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Bing says Alpha Centauri is 13.6 kilometers from us (imgur.com)

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[-] punkwalrus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

That explains why it's so hot outside.

[-] peregrinetech@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

So close, yet so far...as once Elvis said

[-] tiny_electron@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Interstellar travel is possible after all

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Who's down for a quick bike ride?

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Maybe Bing has access to the Event Horizon's portal tech. It would explain a lot.

[-] sparkle@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

How have scientists not figured out interstellar travel yet??? It's really right in front of us!

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

They are bits of fire a few kilometres away. We could reach them if we wanted to. Or we could blot them out.

For certain purposes, of course, that is not true. When we navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometres away. But what of it? Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

The 4th dimension shortcut

[-] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Now that's an explanation for Global Warming that I haven't heard before!

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

GOP gonna take this and run with it.

[-] nao@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

It knows the distance from Earth, but that’s not what the question was. It’s 13.6 km from somewhere.

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] sinkingship@mander.xyz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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...

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