he got out of the bath and something went wrong with the coordinates
scroll. the camera backs off and he stays exactly this big. the sun is the thing that leaves.
384,400 km, and the sun has not noticed.
the light on his wet back is now 1354 watts per square metre instead of 1361, half a percent less. earth is the easy one to leave. the sun is the one you cannot walk out on.
1.524 AU. 586 W/m2. a martian afternoon still dries him, in 1 h 46 min.
this is the last stop where the number still sounds like an afternoon. so this is where the page puts the contract, while the situation is still recoverable.
more massive than every other planet put together, and it cannot dry one cat.
20 hours and 35 minutes of jovian sunlight, and he has to hold still for all of it. make something instead. the caption goes on him and the file lands in your downloads. nothing gets uploaded, there is nowhere to upload it to yet.
he shakes at 9.4 hertz. it works. it does not help.
somebody measured this. 33 animals, filmed at up to 1000 frames a second, and a 3.3 kg cat shakes at 9.4 hertz pulling 33 times gravity, while a poodle of exactly the same body radius manages 5.6 hertz and 12. he is the best built drying machine in that study, he is using it out here, and the water leaves his coat at his own speed in his own direction with nothing to slow it down. so it does not go away. it goes into orbit.
19.191 AU. 3.7 W/m2. 11 days and 16 hours of this to dry a cat.
the last planet, and the sun is now something you could cover with a whisker.
1.5 watts per square metre, and 28 days of not moving. he did not hold still for the bath either.
this exact spot has a photograph, and earth is 0.12 of a pixel in it.
voyager 1 turned around here on 14 february 1990 at 04:48 GMT, 6.055 billion kilometres out, 40.47 AU, and took the last picture anybody has taken of earth from outside. narrow angle camera, blue and green and violet filters, 0.72 and 0.48 and 0.72 seconds. the bands of light across that frame are not a nebula and not an effect: they are sunlight bouncing around inside the camera and its own sunshade. after the sequence was done, mission control powered the cameras down for good.
on your screen, right now, earth is 0.002 pixels wide. this page is drawing it bigger than that, because otherwise there would be nothing to look at. voyager had the same problem and did not solve it either.
121 AU. the sun's own bubble ends, on 25 august 2012, according to the only thing that was there.
past this line the wind is not from our star any more. the light still arrives, at 0.092 watts per square metre, which is 468 days of drying, and he has been sitting like this the whole time.
172.59 AU. the furthest object we have ever thrown, still moving at 3.57 AU a year.
it launched on 5 september 1977, it has been going ever since, and it is not yet halfway to the line below. it needs about another 137 years.
850.5 AU. past here, drying him takes longer than any cat has ever lived.
creme puff of austin, texas, born 3 august 1967, died 6 august 2005, 38 years and 3 days, the oldest cat anybody has written down. she got dry cat food, broccoli, eggs, turkey bacon, coffee with cream, and an eyedropper of red wine every two days. she also died in 2005, which is roughly the year this page thinks it is.
at this range the sun is fainter than a full moon, and only just, and the wait is her entire life. the two readouts on the first screen still multiply to the same 3,724,050 joules per square metre, because the physics never stopped working. only the drying did.
he is still soggy