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btaf45@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

Bing says Alpha Centauri is 13.6 kilometers from us

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    9 months ago

    In very next line, it says the distance is 4.37 lightyears away… which is also wrong, lol

    For anyone wondering, the actual correct answer is about 4.25 lightyears or about 40 trillion kilometers.

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

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

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

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

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          That’s close to 2!

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            17! is closer

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

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      Close. The distance to Alpha Centauri is 41.5 petameters (trillion kilometers) and the distance to Proxima Centauri is 40.2 petameters.

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