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To: TigersEye
At 4Xs the speed of light it will still take 15k years to get from one side of the galaxy to the other.

Four orders of magnitude is not 4X.
1 -> 10 is 1 order of magnitude.
1 -> 100 is two orders.
1 -> 1,000 is three.
1 -> 10,000 is four.

So that's ten thousand times the speed of light... (1 year) / 10,000 = 52.5948766 minutes, or about an hour.

The 25 nearest stars to our solar system lie in a range of 4.2 to 11.7 light years; so if we could travel that speed, we could get there in less than 12 hours.

12 posted on 03/08/2013 12:48:43 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

In other words this is “Warp 4” in Star Trek speak


16 posted on 03/08/2013 2:23:18 AM PST by Fai Mao
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