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Re:NASA’s New Horizons Team Strikes Gold in Argentina by lomnakkus on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @04:05PM (#14807443)
I think "mere" kind of makes sense at these scales? I mean the nearest known star (Proxima Centauri) is 40,208,000,000,000 km away. (Guess it depends on whether you're using "American" Billions or not...)
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Re:NASA’s New Horizons Team Strikes Gold in Argentina by greglindahl on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @04:25PM (#14807589)
Given that you're talking about an object in our solar system, I think almost all astronomers would not use "mere" or parsecs.
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Re:NASA’s New Horizons Team Strikes Gold in Argentina by lomnakkus on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @05:08PM (#14807956)
Ah, missed the "in our solar system" bit :).
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Re:NASA’s New Horizons Team Strikes Gold in Argentina by weberc2 on Thursday July 20, 2017 @10:50AM (#14812958)
What are "American" Billions? I'm an American and AFAIK our 'billions' is the same as anyone else's.
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Re:NASA’s New Horizons Team Strikes Gold in Argentina by lomnakkus on Saturday July 22, 2017 @07:26PM (#14830016)
I think it's answered by this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

(I can't vouch for the specific wording, but search for "American".)

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Re:NASA’s New Horizons Team Strikes Gold in Argentina by gordon_freeman on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @04:50PM (#14807777)
They just fixed it on their article. It is "more than".
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