New Galaxy

[earl1937]

  Just saw a story about a new galaxy, now get this, I have to put it on another line to get all the numbers in:

78,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away!! Holy cow "Batman", how do you pronounce that?

If we had a space ship of some kind, which would travel at 1,000,000 miles per hour, how long would it take for us to get there?
I would think 2 generations of humans, but I am not that good at math!
Wow, who in world would want to spend their whole life on a space ship? After seeing how many signed up for the "Virgin" space folly, I would guess there would be a lot of takers.

[guncrasher]

you said virgin?  I'll sign up.


semp

[DubiousKB]

With the leaps and bounds we are taking (less since the world wars), we will no doubt find a way to span great distances otherwise thought impossible.

I always hoped that the inter-stellar space was a mm thin, like all matter passing through this interstellar space was stretched to appear as if the next start was "light years" away but was in fact, right beside our own stellar "bubble" if you will..

Like if our voyager probe just all of a sudden appeared to be in the next star system, breaking the "bubble" and appearing in the next stellar sphere of influence.


All very exciting stuff! 

[Lusche]

With the leaps and bounds we are taking (less since the world wars), we will no doubt find a way to span great distances otherwise thought impossible.

But not for ourselves, but for our children: The robots. 

[PR3D4TOR]

The only known way we could ever traverse that distance in time before the end of the universe is by wormhole or an Alcubierre drive. The last one we might be able to make work (perhaps even in my life time, but probably not in yours Earl )

[earl1937]

The only known way we could ever traverse that distance in time before the end of the universe is by wormhole or an Alcubierre drive. The last one we might be able to make work (perhaps even in my life time, but probably not in yours Earl )

I am hoping they can invent a machine to restore everyone to age 21! LOL

[PR3D4TOR]

I second that! 

[Meatwad]

Need to invent an improbability drive ☺

[DubiousKB]

Need to invent an improbability drive ☺

That will never happen 

[Someguy63]

Just saw a story about a new galaxy, now get this, I have to put it on another line to get all the numbers in:

78,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away!! Holy cow "Batman", how do you pronounce that?

If we had a space ship of some kind, which would travel at 1,000,000 miles per hour, how long would it take for us to get there?
I would think 2 generations of humans, but I am not that good at math!
Wow, who in world would want to spend their whole life on a space ship? After seeing how many signed up for the "Virgin" space folly, I would guess there would be a lot of takers.

It would take way more than 2 generations of humans. The nearest star, which is 4 light years away would take 19,000 years to reach with our fastest craft which travels 155,000 mph.

This galaxy is like tens of thousands of light years away. It would take us millions of light years to get remotely close.

By the way what was the name of this galaxy.

[SilverZ06]

Just saw a story about a new galaxy, now get this, I have to put it on another line to get all the numbers in:

78,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away!! Holy cow "Batman", how do you pronounce that?

If we had a space ship of some kind, which would travel at 1,000,000 miles per hour, how long would it take for us to get there?
I would think 2 generations of humans, but I am not that good at math!

At 1,000,000miles per hour it would only take 8,904,109,589,041 Years

[Someguy63]

At 1,000,000miles per hour it would only take 8,904,109,589,041 Years

We can do it!!

[PR3D4TOR]

It's 13,268,408,011 light years... so it takes light 13 billion (with a B) years to get here from there...

[Someguy63]

I was joking of course.

[PR3D4TOR]

No. You're right! We can do it!