Whenever I think about light speed being fast, I imagine myself standing at the edge of the solar system and watching a hypothetical photon travel from the Sun to the Earth and taking 8 minutes. Suddenly it doesn't feel like light is really all that fast except at human scales. 5 km/h would be fascinating though.

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HDBaseT an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The speed of light is unbelievably slow, not even as a cosmic scale, but on earth.

We cannot play competitive multiplayer games globally, without 300ms ping. I dream of a world playing Black Ops 2 on a original PS3 in 2026 getting into a lobby because latency is low.

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zelphirkalt an hour ago | parent [-]

How do you arrive at 300ms?

	▲	skhr0680 35 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		For a city that is far away from anywhere: https://wondernetwork.com/pings/Auckland Your real world latency is going to be worse.
	▲	fahrvrgnugen 41 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		light is 186k miles per second, the other side of the globe is 12.5k miles away - so 67 ms / 130ms+ round trip in optimum conditions. Add more for network hops and consider that fiber is not quite as fast as vacuum. 300ms feels extremely optimistic coming from my perspective of someone living on an island in SE Asia

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jbaber an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The globe here is, in my opinion, the best such visualization because I've personally travelled the distances depicted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/educationalgifs/comments/qq5cw7/coo...