Is that why trans-Atlantic flights are so much more expensive these days?
The price of ink is through the roof.
My wallet is not that deep!
Nah, that's just airliners abusing their monopolies to squees every last dime out of your pocket, the poor shareholders need to survive too, you know.
Its not just trans Atlantic either, it's everywhere. I just booked Mexico Canada and I got the luxury premium of being allowed to take one free carry-on
I know this is meant to sound like the expansion is fast, but it is in fact really, REALLY slow.
Well yeah it's slow. No one would hire the Atlantic with only 100 wps typing skill.
Hold on, over how many lines? How was this estimate made? I demand to know what latitude gets the first line change for a given text. Also how much text you'd need and whether we have a single source that would fit.
We can work this out in reverse.
The Atlantic widens about 1cm per year. Words contain about 6 characters on average. At 12 points, or 4mm tall, that comes to about 2x6=12mm for an average word, make it 15mm for ease and spaces,
If the ocean gains 15x100=1500mm (150cm) of word-width per second, thats 150x60x60x24x365 ~ 4.7 billion centimeters of word-space per year.
Given that it only moves about 1cm, that's a quick and dirty 4.7 billion lines of text.
At 5mm tall (4mm of text, 1mm whitespace between lines), that comes to 23 million meters. Since the earth is about 40.000km or 40 million meters in circumference, and adding in rounding numbers and suffering tectonic drift numbers, 4.7 billion lines seems about the right order of magnitude.
Edit: nope, it works out!
Companion trivia: Can the whole of text of the internet cover the entire Atlantic in 12 point type, and if not yet, when based on how fast it grows?
Secondary question: What font would be best, besides Papyrus?
Depends on the projection.
Tectonic plates are about as fast as the growth of finger and toe nails
If I started to let my fingernails grow around the time of Pangea, I'd have some kickass fingernails that would be a bitch while programming.
I'd also have a nail fungus from the planet hell.
Edit: auto correct is a bitch
I do not like the sound of pickass finger nails. But it could explain the fungus.
But, would we expect the words to evenly increase, or would we see nothing for a month and then 4 billion additional words pop in all at once?
Here's the sauce: xkcd/2803
And here is another lemmy post about this commic: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1694738 (on [email protected])
