• @PugJesusOPM
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    5024 days ago

    Explanation: It’s been pointed out before that there’s a small window of time in which the fax machine, the Samurai class, and Abraham Lincoln all coexisted, making it theoretically possible for a samurai to send a fax to Abraham Lincoln.

    • brianorca
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      424 days ago

      But was there an undersea cable?

      • @PugJesusOPM
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        324 days ago

        Japan wouldn’t be connected by undersea telegraph cables until 1906, so our brave samurai will have to at least get to the Continental USA the old fashioned way.

  • @[email protected]
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    1624 days ago

    I wonder if someday, far into the future, people will think this is an event that actually happened due to the sheer amount of memes implying it happened.

    That is, provided our descendants aren’t too busy fighting the bug horde.

    • Optional
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      424 days ago

      I think you and I both know that is in fact what will happen.

  • Optional
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    424 days ago

    Can someone post this to tumblr and get it going? I’m gonna need this in a three part fanfic series by Thursday.