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Re:Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009) by largbae on Sunday November 03, 2019 @09:09AM (#21433947)
Depending on how you measure it could be allowed... the diameter of the sphere could grow faster than the speed of light without any component exceeding c because you can grow at near light speeds in two directions.
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Re:Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009) by ClumsyPilot on Sunday November 03, 2019 @09:23AM (#21434012)
I think the point was that's the answer given by extrapolation, and its obvoiusly physically impossible. The contradiction with laws of physics is the point.

For starters, anything that large wo ui pd collapse into a black hole.

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