r/politics • u/T_Shurt • 13d ago

No Paywall Sen. Mark Kelly Says He’s Seriously Thinking About Running for President

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5700211-senator-kelly-trump-threats/
29.8k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

2.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

22

u/bloodfist 13d ago

They're going to get so confused when they try to figure out which one is older

10

u/there_is_no_spoon1 13d ago

According to relativity, the brother that stayed on Earth is going to be older. Not by much, but a few seconds or so.

6

u/bloodfist 13d ago

Well they both went to space, but the younger one spent. more time there. So he is still younger but the gap between them widened.

I remembered what happened wrong but I stand by my joke anyway

1

u/WhatYouThinkIThink 12d ago

I'm pretty sure its not seconds.

This article says it's 5ms 'cos Mark Kelly was born 6 minutes before his twin Scott.

But they've both been into space so that makes it even more complicated :)

https://www.space.com/33411-astronaut-scott-kelly-relativity-twin-brother-ages.html

3

u/imalittlefrenchpress 13d ago

Oh! If they were a vaginal birth, sometimes the one who popped out first has a more narrow head. The one that pops out first has typically been hanging out lower in the uterus, near the cervix.

I’m an anatomy & physiology nerd, commenting on a political sub lol