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The scale gets surreal fast: 8 minutes for sunlight, a day to ping Voyager 1, and then it would take Voyager 1 another 75000 years to reach the nearest star. Ou
by ensocode 10mo ago
The scale gets surreal fast: 8 minutes for sunlight, a day to ping Voyager 1, and then it would take Voyager 1 another 75000 years to reach the nearest star. Our entire technological reach is basically a rounding error at interstellar distances.
- rwky 10mo agoAstronomers often have an error margin of an order of magnitude or two. 1 billion or 100 billion. Close enough either way!
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