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For those like myself who struggle to understand these numbers, 1% of speed of light is like travelling the circumference of the Earth 75 times every second.
by blowski 10y ago
For those like myself who struggle to understand these numbers, 1% of speed of light is like travelling the circumference of the Earth 75 times every second.
- e98cuenc 10y agoIt's slower than that, it will be travelling the circumference of the Earth once in 13 seconds. Light itself can "only" go around the Earth 7 times in a second.
- blowski 10y agoYou're absolutely right - I did the calculation as km/s instead of m/s. So at 1% of speed of light, it would take just over 14 seconds to travel the circumference of the Earth. Travelling at 1% of speed of light, I could travel from New Orleans to California in 1 second.
- BurningFrog 10y agoWhich is why New Orleans to California internet signals can't take less than 10ms. In reality it was maybe 40-50ms last I checked.
- runeks 10y agoConverting 1% the speed of light to km/miles-per-second gives: 3000 km/s or 1860 miles/s. That's Paris to New York City in two seconds. I don't understand why they use distance-per-hour, either. It ends up being millions of miles/km, which no human has any sense of.