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afterburner on April 4, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

Speed of light: 1.07925285 × 10e9 km/h Reported speed: 200,000 km/h

So more like 1/5000 the speed of light. But as pointed out below the reported speed may be way off.

I wonder if a mistake about the speed of light was made; it's about 300,000 km per second.

drostie on April 4, 2013 [–]

Right, but the original comment is also quite right that the speed is being misreported and the actual speed you're going (reported as 7000 pixels per second) is 3x the speed of light:

    (12742 km) / (100 px) * (7000 px)/s / c = 2.975

afterburner on April 4, 2013 | [–]

Yes; mine was more a comment on the site.

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