Why are distant features in space such as galaxies and stars said to be light years away but on earth that weird concept never applies for example Alaska being 1/12 light years away from Antarctica?

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    • To be fair, I actually do this in https://github.com/barrycarter/bcapps/tree/master/bc-gcdist.pl because it's useful in determining Internet ping times. Roughly speaking, Internet packets rarely travel faster than 0.5c (though I have seen as high as 0.6c)

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