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10-10-2016, 02:17 AM | #1 |
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Useless Facts (depending on your point-of-view)
The estimated diameter of the observable universe is 93 billion light-years.
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10-10-2016, 08:35 AM | #2 |
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10-10-2016, 03:30 PM | #3 |
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A lightyear is about 5.88 trillion miles.
All ya gotta do is multiply 5.88 trillion times 93 billion. Let's see now... 5,880,000,000,000 x 93,000,000,000 = 5,468,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles Did I do that right? I think I got lost in all those zeroes.
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10-10-2016, 03:32 PM | #4 |
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Close enough.
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10-10-2016, 04:38 PM | #5 |
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According to Wolfram Alpha, 1 light-year = 5.879 trillion miles, so yeah,,, close enuf. 5.879 trillion times 93 billion actually = 546 sextillion miles, which is still an approximation.
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10-10-2016, 03:38 PM | #6 |
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I think I ended up with an extra zero.
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10-10-2016, 03:40 PM | #7 |
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10-10-2016, 03:40 PM | #8 |
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When I was growing up we were taught the long scale billion definition (a million million), though it had already become standard to use the short scale in official figures.
ETA: according to Wiki the short scale was officially adopted by the UK government in '74, when I was 2, so it must have coexisted for a few years after that
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10-10-2016, 04:47 PM | #10 |
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10-10-2016, 04:55 PM | #11 |
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...the lesson of which is, as usual, don't sell the rights to your recorded material and don't make a shitty record deal so you can have a hit single
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10-11-2016, 12:09 AM | #12 |
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Useless to you, but not useless to me:
The average person files a car insurance claim every 17.9 years.
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10-11-2016, 12:24 AM | #13 |
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10-11-2016, 12:40 AM | #14 |
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10-11-2016, 08:48 AM | #15 |
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Exxum Ohio is 12 miles SSE of Cleveland.
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