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xkcd #3296: Fault Taunting

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One of the first things they teach you is to NEVER play with the geology toy over a mantle hotspot.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3296/

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[-] Dadifer@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Geological faults do not really form in this way, since the Earth's crust has no motivation to chase after any kind of bait.[citation needed]

Citation needed 🤣

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 14 hours ago

Two things that are humbling once you know what you're looking at. One is all the stars in a very dark sky area. Two is any place where you can see the layers and layers of geologic history in the rock formations.

[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 5 points 15 hours ago

Can somebody explain this please?

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 4 points 8 hours ago
[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

That explains all my scratches

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 15 hours ago

explainxkcd has an explanation now, and if that's not good enough for you, try again tomorrow.

[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 2 points 14 hours ago
this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2026
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