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Earth's Big Cousin
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RE: Earth's Big Cousin
(July 23, 2015 at 9:51 pm)Alex K Wrote:
(July 23, 2015 at 7:22 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: That depends entirely on what fraction of c one is traveling and what reference frame you're using.

Counterintuitively, travelling 1000ly at 0.99c won't take anywhere near 1000 years for the passengers

141 years, actually

I got 142, but who's counting?
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Earth's Big Cousin - by AFTT47 - July 23, 2015 at 5:31 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by Cato - July 23, 2015 at 5:37 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by Regina - July 23, 2015 at 5:56 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by AFTT47 - July 23, 2015 at 6:32 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by Cato - July 23, 2015 at 6:55 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by abaris - July 23, 2015 at 7:18 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - July 23, 2015 at 5:56 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by Regina - July 23, 2015 at 6:05 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by Jackalope - July 23, 2015 at 7:22 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by Alex K - July 23, 2015 at 9:51 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by Jackalope - July 23, 2015 at 10:24 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by Pyrrho - July 23, 2015 at 10:45 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by ignoramus - July 24, 2015 at 5:13 am
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by Rahul - July 23, 2015 at 7:15 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - July 23, 2015 at 7:36 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by Exian - July 23, 2015 at 7:43 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by Rahul - July 23, 2015 at 7:52 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by abaris - July 23, 2015 at 8:01 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by Rahul - July 23, 2015 at 8:23 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by AFTT47 - July 23, 2015 at 11:22 pm
RE: Earth's Big Cousin - by Jackalope - July 24, 2015 at 12:24 am

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