2006-06-23 10:38:49 · 18 answers · asked by Giggly Giraffe 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
16 min approx by light
250,000 hours by jet
2 million hours approx by fast car
80 million hours by foot
150 Tm from earth (150 million km)
2006-06-23 10:43:56 · answer #1 · answered by Neilman 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It takes light about 8 1/3 minutes to reach Earth from the sun, one-way. But you have to remember, motion depends on acceleration and velocity if you have mass.
In short, it depends how fast you go.
2006-06-23 17:42:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spaceships can go about 20,000 mph so about 9,300 hours with a current shuttle, assuming an instant turnaround with no loss of speed. THis is about 387 days or a year and 3 weeks
2006-06-23 18:57:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it were possible to walk there and back nonstop, I'd say about 3413.2 years there, and 3413.2 years back. Give of take a decade or two, of course.
16.6 minutes @ the speed of light is right...
13.255422 days on a Concorde jet...
2006-06-23 18:21:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time = Distance/Speed
= (Distance between Earth and Sun in X units) *2 / (Speed of your vehicle in X units per time measure)
2006-06-23 17:47:25 · answer #5 · answered by mindful1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the speed of light, about 17 minutes. At a moderate walk (4 mph), about 5308 years. How fast did you have in mind?
2006-06-23 17:43:02 · answer #6 · answered by Philo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the speed of light, 8 minutes.
2006-06-23 17:42:02 · answer #7 · answered by chica_zarca 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You wouldn't make it all the way there and certainly a return trip to earth is not discussable. The heat would keep you away or burn you up.
2006-06-23 18:10:47 · answer #8 · answered by ZORRO 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
correct answer is 16.6 minutes at light speed. BUT DON'T FORGET to turn your gas off and cancel papers if you're going by any other means.
2006-06-23 17:44:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my Honda Civic, about 186 years (give or take).
2006-06-23 17:40:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋