Amateur. In a dark location, on a clear night, I can see the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.3 million light years away.
152 0 ReplyOh yeah, well I can see your mom. 2.3 million light years away. Because she's fat.
77 3 ReplyHow fat is she?
17 0 ReplyYou can't see my mom, she's dead.
11 1 ReplyFuckin' got them! Nice.
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Triangulum Galaxy is a smidge farther away (~2.7Mly) and also naked eye visible with the right sky conditions and good eyes.
15 0 ReplyLooks like a smudge until you unfocus your eyes anyway.
3 0 ReplyI dont think 400000 times light can travel in a year of difference is "slightly further away"
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But since the sun is 93 millions miles away it's further because the number is bigger
16 1 ReplyNo you see some infinites are bigger than other. So light year is basically a larger infinity than millions. There's a YouTube video about, look it up 👍
/s (you never know these days)
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Smh you say on a dark place but then you say light years. If the whole year is light then how do you expect anyone to see if it has to be dark?
7 0 ReplyIt's a timey-whimey thing.
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You're not really seeing it, though, your seeing it's distant past
2 5 ReplyIf you're going down that road, you're never seeing anything in its present form because even for an object a meter in front of you, all you're really seeing is the object as it existed nano seconds in the past. Hows is a nano second in the past different from years in the past?
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Me who can see Polaris 433 light years away.
63 0 ReplyV762 Cassiopeiae: am I a joke to you?
17 0 ReplyI mean I can't pick it out of a starfield or navigate the ocean at night by it. So. Ya.
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I can the universe 40b light-years
11 0 ReplyOh yeah? Well I can see colors!
8 0 ReplyNo, billions of lightyears is the realm of telescopes.
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I think you a word
60 0 ReplyMust be hard to can the sun. Shit’s hot and really big.
24 0 ReplyNeptune: tf are you talking about
The Oort Cloud: lolwut
Interstellar medium: fuck me, it’s cold
Sagittarius A*: (chuckles softly)
Andromeda Galaxy: tf is a sun
Laniakea Supercluster: yo is that the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall?? What up, homie!
Universe: gotta go fast
Can:
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You can't the whole sun.
12 0 ReplyIs that dangerous?
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who can the sun 93 million miles away
39 0 ReplyI can the sun 93 million miles away
28 0 ReplyNo you can
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Look at the sun for a while and you won't see anything ever anymore.
25 0 ReplyEverest can be seen 200 miles away on a clear day
22 0 ReplyIt's 90 miles from Seattle to Mount Ranier and it absolutely dominates the horizon.
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Where did you learn that? Is that a real thing people are taught?
20 0 Reply3 miles is roughly how far you can see to the horizon (before the curvature of the earth blocks your line of sight)
58 0 ReplyI don't want to check miles, but it's pretty on point with what I remember, which is the horizon being 5km away for a 180cm (~6ft) tall person. (3 miles is close enough to 5km)
Getting even a few meters of something under you would drastically change how far you see.
18 0 ReplyDepends how high you are. On a tower you can see much further.
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Just googled it now, and I'm seeing the "3 miles" number thrown around a lot.
4 0 ReplyThat's just weird. The question is about the eye. And the primary "answer" they give is about the geometry of our planet.
Edit: At least the real answer is somewhere further down in the text:
Theoretically, in a vacuum there's no limit to how far away your eyes could see since light rays can travel an infinite distance, McCulley says.
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Flat earth proven! Boom! /s
15 1 ReplyI don't think you needed a /s for that
9 3 ReplyPoe's law would say otherwise.
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Yes, but for how long?
13 0 ReplyTeacher: not anymore
11 0 ReplyTo be fair, Sun is a source of light. Moon, on the other hand...
6 0 Replytbf, looking at the sun from three miles away would be all that you could see.
Y’know, if it didn’t instantly turn you into plasma.
8 2 Replyaw look, junior made a meme
7 3 ReplyWhats upto
3 0 ReplyNvm looked it up, it's like updog
3 0 ReplyIt's how far you can the sun.
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