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A lot of the highway department’s budget goes to adjusting the sign whenever the moon passes directly overhead.
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Source: xkcd.com/3174/
True. But wind sheer in the lower atmosphere could be an issue. Sometimes the moon gets in the way, too.
Not just the moon. You can’t just drive here with a 46 billion light year tall lorry without crashing into some stars, galaxies, black holes and what not.
Really?
Can we calculate this? Let’s do specs first. Let’s say we only drive until the next overpass, which is likely in the next few km , let’s say 5. And we drive 40kmh so for 450 second the lory is swinging around the universe trying to hit anything. Would it?
Title text:
A lot of the highway department’s budget goes to adjusting the sign whenever the moon passes directly overhead.
10 ft 6 inch? That’s the can opener bridge!
For users of non-retarded units: 10ft 6in = 3.2m
Otherwise cool xkdc
This would be top comment on Reddit
But- we’re not on Reddit. Are we?
The sign on the left is mounted on a pole that extends 10 ft 6 in above the ground.
I love Randall so much
Rooty@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I still get freaked out when I gaze into the night sky and remember that I’m looking into infinity.