 | | Re: Where's all that gravity coming from? —Erik Olson
| | | | (...) My figures (hasn't this been done in off-topic already?) note: 3e8 is 3 * 10^8 or 300,000,000 Proxima Centauri - about 9 ly away 1 year = 31557600 seconds, or 3e7 s c = 3e8 m/s (speed of light) 1 ly = 3e7 s * c d = Proxima Centauri = about (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Where's all that gravity coming from? —Steve Bliss
| | | | | (...) We talked about a similar trip to Mars awhile ago (it was 40 hours, I think). (...) Actually, Proxima is 4.22. But we'd be more interested in Alpha Centauri A and B, which are 4.35 ly distant. (...) d(A&B) = 4.35 ly = 4e16 m (...) sqrt(4e16 / (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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