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Originally Posted by GatorB
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.
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I was making it simple for the OP. I was making it so a 3rd grader can understand it. I am well aware of the distances as I placed the next nearest star at 4+ light years away. Me adding in all the technical data would only take away from the lesson I was trying to teach a simpleton.
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