A Perfect Shot

[drcobaltjedi@programming.dev]

Studies have shown bears will stop and enjoy the scenery from time to time.

[aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Even better: traveling at light speed means that from their point of view it takes zero time to get there.

[azzu@lemm.ee]

It seems very sure that it's a light particle... I like the vibes.

[dmention7@lemm.ee]

I totally missed that. Honestly, it's a solid comic without the pun, but that kicks it up another level! Love it

[onionguy@lemm.ee]

That is beautiful. Thank you.

[prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works]

… do some of us go on the journey with the cow who sees the light and others on the journey with the cow how doesn’t?

Or are we already on the path with the cow and our other is on the path with their cow?

[ramble81@lemm.ee]

I am so glad others have this thought. I look at stars and realize that particular particle hit my eye from that far away.

[superkret@feddit.org]

That's what's so weird about us humans.
We can write beautiful poetry about cows, then eat them.

[superkret@feddit.org]

There's absolutely no reason to believe otherwise.

[imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works]

Bulls on farms rarely stick around for 20 years. Also, how did it account for 20yrs of movement of an unpredictable life form?

[cows_are_underrated@feddit.org]

Its not light years, but approximately 8 light minutes.

[llii@discuss.tchncs.de]

The light is not from our sun, but another star. Its nighttime for the cow.

[yarharsuperstar@lemmy.world]

C'mon you of all people should appreciate this.

[yarharsuperstar@lemmy.world]

Wow, none of what you're saying is really new information to me but it's put together in a way that is really interesting to think about. Thank you

[stupidcasey@lemmy.world]

This is just the law of really big numbers.

Something literally astronomical relative to something subatomic is necessarily going to happen.

A Star is really really big but more importantly it produces a more than a lot of photon's

[cows_are_underrated@feddit.org]

OK, youre right. Misinterpreted the comic.

[bricked@feddit.org]

For the particle itsself it's even instantaneous!

[lucidnightmare@lemm.ee]

This, and the image accompanied by it, were one of the things that broke me when I was younger.

I legit cried because it was so beautifully put together.

[nospotofground@lemmy.world]

You have a point, buuut: photons don't experience time or distance. Leaving the star and hitting the bull's eye happen in the same instant for them, no matter how many billions of light years apart they are. From the point of view of the photon, the bull's eye is touching that star in that other galaxy. For just that single instant in time.

[dragonfucker@lemmy.nz]

That's because humans can turn their empathy off when something is normalised by society.