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[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

False. The speed of causality is also c, so you would only have the extremely small interval of time represented by the difference between c and the speed of light in whatever not-total-vacuum exists between the Sun and Earth. Not 8 minutes.

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But there'd still be a difference between when first light hits and when the solar winds strip the atmosphere from the planet. So as long as it was night time you'd have time to drop a couple of dank memes.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

drop a couple of

that sentence did not end where i thought it was going to

[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait, this is a memes community... crap...

Uh... I mean...

Haha funny