Astronomical unit

[miketx]

92 million miles.

That is like saying "what is a meter on another planet?"

For those that do not know, the meter is 1/10,000,000 the distance from the equator to the North Pole. But it does not matter if you are measuring distance on Earth, the Moon, Mars, or Jupiter. The "meter" does not change distance just because a planet is larger or smaller than the earth, it is simply a standard of measure. Although, if somebody wanted they could compute what a "Lunar Meter" is, as well as a "Martian Meter" and a "Neptunian Meter", by using the same calculation as was used to determine the meter we all use.

You've over simplified it. Fail. You completely ignored the terms and conditions I set. Shortsightedness.

 

[Mushroom]

You completely ignored the terms and conditions I set.

It does not matter what terms and conditions you set, they are faulty.

A standard of measurement is a standard of measurement. It does not matter where it is, it is a standard for a reason.

 

[miketx]

It does not matter what terms and conditions you set, they are faulty.

A standard of measurement is a standard of measurement. It does not matter where it is, it is a standard for a reason.

Ok, well, you can be obtuse, that's fine.

 

[Mushroom]

Ok, well, you can be obtuse, that's fine.

It is called being factual.

The same way that a "day" on Mars is 24 hours and 37 minutes. But I can't see any that traveled to Mars changing the length of the hour to absorb those 37 minutes so each hour on Mars morphs to around 61.5 minutes.

 

[miketx]

It is called being factual.

The same way that a "day" on Mars is 24 hours and 37 minutes. But I can't see any that traveled to Mars changing the length of the hour to absorb those 37 minutes so each hour on Mars morphs to around 61.5 minutes.

Goodbye.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

150 years ago flight was considered a joke. 100 years ago space travel as a joke.

We suffer from severe technology stasis bias because of rapidity of our technological evolution.

50 years ago if you told a person each one of us could pull up the world's knowledge in seconds in something the size of a wallet they would have laughed at you.

The difference is, those damn laws of physics get in the way. Some things really a physically IMPOSSIBLE as long as we need these flesh and blood bodies.

Man will "evolve" to Spirit Beings at Christ's Return. At THAT time, the universe is ours

 

[martybegan]

The difference is, those damn laws of physics get in the way. Some things really a physically IMPOSSIBLE as long as we need these flesh and blood bodies.

Man will "evolve" to Spirit Beings at Christ's Return. At THAT time, the universe is ours

According to current physical laws, maybe.

but it is hurbis to assume we know all right now,

 

[Borillar]

I suppose that if our science advances to the point where interstellar travel is possible, they will use some measurements that are constant everywhere like light-seconds or Planck units.