Scott marsroverdriver Maxwell on Nostr: #space is big (and I hear Douglas Adams echo in my mind when I type that). It's easy ...

#space is big (and I hear Douglas Adams echo in my mind when I type that). It's easy to think of light as fast -- until you stop and reflect that light takes between four and 20 minutes to get from Earth to Mars, depending where they are in their respective orbits. Set a timer for just four minutes ... and do nothing while it ticks down. Really wait.

Or this: a coronal mass ejection (a solar storm) took *months* to propagate through the solar system.

Space. Is. Big.

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