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bigfishrunning • today at 4:43 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Ok i was nerd sniped by the phrase "trillions of sunsets"

how do you count sunsets? is it from one vantage point? in that case, the earth is about 1.7 trillion days old, so there have been roughly that many sunsets. but is someone standing in the opposite hemisphere at the same longitude line seeing the same sunset? maybe, maybe not. also, someone two time zones behind me will see a different sunset; maybe there have been an infinite number of sunsets? maybe just one continuous one that's moving? This is more fun to think about then the things I'm supposed to be thinking about, and more fun then worrying about AI.

Sorry for the rant hackernews, needed to get this impulsive line of thought out.


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Lerc • today at 5:07 PM

Depends on your perspective, with a good spacesuit on mercury you could walk at 3.6kph and have one permanent sunset, Judge it just right and you could actually have a decent temperature.