r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • Dec 11 '24

Voyager 1 phones home from ~1 light-day away! Related Content

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u/offensive_S-words Dec 11 '24

1093 yards to a km. 100 yards to a football field. 26b km cause I like to round up.

284,180,000,000 football fields. Even Adam Vinatieri isn’t making that kick.

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u/ProblemEngineer Dec 11 '24

I'm gonna need 144 billion bananas for scale

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u/Grendle98 Dec 11 '24

Love this comment..... everything should have bananas for scale

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u/turtle-ding-dong Dec 11 '24

where are you finding 200 yard bananas

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u/stoneyyay 27d ago

I can only calculate in washing machines

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u/scriptmonkey420 Dec 11 '24

Thats gross

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u/ProblemEngineer 18d ago

A billion times more gross, even.

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u/21GladiatorXerxes Dec 11 '24

I'm American, I need at least 238,000,000 cheese burgers for scale. OR 112,000,000 morbidly obese Americans.

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u/Scereye Dec 11 '24

26b km cause I like to round up

I like how you can round up 100,000,000ish km, and everyone is fine with that because it's just such a massive distance it traveled. :-)

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u/RedDeadDefacation Dec 11 '24

Josh Allen can throw that far on his knees

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u/Shorts_Man Dec 11 '24

Coach would've put me in the 4th quarter we'd been state champs. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.

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u/guff1988 Dec 11 '24

Hey watch this.

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u/Frosti-Feet 29d ago

That’s what I’m talking about.

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u/frissonic Dec 11 '24

Go Bills!!

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u/link90 Dec 11 '24

Fortunately, Dan Camble was prepared for this. He sent Kerby Joseph and Brian Branch on Voyager. They'll be back there to intercept Josh Allen on Sunday.

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u/RedDeadDefacation Dec 11 '24

Can't wait for Shakir to slice n' dice the asteroid belt for parsecs of YAC 😘

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u/link90 Dec 11 '24

Jamo can make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs. Should be a good one. See you on Sunday, Mr. Space Buffalo.

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u/gregsmith5 Dec 11 '24

With his left hand

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u/krimlife 29d ago

Was he on his knees slobbing on a mahomo 😂

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u/RedDeadDefacation 29d ago

Mahomo has nothing to slob on - that said, if Josh wanted to slob a knob that's his business and you better respect it.

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u/DJdoggyBelly Dec 11 '24

Used to be able to make this joke with my boy Tucker. Damn it hurts...

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u/feuerchen015 Dec 11 '24

Not necessarily because of the distance, but rather because it is only 1/259th of the way travelled

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u/Past-Confidence6962 Dec 11 '24

Gotta be close though, probably just a few yards short

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u/Damion_205 Dec 11 '24

Sad titans fans. :/

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u/RuncibleSpoon18 Dec 11 '24

John elway could throw a nerf vortex that far if it has the whistles still

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u/ONeOfTheNerdHerd Dec 12 '24

With an average length of 45 inches, 22.66 trillion donkeys will get you there. Voyager 1 hauling ass.

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u/ArcticBiologist Dec 11 '24

... Americans always find a way to not use metric

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u/Imlooloo Dec 11 '24

We use metric on the important things here in America- football, liquor volumes and gun bullet calibers.

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u/offensive_S-words Dec 11 '24

Someone asked for the length in football fields.

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u/Luci-Noir Dec 11 '24

People like you always find something to bitch about..

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u/ArcticBiologist Dec 11 '24 edited Dec 11 '24

People like you always find something to bitch about...

Ahw honey, you couldn't take the same stuff you're dishing?

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u/Luci-Noir Dec 11 '24

Okay, Karen.

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u/Sporketeer Dec 11 '24

I mean, if he takes the kick in the vacuum of space and outside the influence of a gravity well then eventually...

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u/mapped_apples Dec 11 '24

If only coach would’ve put me in.

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u/-SHAI_HULUD Dec 11 '24

The Polish Powderkeg could…

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u/pituitary_monster Dec 11 '24

Or one penis of mine

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u/Meecht Dec 11 '24

Or roughly 335,519,020 Rhode Islands.

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u/Tom_Art_UFO Dec 11 '24

Brandon Aubrey could make it.

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u/Long-Necessary827 Dec 11 '24

Chiefs somehow getting that easy if they down in the 4th quarter.

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u/MintasaurusFresh Dec 11 '24

Justin Tucker could kick it that far, but I'm not sure that he would hit the target. He's been shanking them the past few games.

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u/ty_for_trying Dec 11 '24

The standard football pitch is 105 meters, or 115 yards. 😏

But even if you're talking about American football instead of soccer, the standard length is 120 yards. Be honest. When you picture a football field in your head, do you omit the end zones?

I think most people do picture the end zones in their heads. So, I think using football fields to picture something and only using 100 of the 120 yards is a little deceptive (even if unintentionally) and inflates the estimated size by 20%.

However, it's moot anyway because humans can't picture any of these absurd numbers.

I don't know of a good way to picture it, but you'd want something larger than a kilometer to help there. Like, light would take a year to go to the moon and back 12.3 billion times. Still meaningless.

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u/offensive_S-words Dec 11 '24

1)I rounded out 98 million km because I felt like it.
2( no one said football pitch, doesnt exist you don’t pitch a football.
C)fermi calculations.
4)Someone asked for the distance in football fields.

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u/bongoissomewhatnifty Dec 11 '24

But can we catch it with the manhole cover we launched after it?

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u/unclepaprika Dec 11 '24

See how that just complicated things? We had a perfectly good understanding until the freedom units appeared.

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u/SamIamGreenEggsNoHam Dec 11 '24

If it's against the raiders in the snow...maybe

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u/feastu Dec 11 '24

Now do Smoots…

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u/seprehab Dec 11 '24

Uncle Rico isn’t making that throw

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '24

Laces out

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u/Efficient-Log-4425 Dec 11 '24

Vinatieri hasn't kicked in 5 years. Where you been?

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u/Blackadder_ Dec 11 '24

Freeeeeedumb units way to go!

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u/SOP_VB_Ct Dec 11 '24

Well - given the vacuum of space…. he just might make that kick. Of course we are gonna have to wait eons before seeing wether or not the ball clears the goal posts

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u/extralyfe Dec 11 '24

maybe with a solar wind at his back.

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u/ClothesOpen6713 Dec 11 '24

Adam vinatieri was known for his legs accuracy not power.

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u/Siberwulf Dec 11 '24

Tbh, it'll hit the crossbar.

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u/dickalopejr Dec 12 '24

Less football fields than Elon musk's worth. F me.

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u/Superior_boy77 Dec 12 '24

Justin Tucker could if he wasn't washed 😞

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u/theequallyunique 29d ago

If it's without gravity then even a toddler can make that kick.

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u/offensive_S-words 29d ago

Well the specific scenario is discussing the distance from earth to voyager. That implies at a minimum the gravity of earth and the sun.

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u/Fit-Succotash-5564 29d ago

He would in the Space Bowl. Its a lock

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u/Impressive_Jaguar_70 Dec 11 '24

Or 136,406,400,000,000 (136T) bananas

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u/Alternative_Ad_3636 Dec 11 '24

He can if he's in space and he has a specially made suit to allow for mobility. And if he given enough time and if he's in his prime.

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u/dreamthiliving Dec 11 '24

Well it’s travelling at 11,000 football fields a minute so that’s already a few million short