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It’s ok if you want to close close your eyes for the slab graveyard, so you can still have fun riding the mantle plume back up afterward!
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3303/
Would anyone care to ELI5 this comic series for me? I want to know because it seems to be such an esoteric thing.
See, this is why I would love immortality. All the people afraid of it are just not thinking about the upside, just the floating in space bit.
Which sounds fine to me, btw, humans can get used to anything. I’m a lot more worried about dying in a few decades from now than I’d be about being launched into space by an asteroid impact who knows how long from now, or imprisoned in a mountain.
Erosion, mate. I’ll be out in a jiffy.
“No need to get baked before you come along, because it’s bound to happen on the way there!”


