#2171: Shadow Biosphere

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Cueball and Megan are standing facing each other. A shadowy figure is behind Megan.]

Shadowy figure: These days most of our funding comes in from the shadow biotech industry.

Megan: Did you hear something?

Cueball: I think it's the wind.

[Caption below the panel:]

The shadow biosphere exists, but if you study it, you become a shadow biologist.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:The typical Shadow Biology Department is housed in a building coated in a thin layer of desert varnish which renders it invisible to normal-world university staff.


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