• lugal@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    Tectonic plates are about as fast as the growth of finger and toe nails

    • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I feel like that would be much much faster than 100 words per minute… But scale is hard

      Taken from​ below, the Atlantic Ocean expands 1 cm per year, this is much slower than my finger nails grow

      • qjkxbmwvzEnglish
        91·
        2 months ago

        100 words per minute

        Post says words per second.

          • qjkxbmwvzEnglish
            6·
            2 months ago

            As my stat mech professor said, “what’s a few orders of magnitude between friends?”

          • lugal@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            It’s also not the exact speed but the order of magnitude. Both plates and nails vary in speed individually but the order of magnitude is the same

    • phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      If I started to let my fingernails grow around the time of Pangea, I’d have some kickass fingernails that would be a bitch while programming.

      I’d also have a nail fungus from the planet hell.

      Edit: auto correct is a bitch

      • dave@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I do not like the sound of pickass finger nails. But it could explain the fungus.