A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
Special 10th anniversary edition of WHAT IF?—revised and annotated with brand-new illustrations and answers to important questions you never thought to ask—coming from November 2024. Preorder here!
[[One figure is excitedly speaking to two others.]]
Excited Figure: Whoa, it's 2014-03-10! Under our system, that date will *never happen again!!*
My hobby: pointing this out every day.
{{Title text: If our current civilization lasts another 8,000 years, it's probably fair to assume the Long Now Foundation got things right, and at some point we started listening to them and switched to five-digit years.}}
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