Terran = Earth, I don't want to hear how fast your pimped-out saucer can fly.
2007-12-05 12:51:22 · 5 answers · asked by Chad m 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The most distant spacecraft humans have made is Voyager 1, which is currently about 100 AU from the Sun, after 30 years of travel. At this rate it will take 18,750 years for Voyager 1 to travel one light-year.
2007-12-05 18:37:34 · answer #1 · answered by Keith P 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Drew - your question consists of an mistakes - "... the area that straightforward travels in a unmarried user-friendly 12 months" - a lightyear is a distance no longer a time, so the question could examine " ... to go back and forth one user-friendly 12 months". a worry-free 12 months is (in round figures) 6 x 10^12 miles (6 million million miles, or 6 trillion miles). The fastest any area craft has travelled is about 60,000 mph, finished by ability of utilizing a gravitational "slingshot" round Saturn & jupiter, sio if lets get a spacecraft as a lot as that speed (and on occasion advance its speed to counteract the gravitational pull of the solar as we left the picture voltaic device it would want to take (6 x 10^12)/(6 x 10^4) hours = 10^8 hours; one 12 months = 8760 hours, so if we divide 10^8 by ability of (8.seventy six x 10^3) we get 11, 415 years, and that is in basic terms a million user-friendly 12 months. probable no longer a sturdy idea to carry your breath.
2016-10-26 13:21:33 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on how determined we are to get there and how big a rocket we want to assemble in space, if we really set our mind to it and didn't worry about money it would cost we could ship components and more important fuel into space and assemble a ship at least the size of the iss, probably bigger
make it as big as possible and as large a % fuel weight as possible
the more fuel you have the faster you can eventually go and the less time to travel a light year
2007-12-05 16:39:24 · answer #3 · answered by Michael W 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
well given the new photonic drive they've developed, and proven on small scale, they say we should get up to speeds of 100km/second. Light travels at 300,000km/second. so it would take us about 3,000 years to travel one light year.
2007-12-05 12:59:12 · answer #4 · answered by Your Weapons Are Useless Against Us 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
One year. I´d love to tell you how but my method is worth $120 billion...
2007-12-05 17:53:31 · answer #5 · answered by DrAnders_pHd 6 · 1⤊ 5⤋