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To: Halgr

A light year is just under six trillion miles (5.878e12). You forgot the km to mi conversion (*0.621).


18 posted on 12/17/2009 3:13:05 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

At the rate this administration is spending, we’ll be able to walk there in a year or two over a path of strung-out dollar bills!


25 posted on 12/17/2009 4:11:44 AM PST by catman67
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To: SpaceBar

Using 186,000 miles per second - you’re correct. Unfortunately I already committed the 9 trillion miles figure to memory ... arghh! ;-)


26 posted on 12/17/2009 4:43:27 AM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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