• Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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    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

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      2 months ago

      100 words per minute

      Post says words per second.

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          2 months ago

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

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          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