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82.132.238.245: /* Explanation */ Doh!

2026-03-14T16:50:58Z

‎Explanation: Doh!

82.132.238.245: /* Explanation */ Was just going to fix the overhanging ").", but decided to posit (from personal experience) that a rock from a volcano isn't necessarily flat/prismatic enough to stably skip for a record-approaching number of times.

2026-03-14T16:50:26Z

‎Explanation: Was just going to fix the overhanging ").", but decided to posit (from personal experience) that a rock from a volcano isn't necessarily flat/prismatic enough to stably skip for a record-approaching number of times.

85.76.117.243: /* Explanation */

2026-03-14T06:55:18Z

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162.158.34.231: /* Explanation */ ...

2022-10-24T05:46:48Z

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JLZ0kTC5 at 20:56, 23 October 2022

2022-10-23T20:56:58Z

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 Thus — assuming that Megan has accurately identified the stone — the stone is either from Western Africa or Northern Europe and has "travelled" from there to get to her.
-{{w|Stone skipping}} is the art of throwing a flat stone across water in such a way that it bounces off the surface. Despite there being many factors attributed to successfully skipping a stone (including the attributes of the stone itself), Cueball and Megan are in agreement that skipping this particular stone five times is an above-average throw. (It is far short of the world record of 88 skips set by Kurt Steiner in 2013; but if the rock is purely {{w|Igneous rock|igneous in origin}}, as suggested, it may not have formed as reliable a shape for skipping as a given fragment of {{w|Sedimentary rocks|sedimentary}} or sediment-based {{Metamorphic rock|metamorphic}} rock.)
+{{w|Stone skipping}} is the art of throwing a flat stone across water in such a way that it bounces off the surface. Despite there being many factors attributed to successfully skipping a stone (including the attributes of the stone itself), Cueball and Megan are in agreement that skipping this particular stone five times is an above-average throw. (It is far short of the world record of 88 skips set by Kurt Steiner in 2013; but if the rock is purely {{w|Igneous rock|igneous in origin}}, as suggested, it may not have formed as reliable a shape for skipping as a given fragment of {{w|Sedimentary rocks|sedimentary}} or sediment-based {{w|Metamorphic rock|metamorphic}} rock.)
 This comic is one of many that look at everyday things from a new, philosophical perspective.

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 Thus — assuming that Megan has accurately identified the stone — the stone is either from Western Africa or Northern Europe and has "travelled" from there to get to her.
-{{w|Stone skipping}} is the art of throwing a flat stone across water in such a way that it bounces off the surface. Despite there being many factors attributed to successfully skipping a stone (including the attributes of the stone itself), Cueball and Megan are in agreement that skipping this particular stone five times is an above-average throw. (It is, however, far short of the world record of 88 skips set by Kurt Steiner in 2013).
+{{w|Stone skipping}} is the art of throwing a flat stone across water in such a way that it bounces off the surface. Despite there being many factors attributed to successfully skipping a stone (including the attributes of the stone itself), Cueball and Megan are in agreement that skipping this particular stone five times is an above-average throw. (It is far short of the world record of 88 skips set by Kurt Steiner in 2013; but if the rock is purely {{w|Igneous rock|igneous in origin}}, as suggested, it may not have formed as reliable a shape for skipping as a given fragment of {{w|Sedimentary rocks|sedimentary}} or sediment-based {{Metamorphic rock|metamorphic}} rock.)
 This comic is one of many that look at everyday things from a new, philosophical perspective.

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	This comic is one of many that look at everyday things from a new, philosophical perspective.		This comic is one of many that look at everyday things from a new, philosophical perspective.
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		+	[[3008: Proterozoic Rocks]] also compares the age of rocks to milestones in the development of life.

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 Megan either knows enough about geology to tell on sight how this particular rock formed, or has brought this rock from a collection. Alternatively she’s simply guessing. Despite admiring its formation, all she wants is to use it as a skipping stone to give it "a weird day in its life" (similar to [[325: A-Minus-Minus]]), and possibly confuse future geologists.
-Megan provides three pieces of information about the rock: It formed at the south pole, during an ice age, just before multicellular life developed. Unfortunately, due to disagreements among geologists and paleontologists about when exactly the first multicellular life emerged it is unclear which time Megan refers to - and consequently where she is and what kind of rock she is holding. There are two possibilities:
+Megan provides three pieces of information about the rock: It formed at the south pole, during an ice age, just before multicellular life developed. Unfortunately, due to disagreements among geologists and palæontologists about when exactly the first multicellular life emerged it is unclear which time Megan refers to - and consequently where she is and what kind of rock she is holding. There are two possibilities:
 # The {{w|Francevillian biota}}, living about 2.1 billion years ago, has been proposed as the first multicellular life. If Megan subscribes to this theory, then the Ice age just before  would be the {{w|Huronian glaciation}} which extended from 2.4 to 2.1 billion years ago. The land which was at the South pole at that time would eventually [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwWWuttntio become part of Africa].

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 Megan either knows enough about geology to tell on sight how this particular rock formed, or has brought this rock from a collection. Alternatively she’s simply guessing. Despite admiring its formation, all she wants is to use it as a skipping stone to give it "a weird day in its life" (similar to [[325: A-Minus-Minus]]), and possibly confuse future geologists.
-Megan provides three pieces of information about the rock: It formed at the south pole, during an ice age, just before multicellular life developed. Unfortunately, due to disagreements among geologists and palaeontologists about when exactly the first multicellular life emerged it is unclear which time Megan refers to - and consequently where she is and what kind of rock she is holding. There are two possibilities:
+Megan provides three pieces of information about the rock: It formed at the south pole, during an ice age, just before multicellular life developed. Unfortunately, due to disagreements among geologists and paleontologists about when exactly the first multicellular life emerged it is unclear which time Megan refers to - and consequently where she is and what kind of rock she is holding. There are two possibilities:
 # The {{w|Francevillian biota}}, living about 2.1 billion years ago, has been proposed as the first multicellular life. If Megan subscribes to this theory, then the Ice age just before  would be the {{w|Huronian glaciation}} which extended from 2.4 to 2.1 billion years ago. The land which was at the South pole at that time would eventually [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwWWuttntio become part of Africa].