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  • kata1yst@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzEeeeee
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    3 months ago

    And because it always bears repeating;

    According to JPL’s Chief Engineer for Mission Operations and Science, Marc Rayman-

    Let's go to the largest size there is: the known universe. The radius of the universe is about 46 billion light years. Now let me ask (and answer!) a different question: How many digits of pi would we need to calculate the circumference of a circle with a radius of 46 billion light years to an accuracy equal to the diameter of a hydrogen atom, the simplest atom? It turns out that 37 decimal places (38 digits, including the number 3 to the left of the decimal point) would be quite sufficient.




  • If you ignore that one monolog and just accept that the extra-dimensional aliens/future human entities didn’t understand how to communicate with his daughter using only gravity, so they captured her father and had him do it, it makes a lot more sense.

    And really that is what the script is trying to say… I think. It’s just very ham-fisted and ranty which does happen in Nolen movies. Basically “these beings have all the power in the universe compared to us, but without knowing (loving) the person they’re trying to reach they can’t find a way to get the message across.”

    Honestly in my head-cannon, the dude just went from self-sacrificing by falling into a black hole to looking at his daughter when she was trying to convince him not to leave. He’s more than a little emotional and we can’t expect him to make perfect sense.


  • Ah but you see, in the first sentence I was only pretending to be dismissive of the joke, because my comment had a second sentence (gasp), where I expanded upon the original joke with another observation of a particularly failed CPU architecture.

    It is funny because I used verbal misdirection and a relevant reference from inside the community. And now it gets objectively funnier in my second comment when you make me explain it.