Talk:3162: Heart Mountain

https://web.archive.org/web/20061007150515/http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov//Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16819

At some point a giant sheet of limestone... detached and slid southeast towards Bighorn Basin.

Yawn. 2600:1700:2120:5880:40C3:15EB:C354:BD73 00:49, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

This being Halloween, I was really hoping for something along the lines of "The Tell-Tale Heart" mountain. 76.187.17.7 01:21, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Hopefully The Raven is close enough Once upon an inter-blaggy as I scrolled my eyes all baggy Searching through querulous old comics on the site Quoth the explainers: “That’s not quite right” -- Salsmachev (talk) 01:33, 1 November 2025 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Typical, you make a properly researched link to Wikipedia and then, less than two hours later, someone makes it so that someone else has to 'fix' the link and makes me look stupid. (More stupid than I already made myself look, given I might have written other bits of it differently if I'd waited until the morning.) 2.98.65.8 19:15, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi ! First Time commenter here. I wanted to note that the tone of the explanation feels weird to me (it is not specific to this comic, but to most latest explanation). It is very descriptive, dumbing down things that are obvious (panel 1, 2 and 3). I have the feeling the explanation would be better as something like "this is a joke about heart mountain [wikipedia link] <sumary of wikipedia link explaining how the exisiting theories a out heart mountain may look absurd>. Non need to paraphrase each element of the comic, but bette explain the ones that someone may not understand. Am I the only one? Is this remark misplaced? 176.133.138.237 21:57, 1 November 2025 (UTC)Sayanel

Not out of place. It's a collaborative edit, so different approaches get stacked on each other, with different ideas of what need explaining.

I personally prefer not to describe things 'as they happen' but, if I'm coming to something already with that format, I'll place the necessarily narrative expansion of details onto that basis. (In this case, though, there was mostly an appending done, not disturbing the original any more than I saw fit.)

Complete rewrites do get done though. Maybe you want to give that a go. Knowing that dewrites and re-rewrites might well follow, as well as the revamp merely being refined by others. 2.98.65.8 23:21, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles! -24.177.125.170 03:21, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

If you listen closely, you can still hear the sounds of Eurobeat echoing from when they were travelling at high speed. Multi-thrust drifting to the tune of Running in the 90s Laramide Orogeny. 2.101.107.222 (talk) 10:47, 3 November 2025 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Made some edits to hopefully work better. I still feel the scientific explanation is a bit threadbare, and should be written with more detail of how the conclusion was reached, but I haven't read enough to confidently rewrite that.... 216.221.83.168 16:54, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

"Recent work has focused on release of gas (CO2) along the detachment surface that allowed it to move like a hovercraft." from https://www.geowyo.com/heart-mountain.html 2600:6C54:4E00:99C:67B7:D578:30ED:2471 00:41, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

The explanation above currently says the landslide was 50-75 million years ago. However, the comic agrees with Wikipedia (and references therein) that the landslide was 48-50 million years ago, after a "period of mountain-building" 50-75 million years ago.2601:600:837F:B130:417B:6C65:C169:8DB9 19:26, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

Aside from incorporating further details and suggestions from previous comments, I have also taken the liberty to make major edits to remove what I felt was unnecessary detail or speculation. Reverting my most recent edit will restore what I have removed while keeping the details and corrections. 216.221.83.168 18:56, 6 November 2025 (UTC)