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xkcd #3008: Proterozoic Rocks (xkcd.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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These rocks are from a time before eyes, brains, and bones, pieces of a land warmed by an unseen sun.

https://explainxkcd.com/3008/

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This kind of makes me feel better about the election

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Could you please not shoehorn American politics into every single fucking thing?

You're 4% of the planet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, but we're the exceptional 4%.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

The comic was released the day after the election, by an author who lives in the United States. I suspect the comic is explicitly about American politics.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The rocks will look different when their chemistry will change when exposed to a warmer climate, different climate migrating species grow on them, and they're covered in micro plastics, and worn down by more acidic rains.

And possibly become radioactive if things don't go right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

A-fucking-men.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I'm zero percent planet, but all of the planet will feel the rippels caused by this election.