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Dear John and Roman

99% Invisible

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How Many Chickens Would There Need to Be in Space Before We Would Notice?

The chicken density function, CDF entered the scientific spotlight in a March 2022 episode. There would need to be about 10 to the 18th power chickens inside the orbit of the Earth for us to start noticing. The rest of the paper is epic; there's so much math I can't read it.

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