It’s 31 inches in a planet that’s about 500 million inches wide. Would you notice that proportion of a change in a standard sized barrel?

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ForOldHack 3 days ago | parent [-]

If you take a basketball, and breathe on it, the frost collected on it, is less than the thickness of the atmosphere. Many phenomenon are even less detectable, but see the prior comment about 747s.

	▲	ceejayoz 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah. Or parts-per-million of polonium in tea. Our ability to perceive it is different from our ability to be affected by it.