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To: alancarp; George from New England

1/5,163,600 of a light-year

So (assuming constant velocity) it would have taken approximately 21,887 years for an object traveling at 130,000 mph to reach Earth from Proxima Centauri (closest star at 4.24 light years).

Proxima doesn’t strike many as a likely candidate for life, so it would probably would have had to be sent sometime when the dinosaurs ruled the Earth.


40 posted on 07/29/2025 9:01:31 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: MeanWestTexan

It’s moving 1.9 percent the velocity of light.


46 posted on 07/29/2025 9:03:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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