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Bing says Alpha Centauri is 13.6 kilometers from us (imgur.com)
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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

These are all equally confusing. How many American football fields?

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In scientific terms? An absolute fuck-ton of football fields.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

Yes but how many giraffes, laid end-to-end?

[–] DLSantini@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Approximately 437,445,319,335,083 of those.

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's close to 2!

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

17! is closer

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

One football field is about a hectometer and there are 10 hectometers per kilometer. So 415 trillion.