3265: Asteroid Threat

2026-06-30T01:15:15Z

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{{comic
| number = 3265
| date = June 29, 2026
| title = Asteroid Threat
| image = asteroid_threat_2x.png
| imagesize = 345x424px
| noexpand = true
| titletext = Paleontologists have long worried that the dinosaurs blasted into space 66 million years ago will one day complete their orbits and fall back down.
}}

==Explanation==
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It's generally agreed by scientists that most {{w|dinosaurs}} went extinct as a result of the {{w|Chicxulub asteroid}} impacting the Earth near the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, either directly or indirectly. This comic posits that another asteroid is soon going to hit the Earth again. Because the impact location will be on the exact opposite side of the planet (the antipode), the comic takes the absurd notion that because it will act the 'opposite' way, it reverses all the original effects and bringing dinosaurs back from extinction, which is absurd.{{Citation needed}}

The general consensus is that the dinosaurs went extinct as a result of the environmental effects of the impact, those that weren't in the immediate vicinity of the impact itself, but the title text (in a possibly separate treatment) suggests that it actually launched the dinosaurs alive into space, thus circling the Sun in a long orbit that will some day intersect with the Earth again and, absurdly, they will land still alive. Which is ridiculous, as not only would they have to somehow survive the initial impact (apparently strong enough to have knocked them into space), then survive the airless vacuum of space, survived all the way to the present day and then their presumably meteoric return to the Earth's surface - a thoroughly impossible feat. But the comic acts as if they are going to be able to land back on the Earth and take control again.

Because Earth rocks have been found on the Moon, there has been some speculation that microscopic fragments of fossils from the era of dinosaurs or earlier may have landed on the moon, but no such fragments have been collected.

==Transcript==
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:[Two images of Earth are shown. At the top left is a small one, centered on southern {{w|West Africa}}, showing the Atlantic Ocean and the east coast of South America, with a dotted line through the Earth entering at the Yucatán Peninsula and exiting at the east-central Indian Ocean. Taking up most of the rest of the panel is a large Earth image centered on the Indian Ocean and containing a target symbol, comprising a circle and four spokes, aimed at a location in the east-central Indian Ocean.]

:[Caption below image:]
:Dire news: An asteroid is on course to hit the earth exactly ''opposite'' the Yucatán Peninsula, bringing ''back'' the dinosaurs.

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