marcos

The sphere is so big that it will appear as flat for any purpose you can think of.

Oh, wait...

Extreme left.

Norway on the other hand...

There are barely visible tiny features that would have eroded away on Earth.

That said, they are barely visible and tiny. If somebody said it's just some weird concretion, I'd completely believe it.

Lol! The US government is a bad joke...

Is this the Onion?

I mean, I wouldn't doubt it's real, but it surely sounds like a joke.

Also, he's asleep.

Ever wondered where those magic numbers on that definition come from?

But no, I misremembered it, the relation between the step and a second is a coincidence. It's the size of the meter that was decided in function of time, in the division that best approximated a step.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0412078

Yeah, it's easy to create badly formatted diagrams for any small database.

At some point things will become so bad that the monopolies will fail.

It's not possible that consumers will keep insisting on failing from the same con from the same parties all the way into non-working software. (And they are getting pretty close to non-working already.)

The entire Empire? With thousands or millions of people maintaining it?

There's no dead person out there complaining that they spent too much time in a computer...