Basic scanner covers distance between Sun and Earth

[Chrisfs]

Today I learned that the distance from the Sun to the Earth is 499 light seconds, or almost the range of a basic discovery scanner (500 light seconds). So if you use a basic scanner when at a sun ,you'll know if there is anything as far as Earth would be but no further.http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/venus/q89.html
Pluto is 39x as far.

 

[dayrth]

Nice one. Hadn't realized that.

...the distance from the Sun to the Earth is 499 light seconds...

Also known as 1 astronomical unit (AU).

 

[aza148]

That is quite a good thing to know thanks

 

[drkaii]

Today I learned that the distance from the Sun to the Earth is 499 light seconds, or almost the range of a basic discovery scanner (500 light seconds). So if you use a basic scanner when at a sun ,you'll know if there is anything as far as Earth would be but no further.http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/venus/q89.html
Pluto is 39x as far.

Thanks for sharing. Sometimes it's difficult to realise how much stuff there is to know about this game

 

[Cmdr PeryplusErithrea]

Thats a nice little fact

Sadly exploring wise there are many earthlikes and water worlds/ammonia worlds much more far out

 

[Isthisnameok]

Did not know that, thanks for info CMDR

 

[TriumphANT]

I knew it was about 8 minutes (480 seconds), but didn't realise it was so close to exactly 500. Nice info. I wonder if that's by design? Seems very Earth-centric for a species which has colonised the galaxy...? The Intermediate's range seems the strangest of all to me. It should be something like 2,500Ls or so. 500, 1000, infinity? Come on!!