[lurk]

So after all these years, it’s 19 light hours away. A few hours short of a light year.

We want to send people to maybe-inhabitable planets around 28 light years away. They’ll need a few rest stops.

[JustaTech]

Someday (soon I hope) we’ll send out a probe that passes Voyager in a matter of days on it’s way to a nearby star.

Then a decade or two later, we’ll send out something that passes THAT probe in a matter of days, on its way to the same destination at a much faster speed.

With any luck, when the latest and fastest probe finally arrives at the nearby star system, we’ll have been there for decades already by virtue of something like a warp drive.

[Yo-Yo]

So after all these years, it’s 19 light hours away. A few hours short of a light year.

About 364 days short of a light year.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

A few hours short of a light day. For someone traveling at relativistic speed, it would only take a few minutes in his local time frame. But the necessary acceleration would kill him.

[from occupied ga]

So after all these years, it’s 19 light hours away. A few hours short of a light year.

Indeed. Yet there are people on this forum that think we should colonize the stars (people who apparently failed 4th grade math or who confuse science fiction with science)

[from occupied ga]

They’ll need a few rest stops.

LOL, yes a few. 37 years to travel 19:35 light hours. 8760 hours in a year, so 1/447th of a light year in 37 years or 16550 years to travel one light year and 463423 one way for 28 light years