Close. The distance to Alpha Centauri is 41.5 petameters (trillion kilometers) and the distance to Proxima Centauri is 40.2 petameters.
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very_well_lost@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
In very next line, it says the distance is 4.37 lightyears away… which is also wrong, lol
For anyone wondering, the actual correct answer is about 4.25 lightyears or about 40 trillion kilometers.
btaf45@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
These are all equally confusing. How many American football fields?
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
In scientific terms? An absolute fuck-ton of football fields.
Wiz@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Yes but how many giraffes, laid end-to-end?
DLSantini@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Approximately 437,445,319,335,083 of those.
TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
That’s close to 2!
RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
17! is closer
btaf45@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
One football field is about a hectometer and there are 10 hectometers per kilometer. So 415 trillion.