> ping from Earth to Mercury is 230,000ms at best. Not really your point I know, but I was curious about this so I looked it up. The closest Earth and Mercury

> ping from Earth to Mercury is 230,000ms at best. Not really your point I know, but I was curious about this so I looked it up. The closest Earth and Mercury get is 77.3 million km[1], which is 515.7 seconds round-trip (ping) at the speed of light. [1] https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/mercuryfact.html https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/mercuryfact....