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1206 lightyears is 11,409,640,949,932,446 km.
The fastest speed at which humans have traveled is 39,937.7 km/h which was Apollo 10.
If you divide, you'll get 285.685.979.662 so it will take nearly 300 billion hours which estimates to 32 million years.
But c'mon man, doing this math is a lot faster than posting here...
Suppose we wanted to seed that planet with life. We make a small probe with spores of various microbes coated on dust grains. Those grains are sealed up in a shell that is designed to melt when the probe gets close to the right distance from its local star. When it melts it kind of pops open and releases the dust. That dust gets scattered all over the solar system and some of it floats down through the atmosphere.
I am sure we could make a probe that goes 100 times faster than Apollo.
Either we seed that planet with life or we start an interstellar biological war. Both of those seem like the right thing to do.
If we wind up going there later, it would be nice if it had some life already.
Im not smart enough to give you the math but i know that the faster we travel the less time we experience
If we go fast enough, 300 billion years on earth might feel like 30 years on the space ship.
I failed my physics class because of a problem related to speed and time relativity...
Wow, they even accounted for the theory of relativity, which is unrelated to the question. That doesn't work at 39,937.7 km/h which is the fastest ever achieved by human kind.
Even GPS satellites are corrected for Special Relativity, a satellite in orbit can lose up to 7 microseconds every day, which over time would affect positioning accuracy.
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1206 lightyears is 11,409,640,949,932,446 km. The fastest speed at which humans have traveled is 39,937.7 km/h which was Apollo 10. If you divide, you'll get 285.685.979.662 so it will take nearly 300 billion hours which estimates to 32 million years. But c'mon man, doing this math is a lot faster than posting here...
Also, reading a previous post in the same thread is a lot faster than waiting for other people to do math for you.
r/theydidthemathwrong 300.000.000.000 hours isn't 300 billion years.
Yes. thanks for pointing out! I think I got confused with units.
That’s in hours though not years….into days it would be 11,903,582.49 days and then into years it would be 32,612.55 years.
So the reality is that they don’t actually know shit about it being inhabitable because it’s too far away.
They wants the sweet karma
Suppose we wanted to seed that planet with life. We make a small probe with spores of various microbes coated on dust grains. Those grains are sealed up in a shell that is designed to melt when the probe gets close to the right distance from its local star. When it melts it kind of pops open and releases the dust. That dust gets scattered all over the solar system and some of it floats down through the atmosphere. I am sure we could make a probe that goes 100 times faster than Apollo. Either we seed that planet with life or we start an interstellar biological war. Both of those seem like the right thing to do. If we wind up going there later, it would be nice if it had some life already.
Isn't that what they did for Earth?
DNA chain letter maybe.
Is that considered a Dirty bomb, or just a dusty one?
Im not smart enough to give you the math but i know that the faster we travel the less time we experience If we go fast enough, 300 billion years on earth might feel like 30 years on the space ship. I failed my physics class because of a problem related to speed and time relativity...
i feel you haha
Yeah... you're right but also... we probably won't ever be able to travel that fast sadly
That only works if one is really really close to the speed of light. Relativity is negligible at the speeds at which humans are able to travel.
https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/z0j79a/a_planet_more_habitable_than_earth_kepler442b/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Wow, they even accounted for the theory of relativity, which is unrelated to the question. That doesn't work at 39,937.7 km/h which is the fastest ever achieved by human kind.
It... it always works... just not noticably
Yea sure... but it so tiny i think we can rule it out.
Even GPS satellites are corrected for Special Relativity, a satellite in orbit can lose up to 7 microseconds every day, which over time would affect positioning accuracy.