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

Distance of Voyager 1 from Earth: ~162.84 AU

Not even close.

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AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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He said day, not year.

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Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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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
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Hahahaha!! 🤣🤣

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Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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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
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It would say (edited) if they edited their comment

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SeaJ@lemm.ee
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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
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One light day?

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SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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But it’s a leap year so it should be longer this year.

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bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
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Aaannnd I get to post this https://m.xkcd.com/2897/

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Kafanzi Max. Praetor@lemmy.ml
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You broke and reinforced relativity at the same time

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isles@lemmy.world
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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
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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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