• xthexder@l.sw0.com
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    3 days ago

    traveling at a million light-years per millisecond

    You’re only off by a factor of about 30 quadrillion.

    Light (famously a type of radiation), takes 1 year to travel a light-year, hence the name.

    If you want to make it sound impressive, then astronomical units aren’t the right choice. The sun is only 1 AU away from us after all.

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      2 days ago

      Ok. Wasn’t trying to make it sound impressive, just trying to say that the sun is sharting radiation at us.