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Water (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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

Actually interesting fact

Your 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!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days 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] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

orders of magnitude soz

physics causes brainrot and everything becomes OOM

[–] anindefinitearticle 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You're comparing them linearly, a comparison for which the statement is false.

The statement is true multiplicatively/logarithmically/unitarily.

Atomic radius is ~ 1e-10m

Light second is ~3e8m

Your height can be measured as 1.8e10 atomic radii.

A light second can be measured using only 1.7e8 humans who are 1.8m tall.

Does that help?