RE: Astronomers spot most Earth-like planet yet
April 17, 2014 at 7:24 pm
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2014 at 7:28 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 17, 2014 at 7:13 pm)Marsellus Wallace Wrote: 500 years is just too far away , the fastest air craft we have goes in the speed of 17050 m/s , The speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s .
So your fastest aircraft in the 21th century is moving in the speed of 0.005687% the speed of light .
That means that your fastest aircraft ever built, you can reach that planet in 10219853282 years ...
Actually, he fastest aircraft will take an infinite amount of time to reach this planet, there being no air between earth and this planet.
Also, an aircraft will last about 1 millisecond before burning up in the air if it were to travel at 17050 m/s. 17050 m/s being approximately Mach 50.
The fastest space craft to leave solar system - Voyager 1 - is leaving solar system at 14.15km/s (only 14150m/s). Voyager I will cover 500 light years in a mere 8 million years.
8 million years is a blink of the eye in the history of the earth, being such an insignificant span of time that is it not even 1500 times as long as xtains thought how long the universe had existed.
