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xkcd #3281: Antiques Roadshow

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The family lore was that we've had it ever since it was ejected from a star-forming gas cloud, but it seems more likely that my great-grandparents probably just bought it while on vacation in the galactic thin disk.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3281/

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[-] EarMaster@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

This is going to cause a lot of problems in a few billion years. Either they have to introduce negative numbers or a lot of signs on the edge of star systems have to be changed…

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