24 Jul 2015 13:14:25
Question for the blue scientists out there.
If this new planet that's been found is 27 million light years away.
How long would it take for a manned craft to land on it?
Second question, will we have signed anybody by then?
24 Jul 2015 15:43:13
Travelling at the speed of light Mush which is appx 120,000 miles per second we would reach it in 27 million years, we will probably have a few signings by then but I guarantee we don't have a rich investor
{Ed007's Note - Without trying to be pedantic - more trying to be a smart ar$e as me and Ed003 are keen amateur astronomers - but a light year is, by its own definition, the distance travelled by light in a year. So it takes a year travelling at the speed of light to cover a light year.
The speed of light is 186,282.397 miles per second (671 million miles per hour) and Kepler-452b is 1,400 light years away.
And unless there's an alien oligrach who likes blue waiting there I don't think Everton will find a rich investor either :)
24 Jul 2015 16:36:03
The answer to the first question if my understanding is correct is quite simple. The light-year is a measure of distance, not time. It is the total distance that a beam of light, moving in a straight line, travels in one year. To obtain an idea of the size of a light-year, take the circumference of the earth (24,900 miles), lay it out in a straight line, multiply the length of the line by 7.5 (the corresponding distance is one light-second), then place 31.6 million similar lines end to end. The resulting distance is almost 6 trillion (6,000,000,000,000) mile. The answer would therefore be to multiply the above equation by 27 million.
Sorry I just can't get my head round your second question!
24 Jul 2015 17:31:09
An alien on a free is out of the question then?
24 Jul 2015 20:37:28
It depends if RM was driving)).
{Ed025's Note - hes driving me barmy daz..
24 Jul 2015 20:51:39
Maybe that new planet is where Bill hid the Arteta money!
{Ed025's Note - he needs a bigger planet i think kurajan..
24 Jul 2015 20:52:53
It can only get better mate.))hopefully.
24 Jul 2015 22:45:44
Feel compelled to make a comment about the distance to Uranus, but that would just be juvenile.