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To: Gettin Betta

Only 490 light years away. So, if we send out a machine right now, and it averages 100,000 mph, it will get there when?


11 posted on 04/17/2014 3:49:41 PM PDT by lurk
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To: lurk; mabarker1

Using regular mathematics, or Common Core math?


13 posted on 04/17/2014 3:53:51 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: lurk

It doesn’t matter, no matter how close it is, some
woman will have to go to the bathroom before you
get there, and when you stop she will want you to
get directions even though you already know the way
there. Oh, and the kids will all be hollaring,
“How much farther IS it??”.


15 posted on 04/17/2014 4:02:00 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: lurk

3.28 Million years.


23 posted on 04/17/2014 5:26:21 PM PDT by CommieCutter ("For an idea to be too simplistic, it must first be proven wrong" --Thomas Sowell)
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To: lurk
Warp 2 ... only a little over 22 years away
Warp 3 ... only a little over 4 years away
as we increase speed Warp 4, etc. we can actually arrive before we left.
25 posted on 04/17/2014 5:35:58 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: lurk
Only 490 light years away. So, if we send out a machine right now, and it averages 100,000 mph, it will get there when?

3.3 million years.

36 posted on 04/17/2014 6:32:55 PM PDT by sand88 (We can never legislate our way back to Liberty)
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To: lurk
Only 490 light years away. So, if we send out a machine right now, and it averages 100,000 mph, it will get there when?

OK, let's see: light travels at 186,000 miles per second, times 60 seconds in a minute, times 60 minutes in an hour, times 24, times 365, times 490...

Sorry, above my pay grade!

43 posted on 04/18/2014 11:41:37 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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