So close, yet so far...as once Elvis said
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2024
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Interstellar travel is possible after all
The 4th dimension shortcut
Maybe Bing has access to the Event Horizon's portal tech. It would explain a lot.
Now that's an explanation for Global Warming that I haven't heard before!
GOP gonna take this and run with it.
Who's down for a quick bike ride?
It knows the distance from Earth, but that’s not what the question was. It’s 13.6 km from somewhere.
How have scientists not figured out interstellar travel yet??? It's really right in front of us!
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From something like this?
If Earth were the size of a sand grain, this distance would be about the width of a hair in contrast to the corresponding 6-mile (10-km) distance to Alpha Centauri in the same scale.
Alpha Centauri is actually 13.6 feet from me, Ive got an old sid meyrs disk somehwere in the box of old tech stuff. Great game, used the same engine as Civ 2, think its on GOG these days.
It propably grabbed the info off some random number-confusing dude like me, who recently posted the Earth's diameter would be about 6 km instead of 6000.
Edit: oops, did it again. Meant radius, not diameter...
Too close for comfort.
Perhaps you have asked a flat-earther AI /s
Bada Bing