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To: Halgr

14 Light Years * 186,000 Miles/Second * 3600 Seconds/Hour * 24 Hour/Day * 365.25 Day/Year = 82,175,990,400,000 Miles

So, 82.2 Trillion Miles


23 posted on 01/23/2017 12:27:33 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: dsrtsage

Even if we could get a probe (or swarm of probes) up to 1/2 the speed of light (a very big if), it would take 28 years to do a fly-by.


24 posted on 01/23/2017 1:03:10 PM PST by samtheman (delete * from executive orders where author=obama)
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