Reality Check by Dave Whamond for March 09, 2021

Well THAT explains it !!!!

I can hardly wait…only 3.51 million light-years to go…

I wish on starlight; if I can see it, it’s here already!

It might actually take longer. Your wish has to travel to the star before it can make the round trip.

Most of our wishes are faster than light speed.

Um, a light-year is a measure of distance.

It would take 3.52 years for the light to get to them if the star was 3.52 light-years (distance) away.

They would not be able to see a single star that far away.

The farthest individual star we can see without a telescope is a star in the constellation Cassiopeia – about 16,308 light-years away.

The farthest group we can see without a telescope is our (the Milky Way Galaxy’s) nearest neighbor – the Andromeda Galaxy (probably containing about a trillion stars). It is about 2.5 light-years away.

The assumption here is that it’s the star, or something physically close to it, that is granting your wish.

But it’s possible that some wish-granting authority in your vicinity is noting what stars you wish upon, and granting or denying the wishes in a much more timely manner.

I will now overanalyze another comic strip.

Should be “It takes only 3.52 million years.” Light years is distance, not time.

His glass is half-full.

I wished for pizza. Hawaiian style pizza.

Far too many people believing wishes travel at the speed of light. They travel at the speed of plaid.

Neil Young: ♪ “Maybe the Star of Bethlehem wasn’t a star at all.” ♪

World peace might have to be put on hold for awhile…

As soon as Sally’s wine kicked in she found out what Jim was really wishing for.

Since your wish is only going to travel at the speed of sound, you better pick a closer star.

Maybe it would speed things up if you got Han Solo to take the wish to the star and return with the thing wished for. He could make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. I wasted about 150 meters coming up with this.

Sorry bub, the closest star is 4 light years away, give or take.

Wishes are not constrained by either the special or general theories of relativity and certainly do not conform to the standard model of physics.