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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Teacher: I meant the global we. So it would average out to 8 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone at day will inform sun is missing to the people on night

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

A person can't inform others faster than the speed of light.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But collectively nine women can have a baby in one month.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

this guy money balls

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Fraction of a second for transmitting information from one side of earth to other side. And teacher only said 8 minutes and the seconds are ommitted as there is always an error margin since distance from sun is not constant.

Also i assume signals are always sent from other side of the earth