• @[email protected]
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    226 days ago

    A billion kilometers? How much is that? A few miles? Half a parsec? A couple pounds sterling? This is really worrisome…

    • @YaDownWitCPP
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      256 days ago

      Approximately 5X10^12 bananas if that helps?

    • @officermike
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      45 days ago

      541 astronomical units (541 times the distance from Earth to the Sun)

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        5 days ago

        What? Not it’s not. Where did you get this number?

        It’s more like 6.7 AU. Source

        In other words somewhere between Jupiter and Saturn in terms of distance to the sun.

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          5 days ago

          You’re right. Major fuckup on my part, I guess. I was using Google search’s calculator function. I tried to reverse-engineer my mistake and couldn’t find anything sensible I would have entered to get 541 AU.

      • @[email protected]
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        25 days ago

        Thank you, this is the only measurement that makes any sense in any distance past like the moon before you get into longer units like parsecs or light years. Even though an AU is still only 150M km, it makes the math a lot easier for me to grok.