xkcd #3132: Coastline Similarity
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Hey! A bunch of the early Cretaceous fossils on each coast seem to have been plagiarized, too!
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Source: xkcd.com/3132/
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xkcd #3132: Coastline Similarity
Submitted 7 months ago by xkcdbot@lemmy.world [bot] to xkcd@lemmy.world
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EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 7 months ago
But if you don’t read the explanation you don’t get to see the funny “citations needed” like
Of course, coastlines are inanimate objects, and have no concept of plagiarism, let alone know how to perform it.[citation needed]
shalafi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I didn’t get it either at first. If he had cut the word off at a different point?
SwimmingInTheeStars@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Because it wasn’t funny. I like Xmas but they can’t all be winners.
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t know how you could make it clearer than just leaving off the last letter.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re right, you shouldn’t.
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
You don’t remember the theory of Pangea and plate techtonics from school?
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 7 months ago
this bitch don’t know bout Pangaea
frog@feddit.uk 7 months ago
When there was only one land mass, is there any scientific theories if that would change the rotation of the earth on its axis or around the sun?
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
No, but the climate was probably cooler and drier than today. In fact the interior regions of the supercontinent might have been too dry to support most life-forms.
mineralfellow@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It would not. The mass of the Earth doesn’t change, and angular momentum is conserved.
frog@feddit.uk 7 months ago
I was curious since mass would seem lopsided. I guess not enough. Thanks for answering.