Mind of my Stroked Brain

I have one news channel or the other switched on most of the waking time on the TV - not because I like to watch so much news, it's a kinda a constant noisy company I don't have to pay attention to. All the news channels I watch are live streaming news on YouTube. On cable, we have regular commercial breaks. This is sponsored advertising by brands. They are paid for only for displaying the ads on the cable format and not on streaming. The channels don't want to display it free on streaming format. So I have the pleasure of watching "fillers" at those times when the channel is on ad breaks. These "fillers" are things like weather, political messages, political cartoons or something else to propagate something. I watch a channel "WION" regularly. Their filler of choice is a snippet regarding climate change where different climate activists are screaming themselves hoarse - saying it is critical we act and act now. I get to hear this (as I am not

The speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s. Or roughly, as we learnt in school, 3x10^8 m/s. That's awfully fast. Incidentally, the fastest we can also communicate today. Can almost go around the whole earth once in a second. They are planning to colonise Mars sometime soon. They have many challenges. One of the main ones is communication. You see, it will take a little over 4 Seconds to send a message back or forth. But thats the best case scenario - when Earth and Mars are closest. When they are farthest, it will be over 16 minutes. There goes the concept of "instant" messaging folks there. It's a different problem that the Sun will be inbetween to communicate anything. Another interesting challenge is how to keep track of time. Mars doesn't rotate in its axis in 24 hrs. Days don't match. They have 2 moons- so there goes the concept of months. The earth revolves around the Sun almost twice in a mars year. So nothing cyclic matches. Yes, we can give earth time, but