09-14-2013, 10:12 PM
Puddlejumper Wrote:Steamtrains Wrote:The probability of it running into something is infinitely small, other than a stray comet popping out of the Oort Cloud, the closest star is Proxima Centauri which, at the speed it is travelling at, would take about 80,000 years to reach...
Are you saying that, at it's current speed of 11 miles per second, at which it took 30 years to go 11 Billion miles[/u][/i][/b], it will take 80,000 years to reach the next nearest star? That is over 30,000,000,000,000,000 (30 to the 15th power) miles away. HOLY CRAP.
Space is so interesting and, to me anyway, so complex I can't begin to understand it. But it is interesting to try.
DAve
To repeat...The article says 11.6 MILLION miles. A billion is a thousand millions....
Gus (LC&P).