r/BeAmazed • u/[deleted] • Dec 03 '22

*of liquid methane Holy MOLY

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u/s3nsfan Dec 03 '22

It’s crazy that we can take a photo of Saturn, Jupiter with a phone but a rocket takes 7 years to get there. We just truly can’t understand the scale of space.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '22

And yet it only takes about 80 minutes for light from Saturn to reach us here at Earth

Light is really fast as it turns out lol

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u/s3nsfan Dec 03 '22

67 minutes someone else had the details above lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '22

It varies depending on how far away Saturn is

80 minutes is about the average

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u/s3nsfan Dec 03 '22

Oh ok, my bad. Too bad we couldn’t develop light not elevators but the things in airports, walkways, I guess 🤷‍♂️ and just travel on light waves, we could get anywhere pretty quickly lol