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They found it.
Seb:
--- Quote from: Shawn on December 05, 2011, 06:55:44 PM ---"It is located about 600 light-years away"
Have fun getting there.....
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In space terms, that's not "right next door" or "on our doorstep", that's inside our living room trashing the place.
Dale Feles:
inb4 star wars all over again.
Prox:
--- Quote from: blah2355 on December 05, 2011, 07:19:38 PM ---That Voyager satellite is still going after all these years and has only reached as far as Pluto so far. It's gonna take quite some time to get there.
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Just to clarify, both of the Voyager satellites have already left our solar system and Pluto.
Shawn:
--- Quote from: Candide on December 06, 2011, 04:09:35 AM ---that's inside or living room trashing the place.
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Tell me you're kidding? 600 lightyears mean it would take us 600 years to get there if we could travel at the speed of light which we can't... thats about 3,521,828,160,000,000 miles even with our current tech the fastest we ever traveled in a manned-spacecraft was 24,791 mph lets round that to 25k mph... so lets do some simple math
3,521,828,160,000,000 / 25,000
= 140873126400 (hours to get there)
140873126400 / 24 (hours in a day)
= 5869713600 (days to get there)
5869713600 / 365 (Days in a year)
= 16081407 (. long ass number I'm roundiong)
Therefore it would take us about 16,081,407 Years to get there.
yup totally in our living room...
Xrain:
--- Quote from: Shawn on December 06, 2011, 07:07:29 AM ---Tell me you're kidding? 600 lightyears mean it would take us 600 years to get there if we could travel at the speed of light which we can't... thats about 3,521,828,160,000,000 miles even with our current tech the fastest we ever traveled in a manned-spacecraft was 24,791 mph lets round that to 25k mph... so lets do some simple math
3,521,828,160,000,000 / 25,000
= 140873126400 (hours to get there)
140873126400 / 24 (hours in a day)
= 5869713600 (days to get there)
5869713600 / 365 (Days in a year)
= 16081407 (. long ass number I'm roundiong)
Therefore it would take us about 16,081,407 Years to get there.
yup totally in our living room...
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Well, in terms of galactic scale it is sorta in our living room, as the galaxy is ~100,000 light-years across (100000/600 = 0.6%)
In terms of what humanity is currently capable of you are correct, 1 light-year or 1 billion light-years they are both equally in-achievable with the current technology.
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