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bgribble on Aug 27, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: 111,111.1 meters is reliably 1 degree of latitude

And 1 millisecond at the speed of sound ≈ 1 foot as well

haberman on Aug 28, 2023 [–]

Came here to say this. It follows that light is ≈1 million times the speed of sound.

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