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I'm confused, we can't track stuff on Mars, but he believes we can track stuff the furthest away from us?
Zaphod42 · 51-55, M
@sstronaut You simply can’t. It’s ridiculous. The moon is 1.5 light seconds away. Easy enough…information is only a few seconds old when we get it.
The sun is about 8.5 light minutes away. Still close enough that it only takes that long for new information to be seen.
Our nearest stellar neighbor is just shy of 4 light years away. So anything new that happens there today, we couldn’t know about for about 4 years.
So unless the Russian soul tracking program started more than 33 billion years ago, there’s simply no possible way to know today if anything from here made it there.
The sun is about 8.5 light minutes away. Still close enough that it only takes that long for new information to be seen.
Our nearest stellar neighbor is just shy of 4 light years away. So anything new that happens there today, we couldn’t know about for about 4 years.
So unless the Russian soul tracking program started more than 33 billion years ago, there’s simply no possible way to know today if anything from here made it there.