/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9029900
>200-400 world rank
You call that a shit-tier university? Mine isn't even in the top 1000. You should feel privileged.

>>4962335

>If funding for a probe to Alpha Centauri were given 40 years ago, it'd arrive there THIS YEAR.
>Alpha Centauri is 4.36700 light years away
>That's 9.4605284 × 10^12 kilometers
>Divided by 40
>1.033 quadrillion km a year
>That's ~6904.2 Astronomical Units
>Fastest space probe goes 50 km/s
>1,576,800,000 km a year
>It would take 655,124 years to get to Alpha Centauri

Assuming my math is wrong, I looked it up:
> At a speed of 50 km/s, the speed of the current fastest space probes, the round trip to even the nearest Sun-like star, Alpha Centauri, would take about 50,000 years.
[http://www.castlerock.wednet.edu/HS/stello/Astronomy/TEXT/CHAISSON/NAV/FRAMESET/FRAME18/IDX18-04.HT
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Don't believe everything you read, folks.

>If funding for a probe to Alpha Centauri were given 40 years ago, it'd arrive there THIS YEAR.
>Alpha Centauri is 4.36700 light years away
>That's 9.4605284 × 10^12 kilometers
>Divided by 40
>1.033 quadrillion km a year
>That's ~6904.2 Astronomical Units
>Fastest space probe goes 50 km/s
>1,576,800,000 km a year
>It would take 655,124 years to get to Alpha Centauri

Assuming my math is wrong, I looked it up:
> At a speed of 50 km/s, the speed of the current fastest space probes, the round trip to even the nearest Sun-like star, Alpha Centauri, would take about 50,000 years.
[http://www.castlerock.wednet.edu/HS/stello/Astronomy/TEXT/CHAISSON/NAV/FRAMESET/FRAME18/IDX18-04.HT
M]

Don't believe everything you read, folks.