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> 1,400 light-years away Very cool that we can find it, but I don't think we'll be visiting this one any time soon...
by niels_olson 11y ago
> 1,400 light-years away
Very cool that we can find it, but I don't think we'll be visiting this one any time soon...
- mentos 11y agohttp://www.universetoday.com/15403/how-long-would-it-take-to-travel-to-the-nearest-star/ http://www.universetoday.com/15403/how-long-would-it-take-to...
- lucozade 11y agoSo best case about 28,000 years. Which is a bugger as I'm out that week.
- ionwake 11y agoI think there is a theory that we can travel nearly the speed of light , but yeah even then we are a millennia away :(
- danielweber 11y agoIf you could accelerate at 1g, you could reach it in 7 years, in your reference frame.
- ionwake 11y agoWait for the observer... isnt it.... 1800 / 17.... 100 years. So that means, a baby could reach the exoplanet, before it dies of old age, on a spaceship travelling 99% the speed of light, which can theoretically built right now. How did you arrive at your calculation of 7 years? Thanks!
- danielweber 11y agoI eyeballed it from here[1], which I should have just linked with my post. [1] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/rocket.html http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/rocket.h...