kilometers

You take two shots few kilometers apart and calculate the time it took the car to cross that distance.

It's not as bad as those dots with radius in tens of kilometers would make you think.

That's a distance of about 30 AU = 4.5 * 10^12 m = four and a half billion kilometers.

To think a bunch of apes can look at and appreciate mountains 6 billion kilometers away...

Which are much older than Israel, and won't change no matter the number of square kilometers of the palestinian state.

For instance, 3 billion miles no longer fits in a uint32 when converted to kilometers.

The extreme measures (bypassing kernel etc) allowed them to shave ~20 us off the latency, which corresponds to a few kilometers.

In this day and age, we should have better images, even from 5.4 million kilometers away.

Even as little as a few kilometers can make a huge difference.

Once I have bought tickets, traveled 500 kilometers, stayed at hotel near venue.

> that makes for 8,000 kilometers of driving, 100 hours at the wheel in a bit more than five days.

I find it interesting that sending a probe more than 200 million kilometers to another planet is a lot easier than launching multi-ton payloads into the geosynchronous orbit.

I suspect the death rate of "deaths per billion vehicle-kilometers of extraordinary travel" in the states would be much higher than 7.6.

Similarly, the asteroid belt is "full of asteroids" that are mostly only a few meters across, with an average distance between each asteroid of a few million kilometers.

"Pluto at 3.8 kilometers per pixel (~630 pixels across disk)."

The most exciting part is the following: "The close-up image was taken about 1.5 hours before New Horizons closest approach to Pluto, when the craft was 47,800 miles (77,000 kilometers) from the surface of the planet.