Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star

Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by rbanffy on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:30AM (#30301875)

Not exactly. For you to think you are traveling 20x faster than light, your friends that stayed at home would have to see you traveling at 0.99995c. For 233x faster than light, that's a lot of 9's in that number.

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Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by s1artibartfast on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:29PM (#30304206)

I get 0.999c for 20x and 0.99999c for 220+

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Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by rbanffy on Friday February 11, 2022 @02:15PM (#30305764)

I'll trust your numbers more than mine.

But, for all intents and purposes, this is impossibly fast ;-)

Unless you are on the Bistromath, that is.

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Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by s1artibartfast on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:02PM (#30303791)

There is no faster than light, I can't parse this statement.

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Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by psyc on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:20PM (#30304048)

Distance divided by [time experienced by traveler]. GP is not saying that traveler went faster than light.

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