186k miles per sec equates to something like 3.612 x 10 to the 12th miles away- 3,612,000,000,000 miles- yeah 3.6 trillion.
At a “leisurely” 100k mph (out of reach so far) that would be only 3.612 x 10 to the 7th- 36,120,000 years to get there- yeah 36 million years.....
At a million miles per hour ( play star trek theme song now) that would be 36 years......
Even if I shanked my scientific notation by a factor of 10 or even 100, you get the picture. We ain’t going no where.
Silly.
Yeah. And thats just one way. You’d have to square that distance coming back.
At a “leisurely” 100k mph (out of reach so far) that would be only 3.612 x 10 to the 7th- 36,120,000 years to get there- yeah 36 million years.....
At a million miles per hour ( play star trek theme song now) that would be 36 years......
Even if I shanked my scientific notation by a factor of 10 or even 100, you get the picture. We ain’t going no where.
Silly.
In the program, they speculate that a ship (which they dubbed "the Von Braun" could be built to travel at 20% the speed of light, or 37,000 miles/s.
The fictional planet, Darwin IV, was 6.5 light years away. The unmanned robotic Von Braun made it there in 42 years.
You made an error, you divided distance by miles per hour. Your result would be the number of hours it would take to get to there, not years. The real result would be about 6710 years. Which is longer than recorded history.
My mistake, I used one light year instead of 4.5. The travel time in years would be closer to 29,000 years.