xkcd #3088: Deposition
xkcd #3088: Deposition
Title text:
P.S. If you have time travel, come to my birthday party Saturday!
Transcript:
[Cueball approaches Ponytail, chiselling a rock on a shoreline next to a river with shallow rolling hills in the background]Cueball: What are you doing?Ponytail: This river empties onto a passive continental margin.
[Cueball and Ponytail stand talking, Ponytail holding several flat rocks, in an otherwise empty and frameless panel]Ponytail: If I chisel notes onto these rocks and throw them into the sea, they might be incorporated into some shale cliff in the distant future.
[Silhouetted scene of Ponytail as she throws multiple rocks off frame to the right, Cueball watching from behind her][From off-panel, sound effect of a rock hitting water:] PLOP
[Two 'bug-eyed aliens', sitting in personal 'hover-saucers' look rightwards at an exposed rock-face. A pick and shovel are left stuck in the ground, and one of the 'saucers' sports a mechanical arm currently holding a loose fragment of rock][Panel label:] 100 million years later[Text originating from the held rock fragment:] This bedrock inspected by No. 5
Source: https://xkcd.com/3088/