[COBOL2Java]

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.

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Check out Discovery Channel's docufiction program "Alien Planet". The program starred scientists Stephen Hawking, George Lucas, Michio Kaku and Jack Horner.

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.

[Manly Warrior]

37k mps equates to 133,200,000 mph ( 37k x 3600 sec/hr), bit faster than my 100k mph.

Did they just speculate or did they have some idea about a technology to accomplish that speed?

Silly me, they are fools.