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kj-roo.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Isn't it 186,000mi/second?

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spottacus.org•3 days ago

Um, yes?

kj-roo.bsky.social•3 days ago

Post says per hour.

spottacus.org•3 days ago

Yeah... bsky doesn't have edits, so reposted. Thx! Big typo.

kj-roo.bsky.social•3 days ago

You must have briefly hopped over to a universe where light doesn't haul nearly as much ass as it does on Earth One.

spottacus.org•3 days ago

When I was a medicine/physics prof at Stanford, we used to do studies where we measured distances traveled by photons in body tissue over fractions of nanoseconds, so light travelled millimeter to centimeter path lengths.

kj-roo.bsky.social•3 days ago

And here I thought the timing calculations involved in GPS positioning were impressive.

spottacus.org•3 days ago

Like in the The Expanse?

kj-roo.bsky.social•3 days ago

Never seen it. 😎Was thinking Cave Johnson quote from Portal 2.

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