Talk:3088: Deposition
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- well done. no notes. youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk 03:58, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- well, at least you tried... 104.23.160.75 04:35, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
--Stephen Hawking did about the same thing, throwing a party for time travellers. But nobody came. (also yes thats an undertale reference :D )--104.23.175.41 06:36, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- Nobody came yet...162.158.216.82 08:37, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
Futurama reference? 162.158.91.54 03:56, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- [Lethal Inspection], a Futurama episoded with Inspector No 5.172.68.194.187 07:40, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
This is definitely a comic that does have "set-in-stone explanations." 162.158.155.81 06:40, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
I genuinely want to do this. Can anyone tell where I could find good locations, ones where rocks are likely to be preserved like in this comic? 162.158.134.184 07:13, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
"Deposition", as in the title, can mean either taking sworn evidence (in a legal context) or depositing material (in a geologic context). 172.68.54.179 07:49, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- This would be typical of Randall's propensity for double meanings! I think it needs to be added to the explanation. Ianrbibtitlht (talk) 11:10, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- It doesn't really have anything to do with anything in the comic, though. It would be no more relevant than commenting that e.g. 'margin' can also relate to page layouts, or 'might' can relate to the amount of power someone has. The explanations are going to get very long and confusing if we start calling out all the alternative meanings of every single word used in them.172.68.229.139 13:39, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- I understand your point, but in this case I think one could view Ponytail's written message as a sworn statement of sorts, in addition to it also being a "deposition" in the rock substrate. I think Randall intended it as a double-meaning, as he does many times. Ianrbibtitlht (talk) 15:26, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- It doesn't really have anything to do with anything in the comic, though. It would be no more relevant than commenting that e.g. 'margin' can also relate to page layouts, or 'might' can relate to the amount of power someone has. The explanations are going to get very long and confusing if we start calling out all the alternative meanings of every single word used in them.172.68.229.139 13:39, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
It's really cool that we see these aliens in these crafts. If you look at the other times aliens have shown up in XKCD they appear to be generally the same aliens, or just a UFO, and this is an interesting synthesis of the two. 172.68.27.180 14:13, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Related to No. 6 in https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1476:_Ceres? 172.68.3.30 10:18, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
It's also possible that the last panel is underwater, the shale hasn't been raised, and the beings aren't using antigravity. That would make it harder to use the shovel and pick, though. BunsenH (talk) 14:44, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- We also don't know that those are 'personal conveyors' - they may be an integral part of their hybrid biological-mechanical bodies.172.71.178.92 08:50, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
Saying that, even with time-travel, "it would be impossible" to find the right party seems wrong to me. With sufficient time-travel ability there's always extensive "trial and error". And, with additional time-travel 'meta-usage', even that isn't necessarily a long process, as you use TT to report every one of your 'errors' back to yourself before you even try them, narrowing the window down, ultimately making the process a matter of just waiting for you to arrive from your own future to tell you where you had(/are about to have) gone back to in order to find the party, having avoided being all the yous that had found the invitation rock not yet carved (or long-since carved, and discovered already on the way to where it will wait for you to have (already, later) find it) and had to 'start' looking later(/earlier) than you might have initially decided to look before your own bootstrapped guidance. ((Depends on how the Timey-Wimey really works, but I'm hoping the universe likes Stable Time Loops, and not universe-collapsing paradoxes that wipe the whole of spacetime out in retaliation for over-incautious interference in the whole continuum. And, because if the latter could happen then I'm sure it would (it simultanously has, and will do!), I would not be able to still exist to ponder it, so either there's a very good 'STL-finder' or some other more definite Chronology Protection Principle there to filter out potentially problematic disruptions of the timestream.)) 172.69.224.61 16:56, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
