r/BeAmazed • u/chinese_spongebob1 • 6h ago

Skill / Talent How was this all calculated?

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u/ggb003 6h ago

You think moving the space ship around earth was the difficult part?

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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 2h ago

There are fewer trees in space. 

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u/Spuds_Goat 2h ago

We can’t possibly know that. We can speculate.

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u/cuntmong 1h ago

We can know that. Just send out tree counting probes to every part of the universe. Seems like an oversight that we haven't already done it 

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u/captainAwesomePants 1h ago

Weirdly, there may be more obstacles in Earth's orbit than trees in LA.

LA has maybe 700,000 street trees. There are about 18,000 active satellites (mostly Starlink), then another 50,000 or so other biggish things (abandoned rocket stages, dead satellites, big bits of debris). So you're good there. But there are over a million objects in the 1-10cm range in orbit.

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u/Just_a_follower 1h ago

Yeah but you can’t drive in 3 dimensions on earth.. stuck to two and stuck to roads.

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u/Sabithomega 59m ago

Not with that attitude

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u/Vivid_Discount6495 30m ago

Earth's orbit is like bigger than the entire surface of the Earth and you're comparing it to the trees of a single city lol

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u/Veni-Vidi-ASCII 2h ago

That's too bad. Someone should work to fix that. 

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u/Atralis 1h ago

You don't know that.

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u/Driftedryan 1h ago

If you count earth as being in space then odds are very high then there's more in space

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u/LiquorIsQuickor 58m ago

Everything is in space Morty!