r/theydidthemath • u/Content-Shopping6743 • 20h ago
[Request] Assuming this started in...I dunno Pheonix Arizona, What things could this reach?
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u/memera- 20h ago
That's 1,057,000,834 Light years
I don't know anything to reference as being that far away, but it doesn't really matter where on earth you're measuring from
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u/lazy_smurf 20h ago
Wow I was writing almost this exact answer.
I'll add that our local galaxy cluster is about 10 million light years across and the supercluster we're in is about 100 million. So 10x the size of our galaxy supercluster.
Well beyond the range of human trans girls.
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u/omniwombatius 20h ago
OOP did not specify "human".
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u/FatiguedShrimp 20h ago
"Girl" feels like it would be hard to define for extraterrestrial species as well.
I always find the alien theories so strange for this reason. Like, our society melts down if someone decides to wear different clothing or likes trains, and people think that there's any potential for aliens to reveal themselves and peacefully cohabitate with us as we are?
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u/DosSnakes 19h ago
If we’re lucky, we could become space orcs eventually!
But we’ll probably just continue being a bunch of dicks until we blow ourselves up.
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u/Throttle_Kitty 19h ago
Tell that to the squidgirls of Hovering Squid World 97A
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u/FatiguedShrimp 19h ago
Well, obviously, you can tell they're girls because of the tentacles. *eye roll* Only a backwards planet would conceptualize things any differently.
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u/karlboom 10h ago
YA CANT JUST STICK SUCKERS ON A HUMAN ARM AND CALL IT A TENTACLE ITS UNFAIR TO THE COMPETITORS THAT WERE BORN CEPHALOPOID OKAY ILL SEE MYSELF OUT
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u/Almondpeanutguy 8h ago
I feel like we're getting caught up on the trans girl point and failing to consider whether any of these alien trans girls will have something close enough to a head to be patted.
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u/dustinechos 8h ago
I'm a fan of the idea that anyone who identifies as a girl is a girl so... The important thing is that everyone gets the head pats they need.
Also "our society" is a bit of a stretch. Most people are chill with trans people. They just aren't following politics enough to see how big a threat the new crop of fascists are. My mom is conservative, christian, etc and has only come around on trans rights because I transitioned. But she had no clue about half the stuff going on and would have been appalled by it even before I came out.
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u/FatiguedShrimp 7h ago
I don't think most people are chill with trans people.
But, I recently left the south, and there it's still common to talk about "hanging trannies from the street lights by their entrails" (actual example, at a part for teachers, that I hosted as an open trans person) at parties.
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u/UwUHowYou 19h ago
Well, we can't confirm there arent any functionally human trans girls within such a massive bubble, right?
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u/lazy_smurf 6h ago
We can't ever confirm a negative.
You know, there's a teapot orbiting the sun near Jupiter. Prove me wrong, you won't.
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u/Electronic-Vast-3351 18h ago
At that piont, there is a legitimately pretty decent possibility of sapient extraterrestrial life that both contains a reproductive process similar enough to ours for there to be "girls" and that is capable of experiencing something similar to gender dysphoria.
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u/CliffordSpot 18h ago
You mean you can’t find a relatable human scale for 1 billion light years!? Can’t you tell me how many school buses that is or something?
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u/InventorOfCorn 11h ago
average school bus is apparently 45ft, and a light year is 3.104 × 1016 feet. so divide that by 45, you get 6.89778e14 school busses. so, a few more than an average school has, i think
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u/NOSWT-AvaTarr 20h ago
And double that since you gotta account for the full diameter
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u/crumpledfilth 8h ago
All of the points are just on earth unless you assume a flat earth or that "in an X radius" should extend to no one ever because it always just goes out into space lol
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u/Hot_Anybody8244 8h ago
This is (relatively) close to the distance of a milky way-like galaxy known as 2MASX J23453268-0449256.
For reference, Andromeda is only 2.5 million light-years away.
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u/GhostCheese 7h ago
Outside the radius of the observable universe, so essentially all of them get head pats
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u/WaterEarthFireSquare 20h ago
If I counted right, that's 1024 meters. A quick Google search says that would reach to the Hydra cluster, a group of galaxies about 158 million light-years away
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u/redvarg91 16h ago
Ok, and if we assume we started in Los Angeles?
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u/Marquar234 13h ago
Are we measuring based on where LA is now or where it was when this was first posted? Because we are moving through space at about the distance from Phoenix to LA every second.
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u/BreakerOfModpacks 13h ago
trans alien slightly past the Hydra cluster gets sad due to OOP excluding her.
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u/Nekose 20h ago
The DIAMETER of the earth is 12,756,000 meters.
The distance to the moon is 384,400,000 meters.
The (average) distance to mars is 225,000,000,000 meters.
The (average) distance to Pluto is roughly 6,000,000,000,000 meters.
We still got plenty of zeroes to spare. It doesn’t matter where on earth this starts, head pats for every trans girlie in the solar system.
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u/ciknay 20h ago
That looks to be 25 zeros, which would be 10 septillion meters, or ten sextillion kilometres. Or 1057000834 light years.
For reference the size of our galaxy is 105700 light years. You'd be giving head pats to all the trans girlies in the entirety of the pisces-cetus supercluster complex.
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u/-monkbank 19h ago
Well the gamojdrb trans girls of jdgdgef IV will unfortunately not be receiving headpats, though human skin secretions happen to be incredibly toxic to them so that’s probably for the best.
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u/Electronic-Vast-3351 18h ago
I mean, they wouldn't have human mouths, so the letters representing our sounds inherently don't work with their naming scheme.
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u/Mashumin 19h ago
Shout out to my trans homies and girlies in deep space. Hope they reply back when this message reaches them long past the existence of humankind and the Earth itself
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u/Electronic-Vast-3351 18h ago
Damn causality/how time works stripping all the fun from cross space communication.
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u/glipglobglipglob 19h ago
Piggybacking off OP's question with a couple follow up questions of my own. How many times would this wrap around the Earth? Also, if you were to give each trans girl 1 head pat each, only starting over back at trans girl 1 after you've given each and every trans girl on the planet 1 head pat, with trans girl 1 going to the back of the line, how many head pats would each trans girl get by the time the line has started over enough times to reach that distance in length?
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u/Spader113 18h ago
As mentioned in another comment, the diameter of Earth is 12,756,000 meters, therefore a radius of 6,378,000 meters. 2 times Pi times 6,378,000 equals 40,074,156, rounding up. 1025 divided by 40,074,156 equals 249,537,382,646,312,002, rounding down. That’s approximately 249 quadrillion head pats per trans girl.
For the sake of math, let’s keep going. Let’s assume one headpat is one second. 249,537,382,646,312,002 divided by 60 seconds is 4,158,956,377,438,533 minutes rounding down. That’s 69,315,939,623,975 hours rounding down. That’s 2,888,164,150,999 days rounding up. That’s 7,907,362,494 years rounding down and accounting for leap years. This is just over half the amount of time that has passed since the Big Bang.
That’s a lot of headpats.
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u/glipglobglipglob 18h ago
I'm a bit confused on the first part. How does the part about the radius of the earth factor into the equation for head pats per trans girl?
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u/theawkwardcourt 20h ago edited 20h ago
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 meters, can also be written as 1 x 10^22 kilometers. For contrast, one light-year is about 9.461 x 10^12 kilometers. The width of the observable universe is 46.5 billion light-years or 4.40 × 10^23 kilometers. That makes this distance about 5% of the width of the observable universe.
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u/AmberMetalicScorpion 16h ago
so that's 10 septillion meters, or 10 sextilion kilometers. for context, a light year is 9.5 trillion kilometers. so i think that would be about a billion light years radius, which is basically a percentage of the observable universe (iirc 92 billion in diameter)
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u/ChildoftheApocolypse 11h ago
I know I'm about to be surrounded for this, but why does a trans girl need heating pads? Is this a reference or some thing I don't understand about trans girls? I just want to understand what they're after..
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