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Time Travel Commute

April 23, 2018

Someone who works at a time-travel start-up complains of an 80-year commute to a building across the street.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-04-23-time-travel-commute/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

A: "How's the job at the time travel start-up going?" B: "Ugh. The commute is killing me." A: "Oh. How long is it?" B: "About 80 years."

A: "Uh... what?" B: "On the plus side, the building is right across the street."

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