February 21, 2024
#2897: Light Leap Years explain
[Cueball is sitting at a desk with a laptop on it and leaning to the back of his office chair, while having his other hand on the laptop. He is looking at Ponytail, who is standing behind him. The text from the laptop screen is shown above it, indicated with a zigzag line.]
Cueball: It took until February, but I finally got all the distances updated!
Ponytail: I really wish we didn’t have to do this.
[Laptop screen:]
Proxima Centauri
Distance: [in red, crossed out] 4.2493 ly
[in green] 4.2377 ly
[Caption below the panel:]
Astronomers hate leap years because they make light-years 0.27% longer.