@neiltyson @ugotsnookied light-fortnights would be pretty cool though.
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@neiltyson how far away is Voyager from Earth, now, in light-days?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@ugotsnookied How far away are the Voyager spacecraft?....light days?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@ugotsnookied sun has travelled ~4.3 light months since Copernicus published heliocentric theory.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@ugotsnookied Proxima Centauri is about 2.8 light months away from Alpha Centauri.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Proxima centuri is light months from Alpha centuries@ugotsnookiedThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@ugotsnookied On the other hand the Voyager 1 space probe is now a little over 17 light hours from the sun http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson The fact that Voyager isn't even a light-day away from us is both cool and scary-awesome.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Maybe not now. But soon, the ultimate death-meteor will only be light-months away. AND THEN WHAT??Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@ugotsnookied Light Minutes == useful and Light-Years == useful but Light-hours and Light months worthless. Crazy!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@ugotsnookied I could have sworn I read that a couple of light-seconds ago...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@LadySiggy@neiltyson Neil deGrass Tyson THE man to have on a desert island & a man to invite to dinner along with Shakespeare & Einstein! - End of conversation
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@neiltyson@ugotsnookied Especially if you can't travel at the speed of light. It's just a tad easier to think about.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@ugotsnookied It just makes more sense to use Kilometers for a distance that is nothing compared to a light year.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Why? Seems like an odd hole in the progression of sizesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Well, comet ISON is about 36 light minutes away.. for awhile, it was light months away. Guess you mean it's used "infrequently"..Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@ugotsnookied In the animetion TITAN AE.the scientist created a planet by a special spaceship.We could do the same.CREAT PLANETS!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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