Historical Artifacts

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A collection of glass bottles found in Pompeii, each with double the volume capacity of the previous bottle, Roman Empire, 1st century AD (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyartifacts

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[–] some_designer_dude 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you add ten more bottles, the last one could hold the entire solar system.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

assuming the last one shown holds a liter, you'd get 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, and the last would hold 1024 liters. gonna have to push really hard to get Jupiter in there