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"If you took all the DNA out of a person and laid it end to end, that person would die."

The distance to Jupiter from Earth is but a mere blip though. Even the galaxy is small compared to what's beyond.

Thanks to chaos theory, what we do here can have some effect on the far future of the Universe, at least, for those places within causal reach. How meaningful that effect can be remains to be seen.

But do bear in mind that even, say, a cow farting in a field in France last Tuesday might have as much effect as everything you ever do.

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Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I’d start with the notion that the distance from Jupiter to Earth is very much not a constant value, and can be many times different depending on both planets’ positions around the Sun.

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- Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  1 + 1 = 2, or sometimes it’s 6, you know things can move sometimes
  
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blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Has anyone ever done a quick calculation about the above with the population?

8 billion people x distance to Jupiter = Anywhere close to Proxima Centauri?

I’ll be not lazy when I’m done shitting then someone can come in and correct my math after.

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