The entire Quebec City-Windsor corridor plus a bit, say a bit less than half the distance between Quebec City and La Malbaie. (We’ll add the remainder on that end rather than consider a trek through North Windsor. Nothing against North Windsor, you understand, but border crossings are a pain…)
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For those curious, the last distance shown is about a minute before the end - 1200km or 746 miles, they don’t actually mention the total at the end. I find it a strange comparison that starts off with visual, spatial things like a golf ball and grain of sand, and then switches to time perception of travel, but without any indication of speed or distance and at rapid time-lapse that circumvents that time perception, then trails off without a map plot or comparison to visualize the distance and tie it back to the visual/spatial analogies at the beginning. I think the summary at the end should have been spoken in Spanish for further emphasis.
Maybe it’s communicating that by the time you reached another star so much time would have passed that people would be speaking a different language, culture would have changed as completely as driving on the opposite side of the road, and you would perceive things differently.
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“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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Never tell me the odds.
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You really want your mind blown?
The distance from the centre of the Earth to the Moon is c. 400,000 km. The diameter of the Sun is c. 1,400,000 km.
So, if we’re measuring the length of the “road” to Proxima Centauri starting from Earth, instead of from the Sun, the farthest a human has gotten along that road is still inside the golf ball.
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I do not get this at all. My response would be no.
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Presented without comment:
Pull quote:
And while his pet could be mean, and had certainly bit a few people, he was no attack squirrel, he said. If he was, Paulk argued, why would police have released him into the wild, where he could potentially hurt someone?
ETA:
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I feel like Alabama has bigger problems right now than squirrels.
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Crosses fingers they take up residency in the Republican offices of the statehouse…
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As I read this article, I thought of this:
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We don’t have a 2020 politics thread, but I don’t really want to be the one to start it, and get notified all over the place, you know?
I was looking for a place to put this, and there didn’t seem to be a better existing thread.
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You just need to change your notification settings for the topic you create from “Watching” to “Tracking.”
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The only correct size for this item of clothing is “toddler”!
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Thank you.
What happened to the term “jumpsuit”? Still silly, but definitely not an item of baby clothing.
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Strange discovery of useless knowledge.
PS2’s Amplitude was a precursor to Guitar Hero. The player flies a spaceship and fires in time with the music. I was intigued by the song Uptown Saturday Night by Logan 7. It has a snippet of dialogue which sounds like a B film-noir movie. I always wondered where they pulled the track from.
Years later, I am listening to an old-time radio horror podcast called Ghoulish Delights. As a bonus for their Patreon, they played a record from the 70s show, Kojak. The record was distributed by Peter Pan, a label that was devoted to kids songs and stories. They were known for their Marvel Superhero and Star Trek albums.
Kojak, however, is a tough street-wise detective. I had found the missing link.
Pretty dark for a kid’s record.
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