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Black holes the size of an atom that contain the mass of an asteroid may fly through the inner solar system about once a decade, scientists say. Theoretically created just after the big bang, these examples of so-called primordial black holes could explain the missing dark matter thought to dominate our universe. And if they sneak by the moon or Mars, scientists should be able to detect them, a new study shows.

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

The earth is estimated to "weigh" 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds.

Mt. Everest is only 357,000,000,000,000 pounds

My point is that we need a better way to portray scale of things in the universe.

Well, for a start, God uses the metric system.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago

Fuckin everyone uses the metric system

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Even aliens building the pyramids used the metric system

[-] butwhyishischinabook@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

God uses base 12, he doesn't arbitrarily settle on base 10 just because he has that many fingers.

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