A community for a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
Title text:
This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: https://xkcd.com/3205/
a cosmologist wouldn't even know what carbon is. it's just some kind of metal.
Still boggles my mind that literal matter came to be out of literally nothing but radiation and heat.
And now we can coax some matter to convert back into energy to produce power.
Let's time travel and take a look!
They'll probably date bones in the future by how much plastic is in them.
in where
Bones
Well they ain't wrong.
they are technically correct, the best kind of correct
Somewhere between 13.6 billion and 50,000 years old.