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Last night I was at a dark spot near my house and asked myself: How many photons am I seeing when I look at a star, millions of lightyears away?
- =)monospaced
- At least 40Gnash
- i agree with Gnash, at least, maybe more.plash
- 2milfhunter
- Not sure but it’s got the making of a great intro to a children’s book :)_niko
- less than the 9x10 to the power of 89neverscared
- When looking at Betelgeuse, which is approximately 642.5 light-years away, approximately 5.64 million photons per second would enter the human eyekalkal
- furthest visible star to the naked eye is 2600 light years away btwkalkal
- yeah I'm fun at parties, whatchu gonna do about it?kalkal
- They're fireflies stuck up in that.. big-bluish black thing.garbage
- How many are you sending back?robthelad
- If Stew is glowing, he's got much bigger problems than dead stars.garbage
- Idle thoughts thread :)jagara
- Chemical reactions within your body, besides liberating energy and producing heat, are also emitting small numbers of photons, elementary particles of light. :)robthelad