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That's because you're significantly larger than the pingpong ball.



Sol is about 1.39 million kilometres in diameter.

A table tennis ball is 40mm in diameter.

That makes the sun about 34,750,000,000 times bigger than a pingpong ball.


I find some of these numbers hard to believe sometimes. 40 mm seems really big for a table tennis ball.


It's 0.00019884 furlongs, if that helps.


Or 0.0008 OSP (Olympic Swimming Pools)

Edit to add: length, not volume





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