#3127: Where Babies Come From
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[Hairy, Ponytail, Hairbun, Cueball and Megan are standing below a question given at the top of the comic. Each of the five gives their answer to the question. Below each character is a label with their respective occupation.]
Various experts answer the question “Where do babies come from?”
Geneticist
[Hairy, the geneticist, has one arm up, and is facing right.]
Hairy: Recent admixture event, roughly 0.001 Kya.
Astronomer
[Ponytail, the astronomer, is standing normally and facing left.]
Ponytail: Low-impulse ejection from a parent body.
Software engineer
[Hairbun, the software engineer, is standing with one forearm pointed up, and is facing right.]
Hairbun: Off-by-one error in the population calculations.
Geologist
[Cueball, the geologist, is standing with one forearm half up, and is facing left.]
Cueball: The area was originally a uniform plane, but the non-baby parts eroded at higher rates.
Meteorologist
[Megan, the meteorologist, is standing normally and facing right.]
Megan: Moist ground-level turbulent mixing.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:Historians: Contemporaneous documentation of the initial events is often sparse, and in fact people often get testy and uncooperative when we urge better documentation for the historical record.