https://www.thefarside.com/2026/10/13/4
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Hooting excitedly, primitive scientists Thak and Gork try out their new “Time Log.”
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Star log 48435: time log is here again. Unixtime 7894227.
Vaguely reminds me of this vaguely remembered film:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Navigator:_A_Medieval_Odyssey
maybe I’m being dumb but I don’t really get it. I mean yes, they’re on a log, but what is the time part? Is it literally just that they’re cavemen and therefore out of their time? Also, why are they floating?
It’s the flip side of the common trope of inventing a time machine, and going back to see cavemen. These primitive cavemen invented a time machine and went forward to see us. The humor of the log is just that, of course their “machine” is something primitive, just like them. The floating is just because time machines are often depicted as being able to fly, often surprising primitive people that are visited by time machine inventors.
ah, OK. Thank you! That makes sense now.
