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Mexico City is sinking so quickly, it can be seen from space(apnews.com)
18 points by randycupertino 5 hours ago | 4 comments
gnabgib 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Discussion (220 points,5 days ago, 73 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974682

mkarrmann 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Referring 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.

JohnMakin an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It seems you're implying this isn't very fast - ~10 inches a year is extremely fast for this type of activity.

dlcarrier 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We're at the point that "so slow/little it can only be seen from space" is a better description of our current technology.