{"id":2790,"date":"2017-01-30T23:14:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T23:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshworth.com\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2020-11-23T14:36:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:36:51","slug":"license-plate-tectonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/license-plate-tectonics\/","title":{"rendered":"License Plate Tectonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:calc( 1100px + 0px );margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:0px;--awb-spacing-left-small:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>So I\u00a0applied my new registration sticker to my license plate today. Like a lot of lazy people, I usually just wipe the dust off the sticker from the previous year and stick the new one on top of it. I&#8217;ve been doing this for the last ten years, leaving me with a sticker stack about 1mm thick.<\/p>\n<p>Then I got to wondering what would happen if I started applying stickers say,\u00a04.54 billion years ago at the time the Earth was formed. How big of a sticker stack would I have?<\/p>\n<p>If each sticker is about 1\/10th of a millimeter, 4.54 billion stickers would give me a sticker stack that&#8217;s 454 kilometers (282 miles) thick, which is roughly the driving distance between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. In other words, in order to apply a new registration sticker to my car that&#8217;s parked in Los Angeles, I would have to rent another car and drive for five\u00a0hours\u00a0through the desert before I reached the end of the stack.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of crazy stuff can happen on the drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, just as a lot of even crazier stuff can happen in 4.54 billion years.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIf you started applying registration stickers to your license plate back when the Earth was formed, how big of a sticker stack would you have?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curious","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}