“A mere 16 light years away”. Means we will NEVER be where it is.
cmon, it is only 93,851,136,000,000 miles away
“Means we will NEVER be where it is.”
Yeah, and those idiots with their so-called ‘flying machines’ will NEVER get off the ground. Lord Kelvin said so and he’s an EXPERT!
And only 8.5 times the mass.
You’re average supermodel would experience the same gravity as an 850 pound man. (I think).
Just an FYI...a light year is 5,880,000,000,000 miles.
As the 'crow flies' yes, but if space and time are truly 'bendable', then we might.
“A mere 16 light years away”.
One light year, the distance light travels in a year, at its speed of 186,000 miles per second, works out to about 5.9 TRILLION miles.
Means we will NEVER be where it is.
You or I probably will never be there.
Maybe the people that follow us might.
Well all you need is a rocket ship that travels 99% the speed of light, takes about 2 years according to my rather non scientific calc.
“For example, let’s say we set off for a star 100 light years from Earth and our speed is 99% of the speed of light. Common sense tells us that we will reach the star in just over 100 years, but this doesn’t take dilation into account. Instead, because the distance has been dilated we will reach the star in only 14.1 years. As we go ever faster the dilation becomes ever more dramatic, so that at 99.9% of the speed of light we would reach it in just 4.5 years and at 99.99% around 1.4 years.
http://www.emc2-explained.info/Time-Dilation/#.WzhGfNJKhPZ
A single light year is six trillion miles. 16 light years. Hmmmm? I’m not good at math. But yeah. You’re right. We ain’t getting there anytime soon.