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To: LibWhacker

What’s the closes star to ours ? .... and how many light years would it take to just to get there ? about 100 light years ? or more ? and if we did find a earth like planet ? ... would it be 1000 light years away ? 100,000 light years away ? .... yeah... I’ll say that we are stuck here on this present Earth.


7 posted on 10/11/2008 2:11:01 AM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: Prophet in the wilderness

The closest second star (The Sun is a star =])is Proxima Centauri, 4.2 light years away.

To put that in perspective, the Voyager 1 probe is flying out at 38,600mph, if it were heading in the direction of Proxima (its not), it would take 73,000 years to get there.


11 posted on 10/11/2008 3:07:32 AM PDT by Crazieman (RIP USA. Killed by demonrats and RINOs like McLame. Welcome to the USSA)
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