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May 14, 2025

TL;DR Summary: An amusing trifle for a certain sub-sub-crowd

Forgive me if this post is a bit too outside of the scope, but I stumbled across this particular xkcd strip and I thought it would be well appreciated by the denizens of PF's Earth Sciences sub-forum.

https://xkcd.com/3088/

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