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https://xkcd.com/2925/

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It's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is there a GoFundMe to get this erected somewhere? Because I've got like $5 I'm totally willing to kick in.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you own a long piece of wood, a flat piece of wood, and some paint, you could make this a reality rather than just paying someone at random $5

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't own any of those things. Even if I did, I'd prefer a fancy bronze plack on a nice painted metal stand, ideally next to a scenic overlook.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can get pretty fancy brass, bronze, aluminum, etc. plaques made pretty cheaply.

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Now I'm getting the urge to make something like this and put it on my apartment door.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Instigator! 🤣

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Uhm ackchually Earth has been moving through space all this time, so this isn't the place, it's just the atoms which did it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

Which referential are you picking? Is it better than Earth?

[–] teft 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

We’ve done ~20 orbits around the galaxy since then so we’re way the hell away from that spot.

[–] ripcord 5 points 7 months ago

Relative to us, which is how universal position works, we are in pretty much the same place.

[–] Speculater 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not to mention the galaxy was moving too.

[–] Blum0108 5 points 7 months ago

Is that why I'm dizzy all the time?

[–] Everythingispenguins 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And the universe is expanding

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm starting to get a little motion sick...

[–] Everythingispenguins 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry due to your inertial reference frame you can't tell anything is happening.

[–] Confused_Emus 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Must have been a lot of Dramamine going around before Einstein invented that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I wonder how they got it into their cake holes before Newton finally brought us all to the ground by inventing Gravity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Relative to earth, it is that place.

Unless you are pretty far up autist and "relative to universe" is only coordinate system you know :)

[–] Itdidnttrickledown 11 points 7 months ago

I want to put one of these in my yard.

[–] Miarolitic 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Love it! Although, it's 4.54 billion not 4.45 billion

[–] IphtashuFitz 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How do you know? Were you there?

[–] bitwaba 8 points 7 months ago
[–] Jackcooper 3 points 7 months ago

Is this a reference to the fundie arguments against dinosaurs

[–] randomaccount43543 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] YarHarSuperstar 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's not why it's funny though, in my opinion. It's because every location on earth is where the earth formed, relative to the earth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Then you need more signs