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xkcd #3135: Sea Level (imgs.xkcd.com)

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xkcd #3135: Sea Level

Title text:

They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3135/

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 106 points 2 months ago (19 children)

There are places in the solar system where the tide rips new mountains up every go around.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

True!

Going further - "tides" actually rip planets & stars fully apart (binary star systems, around black holes, yo mamma casually strolling through a galaxy).

[–] Ugh@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gasp! I'm telling my mamma you said that about her!!

(because it's gonna make her giggle like an idiot, too, like it did to me!)

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 months ago

giggle

Oh nyooo, quickly, someone alert LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)!!!

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