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My Actual Brain@wonderofscience I love this demonstration it really shows how small we are and how vast the sea is.
Ames@wonderofscience This is extremely cool!
Arx@wonderofscience Light is hella slow / the universe is humungous.
@wonderofscience I say light… it’s causality in general, which happens to be the speed of light coz nothing slows light down, so it travels as fast as possible.
lars@wonderofscience interessant
Mensch, Marina@wonderofscience wonderful explanation. Puts distances in understandable relations.
MightyPirate™ 🏴☠️@wonderofscience @energisch_ So this is what Sol 1 speed looks like, interesting!
Quantium 40@wonderofscience Never forget that when someone commands "full impulse"!
(While we can assume that Star Trek impulse speed gets close to the speed of light, the ship is still not really moving on a cosmic scale)
WesDym@Quantium40 'Impulse'' power in Star Trek was (and still is) a real concept of aerospace propulsion that's quite workable, and we've had primitive versions of it for decades. It's not even slightly that fast. It's just a sophisticated form of mass-loss thrust, like a rocket. In fact, it's really just a ginned-up rocket. You use it when you need to go much SLOWER than light.
Highly advanced impulse could in theory accelerate to very high speeds, but it might take some time.
Τρομοκρατιστής ✭@Quantium40 Something that I hate on Star Trek, is when order to stop engines and for weird reason the ship stop moving :P @wonderofscience
𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚊𝚗@wonderofscience It follows that the theoretical minimum ping between opposite points on the globe is approximately 267 milliseconds 😜
FelisCatus@wonderofscience pretty slow, actually.
Multi :companion_cube:
Tamari 
greem@wonderofscience the speed of light is only exceeded by the speed of shoppers in Tesco when the yellow ticket refrigerated foods are put on the reduced price shelves.
@wonderofscience FYI, the interplanetary periods shown are averages, and in reality vary due to elliptical orbits. The Earth-Mars distance shown here is the minimum; at maximum, it's more like 22 minutes.
Martin@wonderofscience Number 2 has a definite pong feel to it.
derMike@wonderofscience woa, thats impressive
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Rolf Steinort (314.8 ppm)@wonderofscience Computer pioneer Grace Hopper handed out „nanoseconds“ to engineering students — pieces of wire. http://dataphys.org/list/grace-hopper-nanoseconds/
Grace Hopper's Nanoseconds
Grace Hopper, a computer scientist and US Navy Rear Admiral, used wire to visualise very short durations of time in computing. Each wire is cut to the maximum distance that light or electricity can travel in a nanosecond, one billionth of a second. She wanted programmers to understand 'just what they're throwing away when they throw away a millisecond', and describes using them to help military commanders understand why signals take so long to relay via satellite.
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#alt4you
Animated Gif, showing speed of light in realtime using four different planetary constellations:
1. light running around earth (7.5 times per second)
2. light traveling from earth to moon and back (384.400 km, needs 1.255 seconds from surface to surface)
3. light travelling from earth to Mars (54.6 mio. km in 3 min 2 sec)
4. light travelling from sun to earth via Mercury and Venus. Distance from sun to Mercury 3 min 11 sec; to Venus 5 min 59 sec; to Earth 8 min 17 sec
#alt4you
Animated Gif, showing speed of light in realtime using four different planetary constellations:
1. light running around earth (7.5 times per second)
2. light traveling from earth to moon and back (384.400 km, needs 1.255 seconds from surface to surface)
3. light travelling from earth to Mars (54.6 mio. km in 3 min 2 sec)
4. light travelling from sun to earth via Mercury and Venus. Distance from sun to Mercury 3 min 11 sec; to Venus 5 min 59 sec; to Earth 8 min 17 sec
Nazo@wonderofscience Every time I see the visualization of the distance from the Earth and the Moon -- especially those with the animation showing light travel time between the two -- it really drives home how powerful gravity becomes at a galactic scale that the Moon is still close enough and massive enough at that distance to significantly affect our oceans.
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✊@wonderofscience concerningly slow
kæt@wonderofscience So the moon and earth can exchange light at a speed about right for a game of Pong? Hmm, I think I have a plan.
pope of nope 🇺🇦@wonderofscience ngl, this is disappointingly slow