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Comment by andylynch

3 years ago

It’s a play on a well-known description of the extent of the British Empire in its time. And which still, if you squint a bit, remains true today, at least according to Randall Munroe*

* https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/

Thanks, great information. (I'd heard the saying, but I see capitalized Sun so much to refer to the computers, that I guess I always read it that way, and forgot our star is also capitalized.)