@5point9billion

December 28, 2015 10:18 AM

Your Personal Light Cone
posted by alby (10 comments total)

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posted by alby at 10:18 AM on December 28, 2015 [1 favorite]

Neat! My Next: Talitha (47.3 light years). In a few months it'll be my 52nd reached.
posted by jazon at 10:36 AM on December 28, 2015

I love this so much!

(Was happy to see you can get your cone on without a Twitter account at the "previously" link)
posted by cotton dress sock at 11:38 AM on December 28, 2015 [1 favorite]

That's the closest I've ever come to tweeting my birth date to the whole world.

But instead I'm just counting how many months behind the author I am and calling that close enough.
posted by atbash at 11:42 AM on December 28, 2015 [2 favorites]

Why is it that now that I've signed up for this I wonder what would happen if, say, I told this bot I was hundreds of years old?
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 1:06 PM on December 28, 2015

Answer: apology regarding the boy only having 100 years of data.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 1:27 PM on December 28, 2015

My light cone encompasses ~7 billion living humans and many more who are yet to be born. TREMBLE BEFORE MY POWER PUNY EARTHLINGS.
posted by foobaz at 7:34 PM on December 28, 2015 [1 favorite]

Since I said I was hundreds of years old I've had nothing but nuisance door-knockers brandishing sharpened pencils and picket fence posts, like some idiot lit up a bloody Buffy bat-signal.

not a vampire. conely kidding
posted by comealongpole at 9:57 PM on December 28, 2015

".farm"?
posted by koavf at 10:43 PM on December 28, 2015

cone=sphere, though.
posted by Zerowensboring at 5:07 AM on December 29, 2015