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1 what? Cucumber per nanosecond?

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1 speed of light of course.

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Light-second per second

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Actually, yes. Light travels about 30cm in a nanosecond, around the size of a cucumber.

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Which is why I updated my comment from “banana per nanosecond”, which itself was originally updated from “apple per picosecond” that I just put there randomly, without any thought.

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Is there another way to measure the speed of light?

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