xkcd #3285: Accretionary Arc

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The late Triassic rifting was caused by a dinosaur trying to use the control panel to escape a predator, but it was eaten before the continent could fully separate.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3285/

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[–] 14 points 1 week ago*

Xkcd with yet another brilliant sci-fi concept. My buddy got super mad when he got his console, a Ps2 or Ps3, online, and I wanted to test with xkcd in the URL bar. "Stop typing random letters!"

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    As a New Englander, I approve this message.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    As a New Englander an Avalonian, I approve this message

    FTFY. We'd best call ourselves what we are. And given that England itself is part of it, would we not now lay mutual claim to the title "Older England"?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    I'm so dumb that whenever a xkcd strip can make me laugh it brightens my day.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Lol at the LI whale tail

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