Title text:
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/

8 Comments
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 2d
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!"
4am@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 2d
As a New Englander, I approve this message.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2d
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"?
4am@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
Depends on what part of New England you’re from, according to that map
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
Indeed! And a lot of things which are NOT new England are in it.
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
Same. I’m going to spend a lot of time looking for a control panel now.
MrOtingocni@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
I'm so dumb that whenever a xkcd strip can make me laugh it brightens my day.
kalpol@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2d
Lol at the LI whale tail