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If you wanted to catch up with Voyager

Post by Rum » Fri Jun 28, 2013 7:56 am

..which is at the very edge of the solar system now, and you were in a jet doing 555 MPH..well you couldn't actually.

But if you were to travel at that speed to get to where it is now it would take you 442 years!

Says so here..http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21937524
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Re: If you wanted to catch up with Voyager

Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:05 am

I've been on Ryanair flights that seemed to take that long.
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Post by Rum » Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:06 am

It is worth clicking on the link. Its interactive and shit..
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Re: If you wanted to catch up with Voyager

Post by Thinking Aloud » Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:50 am

Rum wrote:But if you were to travel at that speed to get to where it is now it would take you 442 years!
You see, I have problems with statements like this, because it couldn't possibly take me that long. The Ryanair 737-ship, yes, but not me.
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Re: If you wanted to catch up with Voyager

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:52 am

V'ger will be back. It has been written.
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Re: If you wanted to catch up with Voyager

Post by Audley Strange » Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:58 pm

Once the humans recover from the next dark age, I expect Voyager to be a myth figure who took a crew to the stars to bring back help to resurrect the Jakko, who when he died caused a chain of events which lead to global economic turmoil, wars, famine and the rise of the child Tyrant Beeber.
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Re: If you wanted to catch up with Voyager

Post by Faithfree » Fri Jun 28, 2013 1:50 pm

Rum wrote:..which is at the very edge of the solar system now, and you were in a jet doing 555 MPH..well you couldn't actually.

But if you were to travel at that speed to get to where it is now it would take you 442 years!

Says so here..http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21937524
Fffffhht ... I could walk that in 351,232 years. 8-)
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Re: If you wanted to catch up with Voyager

Post by Faithfree » Fri Jun 28, 2013 2:09 pm

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Rum wrote:..which is at the very edge of the solar system now, and you were in a jet doing 555 MPH..well you couldn't actually.

But if you were to travel at that speed to get to where it is now it would take you 442 years!

Says so here..http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21937524
Fffffhht ... I could walk that in 351,232 years. 8-)
If I didn't take a break ..
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Re: If you wanted to catch up with Voyager

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Jun 28, 2013 2:41 pm

Faithfree wrote:
Faithfree wrote:
Rum wrote:..which is at the very edge of the solar system now, and you were in a jet doing 555 MPH..well you couldn't actually.

But if you were to travel at that speed to get to where it is now it would take you 442 years!

Says so here..http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21937524
Fffffhht ... I could walk that in 351,232 years. 8-)
If I didn't take a break ..
Don't forget to figure in that you'll be going uphill in the gravity well.
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Re: If you wanted to catch up with Voyager

Post by Faithfree » Fri Jun 28, 2013 3:28 pm

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:
Faithfree wrote:
Faithfree wrote:
Rum wrote:..which is at the very edge of the solar system now, and you were in a jet doing 555 MPH..well you couldn't actually.

But if you were to travel at that speed to get to where it is now it would take you 442 years!

Says so here..http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21937524
Fffffhht ... I could walk that in 351,232 years. 8-)
If I didn't take a break ..
Don't forget to figure in that you'll be going uphill in the gravity well.
Ok, add a couple of years then.
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Re: If you wanted to catch up with Voyager

Post by Rum » Fri Jun 28, 2013 3:43 pm

If I decided to walk the dogs there at more or less the rate I walk with them it would only take us 427,446 years..

Perhaps one day when the rain holds off..
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Re: If you wanted to catch up with Voyager

Post by Faithfree » Fri Jun 28, 2013 3:45 pm

Rum wrote:If I decided to walk the dogs there at more or less the rate I walk with them it would only take us 427,446 years..

Perhaps one day when the rain holds off..
I'd take a packed lunch too ...
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Re: If you wanted to catch up with Voyager

Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Jun 28, 2013 3:48 pm

Faithfree wrote:
Rum wrote:If I decided to walk the dogs there at more or less the rate I walk with them it would only take us 427,446 years..

Perhaps one day when the rain holds off..
I'd take a packed lunch too ...
And a scarf. Can be nippy out past Neptune.
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Re: If you wanted to catch up with Voyager

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Jun 28, 2013 5:00 pm

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Faithfree wrote:
Rum wrote:If I decided to walk the dogs there at more or less the rate I walk with them it would only take us 427,446 years..

Perhaps one day when the rain holds off..
I'd take a packed lunch too ...
And a scarf. Can be nippy out past Neptune.
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Re: If you wanted to catch up with Voyager

Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Jun 28, 2013 5:28 pm

I entered in the info for running there at 8 minutes per mile. At that fast jog, we would get there in 174,596 years.
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