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2982: Water Filtration (xkcd.com)

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You'd think the most expensive part would be the quark-gluon plasma chamber, but it's actually usually the tube to the top of the atmosphere to carry the cosmic rays down.

https://explainxkcd.com/2982

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I never thought of it that way. Thank you for writing this out!

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