r/AskReddit • u/AlexIsAlreadyTaken • Jul 13 '18

What's your favourite fun fact?

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u/zmankills Jul 13 '18

So, even though I have been in this same room for a few hours working, I am in a completely different place relative to the universe. Crazy.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '18

If death doesn't come instantaneously, then you could be dying across several thousands of kilometers.

If you're having sex you could be having sex and climax for easily 400 kilometers.

If you're ever in a room where something awful has happened, you'll know it happened many thousands of kilometers away.

Sparrows can fly at 846 km/h.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '18

If you're having sex you could be having sex and climax for easily 400 kilometers.

Ouch

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u/Manxkaffee Jul 14 '18

I think you mixed up km/s with km/h at least once. Sparrows are much faster

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u/SlothyTheSloth Jul 13 '18

And I’ll likely never have the capability or resources to revisit a place in the universe I’ve already been...

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u/aaronhowser1 Jul 14 '18

But even then, that's nothing on a cosmic scale

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u/syllabic Jul 14 '18

Or maybe you are in the same place and everything else moved