How far away is far away? Pretty darn far, as I found out recently.
Yeah, this was a year ago, but I missed it. But now I know. And so do you.
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Tonight’s history lesson………..
How far away reminded me of a calculus class on infinite series.
The instructor brought up Zeno’s paradox where you keep going halfway to your goal so you never reach it.
I told him about Veeshir’s Paradox where drivers in the northeast can never reach their destination.
If you’ve driven in the northeast during construction season you know it well.
You’re 65 miles from home and going 65mph so you’re an hour away.
You drive for almost 10 minutes and you’re 55 miles away when you hit construction and the speed limit drops to 55mph so you’re still an hour away.
10+ minutes later you’re 45 miles away but more construction! so the speed limit drops to 45 so you’re still an hour away.
15 minutes later you’re 35 miles away but, you guessed it, More Construction! So you’re down to 35mph so you’re still an hour away!
This goes on as you hit more and more construction every 10 miles and the speed limit drops 10 mph until you’re 3 miles away and the road’s closed so you have to walk, at 3mph, so you’re still an hour away.
Then you sprain an ankle in a pothole at 2 miles so you’re hobbling at 2mph.
A mile later you stumble in another pothole so you’re barely hobbling at 1mph.
Then, you break your leg in a huge pothole so now you’re crawling! But an ambulance picks you up so you never do get to where you were going.
Veeshir’s Paradox, one part math 2 parts utter frustration.
But then you win a massive lawsuit against the construction company for leaving all those potholes unfilled and live happily ever after. See it’s all good!
But you still can’t go home.
We call the star “Icarus” because it’s furthest from the sun?
You picked up on that, huh?