TIL about the light-time delay from Jupiter during a phone call

I was on a long call with my sister and realized that when we see Jupiter, we're looking at light that left over half an hour ago. It puts human impatience into perspective.

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casey_fox7mo ago

But does thinking about that actually change anything when you're waiting for a text back lmao

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cole_hart277mo ago

Half an hour? That's the part that gets me. The signal has only been traveling for like 43 minutes at most? Makes Neptune seem absolutely insane.

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cameronf417mo ago

Right? It blows my mind every single time... like a radio wave going that fast has barely started its trip across our own solar system. I read once that a signal from Neptune would take over four hours to reach Earth. It makes our whole planet feel like a tiny blue dot.

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