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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Also interesting: If you were to take your nerves out and lay them end on end you would die.

Actually interesting factYour height is closer in scale to a light second than the size of an atom. And yet atoms seem more approachable than light seconds. Fascinating stuff!

[–] ChairmanMeow 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How do you define "closer" here? I'm about 1.8m removed from the size of an atom but well over 299 thousand kilometers from a light second.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

orders of magnitude soz

physics causes brainrot and everything becomes OOM