Birthday Stars.

Posted by Miss Cellania in Everything Else on August 15, 2007 at 8:11 am


Stars
Birthday Stars is a generator that will find a star whose distance matches your age in light years from earth. For example, if you are 28 years and 6 months old, it will find a star 28.5 light years away from earth. The light arriving now from “your” star was generated at the time of your birth. Light travels at over a billion kilometers per hour {wiki}, so these stars are very far away. Link -via the Presurfer


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3 comments to "Birthday Stars."

  1. sparge
    August 15th, 2007 at 9:26 am

    Neat, but for anyone turning 23 around now, the closest match is nearly a year off (22.1).

  2. Miss Cellania
    August 15th, 2007 at 10:06 am

    sparge, if you try again in a month or so, they may have a better match!

  3. Richard
    August 16th, 2007 at 8:48 am

    This seems like a clunkier implimentation of the Light Cone RSS Feed, which tells every star whose light has reached you since your birth, not just the most recent. These are the stars in your light cone. According to relativity you can have had no effect on anything outside of this light cone.


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