While I normally find XKCD to be entertaining, I thought today's cartoon was a horrible way to explain the Deborah Number:

The explanation is not wrong
per se, but it's just too long winded in getting to the point, and misses the perspective that rheologist, geologists,evolutionary biologists, cosmologists and other have: that the time scale of a human being is too short of a time interval to be an appropriate unit for observing the natural world.
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And the mountains flowed before the
time vulture....
LOL!
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