How long would it take for a jet to circle the largest star in the universe?

1100 years......

Getting to the nearest galaxy couldn't be done even with Star Trek's technology, never mind ours.

What we could do with current technology is put a Hubble telescope type satellite 150 times the radius of earth's orbit away, at the solar focus point, this would let us use the sun as a lens and we could see planets light years away in detail. It would only take 15 years for the thing to get there.

i like how people say there is no life on other planets.

i like how people say there is no life on other planets.

I watched a program yesterday on Nat Geo. They said traveling at the speed of light it would take 8 years to send a message and 8 to get a reply from the nearest star in our galaxy. Sending a message to another galaxy would take hundreds of years. So a very boring conversation. Worse than having one here.

It's only in the last hundred years or so that we had radios. And only the last 50 that we could "listen" to the universe. It took us 100,000 years to get to this point and we are still stumbling. So hitting another intelligent life that was at the same stage is a 50-100,000 ratio.

Traveling to the nearest galaxy would take, at current technology, 1,000 years. 1,000 years even if possible would kill those in the space craft. We are not designed for 0 gravity, when we reach the next planet where life will survive, even if still alive. Visiting it will automatically kill us. It will have gravity.

The War of the Worlds theory of how the Earth would be protected, defends other planets from us. We had problems discovering Africa with the problems of the diseases, getting there, feeding and coping with the climate. Imagine going to a world that's totally Alien to us.

Or them visiting us. Because what applies to us applies to them as well.

So even if we could bend the universe like bending a piece of cloth so the two far corners are next to each other, warp drive, we can't get out of the space ship or our protective suits.

Just don't tell Hollywood.

Yet people on Facebook think it's so fucking important to tell people "how they are feeling" today...

Fun subject and great video...

How many times would you have to fuel that passenger plane during its 1100 years around the largest known star ?

How much gallons of fuel would it take in total ?

What would the costs be ?

A plane like a Boeing 747 uses approximately 1 gallon of fuel (about 4 liters) every second. Over the course of a 10-hour flight, it might burn 36,000 gallons (150,000 liters). According to Boeing's Web site, the 747 burns approximately 5 gallons of fuel per mile (12 liters per kilometer). Source:

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It's only in the last hundred years or so that we had radios. And only the last 50 that we could "listen" to the universe. It took us 100,000 years to get to this point and we are still stumbling. So hitting another intelligent life that was at the same stage is a 50-100,000 ratio.

Traveling to the nearest galaxy would take, at current technology, 1,000 years. 1,000 years even if possible would kill those in the space craft. We are not designed for 0 gravity, when we reach the next planet where life will survive, even if still alive. Visiting it will automatically kill us. It will have gravity.

Every atom in your body was created at the time of the big bang....

There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on the entire planet....

The material to make the monitor you are staring at was created from a dying star.