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Originally Posted by Darkland
NOW... What do you think the sky, actually space, would look like once we are OUTSIDE that atmosphere and even CLOSER and more exposed to that "star" sitting only a few million miles away? Come on, think hard... it doesn't really take a genius.
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Ok you were making a good point until this part. Ok first you're not really that much closer to a star even the sun when you're on the moon than when you're on the Earth. Not in any meaningful way anyways. Even the sun is not a "few million" miles away. It's 93 million. The next nearest star is 272,000 times farther away. In otherwords you'd have to go from the Earth to the sun and back to Earth over 136,000 times to travel the same distance it is to the nearest star outside our solar system. the fastest man made ship was Apollo 10 which reached 25,000 MHP. Which means it would take 155 days to get to the sun. It would take 115,000 YEARS to get to the nearest star.