Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · May 12

Crystal Gazing xkcd.com/3243/

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Andy Farke · May 12

Very...timely...given that I just sent off a whole bunch of rocks for detrital zircon dating.

@innhverfur.bsky.social · May 12

There could be a whole "cult" of these guys, bracketing away elapsed time! Glorious! 😂

Praleen · May 12

Oh wow amazing concept haha!

Joel Tillman · May 12

Wow. How esoteric.

Goats in this hell · May 12

It wasn't a loss, it was just a reverse profit.

@guardwolfy.bsky.social · May 12

Prophets of Creation?

Jim FR 🔭🍻⭐️⭐️ 🌳 · May 12

Prophets of mooD

Adventurism Time · May 12

This is getting taped to so many Geochronologists' whiteboards.

Big Soup · May 12

ELFETAMINE · May 13

Where's the joke

Dr Dave Clements · May 12

What does that mean for cosmologists dating the Big Bang?

The Creatively Maladjusted · May 12

Thanks for the alt text! /gen

@brunorro.bsky.social · May 12

He will lead us to take out the poison of our fuel...

Silica Gel Gourmet · May 15

We get signal

xkcd title text · May 12

Title text: "'Beyond that lies a vale of fire through which my vision cannot penetrate' is the kind of fun thing geologists, heliophysicists, and early universe cosmologists have a lot of opportunities to say." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3243#Transcript