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points by danparsonson 14 hours ago | 0 comments

To be fair to them that was over ten years ago, and prices of everything have risen significantly in that time.

Yeah, the launch was nearly 15 years ago (Feb 2012) - more than 1/7th of a century. It’d be in 9th or 10th grade by now.

>more than a 1/7th of a century

bit of an over-wrouught unit of time, ha

In that time, the Earth has travelled about 14 billion kilometers, or for the Americans, 126.7 billion football fields.