For those who aren't used to thinking in km/s, this equates to 61,200 km/hour.
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In freedom units that's fast as fuck
The Free World uses km/h.
Unfortunately, I don't live in the free world, I live in the "freedom" world. I have to convert km/h to as hell and km/s to as fuck.
The Space World uses km/s
They forgot the (tm), i.e.; Freedom Units(tm)
It’s spelled Freedumb
PepsiCo presents Freedom Units (TM)
Actually, in Freedom Units it's 2,040,000 blue whales per hour
Length of a blue whale: 30 meters 61,200 km / 0.03 km = 2,040,000
Nope. You're off by a power of 10 because 30 meters is 0.03 km.
So it's 2,040,000 blue whales per hour. ;)
But in terms of miles an hour? About 38,000. Or, as the crow flies, LA to New York in 3 minutes and 51 seconds. That's less time than it takes to listen to the hit Madonna song "4 Minutes."
Whoops, good catch. I definitely thought .03 and then just screwed it up anyway
3 minutes and 51 seconds. That's less time than it takes to listen to the hit Madonna song "4 Minutes."
Unless we're talking the radio edit, of course. Otherwise, four minutes is also less time than 4 Minutes.
I really feel like freedom units should be hotdogs per second.
It's cheating to use footlongs, btw.
Hotdogs aren't standardized though. But I guess we could agree to use Kirkland Signature hotdogs, you know, the ones Costco sells for $1.50 + soda at the food court.
How many bald eagles, though?
Depends on your deep frying equipment.
I hear the secret sauce on Big Macs actually contains some bald eagle (allegedly)
If by “freedom units” you mean football fields, that would be roughly 109,361.33 ff/s.
Most Americans could probably use metric easily if they just remember a meter is about 180 5.56 NATO rounds wide. A kilometer is 111,111 9mm rounds.
Easy.
Why did you use communist units?
Use the .223 Remington round, which is the civilian version (i.e. freedom variant) of the 5.56 NATO round, and is what's generally used in the AR15.
I'll allow the 9mm because it's used by the FBI and many police departments, but a true patriot would use the .40 round, which is about the same size, just a little shorter, a little stockier, a little heavier, and a bit more gunpowder. So 98425 .40 rounds wide is one km, or round to 100k.
Use imperial rounds, not communist metric rounds.
109,361... that's fast AF, FFS!
How does that just happen to be your username
And if you're still confused by these units, it's moving about as fast as the NASDAQ.
Yeah, but that's moving TOWARDS earth, lol
In an uncontrolled re-entry
Should tell this to that “gravity is weak” post
or 1,433,255 football fields per baseball game
Oh, sure, right now it's all about wanting to get out of here, but they'll come crawling back, looking for their creator so they can introduce their weird bald girlfriend.
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The distances of both voyager probes from earth are actually decreasing at the moment due to Earth's position in its orbit around the sun. NASA link with their distances
On average Earth's location is close to the middle of the sun, so it's still accurate to say it's getting further away from earth
They're still moving away, it's just that at the moment the earth is moving towards them.
“Come back asshole”
yeeted by science
I wish I could die alone in the vacuum of space.
To get the feel of this speed, it's about 10 minutes of driving on a clear freeway, in one second.
[OCD folks do your thing (sigh) and remember I'm one of you, but I am not trying to be exact, just giving the general feel of it.]
"Oh, looks like my battery is low. Having troubling hearing you. Hello? Oh well, bye..."
Thanks Mr. Voyager! Have a nice travel!
I too wish to flee the earth at KMS speeds.
It's a good Lemmy app too. Has nearly all the features my favorite reddit app had (Relay).
My only complaint is that the app makes unintentional taps too easy. On far too many occasions I accidentally go to a community or a user's profile when I'm trying to get to the comments. It would be nice to have a tablet mode too.
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