• FaceDeer@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      Which is funny because that would have been even more inaccurate. “Millions of light years” is off by a factor of 15,000 or more. “Millions of miles” is off by a factor of 400,000,000 or more (2 million miles is 0.00000034 light years).

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        9 months ago

        Reading your comment is the most I have ever felt the “wow, space is incomprehensibly large” feeling.

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        9 months ago

        I guess you could argue it’s many many millions of miles, doesn’t have to exclude the total being in the billions, trillions or beyond.

        Though now I’m trying to think if there is any unit of measurement that it would be literal millions of away. Light seconds maybe?

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            9 months ago

            Hmm so that overshoots a little into billions of light seconds.

            I’ve got it: millions of light minutes away! (70ish million if my math is right)