# Greater distance: around the world 17,000 times or to Jupiter and back? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 16, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greater-distance-around-the-world-17-000-times-or-to-jupiter-and-back/550390 "2010-08-16T04:26:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greater-distance-around-the-world-17-000-times-or-to-jupiter-and-back/550390/21 "2010-08-17T21:18:06Z")
Today my three year old told me she loves me 72. After reading this thread I’m a little insulted. My five year old loves me Googol, though, so he can stay. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greater-distance-around-the-world-17-000-times-or-to-jupiter-and-back/550390/22 "2010-08-17T23:05:03Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Today my three year old told me she loves me 72. After reading this thread I’m a little insulted. She didn’t specify the units, though. Depending on the units, she could love you several orders of magnitude more than **Silver Fire** ’s son loves her. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greater-distance-around-the-world-17-000-times-or-to-jupiter-and-back/550390/23 "2010-08-18T00:47:37Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Today my three year old told me she loves me 72. After reading this thread I’m a little insulted. My five year old loves me Googol, though, so he can stay. Has it occurred to ANY of you parents that your kids are JUST. TOO. CUTE? Just wait’ll your kid runs off to San Francisco before he’s done with high school and is staying on the couch of a guy he met at a skatepark and he’s looking into getting on a) Cal’s welfare rolls and b) medical marijuana. He’d say he loves me to the corner and back, on a good day. No. He wouldn’t. Cause that’s JUST. TOO. CUTE!!! ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greater-distance-around-the-world-17-000-times-or-to-jupiter-and-back/550390/24 "2010-08-18T02:10:35Z")
My daughter is still at the age where it’s random numbers… “Daddy, I love you 102 17 4 20 37 and 8.” ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greater-distance-around-the-world-17-000-times-or-to-jupiter-and-back/550390/25 "2010-08-18T03:25:20Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Your son doesn’t love you as much as you love him. Which, in an astronomically pleasing way, is very much as the world should be. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greater-distance-around-the-world-17-000-times-or-to-jupiter-and-back/550390/26 "2010-08-18T03:59:44Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > My daughter is still at the age where it’s random numbers… > > “Daddy, I love you 102 17 4 20 37 and 8.” I’ve heard about your daughter, and I’m playing those numbers in 48 state lotteries tonight. Wait… she DID say THOSE numbers, right? Surely you wouldn’t have just .. . . . m a d e . . . u p . . . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greater-distance-around-the-world-17-000-times-or-to-jupiter-and-back/550390.md?page=1)