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Good to get the tear ducts flushed occasionally.

I'm just impressed the city ran its water main through solid granite

Sedimentary and fossils weep at their exclusion

Oh, oh dear.

You’re right. I still remember that Marianas trench one from like 2011 and the giant side scroller world from like 2014 or whatev. Randall is GOATed

Real

sfhsjdfhsk "andalite"

😏

We have been summoned!

Thanks for Alt-Text. And thanks for all your Comics.

Excellent! Thank you!

How deep are the fake dinosaur bones put there by god to ensure there is work for His archaeologists? I can’t see them on the diagram.

🤣🤣

The Screaming Spelunkers would be a good name for a band.

Or may be it's like buffalo wings...

soooo that lower end is New Hampshire somewhere I'm guessing

Good news is, with that efficiency pickaxe, that netherrack is instamined

Field Geology 101: Always set the drill depth stop.

Ah, the deep lore we've all been looking for.

I KNEW the Nether was just hell.

Great, here comes the Yeerks.

This one’s for you @shmermel.bsky.social

GNEISS ONE

The andesite and diorite are so annoying they just had to add them to Minecraft...

A standout! Nice one, mate

What, no chunk of Virgil’s unobtainium hull?

This is me not getting sucked into Balrog discourse.

UNobtainium

Ugh! Just think of the mess from the drilling mud all over the rival driller's living room.

OHHHHHH, so THAT'S why Balrogs don't have wings! Thanks for settling the debate :D

This is the opposite of Earth sandwich

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ-_...

I laughed so much at this. Thank you!

For those of you with nerds & geeks in your life looking for Xmas presents, I recommend bookshop.org/p/books/thin... and bookshop.org/p/books/what... NOT PAID TO SAY THIS xkcd.com/747/

I see topsoil and bottomsoil, but where's the switchsoil?

Least controversial is the mangled drillbit

Bonus points if you get buried fiber trunks in there

Lol, Me and my mom are rockhounds and this is hilarious.

Brilliant.

Poor diorite. (I also always have it look it up)

🤩 I shudder to think

Hopefully nobody would end up in the ocean. We'd be in hot water then.

Where are the frags of musk's boring boring company shitpile?

... diorite...

Andalite? One of the best reasons to get sucked into Animorphs. Diorite? What Dior calls their non-diamond stones when they still wanna charge a small fortune.

What you find in Minecraft when you just want regular stone.

Title text: "If you drill at the right angle and time things perfectly, your core sample can include a section of a rival team's coring equipment." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3171#Transcript