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[โ€“] xthexder@l.sw0.com 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

traveling at a million light-years per millisecond

You're only off by a factor of about 30 quadrillion.

Light (famously a type of radiation), takes 1 year to travel a light-year, hence the name.

If you want to make it sound impressive, then astronomical units aren't the right choice. The sun is only 1 AU away from us after all.

[โ€“] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 14 hours ago

A million lightmicroseconds every second

Fixed that for them