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  1. the speed of light is so usefully human-scaled for really big distances
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      australia is about half a second away. mars is a few minutes away. edge of the solar system... about an hour? other stars are years away.
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        corrections:diameter of the earth is 0.04ish seconds, solar system has a radius of 5hours (or much more - what counts as the edge?)
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        those numbers mean something to me! they're not just 10^x units away.
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          i guess i have a similar many orders of magnitude familiarity with ... distance? and bytes? that's probably it.
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