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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Tectonic plates are about as fast as the growth of finger and toe nails

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like that would be much much faster than 100 words per minute... But scale is hard

Taken from below, the Atlantic Ocean expands 1 cm per year, this is much slower than my finger nails grow

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

100 words per minute

Post says words per second.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sheit, right, units.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

As my stat mech professor said, "what's a few orders of magnitude between friends?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It's also not the exact speed but the order of magnitude. Both plates and nails vary in speed individually but the order of magnitude is the same

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

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

I do not like the sound of pickass finger nails. But it could explain the fungus.