If it took our spaceship “Juno” 5 years to reach Jupiter’s orbit, how many years will it take for man made space ships to transverse 4.25 light years?
Distance from earth of Jupiter = 582 million miles
Distance from earth of Proxima Centauri =
186,000 X 60 X 24 X 365 X 4.25 = 186,000 X 2233800
= 415,486 million miles
Therefore time required for our spaceship to reach Proxima Centauri = 5 X (415,486 / 582) = 3570 years!
Assuming each new human generation requires 20-25 years,
to reach Proxima Centauri will require
3570/25 = 143 generations to be reproduced and kept alive in a spaceship!
did you compute that bat warp 10 or take into consideration worm holes? I saw them on star trek and they seem to get around pretty fast
While you have your calculator out, what was Juno’s average speed traveling to Jupiter?
Minor quibble: Juno did not go in a straight line from Earth to Jupiter. http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/575571main_Juno20110727-3-43_946-710.jpg
my guess is that the first space ships that first make the jump will go traveling closer to the speed of light. That technology won’t be available for at least 50 years and maybe 100 years. most of the space travel we’ll see for the next century will be in the solar system.
Oops, I am off by factor of 60 minutes to hours on my calculation in that post.
Which means 4320 generations of humans....kept alive in a spaceship!!
