• @[email protected]
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    519 months ago

    You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.

    • @[email protected]
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      199 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        39 months ago

        In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

    • SkaveRat
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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

      • @[email protected]OP
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        79 months ago

        Space is small.

        The diameter of the entire observable universe is not even a full ronnameter.

  • Bahnd Rollard
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    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.

  • Punkie
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    69 months ago

    That explains why it’s so hot outside.

  • @[email protected]
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    99 months ago

    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

    • @[email protected]OP
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      29 months ago

      I use to be able to ask google the distance in kilometers of anything in space and get an accurate answer. So I first asked this same question in google but it only gave the answer in light years for some reason. That’s when I went to bing and got their ridiculous answer.

      • ianovic69
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        19 months ago

        It’s a mess. I just used Google Assistant (not even Gemini) to ask the distance in km and got this -

        According to the website Space, the distance is 37.8 trillion km.

        I know which one I’m going with but finding out assistant is wrong is a big deal. Lots of people will assume like I did that the info is just pulled from relevant websites. Can’t do that now.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          29 months ago

          According to the website Space, the distance is 37.8 trillion km.

          This is not correct, and is probably the result of rounding the light year distance to 4 ly before converting to km. The google answer is pretty close.

          The correct answer is the distance to Alpha Centauri is 41.5 petameters (trillion km) and the distance to Proxima Centauri is 40.2 petameters.

          • ianovic69
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            19 months ago

            Space.com got it wrong? Well that will teach me to triple check my sources!

            Thanks for clarifying.

  • Jo Miran
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    39 months ago

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