#2115: Plutonium
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[Megan, Hairy, Cueball, and Ponytail are talking.]
Megan: How will we keep the spacecraft supplied with heat and electricity?
Cueball: We could use a power orb. They give off thousands of watts 24/7.
Megan: Huh? How do you recharge it?
Cueball: You don't. It's just made of a metal that emits energy.
Megan: OK, come on.
Hairy: Can we please be serious here?
[Caption below the panel:]
For something that's real, plutonium is so unrealistic.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:It's like someone briefly joined the team running the universe, introduced their idea for a cool mechanic, then left, and now everyone is stuck pretending that this wildly unbalanced dynamic makes sense.