Re: Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized World Discovered Just 40 Light-Years Away
Daniel70 <[email protected]>
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Kualinar wrote on 29/05/2024 5:45 am: > Le 2024-05-25 à 20:36, Tyrone a écrit : >> On May 23, 2024 at 3:41:52 PM EDT, "a425couple" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> from >>> https://www.sciencealert.com/potentially-habitable-earth-sized-world-discovered-just-40-light-years-away >>> >>> >>> Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized World Discovered Just 40 >>> Light-Years Away >> >> "Just 40 years away"? You say that like its close to Earth. > > On the stellar distance scale, that's pretty close. Most of the stars > that we can see are at least 10 times farther than 40 light years away. "at least 10 times farther"?? Am I the only one who has problems with that form of expression?? "less than one tenth the distance", sure, that makes sence but "at least 10 times farther"! Nope!! Just wrong! Unless, of course, you are actually meaning "over 400 light years away"!! -- Daniel