Aha, I found the article I read about Neil deGrasse Tyson calling them out on it, here. So, 35 light years, which is 205.8 trillion miles. So that's just shy of... 6 orders of magnitude?
That's like setting out for a cross-country drive, and ending up on the other side of the room!
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Date: 2013-04-22 12:26 am (UTC)That's like setting out for a cross-country drive, and ending up on the other side of the room!