Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. Hence, that distance is known as one light second. Personally, I groaned when somebody else pointed that out....

-Biscuits

Light travels at, more or less, 186,000 miles per second. Thus, 186,000 miles is one light-second.

It's just one of those numbers.

Like if you'd said ``I just got my car from the lot and it'd only been driven 3.14 miles'' or ``My spaceship's overdue for an overhaul. It's been 6.022 x 10^23 miles'' or ``They say that the average family has 2.71828 children''.

OK. I think this came up before and I was ignorant of it then as well.

That's it, I'm moving to Phoenix.

Its been about 65F around here lately. Gorgeous today, makes me really not want to go back to the office after wandering to the cafeteria for a bite to eat.

I forgot how cold the temp could get. I went to Denver a couple weeks ago to go snowmobiling. I think I almost had a stroke when the pilot announced it was 14F before we landed.

Like if you'd said ``I just got my car from the lot and it'd only been driven 3.14 miles'' or ``My spaceship's overdue for an overhaul. It's been 6.022 x 10^23 miles'' or ``They say that the average family has 2.71828 children''.

I think I read that book... that's the scene where Dr. Avogadro is eating pie in his natural log cabin, or something like that...

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I think I read that book... that's the scene where Dr. Avogadro is eating pie in his natural log cabin, or something like that...

How did you manage to cram them all in one sentence!

I had to bump this; I missed it somehow when it was posted (and found it in searching for '828' as in 'Sony DSC-F828')...

Am I the only one who was looking at those numbers trying to work out how they were numerically significant?

Hugo

You obviously didn't waste enough time with mathematics and physics books as a kid, huh?

Maybe. I saw numbers, and just kind of glossed over.

Hugo - I think the important thing to understand is that they are temperatures, not hexadecimal numbers.

It must be confusing to have a system where 35° is too cold, rather than too hot!

I agree. Except the other way around.