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Originally Posted by pkp|ex
Some drunken calcumalations on that shit;
Distance 4.24 light years is about 3x10^8 * 60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 365 days * 4.24 = 40.114 x 10 ^ 15 meters
Which is 40.114 trillion kilometers.
Fastest man made thing in space appears to have been Juno when it got pulled towards Jupiter at around 265,000 km/hr. Thats 6.36 million km per day, and 2.3214 billion km per year.
So taking that very generous velocity as the present day tech, it would take a space taxi over 17,000 years to reach there.
Seems slightly out of reach.
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Yes, but I don't think we are talking about todays technology. Within 10-20years, we could have that down to 100 years, and another 10-20 we could have that down to 3 years.