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All 3 points (two from you and one from '8bitsrule) helped me contextualize this: * 700 times further from the Sun than the Earth * 15 times further from the
by carbocation 1y ago
All 3 points (two from you and one from '8bitsrule) helped me contextualize this:
* 700 times further from the Sun than the Earth
* 15 times further from the Sun than Pluto
* 0.01 lightyear, or 1/400th the distance to the nearest star
- washadjeffmad 1y agoIf the Earth is 8 lightminutes from the Sun, Planet X is 3.8 lightdays. Or, it's the difference between going for a 15 minutes walk and walking from Boston to Orlando (or San Diego to Seattle, for the West Coasters).
- prox 1y agoFor us Elite Dangerous players to get a sense of scale, that’s approximately 329,472,000 light seconds. Hutton Orbital is located approximately 6,784,404 light seconds, or 0.22 light years, so this will be 50 hours of non boosted SC.
- josephcsible 1y ago> that’s approximately 329,472,000 light seconds I think you have an extra factor of 1000 somewhere.
- prox 1y agoYou’re right, a bit too fast there. It’s 328,319 ls Which means Hutton is a lot further actually.
- josephcsible 1y agoIsn't that slightly overstating it? Those pairs of cities are over 1000 miles apart, so unless you walk at 6mph, that's more than 700x as far.
- washadjeffmad 1y agoOverstatement is an understatement! Between the first and second, I remember becoming so sleepy that I couldn't reason through the terms. It's off by a factor of 8ish, which I applied to turn 2mph from a rate into a smaller unit of time but failed to balance. It should have been an hour's walk (~2 miles) versus 700 hours' (~1400 miles).