The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri, which is 4.23 light-years away.
This means that at half the speed of light, it is 8.1 years away.
Voyager I travels at 1/18,000th the speed of light. At this rate, a journey to Proxima Centauri would take it 72,000 years.
“The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri, which is 4.23 light-years away.”
IIRC, for the last 50 years, the closest star to be considered
to POSSIBLY have planets is 11 light years away, and the newly discover planets of one other star are 22 light years away.
Not to worry, FR’s resident space man, Quix, thinks that
“DISCLOSURE” is about to take place.
All of the big world govments know all about them ETs, don’tcha know? The kook to kook crowd says Obammie is gona tell us all about it, and really soon.
Within a few years we will know how to be zippin through them worm holes like greezed lightnin.
With a few click of the heals, and the magic Obammie password, you be on Youranus in a New Yawk minute !!
This means that at half the speed of light, it is 8.1 years away.
Voyager I travels at 1/18,000th the speed of light. At this rate, a journey to Proxima Centauri would take it 72,000 years.
Thanks for pointing that out.
It SHOULD have been pointed out in post #1 itself, and certainly, no later than post #2. But people seem to batter terms they do not understand, like "universe" when they mean "solar system" or possibly "galaxy."
This galaxy is so large that we can't even see the other side of it. We can't even see into the next spiral arm.
Hell...some astronomers disagree over WHICH spiral arm we are in to begin with!
And every few years, they revise their assessment of the size and shape of our own galaxy. E.g., they only recently declared our Milky Way to be a barred spiral.
The British press throws terms out meaninglessly, without any understanding of what they are saying.
Sauron