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150 points

Amateur. In a dark location, on a clear night, I can see the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.3 million light years away.

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75 points

Oh yeah, well I can see your mom. 2.3 million light years away. Because she’s fat.

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18 points

How fat is she?

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49 points

She’s so fat that I’m genuinely concerned for her health.

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7 points

Just fat enough 😋

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7 points
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I suppose we can calculate a minimum, if we look up the smallest angle of resolution for human eyes, and approximate her as spherical.

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6 points

She’s so fat that we’re worried her and the sun will form a binary star system.

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2 points

Pretty fat yo

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10 points

You can’t see my mom, she’s dead.

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22 points

She’s 2.3 million light years away. We’re seeing her in the past.

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9 points

Of course she’s dead, she’s in space…

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5 points

Fuckin’ got them! Nice.

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16 points

Triangulum Galaxy is a smidge farther away (~2.7Mly) and also naked eye visible with the right sky conditions and good eyes.

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3 points

Looks like a smudge until you unfocus your eyes anyway.

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2 points

I dont think 400000 times light can travel in a year of difference is “slightly further away”

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1 point

What’s a few hundred thousand light years between friends?

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15 points

But since the sun is 93 millions miles away it’s further because the number is bigger

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2 points

No 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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7 points

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?

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1 point

It’s a timey-whimey thing.

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You’re not really seeing it, though, your seeing it’s distant past

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8 points

If 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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3 points

My back says there’s a difference

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1 point

Well its shorter

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