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Mexico City is sinking so quickly, it can be seen from space
- mkarrmann 6mo agoReferring to "25 centimeters per year" as "so fast it can be seen from space" is so funny to me. We have very good satellites! Lots of things can be seen from space. "can be seen from space" is an awful way to provide readers intuition for the scale of something.
- dlcarrier 6mo agoWe're at the point that "so slow/little it can only be seen from space" is a better description of our current technology.
- mkarrmann 6mo agoYa if anything the real take away is that our satellites are very impressive!
- JohnMakin 6mo agoIt seems you're implying this isn't very fast - ~10 inches a year is extremely fast for this type of activity.
- mkarrmann 6mo agoIt is very fast, Mexico City has serious problems. My point is that "can be seen from space" is an awful way to communicate that. It provides no useful intuition for the scale of "10 inches per year".
- hulitu 6mo agoThey have to adapt somehow to the intelligence of target audience.
- gnabgib 6mo agoDiscussion (220 points,5 days ago, 73 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974682