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minus-squareDonjuanme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-22 months agoI 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
minus-squareqjkxbmwvz@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-22 months ago 100 words per minute Post says words per second.
minus-squareqjkxbmwvz@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoAs my stat mech professor said, “what’s a few orders of magnitude between friends?”
minus-squarelugal@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoIt’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
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
Post says words per second.
Sheit, right, units.
As my stat mech professor said, “what’s a few orders of magnitude between friends?”
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