Randall Munroe’s web comic XKCD has long been known for pushing boundaries in strange ways, but his latest experiment topped them all. Over the course of four months, “Time” grew as a frame was added every 30 minutes or so, ending up with over 3,000 individual frames by the time it wrapped up earlier this week. Now that the epic comic has finally wrapped up, Munroe is talking a bit about the backstory behind “Time” and some of the clues he dropped in the comic to help the passionate fanbase that grew up around it piece the story together. As reported by Wired, “Time” takes place not in the past, but 11,000 years in the future. “In my comic, our civilization is long gone,” said Munroe. “Every civilization with written records has existed for less than 5,000 years; it seems optimistic to hope that the current one will last for 10,000 more.”
via The Verge
