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Calculators

Cosmic nonsense tools. Is anyone out there?

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Weight on Other Worlds

Enter your weight. Find out what you'd weigh on Jupiter, the Moon, or a neutron star.

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You vs. a Light Beam

You run 100m in your best time. In those same seconds, how many times has light circled the Earth?

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Light Travel Guess

Pick a destination. Guess how long light takes. Then get roasted by the universe.

Light moves at 299,792 km/s. Pick a destination, guess how long it takes, then see how close you were.

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Your Cosmic Birthday

The Solar System orbits the galaxy at 828,000 km/h. Since you were born, where are we now?

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Relativity Clock

Fly near light speed for a year. Come back. Everyone you knew is old or gone. How much younger are you?

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Interstellar Delivery

Your Amazon package is going to Mars. Pick a shipping method. Find out when it actually arrives.

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Moon Light Delay

When you look at the Moon, you're seeing it as it was 1.3 seconds ago. Watch it happen live.

1.28
seconds ago the Moon you see actually existed
timestamp on the Moon (delayed 1.28s)
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Drake Equation Lite

How many civilizations in the Milky Way could be sending us messages right now? Play with the variables.

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If You Could Hear the Sun

Space is a vacuum. Sound can't travel. But if it could, what would the Sun sound like? And when?

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Pizza Math

What's the maximum number of pieces you can cut a pizza into with N straight cuts? Spoiler: it's not N².

Light to Anywhere

Enter a distance. See how long light takes. To Alpha Centauri? To the Moon? To your coffee mug?

Deep Time Converter

How many seconds ago did dinosaurs go extinct? How long since the pyramids? Scale your sense of time.

Jump on Other Planets

How high can you jump on Earth? Find out how high you'd soar on the Moon, Jupiter, or a comet.

Distance You've Flown

Enter your age. See how many billions of km you've already traveled through space without moving.

Solar System Scale

If the Sun were a basketball, where would Earth be? How far? Pick a scale object and find out.

Real Sun diameter = 1,392,700 km. If it were scaled down, here's where everything lands.

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