#3243: Crystal Gazing
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[A character in wizard garb with long beard and hair talks to Cueball. To the left of the wizard is a poster with illegible text over a graph with two lines intersecting.]
Wizard: By gazing into my crystals of zircon, I have divined the date of the hour of fire marking the limit of this world's existence.
Wizard: 4.54 billion years ago, the beginning was nigh!
[Caption below comic:]
Geochronologists are just reverse prophets of doom.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:'Beyond that lies a vale of fire through which my vision cannot penetrate' is the kind of fun thing geologists, heliophysicists, and early universe cosmologists have a lot of opportunities to say.