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> Keira says the questions she was asked included: "Who is Mother Teresa?" and "How long does it take for the sun's rays to reach the Earth?" I’ll be honest, I
by ipython 10mo ago
> Keira says the questions she was asked included: "Who is Mother Teresa?" and "How long does it take for the sun's rays to reach the Earth?"
I’ll be honest, I don’t know off hand how long it takes for sun rays to reach the earth.
- loloquwowndueo 10mo agoAbout 8 minutes - but yep it’s kind of a trivia fact.
- CaliforniaKarl 10mo agoAnd I wonder if “one light-day” would even be accepted as an answer.
- srean 10mo agoOne light-AU would be more like it.
- leoff 10mo agoThat's an incorrect answer. A light-day means "the distance covered by the speed of light in a day (24h)". The day length is related to Earth's turn speed, it's not related to its distance to the sun.
- ChadNauseam 10mo agoalso, a light-day is a unit of distance while the question asked about time.
- HWR_14 10mo ago> And I wonder if “one light-day” would even be accepted as an answer. Absolutely not. First, a light-day is a distance, not a unit of time. Second, Voyager 1 is almost 1 light day from the sun. The earth is approximately 0.5% of a light-day from the sun.
- johnisgood 10mo agoWhat do these questions have anything to do with parenting and how can you determine if a parent is fit for parenting based on these irrelevant questions? It sounds crazy to me that your children may be taken away because you cannot explain random questions like that. We could just research it online with the children, for the children and I.
- roywiggins 10mo agoAbout as much as voter "literacy tests" used to have to do with whether you could read: https://secure.splcenter.org/page/67431/survey/1 https://secure.splcenter.org/page/67431/survey/1 https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible...
- Volundr 10mo agoMy guess was minutes, and looking it up it turns out that's right (is that a precise enough answer though?), but I wouldn't have been shocked if it turned out to be seconds or hours. Fot some odd reason astronomical distances just haven't come up enough in my day to day life that this is something I have ready to go at a moments notice.