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Re:If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014) by bobm_db on Monday December 09, 2019 @04:06AM (#21741308)
Click the button in the bottom right and it moves at light speed.

Which, it turns out is really, really slow. Big revelation to me!

Re:If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014) by mrpdaemon on Monday December 09, 2019 @04:53AM (#21741469)
Actually it is really really fast relative to speeds we are familiar with in our lives. Space is just so big that it makes the speed of light (c) feel slow.
Re:If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014) by kijin on Monday December 09, 2019 @05:07AM (#21741516)
Even on Earth, c is slow and it's pretty inconvenient. We wouldn't have to worry too much about which edge location a resource is served from if intercontinental latencies were on the order of 100 microseconds instead of 100 milliseconds.
Re:If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014) by bdeshi on Monday December 09, 2019 @05:30AM (#21741583)
this video[1] by Dr James O'Donoghue really made me stop and consider how slow the fastest possible speed is, relative to the awesome vastness of space. I mean how many people have actually paused for 8:20 mins and thought, "wow that's a really long time for light to arrive from that star that seems like a stone's throw away!"

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9D5tSbxudQ

Re:If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014) by snowwrestler on Monday December 09, 2019 @09:22AM (#21742846)
Here's my favorite version of the same idea; it's a bit more immersive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BmXK1eRo0Q

It usually only takes about 15 secs for people to go "wow, that doesn't seem very fast at all."