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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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    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.