How Humble We Really Are

MajorMaccas · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:21

how long would it take to get there in apollo 10?

G-MAN2004 · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:23

Here's the one after:

Amazing.

badbob · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:24

Cyberstrike2027 said:
how long would it take to get there in apollo 10?

The furthest galaxy is 12 billion light years away. If you went at sub light 20,000kph.... the speed of light is 299 792 458 m / s so err...

zinc · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:30

Mega GIF alert

Tefal · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:36

wonder how many planets orbit Anters

dymetrie · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:36

We are only that which we perceive ourselves to be.

willhub · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:40

What would it be like if our sun was suddenly replace by Pollux?

paradigm · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:41

That animated gif has a superb mistake.

It seems to think "our solar system" is smaller than the "sun". :/

MajorMaccas · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:42

Apollo 10 travelled at 38,800 kph, call it 40kkph.

Antares is 600 ly away, or 5,676,317,040,000,000,000 meters.

at 40,000,000 meters per hour, it would take 141907926000 hours, or 16,188,446 years

Heofz · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:43

honestly didn't know mars was that small compared to earth

badbob · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:44

Work out the galaxy at 12 billion light years, but travelling at 40kkph. Taking into account galaxalial stellar drift ;-)

willhub · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:46

Will anyone ever ever see Antares from close to it? Will humans ever leave the solar system? Apparently there could be earth sized planets yet to be discovered in our solar system on the edge.

bushmins · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:46

Should be dam happy were that small, else we would have been hit by a metor a long time ago.

MajorMaccas · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:46

willhub said:
What would it be like if our sun was suddenly replace by Pollux?

We would all get ace sun tans

me227 · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:51

Cyberstrike2027 said:
We would all get ace sun tans

And some ace cancer.

zinc · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:51

paradigm said:
That animated gif has a superb mistake.

It seems to think "our solar system" is smaller than the "sun". :/

Think they got got Antares and Betelgeuse the wrong way round too lol

Tefal · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:53

me227 said:
And some ace cancer.

and would possibly be located within the sun

MajorMaccas · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:58

Tefal said:
and would possibly be located within the sun

was gonna say, think we'd have been killed long before cancer was a threat, or we'd have adapted uber quick and become a sun society :cool:

badbob · 1 Mar 2008 at 00:59

Cyberstrike2027 said:
was gonna say, think we'd have been killed long before cancer was a threat, or we'd have adapted uber quick and become a sun society

The planet would probably be liquid...if we vaporized inside the sun itself.

MajorMaccas · 1 Mar 2008 at 01:02

gas lol