However, as Randall loves to remind people, dinosaurs such as T-rex are more closely related (temporally, anatomically and phylogenetically) to birds than to some other dinosaurs such as Stegosaurus, and therefore, birds are dinosaurs in their own right.

Humanity needs to withstand just some millennia of active worldwide volcanism.

The comic could be an indirect reference to the growing "intelligence" of self-driving cars, such that one day they might have the intellect to communicate, vote, and engage in other self-motivated activities.

While most people these days use their smartphones for functions that do not require sound, a completely silent phone would not fit the traditional definition of a "phone".

This doesn't make sense as a dark matter candidate either – unless dark matter is hard to detect because it's illegal & trying to avoid the cops.

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States of America, was not an entity composed wholly of nanobots that attempted to consume the entire nation to then be imprisoned within the Lincoln Memorial.

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While x-ray sterilization is used to sterilize equipment, it is not normally used for water.

This comic encourages the reader to post random news stories on the Internet, under the line "It begins." This creates a sense of impending doom, as well as making people wonder what, exactly, is being referred to.

You may also be accused of "not playing fair", but only if you leave survivors.

(yelling at the sun for 20,000 years would be a minuscule amount of time for the stars, but for humans it would be a vast length of time, and would get annoying very quickly)

What a dumb idea for a comic. It's kinda like comedy central when they run out of ideas, they run South Park day and night, or TruTV running Impractical Jokers episodes because they ran out of other remotely funny stuff.

There are presumably no branches of Cinnabon in Narnia.[citation needed]

The sheer incongruity of everything Cueball has reported, in combination with past issues, leads Hairy to report that his manager has authorized Cueball and his laptop be thrown into the ocean. Cueball accepts this without objection.

While not a video game character, it is more than possible to create a Mii Fighter based on Beto O'Rourke in the game.

It is not known if the universe of Star Wars is expanding, contracting, or steady-state, although prior to Lucasfilm's acquisition by Disney, the officially-published non-film Star Wars media were collectively known as the "Star Wars Expanded Universe".

Puns rise and fall in popularity, and some people dislike them at all times.

At popular beaches, seagulls are known to aggressively harass humans for their food; if they wielded handguns, a great deal of violence would ensue.