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[-] mostdubious@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

aw look, junior made a meme

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago

Everest can be seen 200 miles away on a clear day

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 9 points 8 hours ago

Flat earth proven! Boom! /s

[-] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

I don't think you needed a /s for that

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Poe's law would say otherwise.

[-] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 51 points 18 hours ago

Me who can see Polaris 433 light years away.

[-] absentbird@lemm.ee 11 points 14 hours ago

V762 Cassiopeiae: am I a joke to you?

[-] Shard@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

I can the universe 40b light-years

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

Oh yeah? Well I can see colors!

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 hours ago

No, billions of lightyears is the realm of telescopes.

[-] Cyclist@lemmy.world 133 points 22 hours ago

Amateur. In a dark location, on a clear night, I can see the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.3 million light years away.

[-] Akasazh@lemmy.world -2 points 2 hours ago

You're not really seeing it, though, your seeing it's distant past

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago

But since the sun is 93 millions miles away it's further because the number is bigger

[-] HereIAm@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

No you see some infinites are bigger than other. So light year is basically a larger infinity than millions. There's a YouTube video about, look it up 👍

/s (you never know these days)

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 71 points 22 hours ago

Oh yeah, well I can see your mom. 2.3 million light years away. Because she's fat.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago

Fuckin' got them! Nice.

[-] Cyclist@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

You can't see my mom, she's dead.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

Of course she's dead, she's in space...

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 20 points 17 hours ago

She's 2.3 million light years away. We're seeing her in the past.

[-] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 15 points 22 hours ago
[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

She's so fat that we're worried her and the sun will form a binary star system.

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 46 points 22 hours ago

She's so fat that I'm genuinely concerned for her health.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Shes so fat im concerned for the higgs fields' health

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 hours ago

She’s so fat I can see what’s behind her

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I suppose we can calculate a minimum, if we look up the smallest angle of resolution for human eyes, and approximate her as spherical.

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[-] teft@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago

Triangulum Galaxy is a smidge farther away (~2.7Mly) and also naked eye visible with the right sky conditions and good eyes.

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

I dont think 400000 times light can travel in a year of difference is "slightly further away"

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[-] Magister@lemmy.world 55 points 21 hours ago
[-] thenextguy@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago
[-] cholesterol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Is that dangerous?

[-] podperson@lemm.ee 21 points 20 hours ago

Must be hard to can the sun. Shit’s hot and really big.

[-] don@lemm.ee 6 points 18 hours ago

Neptune: tf are you talking about

The Oort Cloud: lolwut

Interstellar medium: fuck me, it’s cold

Sagittarius A*: (chuckles softly)

Andromeda Galaxy: tf is a sun

Laniakea Supercluster: yo is that the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall?? What up, homie!

Universe: gotta go fast

Can:

[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 23 points 19 hours ago

Look at the sun for a while and you won't see anything ever anymore.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago

Yes, but for how long?

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 36 points 22 hours ago

who can the sun 93 million miles away

[-] sleen@lemmy.zip 26 points 22 hours ago

I can the sun 93 million miles away

[-] warbond@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago

Where did you learn that? Is that a real thing people are taught?

[-] criitz@reddthat.com 54 points 20 hours ago

3 miles is roughly how far you can see to the horizon (before the curvature of the earth blocks your line of sight)

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/distance-to-horizon

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago

I don't want to check miles, but it's pretty on point with what I remember, which is the horizon being 5km away for a 180cm (~6ft) tall person. (3 miles is close enough to 5km)

Getting even a few meters of something under you would drastically change how far you see.

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[-] don@lemm.ee 6 points 19 hours ago

tbf, looking at the sun from three miles away would be all that you could see.

Y’know, if it didn’t instantly turn you into plasma.

[-] eatthecake@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago

Teacher: not anymore

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