If you study fizics you would know the human body would be crushed like a tin can at even a 10th of that speed. We do not have anersha dampers.

"invent them" I did not ever think I would say this you woch to much star trek. You should read the fizics of star trek by Steven knockings.

100 years give or take a decade

The Question
(Submitted February 11, 1998)

I am 8 years old. Could you explain what a light year is and give an example that I can understand or relate to.


The Answer
A light year is the distance that light travels in one year. The speed of light is 186,287.5 miles per second. You can find out the number of seconds in a year by multiplying the number of seconds in a minute (60) by the number of minutes in an hour (60). Then multiply that by the number of hours in a day (24), and multiply that by the number of days in a year (approximately 365.25).

  So we've got 60 x 60 = 3600 seconds in an hour
               3600 x 24 = 86400 seconds in a day
               86400 x 365.25 = 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

So a light year is about (I've rounded off a bit) 5,878,786,100,000 miles. That's almost 6 trillion miles. The distance from the earth to the Sun is 93 million miles. The distance to the nearest star is 4.3 light years, and the distance to the Andromeda galaxy is 2 million light years.

The universe is a big place !

Jim Lochner
for Ask an Astrophysicist

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980211a.html

Well its on NASA home page that tell you he is not dumb kid. The 8y old Jim Lochner mst be some kinda prodagy.

Well The responder may no have had thare stario engections yet. Those pepole are over worked I whould nt be abule to type if I had thare job.

on another note.  what about first colonizing this solar system.  much easier(relatively)

The moons of Jupiter and Saturn, Titan in particular.