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To: SunkenCiv

Thirty million light years away. So if we sent a robot-manned explorer vessel (built to last for eons) at one tenth the speed of light, it would take 300 million light years to get to one of those galaxies, and then another 30 million light years to report back.

That sounds feasible. When does the Mission Planning start?


7 posted on 05/09/2015 7:22:17 AM PDT by samtheman ( BushClinton. The Yesterday Candidate.)
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To: samtheman

“one tenth the speed of light” = 18,600 miles per second.


9 posted on 05/09/2015 7:31:14 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: samtheman
Thirty million light years away. So if we sent a robot-manned explorer vessel (built to last for eons) at one tenth the speed of light, it would take 300 million light years to get to one of those galaxies, and then another 30 million light years to report back.

300 million light-years * 0.1 speed of light = 30 million years (one way)

Light years are a measure of distance (Ie: the distance that light travels in one year) they are not a measure of time.

Regards,
GtG

11 posted on 05/09/2015 7:52:18 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: samtheman; ETL

By the time the first Earth probe sent toward a different star system arrives there, Earth colonist will have been living there for centuries.


16 posted on 05/09/2015 3:23:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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