided to include the Elephant's Foot inside.

Forms of Water

The 'light' refers to bremsstrahlung.