The written form of how people speak to signal confusion, that thing where their people go from lower to higher pitch at the end of a sentence the way they do with questions, but with statements instead.
I've been using primarily webp for like half a decade and I haven't noticed many compatibility issues or bad quality. I guess if your software hasn't been updated in the past decade it won't work, but in that case I guess we should never make a new image format again?
Actually, the distance doesn't do weird things. If you traveled at slow speeds (up to like several thousand kilometers per second) time dilation and length contraction would still be negligible and your timing of how long the journey took would mostly line up with someone on Earth.
But if you're traveling a significant fraction of the speed of light those effects become non-negligible. That's where our normal understanding of a universal notion of objective time and distance breaks down.
The equations of special relativity are actually very approachable if you know algebra, you should play around with them and plug in some numbers!
I think it was confirmed that a single bit flip could have produced that effect, but it's a huge leap to say it must have been cosmic rays. It could just be a hardware fault.
It's always frustrating when people focus on the risks of doing something but ignore the risks of not doing anything.
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