#3251: Time Machine Conversation

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[1st Panel. Cueball is on the left with a ghostly halo around him. Hairbun is on the right, holding a hoe vertically.]

Cueball: Oh hi! Guess my time machine works. How's life in the Iron Age?

Hairbun: Not bad. Developing new kinds of plows.

Cueball: Cool.

Hairbun: And my brother was just lost at sea.

[2nd Panel. Only Cueball is shown, with Hairbun out of the panel.]

Cueball: I'm sorry.

Hairbun [from outside the right side]: It's OK. I think sea navigation is probably impossible.

[3rd Panel. Cueball and Hairbun are both shown again.]

Cueball: Oh yeah, you don't have the compass, right?

Hairbun: The what?

Cueball: The weird rock that always points north?

Hairbun: What are you talking about?

[4th Panel. Cueball and Hairbun are both shown. Cueball holds his hand to his chin.]

Cueball: It does sound ridiculous when I say it out loud. Anyway, spoilers for the magnetic compass. Sorry.

Hairbun: What's a spoiler?

Cueball: ...Spoilers for the concept of a spoiler, too.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:It's possible to do sea navigation without a compass, but you'll have to get some spoilers from the Polynesians.


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