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While my excuse for most things today will be the fact that I am still without electricity at home, most of the rest of the world has an even better excuse they can use, as illustrated in this comic from XKCD: HT Jerry Coyne \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,42,85,96],"tags":[1625,2039,2343,4871,7045,7903,13935],"class_list":["post-8773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-humor","category-science","category-technology","tag-cartoon","tag-comic","tag-curiosity","tag-humor","tag-mars","tag-nasa","tag-xkcd"],"yoast_head":"\n
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