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In this series we are introduced to the time traveling Sphere. A floating black energy sphere from the future. It speaks fluent English and seems to come from very far into the future and it calls Earth "our planet" so seems like it did not originate on Earth (or else came back). See more about these strange things in the explanation for the comics.
 
In this series we are introduced to the time traveling Sphere. A floating black energy sphere from the future. It speaks fluent English and seems to come from very far into the future and it calls Earth "our planet" so seems like it did not originate on Earth (or else came back). See more about these strange things in the explanation for the comics.
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Similar talking floating energy spheres have been seen before in [[1173: Steroids]] and [[1450: AI-Box Experiment]]. These two other dots are clearly not the same as the ''time traveler Sphere'' in this comic series.
  
 
*It is a rare type of series not seen before in xkcd.  
 
*It is a rare type of series not seen before in xkcd.  

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In this series we are introduced to the time traveling Sphere. A floating black energy sphere from the future. It speaks fluent English and seems to come from very far into the future and it calls Earth "our planet" so seems like it did not originate on Earth (or else came back). See more about these strange things in the explanation for the comics.

Similar talking floating energy spheres have been seen before in 1173: Steroids and 1450: AI-Box Experiment. These two other dots are clearly not the same as the time traveler Sphere in this comic series.

  • It is a rare type of series not seen before in xkcd.
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Explanation

The two comics came out in consecutively released comics, but not two days in a row, but in the regular release schedule Monday and Wednesday, but then stopped there (it seems). Other "real" series where more than one comic in the series came out in the same week always came in groups of five with five releases in a week, one every regular weekday.

Only other situation with a kind of series splitting up with a split between two releases in the same week are the three in the series Opening dialogue by Scott, but they are not directly connected except for the title text which is "Opening dialogue by Scott" for all three.

Such a split did though also happened for the three (on purpose released comics) in the Five-minute comics series, but the subjects in these are also not directly related. Furthermore here the title of the comics is also the same with a part number after the title, just like all the five comics series have either a part number like 1337 or a sub-title like during the Guest Week.

The comics in the Time traveling Sphere series have titles that do not relate to each other, except the fact that both comics titles is a noun followed by a field of research that reefer to sciences that look into the past with Paleontology and Archaeology. Only other clear series with such differing names are the Android series, but those two comics where not released in the same week (although within two weeks of each other), and the word Android goes again in both comics binding them together. In the Time traveling Sphere only the Sphere and the fact that Cueball and Megan continues their discussion with it from the first comic in the second comic makes it clear that these two comics are a series.

It is also the first time there has not been any consecutive story continuity in xkcd since The Race, which ended more than seven years before this comic (in May 2009 vs. October 2016). There where two other weeks with series in a row the first week was the five-minute comics and the week after it was Guest Week, but both of these series were posted due the crisis Randall was in with his wife's cancer, and the first series was not made for xkcd originally, and had no continuity from story to story. And the other was as it says not made by Randall at all, and also there where not relation from comic to comic. The later of these series ended in November 2010, so it is the first time in almost six years that any directly related comics came out in the same week.


Pages in category "Time traveling Sphere"

The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.