• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Ironically enough he was arrested in Florida which is far enough away there’s likely a real difference over that long of time.

    Like “real” as in there is a difference. Not that it is in anyway significant.

    I googled and apparently in the ~14 billion years we think the universe has existed, the north pole has experienced about four more days of time than the equator.

    So like 37 American years or 37.000000000000000000000001 Canadian years.

    I’m assuming American.

    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      You can’t use the age of the universe because the North Pole didn’t exist until earth formed, and that was only ~4.5 billion years ago.

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      2 days ago

      I really wasn’t expecting real answer but this is probably the most perfect response I’ve ever seen

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        2 days ago

        Eh, that’s over the estimated life of the universe.

        Our solar system is likely a third that age.

        It was just the first example I got when googling it, and I didn’t want to break it down and convert it to make it more accurate.

        Even then, pole reversal are common (speaking of, were like 100k years overdue and inexplicable shit is going on under the antarctic right now…) so even over the life of the Earth you’d have to keep teleporting to each new North Pole.

        But it’s a good example of relativity.