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[–] [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