5 ms·
> ... data the avg person sees is 15 minutes delayed ..., that may as well be a light year. Nit pick: you've got your units mixed up; minute is a unit of time,
by gurjeet 4y ago
> ... data the avg person sees is 15 minutes delayed ..., that may as well be a light year.
Nit pick: you've got your units mixed up; minute is a unit of time, and light-year is a unit of distance.
- redanddead 4y agofixed, thank you
- sitkack 4y agoI blame George Lucas for this.
- mkl 4y agoStar Wars confused parsecs with a unit of time, not light years.
- slater 4y agoFYI there's apparently some retcon stuff about that, e.g. maybe the Kessel run is around a particularly dangerous area of space (black holes or w/e), so accomplishing it in LESS parsecs is something to brag about ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- zem 4y agoan earlier retcon was "that was Lucas's subtle way of showing that han solo talked a lot without necessarily knowing what he was taking about"
- Thorrez 4y ago1 parsec ~= 3.26 light years
- sitkack 4y ago> you've got your units mixed up; minute is a unit of time, and light-year is a unit of distance.
- skybrian 4y agoIn astronomy, aren't they in some sense equivalent? Andromeda galaxy is 2.5 million light years way, so we are seeing it as it was 2.5 million years in the past.
- unethical_ban 4y agoNo. Light year is the distance. Distance/time * time = distance Waiting a "light year" would be a year. Yes, you are correct that astronomers talk about seeing into the past by X number of years when we look at a galaxy X light years away.