550
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

In very next line, it says the distance is 4.37 lightyears away... which is also wrong, lol

For anyone wondering, the actual correct answer is about 4.25 lightyears or about 40 trillion kilometers.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

These are all equally confusing. How many American football fields?

[-] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

In scientific terms? An absolute fuck-ton of football fields.

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yes but how many giraffes, laid end-to-end?

[-] DLSantini@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Approximately 437,445,319,335,083 of those.

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

One football field is about a hectometer and there are 10 hectometers per kilometer. So 415 trillion.

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Close. The distance to Alpha Centauri is 41.5 petameters (trillion kilometers) and the distance to Proxima Centauri is 40.2 petameters.

this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2024
550 points (96.0% liked)

Technology

73795 readers
859 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS