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gnabgib•about 2 hours ago

Discussion (220 points,5 days ago, 73 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974682

mkarrmann•about 3 hours ago

Referring to "25 centimeters per year" as "so fast it can be seen from space" is so funny to me.

We have very good satellites! Lots of things can be seen from space. "can be seen from space" is an awful way to provide readers intuition for the scale of something.

dlcarrier•about 1 hour ago

We're at the point that "so slow/little it can only be seen from space" is a better description of our current technology.

Mexico City is sinking so quickly, it can be seen from space

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