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0 pointswashadjeffmad10mo ago0 comments

If the Earth is 8 lightminutes from the Sun, Planet X is 3.8 lightdays.

Or, it's the difference between going for a 15 minutes walk and walking from Boston to Orlando (or San Diego to Seattle, for the West Coasters).

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Isn't that slightly overstating it? Those pairs of cities are over 1000 miles apart, so unless you walk at 6mph, that's more than 700x as far.

Overstatement is an understatement! Between the first and second, I remember becoming so sleepy that I couldn't reason through the terms.

It's off by a factor of 8ish, which I applied to turn 2mph from a rate into a smaller unit of time but failed to balance.

It should have been an hour's walk (~2 miles) versus 700 hours' (~1400 miles).

prox10mo ago

For us Elite Dangerous players to get a sense of scale, that’s approximately 329,472,000 light seconds.

Hutton Orbital is located approximately 6,784,404 light seconds, or 0.22 light years, so this will be 50 hours of non boosted SC.

> that’s approximately 329,472,000 light seconds

I think you have an extra factor of 1000 somewhere.

prox10mo ago

You’re right, a bit too fast there. It’s 328,319 ls

Which means Hutton is a lot further actually.

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Isn't that slightly overstating it? Those pairs of cities are over 1000 miles apart, so unless you walk at 6mph, that's more than 700x as far.

Overstatement is an understatement! Between the first and second, I remember becoming so sleepy that I couldn't reason through the terms.

It's off by a factor of 8ish, which I applied to turn 2mph from a rate into a smaller unit of time but failed to balance.

It should have been an hour's walk (~2 miles) versus 700 hours' (~1400 miles).

prox10mo ago

For us Elite Dangerous players to get a sense of scale, that’s approximately 329,472,000 light seconds.

Hutton Orbital is located approximately 6,784,404 light seconds, or 0.22 light years, so this will be 50 hours of non boosted SC.

> that’s approximately 329,472,000 light seconds

I think you have an extra factor of 1000 somewhere.

prox10mo ago

You’re right, a bit too fast there. It’s 328,319 ls

Which means Hutton is a lot further actually.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse