Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Jun 15

Plate Flip xkcd.com/3258/

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Summerium-Kalimium · Jun 16

Venus does it!

Oswald Heger · Jun 15

Over easy, please.

Walker Riley · Jun 15

Conversations I have with visitors who seem to think I need to move my couch every time they show up.

Johan Edin · Jun 15

Why walk on hot coal when you can use molten rock?

Tacomaster Studios · Jun 15

How does she expect him to FLIP THE EARTH

Gaknar · Jun 15

Didn't Roland Emmerich try that in 2012?

Talos_XLIV · Jun 15

How about we table this idea for now and circle back to it in a few hundred million years?

MariBean · Jun 15

I so love your site. It's science-y.

Uncle Tifa · Jun 15

Can't flip it. Other side has a large pee stain.

@tinhoy.bsky.social · Jun 16

Imagine failing the flip midway...the resulting mountain range would be epic.

💠 Evdog 💠 · Jun 15

But the guy at the store said this was a no-flip tectonic plate

wkw · Jun 15

The secret that Big Tectonics don't want you to know...

@kya609.bsky.social · Jun 15

Flap Jack's😏

Bill Stewart · Jun 15

"Happy Cows come from California" "foot massage" agrees. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yve...

Todd_J_Smith · Jun 16

Currently regretting that Serious Table Flip hasn't made it into the anime yet...

SidoenVT · Jun 16

You have any idea how much furniture we'd have to move to the other continent first?

GeraintUltimus · Jun 15

If we all jump on one side, we can flip over the Juan de Fuca plate

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@kferschw.bsky.social · Jun 15

Ah, that's where the exfoliation domes in the Sierra come from

AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ · Jun 16

It’s not without precedent…

Alice M. Cole 86 47 · Jun 15

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xkcd title text · Jun 15

Title text: "It's great for exfoliating your skin, bones, houses, cities, landscape, etc." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3258#Transcript