Well.. Earth's rotation would mean that the top of the lorry would be moving at 3.3 million light years per second ... Or you know, about 100 trillion times the speed of light.

That might break some things.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

At this point I'm actually curious about the mass of the lorry.

I wonder if we could estimate the mass of a lorry, 2.5 meters wide, 20 m long, 46 billion light years tall. Let's assume it's filled with jars of peanut butter.

At that size, it could well be the most massive object in the universe.

Now that I think about it, it could also be too tall, possibly a tipping hazard around turns.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That truck tipping over could wipe out every lifeform on the planet with nut allergies.

The sheer mass of Skippy would become a fully functional ecological system of its own before cleanup was finished.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I mean, it has the potential to wipe out all life even without nut allergies. I for one have an allergy to things falling from the sky at c fractional speeds.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Take a Claritin, you'll get over it

[–] Snazz@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Unless the lorry was driving over the exact geographic north or south pole.

Side note: the tallest lorry where the top doesn’t move faster than the speed of light at the equator is 3.8 light hours tall, which is weird to think about because the top doesn’t start moving until well after the bottom has reached it’s destination.