2987: Tectonic Surfing

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Tectonic Surfing

Title text: The worst is when you wipe out in the barrel and you're trapped for several million years until erosion frees you.

Explanation

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In this comic, Beret Guy is doing tectonic surfing. This seems to be surfing on tectonic plates, which move very slowly.^{[citation needed]} He seems to be moving horizontally at about 4-5 cm/year (~1 m/20 yrs) which would put him on one of the moderately fast plates.

While doing this he says "Radical", "Gnarly", and "Hang loose" which are commonly used among surfers.

Transcript

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[Cueball walks up to Beret Guy. Beret Guy is standing with one leg in front of another and his arms spread wide.]

Cueball: What are you doing?

Beret Guy: Tectonic surfing!

[Cueball is standing behind Beret Guy, who is in the same pose.]

Beret Guy: Radical!

Beret Guy: Gnarly!

Beret Guy: Hang loose!

[Beret Guy is alone, still in the same position in the center of the panel.]

[Caption:]

20 years later:

[Beret Guy is in the same position, but at the right edge of the panel.]

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Discussion

Where is the speed Beret Guy's moving at coming from? It looks to me like he moved about half his own height in 20 years so assuming he's 6 ft: 36in/20year gives 4.57 cm/year 7 cm/year for his speed seems high and 11 seems ridiculous. 172.71.159.45 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Seems to have been changed already --Kynde (talk) 06:51, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Maybe 2061 could get a tony-hawk spin off... --Lupo (talk) 06:58, 19 September 2024 (UTC)