NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried
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Voyager 1 is almost one light day away, and now my brain hurts thinking about it.
67 0 ReplyHow many hard days is that?
28 0 ReplyRoughly just under one work day.
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Pluto is only about 4.5 light hours away on average
18 0 Reply1 light year = 63241.077 AU (distance between Sun and Earth)
Distance of Voyager 1 from Earth: ~162.84 AU
Not even close.
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3 0 ReplyHe said day, not year.
85 0 ReplyMakes me miss the old sub /r/ConfidentlyIncorrect. I need to see if that exists on Lemmy anywhere.
Edit: Sure does: !confidently_incorrect@lemmy.world
51 0 ReplyHahahaha!! 🤣🤣
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I'm pretty sure I read light year initially. Maybe OP modified their comment?
I could've have misread it also. 🤷♂️
7 0 ReplyIt would say (edited) if they edited their comment
1 0 ReplyAh alright then. My bad.
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Would you say it is about 1/365th the the distance of a light year? I wonder if there is a term for that...
24 0 ReplyOne light day?
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But it's a leap year so it should be longer this year.
11 0 ReplyAaannnd I get to post this https://m.xkcd.com/2897/
4 0 ReplyYou broke and reinforced relativity at the same time
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Also, just for anyone else, the Sun is not 1 light year away from Earth, instead ~499 light seconds.
10 0 ReplyThe 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?
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