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xkcd #3265: Asteroid Threat

Title text:

Paleontologists have long worried that the dinosaurs blasted into space 66 million years ago will one day complete their orbits and fall back down.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3265/

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

Based purely on the thumbnail and title, I thought this was going to be a joke about a tiny clone of Earth being the asteroid and wondered how the heck that would work as set-up and punchline.

And even though that's not actually what's going on in the image, I still kind of want someone to make the wrong interpretation work.