EchinusRosso
EchinusRosso t1_j1gj4zr wrote
Reply to comment by flowersonthewall72 in Did you know it will still take 46 billion years to cross the universe at the speed of light? 65 mph = 4.8 * 10^17 years! by NotAndroid545
Light takes 8 minutes to get to earth for an outside observer. For the object moving at light speed, a photon in that case, it's instantaneous. This is basic relativity.
EchinusRosso t1_j0da0f7 wrote
Reply to comment by sooprvylyn in New research shows why we hear “lemon” and not “melon” in processing incoming sounds: our brains “time-stamp” the order of incoming sounds, allowing us to correctly process the words that we hear by giuliomagnifico
That's an astonishingly xenophobic take. I hope someday you grow as a person.
EchinusRosso t1_j07ytg0 wrote
Reply to comment by sooprvylyn in New research shows why we hear “lemon” and not “melon” in processing incoming sounds: our brains “time-stamp” the order of incoming sounds, allowing us to correctly process the words that we hear by giuliomagnifico
They have. It's often recorded as a dialectic pronunciation under the definition of "ask." It was literally used in Chaucer. The fact that you haven't looked doesn't mean records don't exist.
EchinusRosso t1_j03kyl2 wrote
Reply to comment by sooprvylyn in New research shows why we hear “lemon” and not “melon” in processing incoming sounds: our brains “time-stamp” the order of incoming sounds, allowing us to correctly process the words that we hear by giuliomagnifico
Dictionaries don't legitimize words. They record use.
EchinusRosso t1_j1itnmg wrote
Reply to comment by Suekru in Did you know it will still take 46 billion years to cross the universe at the speed of light? 65 mph = 4.8 * 10^17 years! by NotAndroid545
Not almost instantaneous. It would be actually instantaneous. It would take you 0 seconds to go from the sun to the earth, or from the sun to Andromeda.