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To: tlb
0.0014629270371999592 Light Years in 33 years. And the next closest star is Alpha Centauri, at about 4.37 light-years distant.

So it would take Voyager... um, carry the one... a little less than a hundred thousand years to reach Alpha Centauri? If it were even going that direction...

31 posted on 05/08/2010 7:42:14 AM PDT by Sloth (Civil disobedience? I'm afraid only the uncivil kind is going to cut it this time.)
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To: Sloth
Re: 0.0014629270371999592 Light Years in 33 years. And the next closest star is Alpha Centauri, at about 4.37 light-years distant.

So it would take Voyager... um, carry the one... a little less than a hundred thousand years to reach Alpha Centauri? If it were even going that direction...

Correct.

33 years/0.0014629 LYs x 4.37 LYs = 98,500 years

38 posted on 05/08/2010 8:15:00 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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