Pluto is only about 4.5 light hours away on average
Comment on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried
anubis119@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Voyager 1 is almost one light day away, and now my brain hurts thinking about it.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
1 light year = 63241.077 AU (distance between Sun and Earth)
Distance of Voyager 1 from Earth: ~162.84 AU
Not even close.
Sources:
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
He said day, not year.
ptz@dubvee.org 3 months ago
Makes me miss the old sub /r/ConfidentlyIncorrect. I need to see if that exists on Lemmy anywhere.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Hahahaha!! 🤣🤣
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I’m pretty sure I read light year initially. Maybe OP modified their comment?
I could’ve have misread it also. 🤷♂️
ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It would say (edited) if they edited their comment
SeaJ@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Would you say it is about 1/365ththe distance of a light year? I wonder if there is a term for that…
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
One light day?
isles@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Also, just for anyone else, the Sun is not 1 light year away from Earth, instead ~499 light seconds.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But it’s a leap year so it should be longer this year.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Aaannnd I get to post this m.xkcd.com/2897/
kafa@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
You broke and reinforced relativity at the same time
PrecisePangolin@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
The distance between the sun and earth is ~93 million miles. A light year is 5.88 trillion miles. We are not 1 light year away from the sun. We are about 8.5 mins from the sun (speed of light) right?
Slovene@feddit.nl 3 months ago
How many hard days is that?
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Roughly just under one work day.