Comment on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried

• AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He said day, not year.

  source

  • ptz@dubvee.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Makes me miss the old sub /r/ConfidentlyIncorrect. I need to see if that exists on Lemmy anywhere.

    source

    • cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hahahaha!! 🤣🤣

      source
  • cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure I read light year initially. Maybe OP modified their comment?

    I could’ve have misread it also. 🤷‍♂️

    source

    • ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It would say (edited) if they edited their comment

      source

      • cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah alright then. My bad.

        source
• SeaJ@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Would you say it is about 1/365ththe distance of a light year? I wonder if there is a term for that…

  source

  • cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One light day?

    source
• isles@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also, just for anyone else, the Sun is not 1 light year away from Earth, instead ~499 light seconds.

  source
• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But it’s a leap year so it should be longer this year.

  source

  • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aaannnd I get to post this m.xkcd.com/2897/

    source
  • kafa@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You broke and reinforced relativity at the same time

    source
• PrecisePangolin@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨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?

  source