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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

I'm consistently impressed by Chinese timelines.

Every time I hear projections about America it's always "by 2030" or "by 2050" and shit like that - meanwhile, China is accomplishing more in less than half the time.

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

Turns out that not selling your country out to powerful billionaires has its perks.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago
[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Less than it'll cost the US to put up a tenth of that 🤷‍♀️

[-] jtmetcalfe 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Does 1TW not sound as impressive as 1000GW?

[-] huf@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

weird units, both of them. how many football fields is it?

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I think it's about 69,420 London busses.

[-] ComradeLove@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

How many dolphins end to end?

[-] Suoko@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let's start using TW and TWh units then! https://g.co/bard/share/6726b69136a9

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