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xkcd #2872: Hydrothermal Vents (imgs.xkcd.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://xkcd.com/2872/

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Benthic Santas weren't even discovered until the 1970s, but many scientists now believe Christmas may have originally developed around hydrothermal vents and only later migrated to the surface.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (3 children)

https://explainxkcd.com/2872/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Thank you. This made no sense to me at first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

xkcd's comics will be the next summerian bar jokes a couple thousand years from now.

I mean, take away the context of what santa claus is and this would be incomprehensible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We did our second SantaCon this year. I’m thinking Benthic Santa for next year. What is SantaCon, you ask? https://www.santacon.info/