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To: Red Badger

At one light year per minute, it will be an easy commute!

Wait?


8 posted on 02/03/2023 1:38:02 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

As I recall from one of the few moments in physics class I was awake: at the speed of light, the Enterprise would get there and back in no time, but it would appear to us on Earth that it had taken 32 years.


31 posted on 02/03/2023 3:02:49 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
At one light year per minute, it will be an easy commute!

I think the nearest star is about 4 light years away. I saw it illustrated this way. If our sun were a basketball. The earth would be a cherry stone about 3 feet away, and the nearest star would be another basketball, about 140 miles away. 😆

47 posted on 02/04/2023 5:06:05 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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