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Magnitude

As a break from spamming vacation updates (it’s going nicely, by the way), I thought I’d throw out a fun hypothetical I was playing around with on ChatGPT.

Who do you think would win, the sun, or one trillion lions?

My low IQ brain thought it might be a fair fight; I was wrong.

One trillion lions, each weighing ~200 kilos, are one quadrillionth the size of the sun. So even if they all attacked at the same time (my preferred strategy), it would be like throwing a bread crumb on a bonfire.