wow. just -- wow.
If I'm going to delurk for lousy politics, I should also do it for amazing news that reminds me that there is still wonder in the world: Voyager has reached the edge of the solar system.
Eight-point-seven billion miles. Wow. Oh man. This is the feeling that got me into science in the first place.
(Image swiped from Voyager's home page, hat tip: GitM.)
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Thousand millions. Now that I'm used to it, the US version makes more sense to me:
000 thousand
000 000 million
000 000 000 billion
viz, a new name every 3 logs.
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Is that US or Australian billions? ;-)
thanks for the link!