MisterET

MisterET t1_j50z4v1 wrote

How many dead birds do you see during periods when avian flu isn't running rampant? Personally I see very few. I know all birds must eventually die, but the ratio of live to dead birds I see is probably in the thousands.

It's also probably the same reason you didn't see people keeling over from covid in restaurants and stores. Lots of people were dying, but the people on the verge of death were not out at stores and restaurants following their normal routine, they were either hospitalized or stuck in bed because they were so sick they were literally dying. I would imagine birds that are so sick they would just "drop dead" out of the sky are probably not expending tons of energy flying around for no reason and are huddled down and sheltered somewhere desperately trying to just survive.

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MisterET t1_islgwk5 wrote

That's exactly true! That's called the observable universe, which is smaller than the actual universe. Our observable universe is expanding at the speed of light, but objects already outside of that bubble will NEVER be inside that bubble. They are forever outside our observable universe.

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MisterET t1_islgnlf wrote

Think about the implications of what you just said though. If space is expanding, and space is also very, very large, then there exists two points so far apart that they are expanding away from each other faster than the speed of light.

You don't even need to observe it specifically. If space is in fact expanding, that expansion is cumulative, and it necessarily exceeds c once you get enough space between points.

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