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Re:Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests by mistersquid on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:07PM (#24874183)
> Than turns 100k light years into ballpark 150 year journey.

Forgive my confusion.

If 100K light years is 100K years at c, how can

> 0.00006 c

yield 0.00150K (150) years?

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Re:Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests by e12e on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:09PM (#24874207)
It can't (unless you mistype into your plain android calculator app). Ed: Fwiw there was a typo there, too - it was supposed to say 150 million - but it's more like 1.5 billion.
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