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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried (www.npr.org)

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[+] cyborganism@lemmy.ca -61 points 2 years ago (5 children)

1 light year = 63241.077 AU (distance between Sun and Earth)

Distance of Voyager 1 from Earth: ~162.84 AU

Not even close.

Sources:

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 86 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He said day, not year.

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 51 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Makes me miss the old sub /r/ConfidentlyIncorrect. I need to see if that exists on Lemmy anywhere.

Edit: Sure does: !confidently_incorrect@lemmy.world

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Hahahaha!! 🤣🤣

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[+] cyborganism@lemmy.ca -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I'm pretty sure I read light year initially. Maybe OP modified their comment?

I could've have misread it also. 🤷‍♂️

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[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

It would say (edited) if they edited their comment

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago

Ah alright then. My bad.

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[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

Would you say it is about 1/365th the the distance of a light year? I wonder if there is a term for that...

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

One light day?

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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But it's a leap year so it should be longer this year.

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[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Aaannnd I get to post this https://m.xkcd.com/2897/

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[–] kafa@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago

You broke and reinforced relativity at the same time

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[–] isles@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Also, just for anyone else, the Sun is not 1 light year away from Earth, instead ~499 light seconds.

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[–] PrecisePangolin@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

The distance between the sun and earth is ~93 million miles. A light year is 5.88 trillion miles. We are not 1 light year away from the sun. We are about 8.5 mins from the sun (speed of light) right?

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