Talk:3120: Geologic Periods

Discovered this explanation fresh off the griddle. The transcript doesn't even exist yet wow. Also, hi! This is my first time commenting! Did I do it right? Giraffequeries (talk) 22:54, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

(Yes, looks like you did.)

A couple of hours on, and nobody's attempted the Transcript yet. If you're still around right now-ish and you've got more time than everyone elses seems to have (including me, sorry), that could be your next thing.

Check prior Transcripts for the right kind of way (and a few wrongs, but hey?), and imagine the words+'markup' being read through the hypothetical screen-readers. That might not know how to 'audible' a table, may at best shout/stress bold-strong/italics-emphasis, but perhaps not correctly.

But just getting the words down helps the next soul with a few more minutes at hand. Any normal weekend, I'd be happy to do it right now, but I've got to be up in five hours, and I mildly regret just checking right now to see if I might have missed the latest comic popping up when it was a bit earlier and I was prepping my weekend bags. :) 82.132.236.123 01:49, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

Darn, forgot to say my intended actual personal comment I was just going to add. i.e.: Looks like Randall hasn't forgotten about Raptors! Anyway, goodnight/early-morning (my time).... 82.132.236.123 01:53, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

I've done my part. Also, Raptors TPS (talk) 02:20, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

Did anyone else google "The Great Dying"? How about "Manicouagan"? How about "Picture of a dinosaur eating a burrito" (just to prove Randall wrong)?

Ask and you shall receive (shitty AI pic made in five seconds): https://imgur.com/a/4lVKoqD 2A02:2455:1960:4000:1972:32FB:7958:52D3 18:30, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

Who wrote this? Tanystropheus wasn't a dinosaur! 70.115.234.146 03:28, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

Given that this wiki doesn't really like tables, and this one is formatted rather simply, maybe we should just transfer its content to the transcript and retain only explanations in the main part, as separate paragraphs? The Rooster (talk) 08:41, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

Yeah I'm not sure what to do for transcript, comic 2627 is in similar style but not sure if we necessarily want it like that.--Darth Vader (talk) 09:18, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

Just a small explanation to the Quarternary/Tertiary naming issue because this has become rather obscure and is seldomly spelled out in newer geology textbooks: When the first geologists came up with a table of geologic epochs it consisted of four parts: "Primary", "Secondary", "Tertiary" and "Quarternary". Only the last two names have survived into our time, because the first two parts became split up into the systems that we still use today rather quickly. This is also the main reason that most stratigraphers want to get rid of the terms Tertiary and Quarternary and why Paleogene/Neogene were invented instead. 2003:DD:472A:5500:35F8:1CD8:D274:E286 14:46, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

Burrito? Surely not, everyone knows its "soft toilet tissue" 2A00:23C8:252D:A301:B573:A9F2:E80C:711B 10:08, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

I don't know why he doesn't like the Zanclean flood. It would have been a spectacular sight had anyone been around to see it.2A02:8388:1701:E100:60D1:5BC3:D420:5528 16:44, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Should the explanation of the Zanclean flood have some sort of reference to 1190: Time? Morgan Wick (talk) 00:38, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

I have never before contemplated the possibility of trilobites having riz! :) However, young women cosplaying as My Little Pony characters on social media? Definite riz. These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For (talk) 03:20, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

Randall is wrong - parisitoid wasps are very cool. 82.13.184.33 08:14, 28 July 2025 (UTC)