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Thanks! glad you liked it


nice. i debated using three.js but didn't want the overhead/imports for a simple background. wanted to keep it raw canvas to stay zero-dependency.

you're totally right about the resize jank though. the math definitely breaks when the window dimensions change. on the todo list.


i was just going for a synthwave/tron aesthetic. the glowing borders are a deliberate style choice, not a GPT artifact.


thanks! glad you liked it


fair point. i'm taking some poetic license with spacetime.

treating 'distance traveled' as a proxy for age since we're all stuck on the same rock moving at the same speed.


thanks! it was a fun weekend hack to put together. glad you liked it.


fair point. classic case of 'dev blindness'—i've tested it so many times i forgot it's not obvious to a new user.

pushing a label fix now so it's not a guessing game. thanks.


valid point on the visualization. i tried to map it initially, but the depressing reality is that even at 1.2 trillion km, we're basically a stationary dot on a galactic scale. a map just looked like a blank screen, so i went with the starfield to try and convey speed instead.

re: the cursors that's definitely my bad UX. they are just hover tooltips (standard title attributes), but setting the cursor to help (?) makes them look like clickable buttons. i'll swap that out so it's less confusing. thanks for the firefox check.


Did you consider representing on a logarithmic scale?


that's a really interesting angle.

i thought about it, but i was worried a log scale might abstract away the 'feeling' of the distance (making a light year look deceptively close to a kilometer). i want the user to feel small, and log scales tend to make things look manageable.

but you're right it's probably the only way to fit the solar loops and galactic arc on the same screen visually. might be worth a prototype for v2.


            fr: {
                title: "Odomètre cosmique",
                subtitle: "Compteur de voyage dans l'espace depuis la date de naissance",
                copied: "Lien copié !",
                latitude: "Latitude",
                mission_duration: "Durée de la mission",
                rotated: "1. Rotation de la Terre",
                orbited: "2. Révolution autour du Soleil",
                solar_travel: "3. Revolution dans la Voie Lactée",
                galactic_travel: "4. Déplacement de la Voie Lactée dans l'Univers",
                total_distance: "DISTANCE TOTALE",
                traveling_at: "Vitesse :",
                displacement_title: "Déplacement en ligne droite",
                displacement_desc: "Distance parcourue par rapport à votre emplacement à la naissance en ligne droite (sans tenir compte des rotations et révolutions circulaires).",
                moon_trips: "Allers-retours vers la Lune",
                moon_desc: "Distance jusqu'à la Lune et retour à la Terre.",
                passed_pluto: "Passages par Pluton",
                pluto_desc: "Tours complets du système solaire.",
                light_year_prog: "Progression jusqu’à 1 année-lumière",
                you_are: "Tu as voyagé à",
                ly_away: "d'une année-lumière.",
                manual_title: "Manuel de vol",
                faq_1_q: "1. Qu'est-ce que la \"rotation\"?",
                faq_1_a: "La distance parcourue en raison de la rotation de la Terre sur elle-même. À l'équateur : ~1.600 km/h (1,000 mph). Aux pôles : 0.",
                faq_2_q: "2. Qu'est-ce que la \"révolution autour du Soleil\"?",
                faq_2_a: "La Terre tourne autour du Soleil à ~107.000 km/h (66,000 mph). C'est ton tour annuel.",
                faq_3_q: "3. Qu'est-ce que la \"Revolution dans la Voie Lactée\"?",
                faq_3_a: "Le Soleil entraîne les planètes du Système Solaire dans une révolution autour de la Voie Lactée à ~792.000 km/h (490,000 mph).",
                faq_4_q: "4. Qu'est-ce que le \"déplacement dans l'Univers\"?",
                faq_4_a: "Notre galaxie se déplace à 2.1 million km/h (1.3 million mph) par rapport au fond cosmologique.",
                faq_5_q: "Distance totale?",
                faq_5_a: "La somme de toutes ces vitesses combinées en une longueur totale parcourue depuis ta naissance.",
                privacy: " Note de confidentialité : Ce site fonctionne entièrement côté client. Votre date de naissance est traitée localement et n'est jamais envoyée à un serveur.",
                unit_y: "y", unit_m: "m", unit_d: "d", unit_h: "h", unit_min: "m", unit_s: "s",
                welcome: "Bienvenue"
            },


yeah it's actually depressing. based on the odometer's math (~850km/s), you hit the 1 Light Year mark around your 353rd birthday.


I actually ran the numbers on time dilation! At 600km/s (0.2%), the effect is surprisingly small. We basically 'save' about 63 seconds a year compared to a stationary observer relative to the CMB. Not enough to live forever, but enough to be late for a meeting.


Pretty cool, thank you :-)


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