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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

There are less than 1000 people who can claim to be on Earth for the second or more time. Everyone else is still on their first visit.

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There are less than 1000 people who can claim to be on Earth for the second or more time. Everyone else is still on their first visit.

🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz
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    Oh, the first time I read this I had a completely wrong idea what it was about. I thought it was talking about like the Dalai Lama having being reincarnated or something.

    • Today@lemmy.world
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      Same. I was wondering how we count the number of people who claim to have been reincarnated.

  • similideano@sopuli.xyz
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    More like 24. Low Earth Orbit is just hanging out in the porch. :)

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.netOP
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      That’s under a thousand isn’t it? :P

      • similideano@sopuli.xyz
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        Touché!

    • perviouslyiner@lemm.ee
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      And https://xkcd.com/893/ is arriving.

  • Izzy@lemmy.world
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    But how many people have escaped the influence of Earths gravity altogether? None?

    • Pyr@lemmy.ca
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      You would never escape the influence of Earth’s gravity, as far as I know.

      From what I understand everything in the universe has a slight gravitational effect no matter the distance, it’s just that the effect get infinitesimally small, but never reaching zero.

    • keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz
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      Right. The farthest people have been is the Moon, which is still gravitationally bound to the Earth. Plenty of spacecraft have been out of Earth’s gravity well, and also a car, but no humans.

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        What do you mean? I thought the car had an astronaut suit in the drivers seat containing the dessicated corpse of the real Elon Musk, after being murdered, memory-absorbed, and doppelganger-ed by the current version.

        • Eylrid@lemmy.world
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          If that were the case the current version would have a goatee.

        • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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          That would explain a lot

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    deleted by creator

    • 6mementomori@lemmy.world
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      that’s not on the surface of earth. we all know what the post meant, that would be just pointlessly pedantic imo.

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