That’s what I thought at first, but the precise shape of Cassiopeia is not something Randall would get wrong.
I don’t think those are real constellations (or at least, not our real constellations). We’re seeing the intersection of the zodiac and the Milky Way, which means either Taurus/Gemini or Scorpius/Sagittarius (I think the former, given the angle), and that doesn’t look like either of those.
Which, coming from Monroe, is a pretty clear indicator that this is definitely not intended to be Earth. He’d never use a made-up starfield where a real one would do.
Could it be a timeshifted Earth starfield?
That really big star showed up pretty early as a disk, before the sky got fully dark. It could be a local system planet (cf Venus or Jupiter) and not part of the star field.
See? You all laughed at my post-Battlestar-Galactica Earth2 theory! You thought I was mad!! Who’s mad now!!!?
Smarter people than me are thinking Scorpius/Sagittarius (possibly missing Antares), with Venus as the bright object, viewed from 30N (from the angle of the ecliptic) in November (but not this year, as no moon is visible). The best guess is 2053 or 2085 (or back in 1949).
How geeky is this 
…okay: just caught up on things: and I have to say…“Time” is awesome. Nothing else to say really: just happy to keep following along on the journey. Well done Randall.
Oh, I see it now. The orientation was just about 90 degrees off from what I’m used to: The teapot is pouring out, with its spout pointing almost straight down.
Now that it is dark I am frantically scanning the frames for big cats …
There is something just popped up on a rock by the tree on the right. Small, though, for the minute.
Over at the xkcd-forum, they’re flaunting a date sometime in April, 13,291… :eek: I would have thought that the abandoned vineyard etc. points to a date not that distant in the future; it seems to say that everything was as we’re used to up until (relatively) recently.
On the xkcd-Time: at your own pace site, there’s a selection that allows you to view the difference between the frame and its immediate predecessor. Good for spotting random motions in the landscape.
Yeah, I use that site on my tablet, but I still have some contrast issues on those dark and light images so I generally use a PC with monitor.
100 days, 2500 frames and counting.
Is that a test stand for a nuclear test?
They’re going to find the top of the Statue of Liberty sticking out from the ground.
Whatever it is at this point is going to be anticlimactic. I check this thread maybe twice a month and wow! they climbed a mountain. Big deal.
Dude needs to wrap it up.
The funny thing is I agree it will probably be anticlimactic (if it indeed ever ends-at this point, I could see him just doing this for as long as he has a career) but I have been enjoying the trip.
You’re missing the point. The comic isn’t about the destination, it’s about the journey. It’s not a long wind-up to something mind-blowing, it’s a depiction of the small moment-to-moment details that make up our lives. Occasionally something cool happens, there are long stretches of nothing much at all. I hope it runs for years.
How can it be anti-climactic if it ends on a mountain!?
Oooh. The castle’s entirely underwater.
There’s no going back for our heroes.