2987: Tectonic Surfing

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Tectonic Surfing
The worst is when you wipe out in the barrel and you're trapped for several million years until erosion frees you.
Title text: The worst is when you wipe out in the barrel and you're trapped for several million years until erosion frees you.

    Explanation

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    In this comic, Beret Guy is doing tectonic surfing. This seems to be surfing on tectonic plates, which move very slowly. [citation needed] He seems to be moving at about 4-5 cm/year which would put him on one of the moderately fast plates. [citation needed]

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    Where is the speed Beret Guy's moving at coming from? It looks to me like he moved about half his own height in 20 years so assuming he's 6 ft: 36in/20year gives 4.57 cm/year 7 cm/year for his speed seems high and 11 seems ridiculous. 172.71.159.45 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

    Seems to have been changed already --Kynde (talk) 06:51, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
    Maybe 2061 could get a tony-hawk spin off... --Lupo (talk) 06:58, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
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