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3.255 famous hot dogs per wiener dog (lemmy.ml)
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screenshot is of https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/06/science/nasa-artemis-ii-moon-lunar-flyby/717b8b89-e5fb-5159-8994-f1288c58cdf1

252,756 miles is 406,771 km, btw

screenshot of The New York Times: April 6, 2026, 6:58 p.m. ET; Evan Gorelick; NASA said this afternoon that the crew aboard the Artemis II will reach a distance of about 252,756 miles from Earth, the farthest from home any human has traveled. Having a hard time wrapping your head around a number that big? Here are some points of comparison: * Wiener dogs: If you took 22-inch Dachshunds and laid them nose to tail, you’d need a very cooperative pack of 728 million dogs to cover the distance. * Walking a dog: If you took one of the Dachshunds on a brisk 3-mile-per-hour walk, you’d need to walk for more than 84,000 hours to get there. That translates to nearly 10 years of continuous walking. * Eating hot dogs: You’d need a chain of 2.37 billion of Nathan’s Famous hot dogs to cover the distance. If the competitive eater Joey Chestnut shoveled them down at his record-breaking pace of 76 dogs every 10 minutes, he’d need to eat nonstop for almost 594 years to devour the entire chain. (His monstrous meal would top 700 billion calories.)