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The next time you address a package to someone, err on the side of caution and append "Earth, Solar System, Local Interstellar Cloud, Local Bubble, Gould Belt, Orion Arm, Milky Way, Milky Way Subgroup, Local Group, Local Sheet, Virgo Supercluster, Laniakea Supercluster, KBC Void, Observable Universe, Universe", to help the package carrier disambiguate.

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You don't have to specify "Multiverse" on the end, because your package will be automatically delivered to all of them.

Except the weird one. You know, the one with the glitch.

Alot of "locals". This will get awkward when we talk to species from a different Bubble, Group, or Sheet.

It'll work fine as long as the babelfish understand not to transliterate place names. Human history is chock full of this: "Istanbul" just means "within the city", "Zhongguo" (China) just means "the land in the middle", "Ohio" and "Mississippi" are just two different ways of saying "the big river".

Wait, you named your sheet the Local Sheet too? We should be friends!

The Lagunitas Brewing Company features this on their sign for their Petaluma brewery in fact. Though, it stops at "Virgo Supercluster".

We're going to run out of address space, time to migrate to zip code v6

Will the 128 bits be enough to address all atoms in all universes?

Looks like we'll need to upgrade to 512-bit addresses to be on the safe side.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=log2%2810%5E80%29

https://www.thoughtco.com/number-of-atoms-in-the-universe-60...

Yes, in all 2 universes.

This reads like a hitchhikers guide bit lol I love it

We just need (universe)UPS coordinates.

Thanks for the suggestion, Dedalus. :D

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