#xkcd

[todays-xkcd]

Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.

Nostalgia Content [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball is standing, with his arms out, in front of a Prototaxite towering over a mossy landscape. To his right, a Tamagotchi (bottom-left) and milk-caps (referred to in this comic as "pogs", top-left) appear. The 3 milk-caps that can be seen show a skull with a snake through its eyeball, a figure 8 & a star (3 more milk-caps are also shown, but have obscured pictures).] Cueball: Who else remembers pogs? Tamagotchis? Vast forests of Prototaxites towering over the mossy landscape as armored fish stir in the deep?

[Caption below the panel:] Due to a database error, millennial nostalgia now includes a portion of the early Devonian.

[hexbugswallower]

I really enjoy the embryonic-stage xkcd comics from before randall munroe knew how to make them funny

[justice4nihlus]

gotta keep chanting the magic words: "be assured the odds are in your favour so hope is justified" OR "there is still a chance so hope is justified"

[joemomrgneissguy]

Nostalgia Content

[toroidalearthtruther]

my latest invention

[awfulhorrid]

Planetary Science

This seems perfectly reasonable to me!

[cabbageheadgames]

[todays-xkcd]

The research was overseen by the Institutional Review Board, which is what I named my surfboard.

Planetary Science [Explained]

Transcript

[An article from a journal is shown.]

[Title of journal article:] Evidence for Liquid Water on the Surface of a Terrestrial Planet in the Habitable Zone

[Below the title are four lines of blurred text presumably representing the name of the author or authors and their affiliations. Below that, the text of the article is blurred, displayed in two columns. There are three sections of blurred text each with a blurred boldface heading. Two pictures are included amid the blurred text. The picture in the left column shows the sea running alongside a beach. The picture in the right column shows Jill and Kidball playing at the beach, with Jill running and Kidball building a sandcastle, while Cueball and Megan are sitting under a beach umbrella watching them.]

[Caption below the article:] Planetary science journals have asked astronomers to please stop submitting their vacation photos.