I just about **** my pants after reading this. I know what a light year is and generally consider myself to be pretty smart but don't aspire to be an astrophysicist, rocket scietist or anything of that nature. I can appreciate that you do, but I suggest that you tone down the arrogance as there will be many times within your lifetime that you will be the one asking the "stupid" question. Hopefully the person answering the question has the maturity so not to belittle you.
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Originally Posted by evman150
What's fundamental is not that he doesn't know what a light year is. I don't expect society to know the definition of a light year.
All I'm hoping for is an appreciation of the distance. The appreciation that light travels really fast. And that a light year is a really long distance.
Asking how many light years away Mars is shows a gross misunderstanding of the concept.
Again, I apologize to the guy this is seemingly directed at. You are but one case of a problem that is no doubt endemic in our society.
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