Distance to Mars

[Happy Panther]

http://www.distancetomars.com/

Seems far.

[Cary Kollins]

It's a god-awful small affair.

[frash.exe]

Still waiting for it to stop...

[Mother Grabber]

this is why the web was invented

[Guest]

It'll be just a short hop pretty soon...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/10/nasa_fusion_engine_fast_mars_trip/

[BBQ&Beer]

Amazing to think about isn't it? In miles if you multiply it by about 11 & you find Jupiter. By about 102 you get Pluto. By 343, Voyager 1.

[Happy Panther]

Amazing to think about isn't it? In miles if you multiply it by about 11 & you find Jupiter. By about 102 you get Pluto. By 343, Voyager 1.

My mind loses the ability to comprehend pretty quickly.

[Darth Biscuit]

That scrolling messes up my mind.... and that's a damned long way. I'm with HP... distances like that are really difficult to comprehend.

[Happy Panther]

Here is another boggling one.

http://www.nidokidos.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=129102&d=1357054254

[OneBadCat]

I just wish space exploration didn't lose it's steam in the 90's. We could have made a man mission to Mars by now or at least pretty close if we had more commitment. Call me an idealist star trek nerd but space is the final frontier and if we ever want to know more about ourselves we will one day have to explore it and seek life if it is out there. To me all our cultural issues here are Earth seem so meaningless in the grand scheme of our planet and where we are in space. I wish we could just focus on peace and space.

[Herbert The Love Bug]

wasn't that long to get there. Didn't even take a minute

[Herbert The Love Bug]

this is why the web was invented

i thought al gore invented it for militaria

[d-run]

I love stuff like this. Just think that this is just to the next planet over, about 0.00000062363 light years away (about 20 light minutes). Think about how long it would take to get out of our solar system!

Our best guess is that there is around 10 billion solar systems in our galaxy alone, which is 100,000 light years wide. We live around 25,000 light years from the edge of the Milky Way. If we ever make it out of the Milky Way, there are only about 100 billion other galaxies in the universe, many of which are much larger than the Milky Way. Really cool stuff.

[pstall]

wow, i felt like i was back in the 80's