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The replies are hilarious michael-laugh, so many blue checks saying “abandon big tech!” while they pay for Twitter from the richest fascist in the world.

  • xXthrowawayXx [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Damn it must be so cool to use light and naturally understand its speed over distances similar to parts of your anatomy.

    I struggle to comprehend the speed of light as a measure of distance over anything less than about 300 miles. You must just be built different.

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      11 months ago

      Honestly I struggle to think of light traveling any distance shorter than from the sun to here, which I know is like 5 mins. I couldn’t possibly begin to tell you how far it travels in a second, or a tenth of a second, or whatever.

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        11 months ago

        A second is around the equator about seven and a half times. A tenth of a second is three quarters of the equator. The moon is about one and a quarter seconds away from earth, you know, if you ever wanna use it for something.

        E: this is all half remembered from radio operation and radio astronomy. I could be wrong.