I just realized that one light-day is almost exactly one quadrillion inches.
>one quadrillion inches
>>17010847That is how an inch should be defined. One quadrillionth of a light day.
>>17010845Isn't it redundant to keep saying Voyager I is the first spacecraft to reach any particular distance? It's the furthest spacecraft we have. Every second it becomes the first spacecraft to reach some arbitrary milestone.
>>17010858Its nice to know it hasn't gotten lost and travelling back to earth.
>>17010858this may surprise you, but humans like to pick big symbolic numbers as milestones and keep track of when they're reached
>>17010997speaking of, next year will be Voyager 1's 50th anniversary
>>17010849I‘m sure it went at least ten inches far while the squadrillinon her. Your mom called it a light day thoughas a light day, and trust me it’s not only one inch
>>17010845I'm skeptic about that.There's no way there could be so many inches in the Universe.
>>17010845>2% error>almost exactly??
>>17010845But a day is slightly off from a year. Work it out for the year and see if a leap year was the cause.
>ftl drive is invented>some asshole goes out to retrieve voyager>places it in orbit around the moonthe charges, officer?
>>17011023There is nothing hypocritical in the duck's reasoning or usage. He doesn't assess the validity of action while facing the meaninglessness of existence, he just notes it as a fact.
