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By the "[maximum] distance to different planets" do you really mean literally that, or do you mean the maximum distances to their orbits?
What's the difference?
Google thinks the sun is 15.81 light years from earth
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#62Google seems to think that Earth is Gliese 412 Gliese 412 is a pair of stars that share a common proper motion through space and are thought to form a binary star system. The pair have an angular separation of 31.4″ at a position angle of 126.1°.[12] They are located 15.8 light years distant from the Sun in the constellation Ursa Major. Both components are relatively dim red dwarf stars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…
It's still cloudy here in Austria, I'll count the number of suns later when the clouds are gone.
No clouds over here in 'Straya. Bit of a scorcher though. Don't let 'em fool you - my mate Bazza reckons he counted four suns once. He loves a good yarn but he's dinky-di and I don't reckon he's taking the piss. I've never had the balls to count the suns me-self - Bazza's built like a brick shit-house but he was right up shit-creek when he done it. Came good after a week or so though. Reckon I'd cark it well before the ambos had time to come get me.
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It's still cloudy here in Austria, I'll count the number of suns later when the clouds are gone.
Not so cloudy in Burgenland, I only see one. But I don't have a telescope with a sun filter to scientifically prove it.
I got confused at your mention of "Burgenland" together with your nick, which led me to find out that "Burgenland" and "Burgenlandkreis" (Burgenland county) are two different counties in two different countries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgenlandkreis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgenland
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Google Search so aggressively massages my queries that it's become almost unusable. I recently searched "80's rom-coms" and an instant answer came up on top. It was a list of 90's rom-coms. Similar, yes -- but not at all what I typed, and completely useless to me.
bing seems to get this right in both instant search and otherwise.
I'm slowly switching to Bing--not because Bing is getting better, but because Google is getting worse. Google consistently ignores key terms in my queries, and searches are getting slower and slower. Remember when Google used to have that little timer in the top-right corner of the search results? Not anymore...
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#65the AIs are coming to kill us any day now
At this rate, they're more likely to jump off a cliff than kill anyone.
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By the "[maximum] distance to different planets" do you really mean literally that, or do you mean the maximum distances to their orbits?
Wouldn’t those be the same? The periods of each planet’s orbit aren’t factors/multiples of one another, so eventually any two will be at opposite points in their orbit.
There are orbital resonances, but you are right that none involve planets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_resonance
The closest is the 2:3 ratio of Pluto:Neptune. (It counts if you consider Pluto a planet. ;)
Otherwise, there's a nice table showing "near-integer-ratio relationships between the orbital frequencies". If I understand it correctly, each of the bigger-than-a-dwarf-planet planets will be at their furthest possible distances from each other in timescales no longer than about 50,000 years.
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Not so cloudy in Burgenland, I only see one. But I don't have a telescope with a sun filter to scientifically prove it.
I got confused at your mention of "Burgenland" together with your nick, which led me to find out that "Burgenland" and "Burgenlandkreis" (Burgenland county) are two different counties in two different countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgenlandkreis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgenland
Well that's new to me too. Thanks for the links!