Light Speed – fast, but slow

A sewn together compilation of earlier videos for your convenience

[markortiz]

It's mind boggling how much heat, and light we get from the sun when it's that far away from us.

[donnythedingo]

I've seen so many videos that show the relative size of celestial bodies, but never the distance between. This is awesome.

[saeleihe]

This very great to give some sense of scale to my daughter (also to me.) I find having sense of scale for this big distances is crutial while teaching basics of the modern science.

[KittKattLovers]

Fun fact: Sunrise is 8 minutes late on earth

[SteveDeHaven]

I'd love to see separate videos which show one entire trip (Earth to Mars, Sun to Earth) in real time. But let's NOT have one that shows Sol to Proxima Centauri in real time!

[pecmoney]

This is why I don't believe aliens have ever made it to Earth. Also why we will never live outside our solar system. Just an opinion.

[komentattor]

nice, now combine both realistic size and speed

[SteveDeHaven]

Remember the scene in Star Trek: Generations where Malcolm McDowell's character, Tolian Soran, launches a missile to blow up the sun? Only a few seconds after the missile leaves the planet's atmosphere, we see the sun blow up! No way a chemical-powered missile gets to the sun that fast, but okay, let's assume it went to warp after leaving the atmosphere. But there's definitely no way does the sun's explosion would have registered on the planet that fast. It might have been a better plot device if the Enterprise had needed to intercept that missile, or if they only had eight minutes to beam Picard off the planet and go to warp after the sun had exploded.

[bcnghhwk]

Worf: "Since we don't have a fixed point of origin.... we'd take between 8 and 15 seconds to lock a firing solution"
me: "....bruh... you're *10 minutes* away from the sun at light speed! And you're worrying about a margin of error of FIFTEEN FUCKING SECONDS!? You have 10 MINUTES to spare!!!"

[deitpep]

Star Trek, TOS has long screwed up with how they showed warp speed since the pilot episodes. Recall they showed stars moving past fast which would be more accurate to what they later called transwarp speed which would already be intergalactic capable. In the 2nd pilot "where no man has gone before" the Enterprise supposedly reached the edge of the galaxy in months, which would be more like Warp 44. Even TMP's warp 7 speed was inaccurate showing the stars still moving past steadily. Later in TNG and the successive shows, it looked a bit more accurate where the background stars didn't move, but showed warp light streams of whatever moving past.
This video is already late and surpassed by playing Elite: Dangerous where you can simulate 'supercruise' travel through solar systems at a good model depicting travel at the speed of light, Warp 1 up to closer to Warp 9.78 (2001 x speed of light) in real time.

[sasakijun]

Light speed is too slow in scale of the universe. Is there really much faster anything?

[adawg]

Anyone who has played elite dangerous knows light speed is slow as fk

[legolas]

im eating that everyday in my meat. mm

[greenatom]

This is seemingly such a simple idea, but it profoundly changes one's understanding.

[KenoBeatZ]

Never realized how "slow" the light could be over such vast distances.
Mind blowing ! Thanks Doc

[thomasyoung]

I think this video doesn't really show that light is slow, but rather the great distance between objects in space. I get what the video is trying to do.

[seashell]

Spaceballs was right: Light speed is too slow.

[EnhanceEnhance]

I imagined it being a lot faster than what is visualized here. This blows my mind.

[bartoromero]

Earth is playing tennis with Moon... with ball of light! :)

[Supremax]

The sun blew up! But I guess you'll have to wait 8 mins to see if I am telling the truth.