You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
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Space is small. You just won't believe how itsy, bitsy, mind-bogglingly tiny it is. I mean, you may think it's long way to the fridge, but that's just peanuts to space
Space is small.
The diameter of the entire observable universe is not even a full ronnameter.
The hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy, Chapter 8.
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”Space,” it says, ”is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly
hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down
the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen . . . ” and so
on.
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It propably grabbed the info off some random number-confusing dude like me, who recently posted the Earth's diameter would be about 6 km instead of 6000.
Edit: oops, did it again. Meant radius, not diameter...
That's a big fucking problem if true. Albeit a short lived problem.
The 4th dimension shortcut
google > bing
Yes, but it feels longer with all the traffic jams.
wormholes confirmed
Stargate is a documentary.
I’m burrrrning!
Interstellar travel is possible after all
I wonder if Bing over- or under-estimates the wealth of Bill Gates.
AI sure is gonna be weird if we preface any question involving dimensions with some dumb arbitrary scale as reference.
Depending on trim and accessories, the 2025 Chevrolet Silverado weighs anywhere from 1454 to 1533 watermelons
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That explains why it's so hot outside.
Who's down for a quick bike ride?
Good golly, someone make some chocolate chip cookies, we're going to have to go and welcome them to the neighborhood. Damn rude no one said anything sooner.
Huh. The collision must've happened a lot sooner than we thought.
Alpha Centauri is actually 13.6 feet from me, Ive got an old sid meyrs disk somehwere in the box of old tech stuff. Great game, used the same engine as Civ 2, think its on GOG these days.
It knows the distance from Earth, but that’s not what the question was. It’s 13.6 km from somewhere.
Bada Bing
Now that's an explanation for Global Warming that I haven't heard before!
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In very next line, it says the distance is 4.37 lightyears away... which is also wrong, lol
For anyone wondering, the actual correct answer is about 4.25 lightyears or about 40 trillion kilometers.
Close. The distance to Alpha Centauri is 41.5 petameters (trillion kilometers) and the distance to Proxima Centauri is 40.2 petameters.
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Too close for comfort.
From something like this?
If Earth were the size of a sand grain, this distance would be about the width of a hair in contrast to the corresponding 6-mile (10-km) distance to Alpha Centauri in the same scale.