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[mr roboto]

I was once clocked on the gun at 19 MPH

How long would it take me to run a light year assuming I can maintain that speed?

5.88 trillion/19 = 309,473,684,211 years. 3.09 billion years.

 

[fantasycurse42]

I was once clocked on the gun at 19 MPH

How long would it take me to run a light year assuming I can maintain that speed?

5.88 trillion/19 = 309,473,684,211 years. 3.09 billion years.

I'll never make it.

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

You're going to be upset when you learn how a meter is defined.

Not to mention a foot. ("Whose foot? Is there only one?")

 

[Mr. Pickles]

You're going to be upset when you learn how a meter is defined.

Not to mention a foot. ("Whose foot? Is there only one?")

I'm partial to the metric dependent foot. Exactly 0.3048 meters.

Your experience with other feet may vary.

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

You're going to be upset when you learn how a meter is defined.

Not to mention a foot. ("Whose foot? Is there only one?")

I'm partial to the metric dependent foot. Exactly 0.3048 meters.

So it's back to light in a vacuum, then. Turns out all units of distance are stupid. This thread uncovered a much larger problem than the OP realized when he started it. I am going to write my Congressman.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

These days, deal almost exclusively in Planck units.

 

[Fennis]

I wish we could like likes. I like that Hoard liked each pickles post

It's the distance light travels in a year.

 

[Slapdash]

^ so why dont they just call it Light Kilometers , since that's how it's measured.

when you're in your car does the speedometer give you speed as measured in distance per year?

stupidity

You're high, shut up

 

[Sarnoff]

These days, deal almost exclusively in Planck units.

How much is a kilogram?

 

[shadyridr]

So how big is a foot? Some peoples feet are bigger than other peoples feet.

 

[Soulfly3]

So it's back to light in a vacuum, then. Turns out all units of distance are stupid. This thread uncovered a much larger problem than the OP realized when he started it. I am going to write my Congressman.

I knew where this would go.

 

[FUBAR]

Martians' light is slower than ours?

 

[FUBAR]

So how big is a foot? Some peoples feet are bigger than other peoples feet.

What about a bigfoot?

 

[Leroy Hoard]

whats up with gravity?

you really mean whats down with gravity.

 

[mr roboto]

I don't know anything anymore. To what truth can I pin my epistomological underpinnings?

 

[Soulfly3]

I don't know anything anymore. To what truth can I pin my epistomological underpinnings?

wanna have a drink with me?

 

[mr roboto]

I don't know anything anymore. To what truth can I pin my epistomological underpinnings?

wanna have a drink with me?

I'll be drinking some craft beers in about 2 hours.

 

[Soulfly3]

I don't know anything anymore. To what truth can I pin my epistomological underpinnings?

wanna have a drink with me?

I'll be drinking some craft beers in about 2 hours.

alcohol is a reliable truth.

 

[Foosball God]

whats up with gravity?

you really mean whats down with gravity.

It's just a theory anyway.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

whats up with gravity?

you really mean whats down with gravity.

It's just a theory anyway.

In theory.

 

[jamny]

Is the thread ready for spacetime yet?

 

[Mjolnirs]

You're going to be upset when you learn how a meter is defined.

Actually, I think he has a point. A year is a measurement of time that is only relative to us on earth. Calling it a light year indicates that it's a different measure of time relative to light.

Once we have contact with folks from another planet, then this may be an issue.

 

[Insein]

I suppose we also need to specify that light is assumed to be traveling in a vacuum. You know, just to be precise.

Let's shoot for "light traveling in a vacuum for the duration of one earth year" to avoid confusion.

So you admit, the term light year is a complete misnomer. Too many factors need to be accounted for to make it true

You're not expected to re-derive the math in order to use or conceive of the unit of distance. It's just a label. Like a meter.

A meter is a meter, no strings attached. Except for in the usa

Yea but what's a meter?

 

[Sarnoff]

I don't know anything anymore. To what truth can I pin my epistomological underpinnings?

I know how you feel. I just learned what 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+...∞ equals (the sum of all positive integers). It's a negative number. I had to go lie down.

 

[mr roboto]

I don't know anything anymore. To what truth can I pin my epistomological underpinnings?

I know how you feel. I just learned what 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+...∞ equals (the sum of all positive integers). It's a negative number. I had to go lie down.

#### this mess.

 

[Soulfly3]

I don't know anything anymore. To what truth can I pin my epistomological underpinnings?

I know how you feel. I just learned what 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+...∞ equals (the sum of all positive integers). It's a negative number. I had to go lie down.

#### this mess.

Im sorry guys. Seriously.

Let me buy you a snifter of your favorite

 

[Dippa]

^ so why dont they just call it Light Kilometers , since that's how it's measured.

when you're in your car does the speedometer give you speed as measured in distance per year?

stupidity

It gives me speed as measured in distance per 1/8,760th year.

 

[Soulfly3]

^ so why dont they just call it Light Kilometers , since that's how it's measured.

when you're in your car does the speedometer give you speed as measured in distance per year?

stupidity

It gives me speed as measured in distance per 1/8,760th year.

do you have to manually change the gauges during leap years?

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Have you yelled at your electric company to stop billing you by the kilowatt hour?

 

[Dippa]

^ so why dont they just call it Light Kilometers , since that's how it's measured.

when you're in your car does the speedometer give you speed as measured in distance per year?

stupidity

It gives me speed as measured in distance per 1/8,760th year.

do you have to manually change the gauges during leap years?

Not sure. My car is Korean, so it may be based on their traditional calendar. I'll ask my mechanic.

 

[Soulfly3]

Have you yelled at your electric company to stop billing you by the kilowatt hour?

kilowatt? they measure electricity by weight in the US?

 

[Osaurus]

There are 63,240 AU (astronomical units) in a light year.

 

[shadyridr]

Have you yelled at your electric company to stop billing you by the kilowatt hour?

kilowatt? they measure electricity by weight in the US?

weight? You realize kilo is meant to represent 1000, right?

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Have you yelled at your electric company to stop billing you by the kilowatt hour?

kilowatt? they measure electricity by weight in the US?

I yelled at mine and they now send me a statement in brake horsepower minutes.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

I manually change mAh battery capacities to read their correct charge in Coulombs.

 

[Soulfly3]

I only measure my electricity in joule seconds

 

[Mr. Pickles]

I only measure my electricity in joule seconds

That would be a bad idea.

 

[Soulfly3]

I only measure my electricity in joule seconds

That would be a bad idea.

they wont let me measure it in racks

 

[Mr. Pickles]

I only measure my electricity in joule seconds

That would be a bad idea.

they wont let me measure it in racks

I would suggest ergs.

 

[Soulfly3]

I would suggest ergs.

I gauge my woman's interest in sex by how many "ergs" she gives me when I propose it

 

[jon_mx]

These days, deal almost exclusively in Planck units.

Well at least Plank's constant.

 

[jon_mx]

I wonder if MoP could calculate the number of pizza's there are in a light year.

 

[Sarnoff]

I wonder if MoP could calculate the number of pizza's there are in a light year.

Light doesn't travel in a straight line.

 

[Aerial Assault]

"The moon."

"Which moon?!?"

That's no moon. That's a space station.

 

[Aerial Assault]

I was once clocked on the gun at 19 MPH

How long would it take me to run a light year assuming I can maintain that speed?

5.88 trillion/19 = 309,473,684,211 years. 3.09 billion years.

Isn't that 309 billion years?

 

[jon_mx]

I was once clocked on the gun at 19 MPH

How long would it take me to run a light year assuming I can maintain that speed?

5.88 trillion/19 = 309,473,684,211 years. 3.09 billion years.

Isn't that 309 billion years?

Hush, he is on a roll.