1 light minute

[jayphailey]

1 light minute is just a scooch less than 18 million kilometers.

1 light second is just a scooch less than 300,000 Kilometers

An AU is 150 million km (Rounding up)


Why? Dunno. Just trying to store them in one of my mental doom boxes

[Innkeeper]

1 light minute is just a scooch less than 18 million kilometers.

1 light second is just a scooch less than 300,000 Kilometers

An AU is 150 million km (Rounding up)


Why? Dunno. Just trying to store them in one of my mental doom boxes

Never to se seen again?

[jayphailey]

Earth is 12,756 km


1/23 of a light second

0.043 of a light second

Or about 4 light miliseconds

one Micro is 10^-6 or three more zeros over

Or 400 light microseconds

Something is off there, The math ain't mathin'

I was wrong

300 millimetres

One light-nanosecond is almost 300 millimetres (299.8 mm, 5 mm less than one foot), which limits the speed of data transfer between different parts of a computer. One light-microsecond is about 300 metres.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-second

[jayphailey]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-sec ... _astronomy

The light-second is a convenient unit for measuring distances in the inner Solar System, since it corresponds very closely to the radiometric data used to determine them. (The match is not exact for an Earth-based observer because of a very small correction for the effects of relativity.) The value of the astronomical unit (roughly the distance between Earth and the Sun) in light-seconds is a fundamental measurement for the calculation of modern ephemerides (tables of planetary positions). It is usually quoted as "light-time for unit distance" in tables of astronomical constants, and its currently accepted value is 499.004786385(20) s.[3][4]

The mean diameter of Earth is about 0.0425 light-seconds.
The average distance between Earth and the Moon (the lunar distance) is about 1.282 light-seconds.
The diameter of the Sun is about 4.643 light-seconds.
The average distance between Earth and the Sun (the astronomical unit) is 499.0 light-seconds.
Multiples of the light-second can be defined, although apart from the light-year, they are more used in popular science publications than in research works. For example:

A light-minute is 60 light-seconds, and so the average distance between Earth and the Sun is 8.317 light-minutes.
The average distance between Pluto and the Sun (34.72 AU[5]) is 4.81 light-hours.[6]
Humanity's most distant artificial object, Voyager 1, has an interstellar velocity of 3.57 AU per year,[7] or 29.7 light-minutes per year.[8] As of 2023 the probe, launched in 1977, is over 22 light-hours from Earth and the Sun, and is expected to reach a distance of one light-day around November 2026 – February 2027.

[Innkeeper]

Unless the Trunptards cancel it.

[jayphailey]

Honestly, I'd be afraid that they'd legislate that Pi = 3.00

But ain't not a one of 'em knows what Pi is or what it's for.

[Innkeeper]

Honestly, I'd be afraid that they'd legislate that Pi = 3.00

But ain't not a one of 'em knows what Pi is or what it's for.

Trumptard: Hitch pants. "Pie Я round, cornbread Я square." Tries to look smart.

[jayphailey]

My dad loved that joke

[Innkeeper]

My dad loved that joke

My family made cornbread in a pie plate. I miss that cornbread. Susan does not like it.

[jayphailey]

Boo!