Talk:2976: Time Traveler Causes of Death - Revision history

81.89.66.133 at 09:22, 18 September 2025

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172.71.26.60 at 12:31, 27 August 2024

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141.101.98.86 at 08:41, 27 August 2024

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172.70.86.173 at 08:34, 27 August 2024

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141.101.99.217 at 08:31, 27 August 2024

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172.70.174.195 at 01:45, 27 August 2024

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ProphetZarquon: Agreed, even though bombardment was a looong time, Chicxulub DID have an 'impact' on the scale of millions of years...

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Agreed, even though bombardment was a looong time, Chicxulub DID have an 'impact' on the scale of millions of years...

172.69.43.245 at 04:12, 25 August 2024

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ProphetZarquon: Bombardment period featured impacts so constant that the atmosphere cooked; not much time to asphyxiate.

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Bombardment period featured impacts so constant that the atmosphere cooked; not much time to asphyxiate.

141.101.98.79 at 00:12, 25 August 2024

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	Disappointing that Randall hasn't set out the main threats when time travelling to future periods, so that we know what to prepare for.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.86\|141.101.98.86]] 08:41, 27 August 2024 (UTC)		Disappointing that Randall hasn't set out the main threats when time travelling to future periods, so that we know what to prepare for.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.86\|141.101.98.86]] 08:41, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
	:"Future: If not Morlocks, then Eloi.” Or, if not either, your future self! [[Special:Contributions/172.71.26.60\|172.71.26.60]] 12:31, 27 August 2024 (UTC)		:"Future: If not Morlocks, then Eloi.” Or, if not either, your future self! [[Special:Contributions/172.71.26.60\|172.71.26.60]] 12:31, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
		+	: I think the "door ... stuck" is the punchline - it's a reference to the "DOOR STUCK!!! DOOR STUCK!!!" meme coming from the Counter-Strike community [[Special:Contributions/81.89.66.133\|81.89.66.133]] 09:22, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

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		+	:"Future: If not Morlocks, then Eloi.” Or, if not either, your future self! [[Special:Contributions/172.71.26.60\|172.71.26.60]] 12:31, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

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	For all the times xkcd has focused on raptors and how to prevent predatory raptor attacks, I'm disappointed that "Trampled" is the main concern for travelers going to the Mesozoic Era. [[User:TCMits\|TCMits]] ([[User talk:TCMits\|talk]]) 14:00, 24 August 2024 (UTC)		For all the times xkcd has focused on raptors and how to prevent predatory raptor attacks, I'm disappointed that "Trampled" is the main concern for travelers going to the Mesozoic Era. [[User:TCMits\|TCMits]] ([[User talk:TCMits\|talk]]) 14:00, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
	:Maybe the Mesozoic raptors also just tended to get trampled? Only in the modern day are raptors free from the threat of trampling and thus to become a threat to Randall. Especially if the present-day threat is a merely a stuck door. It all fits because, when it comes to things like doors, raptors are known to be Clever Girls! [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.79\|141.101.98.79]] 00:12, 25 August 2024 (UTC)		:Maybe the Mesozoic raptors also just tended to get trampled? Only in the modern day are raptors free from the threat of trampling and thus to become a threat to Randall. Especially if the present-day threat is a merely a stuck door. It all fits because, when it comes to things like doors, raptors are known to be Clever Girls! [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.79\|141.101.98.79]] 00:12, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
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 :Probably a mistake on Randall’s part. He might correct it later (he’s updated other comics before), but unless you have a magic red telephone that reach his personal number right now, all we can do is wait (or add it to the Explanation/Trivia). [[User:42.book.addict|42.book.addict]] ([[User talk:42.book.addict|talk]]) 19:20, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
 ::For sure not a mistake. Only one day in the entire history of Earth you would die directly from the impact. But the heavy bombardment there would be many days this would happen. Although I just updated the table saying that asphyxiation would still go much faster than waiting for such a meteor. I'm certain that Randall would not update the comic for that. Mainly he updates if he has made a spelling mistake that could alter the meaning or has forgotten some part of a drawing that might seem important. And these events are rare.--[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 08:47, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
 :"Meteors" doesn't refer to "the impact" that killed the dinosaurs, it refers to the bombardment period, where the atmosphere was heated to furnace temperatures... No waiting necessary; the impacts were constant for thousands of years. Technically it'd be the heat, not the impacts, that'd kill you, but the heat was a direct result of megatons of debris making atmospheric entry on an ongoing basis. (For a fun fictional description of such a phenomena, check out 'Seveneves' & take the ending with a huge block of salt.)
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 :::added a table [[User:42.book.addict|42.book.addict]] ([[User talk:42.book.addict|talk]]) 18:20, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
 ::::added a very necessary "citation needed" thingy - it's traditional [[User:PaulEberhardt|PaulEberhardt]] ([[User talk:PaulEberhardt|talk]]) 08:40, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
-I, sometime this century, tripped over a story about a poor fucker who died because he couldn't get out of his Tesla. Turns out iirc that in the foot place in the back is a !!under! the carpet emergency lever that opens the doors. Iirc for no battery power to open the doors to get out of a Tesla you have to rip thecarpet out of the backseat footwell to find the emergency door open lever. I don't recall lawsuits.
+I, sometime this century, tripped over a story about a poor fucker who died because he couldn't get out of his Tesla. Turns out iirc that in the foot place in the back is a !!under! the carpet emergency lever that opens the doors. Iirc for no battery power to open the doors to get out of a Tesla you have to rip thecarpet out of the backseat footwell to find the emergency door open lever. I don't recall lawsuits. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.174.195|172.70.174.195]] 01:45, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
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 Shouldn't there be a thin line for "meteor" just below "trampled", if the time traveller lands during the Chicxulub impact event? [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 18:56, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
 :Probably a mistake on Randall’s part. He might correct it later (he’s updated other comics before), but unless you have a magic red telephone that reach his personal number right now, all we can do is wait (or add it to the Explanation/Trivia). [[User:42.book.addict|42.book.addict]] ([[User talk:42.book.addict|talk]]) 19:20, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

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 ::Was the Chicxulub aftermath at all sufficient for "thousands of years" of 'aftershock' impacts? (Or at least enough to make a line on the comic, essentially the same marker as the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary layer is, geologically.) There were long-term climate effects, but by "bombardment" you seem to refer more to the Late Heavy Bombardment 'Meteors'. From "Seveneyes", which I haven't yet read but I have a general idea of the setup, you're effectively invoking a rerunning the aftermath of the Theia impact (4.5b years ago) in that much of the impact mass/broken Earth that had not at that time fallen back to Earth is now doing so.
 ::To be thorough, showing thin lines for various "Traps" (like the Deccan ones, coincidental and maybe or maybe not coincidental with Chicxulub, or the Siberian ones) where vulcanism and/or climate might be a very brief (geologically speaking) alternative to the surrounding non-volcano and non-climate 'primary threat'. But it's funnier, as it is, glossing over such transient issues. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.43.245|172.69.43.245]] 04:12, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
 I didn't think that the Cryogenian Ice Age was cold enough to be an immediate threat to a typical human, especially if that human was wearing winter clothes, just a long-term threat (mostly due to food). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.41.68|162.158.41.68]] 21:09, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

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	For all the times xkcd has focused on raptors and how to prevent predatory raptor attacks, I'm disappointed that "Trampled" is the main concern for travelers going to the Mesozoic Era. [[User:TCMits\|TCMits]] ([[User talk:TCMits\|talk]]) 14:00, 24 August 2024 (UTC)		For all the times xkcd has focused on raptors and how to prevent predatory raptor attacks, I'm disappointed that "Trampled" is the main concern for travelers going to the Mesozoic Era. [[User:TCMits\|TCMits]] ([[User talk:TCMits\|talk]]) 14:00, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
		+	:Maybe the Mesozoic raptors also just tended to get trampled? Only in the modern day are raptors free from the threat of trampling and thus to become a threat to Randall. Especially if the present-day threat is a merely a stuck door. It all fits because, when it comes to things like doors, raptors are known to be Clever Girls! [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.79\|141.101.98.79]] 00:12, 25 August 2024 (UTC)