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September 2013

Sunday, September 15, 2013

She-What?

—devadutta @ 01:55

What is DMR talking about here?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Dibyo, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Anjul, ranuvikram, Shwetha Maiya and Mayukh Bose

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Friday, September 13, 2013

Will the header have a guy staring down at you?

—srikanth @ 14:08

You can probably guess this one straight from the question. Printed version of what? Surprisingly small, if you ask me.

Cracked by: rickde, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, nivinpaul, buk, saswat11, Anjul, Ananth and Saarthak

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Printed version of about 0.01% of the Wikipedia - 5000 pages. So the whole thing would be 5e5 pages, which is still smaller than I expected


Wednesday, September 11, 2013

In case of humanity reset, read this

—devadutta @ 13:56

What is this?

Cracked by: rickde, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, nivinpaul and Ananth

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Georgia Guidestones, set of guidelines to humans after an apocalyptic event.


Saturday, September 7, 2013

Tick Tock

—devadutta @ 09:24

Final panel of one the most awesome comic strips of all time[1]. Identify

[1] According to me :)

Cracked by: Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, rickde and Supritha Maiya

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XKCD’s epic 3000+ panel comic, Time.


Thursday, September 5, 2013

Freezing?

—devadutta @ 23:01

Identify and connect 1, 2 and 3 (explain how 3 changed 2)

Cracked by: Dibyo, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, rickde, Mayukh Bose, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Supritha Maiya and aparna

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When Anders Celsius invented the temperature scale, he put 100 degrees as the point for freezing and 0 degrees as the point for boiling. Carl Linnaeus, waited until Celsius had died to change the scale to the way we read it today.


Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Fly, robin, fly

—srikanth @ 11:04

This awesome technique is used by gliders and birds alike to build speed almost effortlessly. What’s it called?

Cracked by: Dibyo, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi and rickde

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Dynamic Soaring - the birds use wind-speed gradients to their advantage to fly in a wavy motion that lets them soar for miles without slowing down.