41.5 petameters.
Nobody using the metric system says "trillion kilometers"! 🌞
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He literally told it to give the answer "in km". That's on him, not Bing.
41.5 petameters.
https://coco1453.wordpress.com/thinking-in-metric-for-astronomy/
Nobody using the metric system says “trillion kilometers”!
Unfortunately way too many people do even though it is not the correct SI unit for the scale, simply because 'kilometer' is the metric distance unit used for Earth distances. I have astronomy distances memorized as metric SI distances and I only care about the km distance so I can convert that to the SI distance. e.g. When I see "trillion kilometers" I convert that in my head to "quadrillion meters" which I then convert to "petameters".
I would rather see the base unit 'meters' than km so I can skip a step. My own preference for astronomy distance units is:
metric SI units > meters > kilometers > non metric units
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So close, yet so far...as once Elvis said
How have scientists not figured out interstellar travel yet??? It's really right in front of us!
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Interstellar travel is possible after all
Now that's an explanation for Global Warming that I haven't heard before!
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It knows the distance from Earth, but that’s not what the question was. It’s 13.6 km from somewhere.
Maybe Bing has access to the Event Horizon's portal tech. It would explain a lot.
Who's down for a quick bike ride?
From something like this?
If Earth were the size of a sand grain, this distance would be about the width of a hair in contrast to the corresponding 6-mile (10-km) distance to Alpha Centauri in the same scale.
Alpha Centauri is actually 13.6 feet from me, Ive got an old sid meyrs disk somehwere in the box of old tech stuff. Great game, used the same engine as Civ 2, think its on GOG these days.