What a concisely informative bastard.
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Wed 10 Apr 2019, 16:24,
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500 million trillion km away according to the bbc who seem to have asked a six year old
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Wow, that's some terrible reporting.
The Messier 87 galaxy is 53.5 ± 1.63 Mly (megalight-years, ie millions of light years) away, which is about 5x1020 km, which is 500 quintillion. I guess that's what they mean.
A trillion has 12 zeroes, and a million has 6, so a "million trillion" is kind of a quintillion (18).
It's 300 sextillion smoots. So that's nice.
Try the astronomy.com article for a bit more sense.
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300 sextillion smoots? Well that settles it, I'm not going. I mean if it had been 200 sextillion smoots AND there was a harvesters on the way then maybe but 300, no chance.
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What's that in double-decker buses?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 11 Apr 2019, 11:59,
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5.4x1022 apparently. Or, if you prefer, 3.6x1024 linguine or 2.3x1022 brontosauruses (brontosauri?).
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Johnny Cash was right!
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 10 Apr 2019, 18:08,
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Science is boss!
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Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Wed 10 Apr 2019, 20:52,
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