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by iraqmtpizza 905 days ago
0.9 + 0.09 + 0.009 + 0.0009 +...

Seems physically possible to me.

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With 10^27 g of Earth (without utilizing extra-planetary resources) each of which can be broken down into around 10^23 mol/g of stuff (without significantly altering the material composition) your infinite string of numbers will only be about 50 digits long.
That's rather "infinitesimally", not "infinitely".
We're talking about infinite time, not infinite space.